VMware Spurs CSP Network Modernization with Major Advances in Telco Cloud Portfolio
September 29 2022 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Mobile World Congress Las Vegas 2022 – VMware today
unveiled new product innovations and partnerships that will enable
communications service providers (CSPs) to rapidly modernize their
networks in a cost and energy efficient manner and accelerate 5G
core, RAN and edge deployments and lifecycle management.
CSPs are accelerating the pace of 5G and Open RAN deployments to
meet the demands of consumers and enterprises as they increase
their appetite for ultra-low latency and high speed networks to
support their digital transformation. This rapid pace of deployment
introduces operational complexities from network lifecycle
management to vendor interoperability along with network service
assurance.
“Today’s CSPs find themselves in a unique position in the edge
value chain, with the ability to act as principals and provide the
most cost and energy efficient path to edge transformation,” said
Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager, Service
Provider and Edge, VMware. “At the same time, CSPs need to rapidly
modernize their networks and deploy overlay services to monetize
their investments. VMware’s flexibility and consistency in
delivering a multi-cloud approach allows our CSP customers to meet
this challenge head-on.”
Expanded VMware Telco Cloud Platform Ecosystem—Now Supporting
275+ VNFs and CNFs
VMware Telco Cloud Platform 2.5 with
VMware Telco Cloud Automation 2.1 enable CSPs to
expedite the innovation cycle to deliver new network services,
reduce operational complexities for VNF and CNF onboarding,
instantiation, and lifecycle management to achieve substantial TCO
savings. The latest release of VMware Telco Cloud Platform adds the
capability to:
- Upgrade control plane and worker node pools separately, amid
management of cluster failures.
- Protect and better secure 5G networks from sophisticated
security attacks with intrusion detection and prevention systems
(IDPS) for east-west network traffic.
- Accelerate the deployment of network services with an expanding
partner ecosystem of over 275 virtualized and containerized network
functions (VNFs and CNFs) including Mavenir’s Converged Packet
Core.
“The success of 5G rollouts hinges on the ability to
disaggregate networks and roll out new services at a faster pace
and larger scale,” said Ashok Khuntia, Mavenir’s President, Core
Networks. “With Mavenir’s 5G Converged Packet Core certified
through the VMware Ready for Telco Cloud program, we were able to
quickly validate our CSAR package conformity as well as the steps
for onboarding and lifecycle management of our network functions.
As a result, VMware and Mavenir will enable CSPs to quickly onboard
and deploy network functions resulting in time, money and
integration savings.”
VMware Telco Cloud Automation 2.1 extends multi-cloud operations
and automation capabilities with new support for AWS and Amazon
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) enabling CSPs to provision CNFs
directly on native Amazon EKS.
“DISH Wireless has already deployed thousands of edge nodes to
build the world’s first hyper-distributed cloud, and it’s growing
exponentially. Our 5G Open RAN network is the first application
deployed and supported by VMware Telco Cloud Automation,” said Marc
Rouanne, EVP and Chief Network Officer, DISH Wireless. “VMware
Telco Cloud Automation enables DISH to automate deployment and
management of physical and virtual infrastructure and applications,
at scale. We, with the help of VMware, can now offer a new platform
for developers to stretch the cloud to end devices and create a
bridge between hyper-scale clouds.”
Extended Capabilities for Closed-Loop Operations of
Large-Scale Mobile Networks
The latest release of VMware Telco Cloud Service
Assurance 2.0 enables new use cases for mobile service
assurance, including CaaS, 4G and 5G mobile cores, network slicing,
and RAN.
To streamline the testing and proof of concept (PoC) of this
software, VMware has expanded its scope of work with its customer
DISH Wireless. DISH Wireless is testing VMware’s software to
monitor its distributed-cloud infrastructure and collect metrics
and logs to provide actionable insights and facilitate closed-loop
automated provisioning and management.
“At DISH Wireless, data is the most valuable product generated
by our wireless cloud. We are now trialing VMware Telco Cloud
Service Assurance to enhance our ability to collect data from the
edge, anticipate issues, maintain high system reliability, and
ultimately, expose great value to our enterprise development
community,” said Brian Mengwasser, Vice President of MarketPlace
& Apps Design, DISH Wireless.
Enabling Rapid Deployment and Cost/Energy Savings for the
Disaggregated RAN
VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN™ 2.0 accelerates and
simplifies deployments across distributed RAN sites with
cloud-smart automation. This release enables improved performance,
operability, and scale, helping accelerate adoption and
time-to-launch.
- The addition of VMware Bare Metal Automation provides
CSPs with simplified zero-touch provisioning and lifecycle
management from bare metal provisioning to telco cloud
infrastructure and network functions.
- VMware ESXi enhancements (included in the platform) provide
bare metal equivalent latency performance and the flexibility,
agility, and security benefits inherent to virtualization
platforms.
Additional Resources
- Visit telco.vmware.com
- Bookmark the VMware Telco Cloud blog
- Get all VMware Telco Cloud updates on Twitter, Facebook, and
LinkedIn
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