In the expansive South American communications market, Telecom Argentina stands out as a leading force. As the largest fixed and mobile network operator in Argentina, its signal coverage spans the entire country and extends into Paraguay and Uruguay, making it the most comprehensive integrated operator across the three nations.

Telecom Argentina, known for its exceptional service and technological strength, has earned numerous international accolades. These include "Best Operator in Latin America" by the UK's Telecoms World magazine and the "Best Digital Transformation Project" award from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), positioning it as a global benchmark in the communications industry.

Rapid Growth Brings New Challenges

With the rapid expansion of services, Telecom Argentina's subscriber base continues to grow—reaching 2.4 million mobile subscribers, 264,000 broadband subscribers, and 104,000 video subscribers. However, this growth has introduced new operational challenges. Service provisioning delays, large-scale live network complexity, and O&M inefficiencies have become bottlenecks to profitability, exposing limitations in the existing network infrastructure.

In particular, Telecom Argentina faces significant hurdles in data center construction and operations, especially in ensuring seamless interconnection between national and regional data centers.

• Multi-DC Configuration Delivery

Telecom Argentina operates two national and six regional data centers, with distances exceeding 200 km. Delivering interworking services across these sites is difficult. Manual DCI configuration synchronization for a single application has an average error rate of 10%, and resource management remains fragmented.

• Agile Service O&M

Network O&M rely heavily on expert intervention. Engineers face high operational risks, and fault location is manual, time-consuming, and error-prone. Reuse of VAS devices on the live network complicates southbound interface development, which is further challenged by frequent version updates and significant configuration changes.

• Device Reliability and Flexibility

To support B2B service expansion, Telecom Argentina must provide customized bandwidth for various server types. Core services must remain uninterrupted, and rapid failover mechanisms are essential to maintain service continuity.

Additionally, network changes depend on expert judgment, increasing the risk of human error. A fault in a single data center can delay service rollout across the entire network. The surge in cloud services complicates northbound interconnection, while third-party orchestration remains difficult due to complex southbound interface development and frequent version and configuration changes during the process of reusing existing VAS devices in the current network.

Huawei's Xinghe AI Ultra-Resilient Fabric Solution

Telecom Argentina proactively sought solutions to these challenges and adopted Huawei's Xinghe AI Ultra-Resilient Fabric. This advanced solution delivered transformative results.

• End-to-End Cross-City Configuration

Using Huawei’s eMDC solution, Telecom Argentina simplified DCI management and enabled automated service orchestration across data centers. Pre-event simulation and post-event verification ensure configuration accuracy, accelerating service rollout and resolving long-distance interconnection issues.

• Low-Code Integrated Orchestration

Huawei's programmable runbook service designer enables flexible service orchestration, configuration comparison, rollback, and auditing—all tailored to customer requirements. This significantly reduces change complexity and overcomes third-party integration challenges.

Solution Highlights

• Ultra-AI Deployment

Eight data centers are managed under a unified framework. Huawei's iMaster NCE controller can manage over 1600 devices. When integrated with the upper-layer multi-DC controller (MDC), this capacity triples—reaching six times the industry average. End-to-end automation spans heterogeneous networks and integrates seamlessly with live-network VAS devices such as firewalls, ensuring error-free service provisioning.

• Ultra-AI O&M

The network digital map enables one-click path navigation and fault location across data centers and vendors within minutes. Application rollout efficiency for B2B and IT services has increased from 3 to over 10 per week.

• Ultra-AI Resilience

Huawei's Rock-solid architecture and Scale-X switches enhance reliability at the network, device, and link levels—improving overall stability by more than 10 times. Diversified bandwidth ports support multiple server scenarios, with a single fixed device covering GE to 400GE full-rate applications, reducing total investment by 50%.

Industry Impact

As the foundation of digital services, the new data center network not only resolves Telecom Argentina's operational pain points but also empowers the operator to deliver a wide range of VASs. Through this transformation, Telecom Argentina has significantly improved network performance and service quality, offering users more efficient and reliable experiences.

This success story provides valuable insights and a proven model for telecom operators worldwide pursuing digital intelligent transformation at scale.