Vodafone prospects are set for higher Redstream Evolution with a multi-year community improve mission. Often known as Redstream Evolution, a mission focuses on the a part of the community that transports all buyer information across the nation.

It’s a vital hyperlink between the cell masts, that join smartphones, IoT units and Wi-Fi routers, and core, which incorporates expertise centres and the ‘brains’ of the Vodafone community. With out this lightning-fast fibre-optic spine, it might be unattainable for Vodafone to supply connectivity companies to any buyer. 

Vodafone has begun the method of shifting prospects off outdated networks onto Redstream. Cell and broadband prospects are being moved in a phased method, with the method for enterprise prospects starting within the close to future. That is the ultimate stage of the multi-year programme. 

The aim of Redstream Evolution is to create a greater buyer expertise for all prospects, and likewise to enhance vitality effectivity of the community. By converging three beforehand separate networks (one for customers, one for broadband and one for enterprise prospects) into one, Vodafone is ready to ship extra advantages by way of economies of scale.

Andrea Dona, Vodafone’s UK chief community officer, says, “The large progress in data-hungry shopper apps and enterprise companies, alongside ever-increasing web utilization, merely can’t be supported by conventional approaches.” 

“Information is topic to the identical guidelines as highway congestion if the transport community will get congested, we will’t get the place we wish to be as shortly as we wish to.” 

With extra folks and issues connecting to the community in quite a lot of other ways, the Vodafone community is changing into more and more busy the quantity of knowledge being utilized by cell prospects has elevated greater than 300% between 2019 and 2023. In the meantime, thousands and thousands of latest sensible units are becoming a member of the community yearly, with all the additional visitors that entails. Vodafone UK broadband prospects are additionally rising in quantity, whereas extra enterprise prospects are digitalising their operations. 

Bringing collectively three networks right into a single extra streamlined entity means Vodafone’s community investments ship better worth to the client at the moment. It additionally simplifies the method of upgrading sooner or later.

Because of the best way Redstream Evolution has been designed, it will likely be a a lot easier course of to scale up the community to fulfill future calls for. And utilizing ‘edge’ and software-defined networking applied sciences, Vodafone will be capable of ship new companies suppose automation, augmented actuality, content material streaming to enterprise prospects in ways in which have been unattainable earlier than.

“Redstream Evolution modernises this vital hyperlink in our Vodafone community, creating a brand new specific superhighway, bringing greater than sufficient capability to ship an incredible community expertise for purchasers at the moment, whereas additionally staying nicely forward of future information visitors calls for,” Andrea says. 

“This will probably be essential as our house broadband buyer base continues to develop, extra of our enterprise prospects undergo digital transformation programmes, and 5G and IoT utilization will increase the quantity of knowledge we use every day.”

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