Telefónica Preps a Central Office Reboot

Spanish operator Telefónica is taking a significant step towards defining its next-generation broadband access and network edge architecture in the second half of 2018 with extended trials of an architecture it calls CTpd (which stands for Central Telefónica de procesamiento de datos -- believe me, it doesn't seem nearly as interesting once you put that through a translator app...).

The development and deployment of its CTpd architecture is part of a Telefónica program called OnLife, which has used the Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD) model as a blueprint for the operator's development of next-gen central office facilities.

Now the operator is ready to take its CTpd equipment rack, which comprises servers, switches and passive optical networking (PON) broadband access equipment built to Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications, to new locations, trial commercial services with up to 500 customers and start the process of building out a nationwide distributed telco cloud architecture.

To find out more, check out the full story on Light Reading: Telefónica Edges Closer to a Distributed Telco Cloud.

— Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading