Accelerate Telco Modernization, Reduce Costs With MongoDB | MongoDB

Drive innovation and capture customers’ imaginations in the telco industry with legacy modernization and the development of new digital services.
Rapid AI adoption has proven that automated decision-making can improve operational efficiency and reduce costs.
5G is unlocking new opportunities for bold innovators across multiple market sectors. Using the power of 5G networks and combined with intelligent software, telcos are beginning to embrace the next generation of Industry 4.0 for many use cases.
Flawless network performance and reliability depend upon a fully integrated, customer-centric approach to service delivery. Tackle this problem by expanding AI and machine learning, ensuring network security and optimization with a 99.995% uptime SLA.
Accelerate operations and reduce costs by simplifying the way data is stored and analyzed. Become equipped to respond in real time to changing business conditions.
As IoT adoption grows, data volumes are surging at the mobile edge and public and private 5G networks. Telecommunications operators choose MongoDB to keep up.
MongoDB’s flexible data model makes it easy to build and use rich customer profiles that are too complex for relational databases to handle.
MongoDB Atlas securely unifies operational, unstructured, and AI-related data to streamline building AI-enriched applications.
Manage customer core data and bill distribution, and take advantage of MongoDB’s fast, flexible deployment model with advanced indexing capabilities.
Leverage AI/ML models to automatically flag (and prevent) suspicious activities without manual intervention.
The telecommunications industry is one of MongoDB’s largest customer bases. We work with leading telcos worldwide, including AT&T, Vodafone, Verizon, Telefónica, TIM, and many more.
As MongoDB is a general-purpose database, we are embedded in many different types of applications.
MongoDB underpins 5G, mobile edge, AI/ML, and IoT solutions. Both Vodafone and Telefónica rely on MongoDB to scale their IoT ecosystems to hundreds of millions of devices.
Consolidation in the telecommunications industry has resulted in many mergers and acquisitions, with each business bringing its own systems and customers to be integrated.
This has driven many large telcos to modernize billing functions to embrace new architectures and data management approaches, including convergent billing. When done successfully, this can yield significant improvements in customer experience while at the same time reducing costs—critical in an increasingly competitive marketplace with compressed margins and rising customer expectations.
From CDR processing to rated event storage to billing distribution, MongoDB’s simplified approach to data management is enabling telcos to give customers a unified experience.
As partners in telco-adjacent industries work to streamline efficiencies in a cost-constrained future, many are turning to private 5G networks to optimize operations.
Modern industrial manufacturing processes are making greater use of connected IoT devices throughout the supply chain, from sensors on manufacturing equipment to mobile devices used by employees on the factory floor to connected vehicles transporting goods—all generating large amounts of data.
In the automotive industry, modern vehicles are more connected than ever. Today, almost all new models include embedded SIM cards that enable even more connected experiences. Additionally, parallel advances are being made to enable roadside infrastructure connectivity. Together, these advances will power increased data sharing between vehicles, and between vehicles and the surrounding environment (V2V2X).
In the telecommunications industry, there are two main groups of databases that compete with MongoDB.
One is traditional RDBMS: Oracle, or even the likes of MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. While telco developers have established skill sets in these technologies, they frequently modernize onto NoSQL technology. Why? The rigid structure of RDBMS inhibits innovation and growth. The schema must be changed for every new product or customer attribute added, which slows time to market—vital in a competitive industry. These technologies are also not built for the cloud. The RDBMS active-passive architecture is designed for a data center and does not provide the resilience and availability required for a 24/7, always-on service. For telcos and networks where downtime is costly, this is unacceptable.
The second is other cloud-available NoSQL database services. The document or object model and always-on service are appealing, but many of these lack vital functionality. Some are merely key-value stores incapable of answering complex queries. With no secondary indexing capabilities, these services cannot serve multiple workloads performantly. It’s not uncommon to see telcos start with these services and then move to MongoDB when they realize their requirements aren't being met by other databases.
If you are speaking with anyone in the telco industry, TM Forum will be an organization with which they are familiar.
At a high level, TM Forum seeks to help both telco providers and the wider ecosystem with the digital transformation necessary to succeed in today’s changing industry. Members are able to collaborate and solve complex industry-wide challenges to help them to deploy new services and create technology breakthroughs to accelerate change.
MongoDB has done significant work with TM Forum over the past couple of years.
In the telecommunications industry, increased customer centricity is key to delivering an improved end-user experience. The different parts of the business need to be more integrated in order to deliver this.
The future is automated. MongoDB helps telcos build automation across the business that is key to delivering real-time, self-serve capabilities while at the same time reducing cost and the scope for manual error.
Why now? A fully-integrated, customer-centric and data-driven approach to serv