Orange Business

Usman Javaid, Chief Products & Marketing Officer at Orange Business, outlines the significance of AI in enterprise digital infrastructure and introduces the Evolution platform to address key customer needs. He explores how AI enhances network optimization and caters to increasing AI traffic demands, envisioning future networks capable of intelligent routing and local inference based on application requirements.

Franck Morales, Vice President Evolution Platform at Orange Business, emphasizes the significance a NaaS Federation and the need for modular components in the NaaS ecosystem.

Usman Javaid, Chief Products & Marketing Officer at Orange Business, highlights the company's strategy in aiding customers to prepare for generative AI (Gen) implementation, focusing on cloud, connectivity, and cybersecurity. Javaid underscores the significance of a robust digital infrastructure for Gen, leveraging Orange Business's strengths as a network integrator and digital integration capability to identify new Gen use cases.

Franck Morales, VP Evolution Platform from Orange, explains how they are delivering a secure digital infrastructure to accompany their customers in their digital-first business. Orange is transforming its backbone into a full internet backbone to deliver cloud-based services in 220 geographies. The backbone is fully co-located with major cloud providers like Google, Azure, and AWS. Orange is also clarifying the use case of SaaS and ensuring an end-to-end answer to customers by doing a Federation of resources using API and orchestrations. This simplifies the design and management of solutions and ensures a digital experience. Orange is hosting SaaS solution vendors that will be delivered from their infrastructure within Evolution platform, ensuring an amazing and outstanding digital experience while continuing to benefit from the innovation of technology vendors.

Laurent Perrin, Director of Product Management at Orange Business, emphasizes the growing demand for integrated security and infrastructure solutions, particularly SASE. Perrin underscored the importance of cloud-based and on-premises security, the zero-trust model, and the need to guide customers in their digital transformation journey, assisting them in making appropriate technology choices.

Orange Business Services is pursuing a global Telco Cloud strategy with major hubs now in 45 cities worldwide and soon expanding to the hundreds. Capabilities will include advanced services powered by Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) nodes, as well as hosting cloud-based solutions from multiple vendors. Here is an overview from Franck Morales, Vice President, Evolution Platform, Orange Business Services.