International mobile communications company Nokia and US-based Juniper Networks have announced they will be extending their partnership to advance telco cloud for mobile broadband.

The partnership will bring together Nokia’s Liquid Core solution, including Network Functions Virtualization and telco cloud management orchestration, with the Juniper Networks MetaFabric data center architecture, including Contrail.

Nokia and Juniper said its solution is delivered through carrier-grade services and will provide operators with an open ecosystem telco cloud solution, based on OpenStack.

Together the firms will offer automated application deployment, software defined application connectivity and network management.

The partnership’s solution will also enable application and networking elastic scalability with a clear migration path for operators to leverage existing assets built according to current core architectures.

The telco cloud solution from Nokia and Juniper Networks, will include the following:

- Liquid Core application suites  from Nokia. This includes the company’s cloud-ready NetAct network management solution and Cloud Application Manager, which brings the required orchestration functions to build end-to-end services such as voice over LTE – long term evolution - or evolved packet core in the Cloud.

- The Juniper Networks MetaFabric architecture and Contrail together will enable an open and cost-effective cloud infrastructure solution that readily integrates with Juniper’s portfolio of high-performance networking platforms.

- Nokia is also providing its end-to-end services to help operators implement their own telco clouds and migrate existing telco services to cloud-based networks.

The partnership said its telco cloud solution will be available later this year.