About Our Client
Our client in the Telecommunication Infrastructure services is the first and leading regional integrated telecommunications infrastructure services company in Asia. We specialise in end-to-end solutions in the tower services sector including co-locations, build-to-suit, energy, transmission and operations and maintenance (O&M).
They operates and manages a regional portfolio of over 50,000 towers across Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Philippines, Myanmar, and Laos.
They strives to deliver outstanding performance in telecommunications infrastructure services and solutions. Its state-of-the-art real-time monitoring service, echo, has driven significant improvements in field operations while maximising operational efficiency in battery, energy and fuel consumption for telecommunications infrastructure. They were recently awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2021 Asia Pacific Telecoms Tower Company of the Year Award for its exemplary business growth and performance in Southeast Asia.
Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, they have offices across Asia in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Pakistan, Laos, Philippines and Indonesia. We are committed to conducting our business in a responsible and sustainable manner while upholding the highest standards of integrity for the benefit of their customers, employees, communities and developing nations.
Customer Challenge
Client leveraged various vendors to host their applications, but with applications hosted by their vendors posed a great risk for security and availability of the system. They had set out on an internal project to consolidate and improve their infrastructure.
As part of this project, the client leveraged AspireNXT their Managed services provider to deliver vendor consolidation and improve security and Operational efficiency.
Choosing Amazon Web Services
Being an existing customer of AWS and Azure, they evaluated the two provider and decided that AWS would be the most cost-effective solution for their requirement, and that AWS provides all those services at a faster and more efficient way to host their application. The organization undertook the Migration Journey in a phased approach including a complex Replatform of a business application.
To start this journey, the client appointed AspireNXT, an AWS Advanced Partner to Assess, Mobilize and Migrate their Infrastructure to the cloud.
Proposed Solution
AspireNXT, evaluated the vendor applications that were candidates for migration and provided target Architectures for migration. The core system the ALMP had legacy ties and a Rehost strategy was chosen to mitigate various dependencies
The organization had divided the migration into 2 waves:
- Rehost-1
- Replatform-2
Additionally, the customer has embedded a Phase in their RoadMap to work with the application vendor toward modernising their ALMP to be more cloud Native and leverage AWS PaaS services.
The Benefits
By using AWS as a platform for their Applications the client has successfully taken advantage of various AWS services as a backbone to their application. AWS Provides them the elasticity and agility required to go to market faster and more efficiently, the organization has decrease operational inefficiencies associated with owning and operating a data centre. With the Applications now on AWS, The organizations has higher availability, native Backups, Services Managed by AWS and has opened the doors to innovation and has furthered the adoption of cloud by 20%.
