At the recently concluded MWC Las Vegas, VMware unveiled several new product innovations and partnerships that will enable CSPs to rapidly modernize their networks in a cost and energy efficient manner and accelerate 5G core, RAN and edge deployments and lifecycle management.
Among this, VMware is expanding its Telco Cloud Platform Ecosystem, which will now enable CSPs to upgrade control plane and worker node pools separately, secure their 5G networks with IDPS for east-west network traffic, and accelerate the deployment of network services with an expanding partner ecosystem of 275+ VNFs and CNFs including Mavenir’s Converged Packet Core.
At the event, VMware also launched its Telco Cloud Service Assurance 2.0. DISH Wireless will be testing this software to monitor its distributed-cloud infrastructure and collect metrics and logs to provide actionable insights and facilitate closed-loop automated provisioning and management.
VMware also released the VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN™ 2.0, aimed at accelerating and simplifying deployments across distributed RAN sites with cloud-smart automation. This release enables improved performance, operability, and scale, helping accelerate adoption and time-to-launch.
Other announcements include the addition of VMware Bare Metal Automation, which provides CSPs with simplified zero-touch provisioning and lifecycle management from bare metal provisioning to telco cloud infrastructure and network functions; and VMware ESXi enhancements, which provide bare metal equivalent latency performance and the flexibility, agility, and security benefits inherent to virtualization platforms.
Sanjay Uppal, SVP and GM, Service Provider and Edge, VMware
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. 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.
Marc Rouanne, EVP and Chief Network Officer, DISH Wireless
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. 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.
