News Wire Feed Light Reading 3/9/2021 WALTHAM, Mass. Etisalat, one of the leading telecommunications operators in emerging markets recognized by Ookla Speedtest as the world's fastest mobile network in 2020 has selected Netcracker Domain Orchestration solutions to complement its strategy of bringing new and innovative 5G services to market. This includes automation of 5G slicing within a multivendor, cloud-native 5G core environment and across the entire network. These functions can also be extended to the network edge to enable new high-value 5G services and applications that require Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) to meet Etisalat's stringent quality of experience needs. Netcracker Core Domain Orchestration, based on the cloud-native Netcracker Digital OSS portfolio, combines Service Orchestration and VNF/CNF Orchestration with critical real-time OSS functions, including Active Inventory and Configuration Management as well as Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-driven analytics. The solution orchestrates multivendor 5G core and incorporates new 3GPP slice management functions, including Customer Service Management Function, Network Service Management Function and Network Slice Subnet Management Function. Additionally, Netcracker Edge Domain Orchestration comprises the same components for the edge domain with the addition of MEC application orchestration and management.