stc partners with Cisco to expedite cloud journey, boosting agility and efficiency

stc and Cisco announce that stc is expanding the use of the cloud at an accelerated pace to maintain its competitive edge, foster innovation, and transform interactions with digital services. As stc continues its cloud journey, it is building on the current foundation for greater agility, security, efficiency, and innovation.

To the extent that STC is to achieve their goals for the future of 5G, its partnership with Cisco will be crucial. STC will be able to provide better and higher quality telco applications while reducing the time it takes to launch new services by adopting a cloud-first strategy and converting their stacks into cloud-native architecture using the Cisco cloud platform, Red Hat Openshift Container Platform, full automation suite, and DevOps Digital pipeline. Additionally, stc will be able to rapidly incorporate cloud-based features and apps that are intended for particular customer groups.

Eng. Anwar I. Alsubhi, Cloud infrastructure GM, stc said “As a leading digital operator in the region, we have achieved a lot of transformative change in a short time. We have an opportunity with our cloud-first approach to improve the economics of 5G & Cloud stacks to transform the way we are dealing with our network to create faster and more compelling experiences at scale. We work together with Cisco seeking new ways to drive market differentiation and deliver business outcomes through agile, secure infrastructure, at every stage of the technology journey.”

Adam MacHale Vice President, EMEA Service Provider, Cisco said “With this collaboration, our Telco Cloud solution will help accelerate the deployment of the next generation of secure, agile digital services. This will drive innovation around stc’s multivendor workload services and further strengthen its digital transformation efforts.”

The cloud platform developed by STC enables virtual environment automation and includes management and operational features. This platform is comprehensive, vendor-neutral, and supported by proven expertise in integrating systems and serving the telecommunications market. It demands high platform efficiency, operational flexibility, and reliability in meeting service-level agreements.

In the first phase, Cisco built the Telco Cloud infrastructure across stc data centres to enable the delivery of telco services from a consistent horizontal platform, supporting an array of software and critical network applications. This was designed to increase the speed of software upgrades and releases, and automate processes through embedded features in the Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) layer with key characteristics, including the efficient automation of the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipeline and automated lifecycle management operations of cloud-native functions over a managed software-defined infrastructure. Cisco CX played a central role from start to finish, from providing architectural ownership and overall integration of the solution to solution testing, delivery and workload deployment, driving innovation in CI/CD-driven automated onboarding and providing a next-generation assurance framework.

STC’s recent accomplishments support its objective of being a prominent player in driving Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation, as per the Vision 2030 development program. This step is consistent with STC’s dedication to ongoing innovation based on customer needs, as well as delivering cloud services that are dependable, affordable, and secure. Additionally, the company is focused on providing large-scale network services that cater to the evolving needs of its customers.