China Mobile announced this week it would deploy Nokia Nuage Network’s Virtualized Cloud Services (VCS) platform to support the rollout of its public cloud offering.

The platform will allow China Mobile Cloud to isolate and secure virtual private clouds (VPCs) regardless of whether they’re connecting to other VPCs, the internet, or enterprise data centers.

“By deploying our SDN solution, China Mobile Cloud’s customers will have the ability to create highly secure and dynamic virtual networks,” Nuage CEO Sunil Khandekar said in a statement.

The partnership is just the latest between Nokia and the telecom provider. Nokia has been working with China Mobile to roll out its public cloud offering since 2015. The cloud provider already uses various Nuage’s SDN platforms to power its public and private cloud services. The company is now extending Nuage’s network automation suite to VPC and bare-metal routing.

Nuage’s VCS place includes an SDN controller, software switch, SDN gateway, firewall load balancer, and VPN connectivity.

The platform allows the company to provide inter-VPC connectivity between workloads in different cloud data centers without relying on gateways, which Nuage claims can become performance bottlenecks in a cloud environment.

Additionally, the platform features a variety of security and network automation functions, such as cloud-based firewalls to secure sensitive workloads, fully automated data center interconnect, and support for bare-metal workloads.