MTN Group, Huawei’s Joint ADN Solution Gets GSMA Recognition

By Aduragbemi Omiyale

The joint autonomous driving network (ADN) solution of MTN Group and Huawei has been nominated for the Best Network Software Breakthrough Award.

This award is from the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) and is in recognition of ADN solution’s innovation in multi-domain network software and tremendous business and social values.

Considered the mobile and digital industry’s most desired recognition of product innovation and achievement, GLOMOs attracted hundreds of submissions from all over the world and adjudication was done by an international jury comprising leading industry and subject matter experts, analysts, journalists, academics and mobile operator representatives.

As the largest telecom carrier in Africa, MTN was nominated for the 27th edition of the GLOMO award for the first time, bearing testament to its contribution and persistent effort in developing cutting-edge Autonomous Networks technologies in recent years.

The award marks a milestone for its Ambition 2025 strategy which was announced in 2021 with ambitious goals, including deploying the largest and most valuable digital network platforms in the Pan-African region.

To achieve these goals, MTN selects its long term partner, Huawei to support it in deploying a communications network that delivers optimal experience by continuously improving O&M efficiency.

Since 2021, Huawei has been instrumental in MTN Group’s transformation to digital intelligence in fixed, wireless, and transport networks. During this period, a variety of intelligent network applications have been successfully implemented.

Huawei’s ADN solution features an efficient collaboration between intelligent networks and intelligent O&M. It uses an intelligent, open network architecture, and systematic innovations to help MTN accelerate digital transformation for network planning, construction, maintenance, and optimization and fulfil Ambition 2025.

GLOMO Awards is the highlight of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which is one of the biggest annual events in the communications industry. It is designed to highlight outstanding innovations that rechanging the way that future software-based networks function, leading to dramatic changes in-network costs, functionality and/or business cases, including, but not exhaustive to the use of NFVs and SDNs.