It's been a busy week for Deutsche Telekom, which announced a series of new services that aim to tackle cyber theft and simplify cloud management. Additionally, the operator unveiled a partnership with Siemens to deliver corporate services to German enterprises.

In an effort to tackle cyber theft, Deutsche Telekom unveiled Encrypted Lambda, a security service developed in collaboration with optical networking manufacturer Ciena. Encrypted Lambda employs Ciena’s WaveLogic Encryption to provide hardware-based encryption across the physical network connection.

The service is designed for customers — such as the health care and financial services companies — that need to transmit large amounts of confidential data quickly and securely. It's deployed as a physical appliance at the customer's site, which allows all data passing through it to be encrypted at Layer 1 — the physical layer — of the network.

Deutsche Telekom says its security service several has distinct advantages over software-based encryption.

“Other providers use traditional methods, which are software-based over Layer 3 or 4,” said Stuart Evers, VP of access and transport management at Deutsche Telekom, in a statement. “That makes encryption CPU intensive, slower, and expensive, because utilizing software requires more severs, adds latency, and needs superior set-up and management capabilities.”

Deutsche Telekom is now offering a multi- and hybrid-cloud management platform designed to help customers juggle their public and private clouds while benefiting from the specific strengths of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Microsoft Azure.

The aptly named Multi & Hybrid Cloud Management product focuses on cost, security enforcement, and providing a framework for developing cloud applications compliant with company guidelines.

“When developing Multi & Hybrid Cloud Management, it was very important to us for our customers to keep flexibility,” said Max Ahrens, CTO at T Systems, in a statement. He explained that the platform allows T System to help its customers take advantage of each cloud providers’ unique services while also enforcing the same security policies across all of them.

Additionally, Deutsche Telekom launched a new service called Future Cloud Infrastructure, which allows customers to leverage private cloud capacity within the company’s data centers. The service initially supports VMware Cloud for AWS, but services for Microsoft Azure Stack and Open Stack will also roll out in the coming months.

As part of Future Cloud Infrastructure, the company is also offering an “express service” that allows customers to expand their private cloud within two hours with additional capacity from AWS.

Rounding out today’s announcements, Deutsche Telekom announced a partnership with Siemens to deliver new corporate services in Germany. The joint venture covers enterprise applications for resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and manufacturing engineering systems (MES).

The services aim to help companies leverage a range of technologies — such as cloud, 5G, edge computing, and IoT — which Deutsche Telekom says have the potential to reinvent German industry.

The two companies have already identified three target use cases including machine health, predictive analytics, and fleet management.