Dell's industry-first co-engineered solution
with Wind River speeds the adoption of open, cloud-native network
technologies
News summary
- Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Wind River simplify how
network operators can deploy and manage open, cloud-native
infrastructure
- Dell services offer streamlined, carrier-grade support for the
entire cloud stack including Wind River Studio
- Dell expands the telecom industry's open ecosystem with the
Dell Telecom Partner Self-Certification Program
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2022 /PRNewswire/ --
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Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is introducing a new telecom
cloud infrastructure solution, co-engineered with Wind River, to
help communications service providers (CSPs) reduce complexity and
accelerate their cloud-native network deployments. To further power
these solutions, Dell's telecom partner certification program
simplifies the process for technology partners to validate and
integrate their products within a rapidly growing open technology
ecosystem.
Analysys Mason estimates the CSP network cloud infrastructure
industry will quadruple from $6.9
billion in 2020 to $30.1
billion by 20261. However, unlike typical clouds
used by enterprises, clouds for mobile networks must address
distributed geographic areas and strict service level agreements
(SLAs) while also supporting a wide range of software, compute and
networking technologies that has made these deployments complex and
costly.
"As the telecom network disaggregates, network operators are
challenged to effectively acquire, deploy, test and operate a
myriad of open, cloud-native solutions," said Dennis Hoffman, senior vice president and
general manager, Dell Technologies Telecom Systems Business. "With
our portfolio of software, solutions, development labs and partner
programs, including our first open, telecom cloud engineered system
with Wind River, a leader in Open RAN deployments, we can partner
with communications service providers globally to simplify their
transition to cloud-native technologies."
Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks help accelerate open,
cloud-native network deployments
Dell is taking an entirely new approach to solve the
complexities of cloud-native network deployments with Dell
Telecom Infrastructure Blocks. The fully engineered,
cloud-native infrastructure blocks simplify telecom cloud network
deployment and management, while accelerating the introduction of
new technologies and lowering operational expenses (OpEX).
ACG Research estimates that CSPs deploying Dell Telecom
Infrastructure Blocks can reduce OpEx by 42%, resulting in a 134%
return on investment over five years versus deploying telecom cloud
infrastructure without the Dell solution2. As the
fastest way to deploy the Dell Telecom Multicloud
Foundation, launched earlier this year, these blocks include
Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell Bare Metal Orchestrator management
software, and a CSP's choice of integrated telecom cloud
software platforms, beginning with Wind River Studio.
Dell is the first company to launch a co-engineered system with
Wind River, designed and factory integrated to host telecom
workloads that can be scaled easily with automation, with
streamlined support from Dell for the entire infrastructure
stack3. The validated and pre-packaged blocks of
hardware and software are designed to meet specific telecom
workload requirements and use cases, spanning the network core to
Open RAN Distributed Units (DU) and Centralized Units (CU). With
Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Wind River, CSPs can:
- Reduce time spent on the planning, design, validation,
procurement and upgrade process.
- Automate the deployment and management of Wind River Studio,
significantly reducing the complexity and operational burden of
managing a distributed cloud while helping ensure a consistent
telecom-grade experience.
- Decrease cost and time spent integrating and deploying
infrastructure to a workload ready state with factory integration
and reduce "Day 2" operational costs with continuous design and
integration testing.
- Gain streamlined, 24-hour access to designated Dell experts for
the entire cloud stack, including Wind River Studio, with options
for guaranteed response and restore times. Dell's services provide
proactive, predictive and reactive support to maximize uptime.
"The introduction of Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks
represents the type of collaboration and innovation needed between
vendors to affordably scale Open RAN," said Andy Dunkin, head of OpenRAN RF & Digital
Platforms, Vodafone. "We expect this new technology will simplify
the design, deployment and management of networks, so new services
on Open RAN can be delivered faster and more efficiently to
customers."
Wind River delivers mature production-ready offerings based on
proven Wind River Studio technology, live in deployments with
leading operators. Wind River Studio provides the
Containers-as-a-Service layer for a distributed cloud and the tools
to automate and optimize "Day 2" operations at scale.
"Our collaboration with Dell will help address complex CSP
challenges in deploying and managing a physically distributed,
ultra-low-latency cloud-native infrastructure for intelligent edge
networks," said Kevin Dallas,
president and chief executive officer, Wind River. "As the de facto
infrastructure for OpenRAN and 5G vRAN and only 5G solution that is
commercially deployed at scale, Wind River Studio enables flexible
networks and offers validated architectures to help service
providers quickly and reliably deploy new services with
industry-leading total cost of ownership for a cloud native
future."
Dell Telecom Partner Self-Certification Program expands
industry's trusted partner ecosystem
As the telecom industry's open ecosystem continues to grow, it
becomes more complex to ensure that technologies can seamlessly
work together to support each CSP's network requirements. Dell is
introducing the Telecom Partner Self-Certification Program
for ISVs and other industry partners to certify their software
readiness for integration on Dell hardware.
Partners have a simple and transparent process for validating
their solutions on Dell hardware and operating systems in the Dell
Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab. Once their solutions are certified,
partners are assured that the quality of their software is
compatible with and ready for deployment on Dell telecom platforms.
The first solutions to be certified as part of the Telecom Partner
Self-Certification Program are from Intel, Litmus and Versa
Networks.
Additional quotes
John Healy, vice president and
general manager of Customer and Ecosystem Enabling Division,
Intel's Network and Edge Solutions Group
"Intel® Edge Insights for Industrial, a middleware
software optimized for AI deployments at the edge, is the first
Intel software platform to receive self-certification and ready for
deployment on Dell infrastructure. We believe the great features
that Edge Insights for Industrial has, such as video and time
series ingestion and inference, will allow Dell's customers to
deploy AI capabilities quickly and with excellent performance on
Intel-based Dell infrastructure."
Vatsal Shah, chief executive
officer, Litmus
"Mobile networks are becoming more virtualized and open, which
has given startups, like Litmus, the ability to lower the barrier
to entry in the telecom market. Gaining access to and certifying
with the Telecom Partner Self-Certification Program will enable us
to make our manufacturing edge IIoT solutions more easily
consumable and scalable for communications service providers and
enterprise customers."
Kelly Ahuja, chief executive
officer, Versa Networks
"The Dell Telecom Partner Self-Certification Program gives
customers the assurance that Versa's Unified SASE (Secure SD-WAN
& SSE) software is compatible with and ready for stable
deployment on Dell telecom platforms. The self-certification
program provides a low touch, automated, formal program for us to
certify that our software is ready for deployment on Dell
Technologies telecom hardware for joint customers."
Availability
- Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Wind River Studio will
be globally available on November 9,
2022.
- The Dell Telecom Partner Self-Certification Program is
available globally beginning today.
Additional resources
- Learn more about the Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for
Wind River.
- Read more about Wind River Studio.
- Find more details on the Dell Telecom Partner
Self-Certification Program.
- Connect with Dell via Twitter and LinkedIn
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1 Analysys Mason Network Cloud
Infrastructure Worldwide Forecast, October 2021.
2 Based on ACG Research Report commissioned by
Dell, "Accelerating Cloud-Native Deployments and Economic Returns"
September 2022. Full report
(https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/solutions/service-provider-solutions/industry-market/acg-telecom-for-infrastructure-blocks-with-wind-river.pdf)
3 Based on Dell analysis of publicly available
information, July 2022.
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