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What is Azure Operator Service Manager?

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Azure Operator Service Manager is an Azure service specifically designed to assist telecom operators in deploying and operating complex network services. It provides management capabilities for multi-vendor applications across Azure Operator Nexus sites and Azure regions. Azure Operator Service Manager caters to the needs of telecom operators, simplifying migration of workloads to Azure cloud and edge environments while accelerating both service innovation and service monetization.

Diagram that shows unified service orchestration across Azure domains.

Technical overview

Managing complex network services efficiently and reliably can be a challenge. Azure Operator Service Manager’s unique role-based approach introduces curated experiences for publishers, designers, and operators. The following diagram illustrates the Azure Operator Service Manager (AOSM) deployment workflow.

Illustration that shows the Azure Operator Service Manager (AOSM) deployment workflow.

Product features

Unified service orchestration

Consolidate software management tasks into a single set of end-to-end Azure operations to seamlessly compose, deploy, and update complex multi-vendor multi-region services. Model network services using Azure Resource Manager (ARM), just like other Azure resources and drive run-time operations via any Azure interfaces, such as portal, CLI, API, or SDK.

Operations at scale

Azure Operator Service Manager is built to scale using the same underlying databases, analytics and cloud-native foundational engineering as Azure itself. Core and edge workloads can be managed together, as complete network deployments ranging in scale from private 5G to national networks. Alternatively use Azure subscription or role-based separation of different parts of your network to segregate management by operational team or service type.

Telco-grade security

Azure Operator Service Manager works seamlessly with Azure security features including Private Link, embedded registries, artifact stores and secret management options to ensure that the operator has confidence that what is deployed matches what was on-boarded by each publisher.

Automation and AI

Accelerate your journey towards autonomous operations using Azure Operator Service Manager in combination with Azure DevOps for Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD) automation. Go further with data-driven insights and actions derived from any Azure analytics and AI services, including Azure Operator Insights, Fabric, Azure Data Explorer (ADX), LogicApps, and Copilot.

Conclusion

By unifying service management, facilitating deployments at national scale and ensuring service consistency, operators can achieve accelerated service velocity, improved service reliability, and optimize service cost. Harness the power of Microsoft Azure through Azure Operator Service Manager to drive network services forward.

Service Level Agreement

SLA (Service Level Agreement) information can be found on the Service Level Agreements SLA for Online Services).

Azure Operator Service Manager is often deployed in combination with the following Azure services.

Get access to Azure Operator Service Manager (AOSM) for your Azure subscription

Contact your Microsoft account team to register your Azure subscription for access to Azure Operator Service Manager (AOSM) or express your interest through the partner registration form.