At the DTW25 IGNITE Summit held in Copenhagen, Denmark, China Telecom and TM Forum, an authoritative organization in the global telecommunications industry announced an important strategic collaboration: the Joint Centre of China Telecom and the Joint Centre of TM Forum (hereinafter referred to as the “Centre of Excellence”). China Telecom Deputy General Manager Luan Xiaowei and TM Forum CEO Nik Willetts jointly disclosed the Center of Excellence, symbolizing that cooperation between the two parties has entered a new stage.
The Center of Excellence aims to gather global smart resources to accelerate the innovation and commercialization of digital technologies. The center will rely on China Telecom’s extensive practical experience in the China Telecom industry and TM Forum’s extensive international platform resources to establish collaborations with global operators, technology giants and academic institutions to jointly promote technological advancement and industrialization in key areas such as cloud network integration and intelligent operations and intelligent operations and maintenance (AIOPS). Given China Telecom’s leading position in the domestic market and TM forums in global telecom standards and frameworks, cooperation is expected to have a positive impact on the industry as a whole.
The core business of the Center for Excellence will focus on four key areas: application innovation, standard environment, project incubation and talent training. By building an open and collaborative global digital ecosystem, the Center of Excellence is committed to fostering global technology and standards cycles and injecting new momentum into the development of talent in the digital industry. This comprehensive strategic layout is more conducive to promoting the complete transformation of digital technology from R&D to application, and ultimately providing services for the development of the industry.
In the future, the Center for Excellence will actively promote the application of cutting-edge technologies such as Open Operational Architecture (ODA), Self-Intelligent Networks (AN), AI/Network Modeling, with the aim of creating benchmark cases with industry demonstration effects. In addition, the Center for Excellence will actively participate in the discussion and formulation of TMF standards and stimulate the innovation potential of the industrial ecosystem and accelerate the transformation and application of innovative results through traditional competition for innovation. This means that the Center for Excellence focuses not only on technology research and development, but also on technology implementation and commercial value realization.
The establishment of a center of excellence not only deepens the long-term strategic partnership between China Telecom and the TM Forum, but more importantly, it has established a high-value communications platform to coordinate the development of the global digital industry. The platform will serve as an important bridge that connects China’s innovation with a cutting-edge international ecology and promotes the sharing and flow of technology, standards and talents around the world. This open collaboration model is more valuable, especially in the context of the current challenges facing globalization. China Telecom hopes to explore more cooperation opportunities through its excellent platform, jointly promote the prosperity and development of the global digital ecology, and further deepen cooperation with international organizations.
