Turkey\u2019s telco sector is booming thanks to global telecommunications providers offering their services. Here, we take a look at how Nokia and Red Hat are helping the country to continue innovating and meet their Digital Transformation needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nokia has announced that\u00a0it\u00a0has\u00a0signed\u00a0a\u00a0partnership agreement\u00a0with\u00a0Karel, a\u00a0Turkish\u00a0electronics\u00a0manufacturer,\u00a0to manufacture 4G and 5G base stations in Turkey.\u00a0The companies intend to start producing 4G base stations for the local market\u00a0by\u00a0mid-2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With 5G expected\u00a0to become commercial in Turkey in 2023, local production\u00a0is also expected to\u00a0include 5G base stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are very excited about this announcement,\u201d Ozgur Erzincan, Country Senior Officer Turkey\u00a0at\u00a0Nokia. \u201cTurkey is an important market for Nokia, where we have strong business and long-standing, trusted relationships with our customers. Together with Karel, we will be able to fulfil all the domestic product demand from our customers for now and in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are going through a period of significant change, in which technology develops very rapidly and the transition to new generation communication systems is ongoing,\u201d said Sinan\u00a0Tunao\u011flu, Chairman of the Board,\u00a0Karel. \u201cAs Karel, we are moving forward with the vision and goal of becoming a global player in the field of technology with our R&D, qualified production power, knowledge and experience. We are very excited about this cooperation that we started with Nokia, one of the world’s leading technology companies. We believe this will create a long-term, growing and value-adding alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Karel has one of the most advanced R&D departments in Turkey in the communication electronics field today, and the company\u2019s modern facilities are compliant with international standards. Established with 100% domestic capital, Karel is a market leader in Turkey and among the top 15 manufacturers globally, exporting products and technologies to more than 30 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another leading technology provider helping to digitally transform one of Turkey\u2019s key telco suppliers is Red Hat. This collaboration has meant T\u00fcrk Telekom has cut time to market from days to seconds and improves application performance with Red Hat\u2019s cloud-native technologies tailored for the open hybrid cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a world-leading provider of open source solutions, Red Hat announced that T\u00fcrk Telekom, Turkey\u2019s first and leading integrated telecommunications operator, has deployed\u00a0Red Hat OpenShift, the industry\u2019s leading Kubernetes platform, for use across its business to develop and scale cloud-native applications from core to Edge for faster innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Founded more than 180 years ago, T\u00fcrk Telekom offers mobile, Internet, phone, PSTN, wholesale and retail broadband services and TV products and services to millions across the country. The group\u2019s vision is to be at the vanguard of introducing new technologies to Turkey to accelerate the country\u2019s transformation into an information society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many communications service providers around the world are finding it increasingly challenging to meet customer demands in the context of ongoing Digital Transformation across industries and more recently, disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic. T\u00fcrk Telekom wanted to apply cutting-edge application technologies and methods in order to deliver services more dynamically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With this collaboration, Red Hat supported T\u00fcrk Telekom with optimising its\u00a0microservices\u00a0architecture and consolidating services and data management and analysis. It standardised on Red Hat OpenShift as the foundational horizontal application platform for greater ease of deployment and scaling.\u00a0Red Hat Consulting\u00a0and\u00a0Red Hat Training\u00a0provided upskilling programs to help T\u00fcrk Telekom to get the best value from its cloud-native technologies and to be more agile using microservices and\u00a0CI\/CD. T\u00fcrk Telekom also leaned on the expertise of Red Hat services to help define a\u00a0security architecture that takes advantage of OpenShift\u2019s native features including network and container isolation and application data access protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
T\u00fcrk Telekom\u2019s strategy targets 30 key applications for migration to OpenShift. A total of 10 applications are live today on the platform, providing an enhanced experience for customers. For example, the performance of game distribution platform Playstore.com has increased by up to 30% since its migration to OpenShift. Red Hat consultants continue to collaborate with T\u00fcrk Telekom to shift workloads successfully, including one migration that completed three weeks ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 30 applications cover functions that span from core to Edge and aim to improve operations as well as consumer and enterprise service delivery, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Using Red Hat OpenShift\u2019s self-service capabilities T\u00fcrk Telekom can deploy applications in as little as 90 seconds compared to taking days previously, with automation helping remove manual processes so developers can be more productive. More agile life cycle management as well as autoscaling enables the business to bring new capabilities and updates to market as they are ready and manage workloads dynamically, instead of limiting production pushes to specific days. Additionally, Red Hat OpenShift Virualization\u00a0is enabling virtual machine workloads to be run and managed alongside container workloads. OpenShift holistically helps improve cost effectiveness and efficiency for the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation provides T\u00fcrk Telekom with the capability to manage storage centrally. For more agile integration with internal and partner applications as part of its microservices infrastructure, T\u00fcrk Telekom is also in the process of implementing Red Hat 3scale API Management\u00a0and Red Hat AMQ\u00a0messaging platform. It is also planning on bringing in Red Hat OpenStack Platform\u00a0as a foundation for its private cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cT\u00fcrk Telekom is using innovative technologies to better serve customers and shows no signs of slowing down on its journey to transform technology, processes and culture to become a modern, more agile service provider,\u201d Honor\u00e9 LaBourdette, Vice President, Telecoms, Media and Entertainment, Red Hat. \u201cWe are proud to collaborate closely with T\u00fcrk Telekom to help it grow in a more flexible way and streamline costs and operations, with Red Hat OpenShift as its core cloud-native application platform taking care of scaling, provisioning and container orchestration. We are excited to see T\u00fcrk Telekom step up its competitiveness by being able to get to market faster and adaptively improve customer experience on demand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cApplications are changing the world and we need to manage our own and our customers\u2019 needs in a digital way,\u201d said Mehmet Fatih Bekin, Data Center and Cloud Services Director, T\u00fcrk Telekom. \u201c<\/em>We needed to rely on an experienced partner and we are happy to have found this in Red Hat. With Red Hat, we have gained flexibility and an ability to address challenges more proactively, which is very important as we have many mission critical products. Red Hat OpenShift frees up our staff to focus on making positive contributions to the business. And with its open source development model, Red Hat can deliver platform innovation and fixes faster. Overall, Red Hat has made our Digital Transformation path a lot easier.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Turkey\u2019s telco sector is booming thanks to global telecommunications providers offering their services. Here, we take a look at how Nokia and Red Hat are helping the country to continue innovating and meet their Digital Transformation needs. Nokia has announced that\u00a0it\u00a0has\u00a0signed\u00a0a\u00a0partnership agreement\u00a0with\u00a0Karel, a\u00a0Turkish\u00a0electronics\u00a0manufacturer,\u00a0to manufacture 4G and 5G base stations in Turkey.\u00a0The companies intend to start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":71972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,48,248,93,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-mobile","category-telecom","category-top-stories","category-turkey"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71971"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71990,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71971\/revisions\/71990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}