Telco and Networking DevOps
Carrier-Grade to Cloud-Native.
Carrier-Grade to Cloud-Native.
Deploy Network Functions Daily in 90 Days.
5G NFV CI/CD pipelines, SDN controller automation, multi-access edge computing orchestration for 1000 plus sites, network slicing deployment, and zero-downtime upgrades built for mobile operators, ISPs, and network equipment vendors that demand 99.999% carrier-grade reliability. 60% faster VNF deployment in 90 days.
60%
Faster VNF Deployment
99.999%
Carrier-Grade SLA
1000+
Edge Sites Managed
Sub-10ms
Edge Application Latency
Zero
Downtime Network Upgrades
5G Core
Cloud-Native Deployment
The Transformation
What Stonetusker Delivers
Cloud-native network operations for mobile operators, ISPs, and network equipment vendors worldwide. Carrier-grade SLAs cannot tolerate unplanned downtime and 5G deployments cannot wait months for network function updates. We build infrastructure that deploys VNFs and CNFs multiple times daily while maintaining five nines reliability. Every engagement starts with a comprehensive NFV maturity assessment.
01
NFV and Cloud-Native 5G
CI/CD pipelines with ETSI MANO integration, cloud-native 5G core deployment with CNF architecture on Kubernetes, VNF to CNF migration strategies, and automated network function testing.
02
SDN Controller Automation
Programmable networks via ONOS and OpenDaylight APIs, intent-based networking with policy-driven automation, network automation using Ansible and Terraform, and infrastructure as code for routing and switching.
03
Multi-Access Edge Computing
ETSI MEC platform deployment with Kubernetes federation across 1000 plus edge locations, zero-touch edge provisioning, local breakout automation for sub-10ms latency, and edge application onboarding.
04
Network Slicing and OpenRAN
End-to-end network slice orchestration CI/CD pipelines, OpenRAN deployment automation with RIC xApp deployment, service function chaining automation, and private 5G network self-service provisioning.
05
Carrier-Grade Operations and AIOps
Self-healing network automation with AIOps, chaos engineering for VNF resilience, blue-green deployments for zero-downtime core network upgrades, and digital twin simulation for production testing.
06
Compliance and Team Enablement
Regulatory compliance automation for lawful intercept and emergency services, FinOps cost attribution per network slice, custom DORA metrics for telco, and complete team training on NFV and SDN.
Days 1 to 30
01
NFV and Cloud-Native 5G Foundation.
Modernise legacy network infrastructure from day one with cloud-native 5G core deployment, automated VNF and CNF CI/CD pipelines, ETSI MANO integration, and carrier-grade observability that delivers 99.999% SLA while enabling daily network function updates.
- Complete telco infrastructure audit covering legacy VNF dependencies, NFV MANO maturity, and cloud readiness to identify every opportunity for 60 percent deployment acceleration. Roadmap from monolithic to cloud-native. 60% acceleration identified.
- NFV CI/CD pipelines with ETSI MANO integration using OSM, ONAP, or OpenStack Tacker enabling automated VNF onboarding, testing, and deployment in minutes instead of weeks. VNF onboarding automated. Deployment in minutes not weeks.
- Cloud-native 5G core deployment with CNF architecture on Kubernetes using Open5GS or Free5GC providing microservices-based 5G standalone that scales from 1,000 to 1 million subscribers. Microservices-based 5G core. 1K to 1M subscribers without redesign.
- VNF to CNF migration strategies with containerisation automation and Helm chart templates modernising legacy network functions and gaining orchestration flexibility and horizontal scale. Legacy functions containerised. Orchestration flexibility and scale gained.
- Network function testing automation including integration tests, performance validation, and standards compliance catching 95 percent of defects before production deployment. 95% defects caught pre-production. Standards compliance validated automatically.
- Multi-vendor VNF integration with standardised VNFD descriptors and APIs providing vendor-agnostic orchestration and breaking vendor lock-in for competitive sourcing. Vendor-agnostic orchestration achieved. Vendor lock-in eliminated.
- OpenStack NFV infrastructure automation for compute, network, and storage orchestration provisioning carrier-grade NFVI infrastructure as code in under 30 minutes. NFVI provisioned in under 30 minutes. Infrastructure as code deployed.
- Service function chaining automation with dynamic VNF orchestration enabling programmable service chains and deploying new services without any network downtime. Programmable service chains deployed. New services without downtime.
- High availability and redundancy for critical network functions with active-active deployments guaranteeing 99.999% SLA and eliminating all single points of failure in the core network. 99.999% SLA guaranteed. Zero single points of failure.
- Telemetry and monitoring integration for VNF performance with carrier-grade observability providing real-time visibility into every network function and proactive anomaly detection. Real-time VNF visibility. Proactive anomaly detection automated.
Days 31 to 60
02
Edge Computing, SDN, and Network Slicing.
Scale operations to thousands of distributed edge sites with multi-access edge computing orchestration, SDN controller automation for programmable networks, and end-to-end network slicing pipelines enabling service isolation for IoT, enterprise, and consumer verticals.
- Multi-access edge computing platform deployment with Kubernetes federation across edge sites orchestrating 1,000 plus edge locations and deploying applications to the edge in under 5 minutes. 1000 plus edge locations orchestrated. Edge apps deployed under 5 minutes.
- ETSI MEC architecture implementation with edge orchestrator and platform manager automation delivering standards-compliant MEC and enabling a multi-vendor edge application ecosystem. Standards-compliant MEC deployed. Multi-vendor ecosystem enabled.
- SDN controller deployment automation for ONOS, OpenDaylight, or proprietary controllers enabling programmable networks via APIs and automating dynamic traffic engineering. Programmable networks via APIs. Traffic engineering automated dynamically.
- Network slicing CI/CD pipelines with end-to-end slice orchestration and lifecycle management deploying dedicated network slices for IoT, enterprise, and consumer services instantly. Dedicated slices deployed instantly. IoT, enterprise, consumer isolated.
- Intent-based networking with policy-driven automation for QoS and traffic management translating business intent to network configuration with zero manual CLI configurations required. Business intent to network config. Zero manual CLI configurations.
- Edge application onboarding automation with self-service developer portals enabling third-party developers to deploy applications to MEC platforms without any operator intervention. Third-party developers deploy to MEC. Zero operator intervention required.
- Low-latency routing with edge traffic steering and local breakout automation delivering sub-10ms latency for edge services and eliminating backhaul for local traffic. Sub-10ms edge latency achieved. Backhaul eliminated for local traffic.
- NFVI monitoring with resource optimisation providing real-time capacity management across the network function virtualisation infrastructure and preventing resource exhaustion proactively. Real-time capacity management. Resource exhaustion prevented proactively.
- Zero-touch provisioning for edge compute nodes with automated bootstrapping enabling shipping of edge hardware to sites and automatic integration without on-site engineering. Ship hardware to site. Auto-integration without on-site engineers.
- Distributed tracing for multi-site service chains with end-to-end observability tracing every request across cloud and edge and troubleshooting performance issues in seconds. Requests traced across cloud and edge. Issues troubleshot in seconds.
- Network automation using Ansible and Terraform with GitOps workflows for telco infrastructure implementing infrastructure as code for routing, switching, and firewall configurations. Infrastructure as code for network. Routing and switching automated.
Days 61 to 90
03
Carrier-Grade Operations and Elite DevOps.
Self-healing AIOps networks resolving faults in under 60 seconds, chaos engineering validating 99.999% SLA under failure, OpenRAN automation, digital twin simulation, and the team enablement that sustains carrier-grade operational excellence at massive scale indefinitely.
- Self-healing network automation with AIOps for anomaly detection and auto-remediation resolving network faults in under 60 seconds and guaranteeing minimal service impact to subscribers. Faults resolved under 60 seconds. Minimal subscriber impact guaranteed.
- Chaos engineering for carrier networks with VNF failure injection and network partition testing validating resilience continuously and maintaining 99.999% SLA under all failure scenarios. Resilience validated continuously. 99.999% SLA under failure scenarios.
- OpenRAN CI/CD pipelines with RAN Intelligent Controller xApp deployment automation deploying RAN intelligence applications in minutes and optimising spectrum utilisation dynamically. RAN intelligence deployed in minutes. Spectrum optimised dynamically.
- Network digital twin for simulation-based testing before production deployments testing all network changes in a virtual twin and eliminating production outages from misconfigurations. Changes tested in virtual twin. Production outages eliminated.
- Blue-green deployments for core network functions with zero-downtime upgrades deploying safely during peak hours and ensuring subscribers never experience any service interruption. Deploy during peak hours safely. Subscribers never interrupted.
- Custom DORA metrics for telco tracking deployment frequency, MTTR, and change failure rate for VNFs and CNFs achieving daily network updates with sub-hour incident response. Daily network updates achieved. Sub-hour incident response sustained.
- Private 5G network automation for enterprise deployments with self-service provisioning deploying isolated 5G networks for enterprise customers in under 2 hours with full automation. Private 5G deployed under 2 hours. Enterprise self-service enabled.
- Network capacity planning automation with AI-driven demand forecasting predicting capacity requirements 6 months ahead and preventing congestion before any subscribers notice degradation. Capacity predicted 6 months ahead. Congestion prevented proactively.
- Security automation for NFV with runtime threat detection and compliance enforcement providing continuous security scanning and preventing attacks on virtualised network functions. Continuous security scanning. Attacks on VNFs prevented automatically.
- Multi-cloud NFV orchestration with cloud bursting for peak demand management providing elastic capacity across AWS, Azure, and on-premises and handling traffic spikes without overprovisioning. Elastic capacity across clouds. Traffic spikes without overprovisioning.
- Subscriber experience monitoring with quality of experience metrics integration providing real-time visibility into subscriber satisfaction and optimising the network for user experience. Real-time subscriber satisfaction visible. Network optimised for experience.
- FinOps for telco cloud with cost attribution per network slice and service tracking infrastructure costs per slice and optimising spend while maintaining all carrier-grade SLAs. Costs tracked per slice. Spend optimised without SLA compromise.
- Regulatory compliance automation for lawful intercept and emergency services including E911 meeting all regulatory obligations automatically and generating audit-ready evidence continuously. Regulatory obligations met automatically. Audit evidence generated continuously.
- Team enablement through NFV and SDN workshops, Kubernetes for telco training, and 5G architecture deep dives building expertise that delivers network features 70 percent faster independently. Engineers master cloud-native networking. 70% faster delivery independently.
- Full handover with MANO runbooks, edge orchestration templates, SDN automation playbooks, and a 12-month optimisation roadmap enabling self-sufficient telco operations scaling to 6G and beyond. Self-sufficient operations achieved. Scale to 6G independently.
Proven Results
Delivered Worldwide
60%
Faster VNF Deployment
99.999%
Carrier-Grade SLA
1000+
Edge Sites Managed
Sub-10ms
Edge Application Latency
Zero
Downtime Network Upgrades
5G Core
Cloud-Native Deployment
Ready to Build
Networks That Deploy Daily at Five Nines?
Start with a free NFV maturity assessment. We will review your current VNF deployment processes, edge computing architecture, and carrier-grade reliability posture in the first conversation, at no cost and with no commitment required.
No long-term contracts
Pilot-first engagement
Results in 90 days
NDA from day one