By Ron Chen, Bureau Chief, Asia

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) and Huawei have completed a large core network consolidation project in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Delivered in just 14 months, the project covers more than 100 million users and is the first of its kind in the world.

Leveraging leading telco cloud-native technology, the partners commercialized the bare metal container and dual-engine container solutions. These support the large-scale commercial use of 5G core networks, with the dual-engine container enabling Indosat to seamlessly introduce containers through capacity expansion and slash service rollout time and TTM.

The project has significantly improved the network experience of Indosat’s users across Indonesia, especially those living in rural and remote areas.

Residents of Kalimantan will enjoy a faster average downlink speed of 15 per cent and a reduced average round trip time (RTT) of 11 per cent for Facebook usage.

Residents of Central Java are already experiencing a 3.4 per cent-better performance for online games and 7.2 per cent for live videos.