Radisys Launches NFV-Accelerated Media Processing, Dramatically Improving ROI for Cloud Communications Services
January 17 2018 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
MediaEngine platform delivers higher
scalability and enhanced NFV management to drive significantly
lower TCO for voice and video services
Radisys® Corporation (NASDAQ: RSYS), the global leader of open
telecom solutions, today announced enhancements to its virtualized
MediaEngine™ platform that deliver 30 percent capacity increases on
Intel® architecture based servers and support a broader range of
public and private cloud environments. In addition, MediaEngine
supports HW-Assist, an architecture that can utilize additional
available processing resources in off-the-shelf servers as well as
Open Compute Project architecture platforms. By coupling
standards-based NFV compliance with the ability to leverage all
available hardware resources including Digital Signal Processors
(DSPs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), the resulting solution
delivers advanced cloud media processing for HD voice, video
calling and unified communications services; transcoding
capabilities that enable carriers to connect users of mobile,
desktop, and landline devices; and a data center footprint that is
6 to 10 times smaller than that of off-the-shelf servers’ CPU-based
media processing alone, saving millions of dollars per year in
capital and operating expenses.
News Highlights:
- Service providers globally are
embracing the cloud to deliver communications services. However, a
mix of disparate cloud environments has led to the need for
separate media platforms for each cloud environment and individual
applications. The end result is a cost prohibitive solution for
cloud communications services.
- To solve this problem, Radisys’
MediaEngine platform provides service providers the ultimate
flexibility in their choice of cloud and NFV management
environments. The current release adds ONAP support, along with
compatibility with the latest Nokia Cloudband and HP OpenNFV VNF
management; VMware, RedHat, KVM and OpenStack hypervisors, and the
Amazon EC2 platform to support deployments in a broad range of
common public and private cloud environments. Additionally, support
for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) allows for
integration with additional standards-based NFV management
environments.
- Scalability in cloud environments is
perhaps the most important aspect of ensuring cost-effective
migration from traditional telecom architectures to cloud
environments for demanding workloads like media processing. The
latest release of MediaEngine improves on an already
industry-leading scalability profile.
- The latest enhancements provide greater
flexibility in managing the number and size of individual instances
of Media Resource Function (MRF), enabling more compute resources
to be employed for voice and video services – and improving
hardware utilization by more than 10 percent while reducing CapEx
and OpEx costs.
- Continued software performance
optimization of Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) codec yields up to 30
percent greater capacity for the latest HD voice codec for mobile
voice and audio services. This represents a significant savings for
service providers at a time when more mobile handsets support the
EVS codec. In addition to enabling high quality audio services,
service providers are launching EVS-based services to lower their
network costs by increasing subscriber volume on existing spectrum
and improving the reach of their existing radio network
infrastructure.
- The MediaEngine architecture is also
built to take advantage of additional hardware resources, including
DSPs and GPUs, available on off-the-shelf server configurations or
through PCI Express® (PCIe®) expansion while still operating as a
Virtual Network Function (VNF), retaining full cloud management
features and workload elasticity.
- All existing applications using
Radisys’ standard control interfaces can support this architecture
– and ROI gain – without modification. The new media processing
hardware acceleration options also include support for
plug-and-play acceleration modules and Open Compute Project
architecture platforms designed for telco data centers. This can
further reduce the footprint of media server and transcoding
requirements for hyperscale deployments.
“For all the benefits of NFV, compute resources are not
infinite. As a result, total cost of ownership still plays a role
in determining service providers’ cloud investment strategies,”
said Diane Myers, senior research director, IHS Markit. “Radisys’
MediaEngine approach addresses this by coupling the operational
benefits of supporting public and private cloud environments, with
the price-performance advantage of hardware assist for workloads
that benefit from it.”
“As the trend to NFV has accelerated, the cost of virtualizing
media processing on a large scale has been prohibitive. This has
forced many service providers to a two-pronged strategy: moving
application and control to the cloud, while deferring the move of
data plane and signal processing intensive capabilities like media
processing,” said Al Balasco, vice president, MediaEngine, Radisys.
“Our latest MediaEngine release, which combines the operational
cost savings, service agility, and management efficiency of NFV
with the CapEx savings of HW-acceleration, gives our customers the
advantage of the best price-performance in delivering media
services that drive revenue, improve service stickiness, and have
an outsized impact on their bottom line.”
About Radisys
Radisys, a global leader in open telecom solutions, enables
service providers to drive disruption with new open architecture
business models. Radisys’ innovative disaggregated and virtualized
enabling technology solutions leverage open reference architectures
and standards, combined with open software and hardware to power
business transformation for the telecom industry, while its
world-class services organization delivers systems integration
expertise necessary to solve communications and content providers’
complex deployment challenges. For more information, visit
www.Radisys.com.
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