VMware Telco Cloud

VMware offers an industry solution their Telco Cloud Platform, a modernization solution that deploys Cloud Native and Virtual Network Function consistently, at web-scale speed, and without disruption.

VMware are supporting Telcos to embrace their journey to Cloud Native, with major capabilities including CaaS Automation, CNF Deployment, CNF Instantiation and CaaS Optimization, VNF Template Design and Onboarding, and 5G Automated Multi Cloud Service Delivery.

Solutions are tailored for specific scenarios, such as Transforming the RAN into a 5G Multi-Services Hub. with a supporting monetization strategy. In this detailed webinar Phil Kippen provides a walk through of applying the technology to these telco scenarios.

Customers include Rogers, who are driving toward deploying 5G cloud native architecture on this platform with multi-vendor container network functions for Core, RAN, Edge and leading 5G evolution, and Dish, building a 5G ‘network of networks’, the world’s first Cloud Native 5G Open RAN network.

In this interview with Mauro Costa, Director of Network and Cloud Design and Architecture, Lakshmi Mandyam explores how Telia has navigated the journey to a virtualised Telco Cloud and how that journey will continue towards a fully Cloud Native service deployment.

Partner Program

VMware actively cooperates with multiple VNF vendors including all key NEPs, having them certify in the VMware Ready for Telco Cloud program. This is a comprehensive certification program that ensures interoperability and operational readiness between third-party-developed VNFs. The program helps ensure that CSPs can rapidly onboard and deploy multi-vendor VNFs with VMware’s Telco Cloud Infrastructure.

In this TelecomTV webinar, Jitin Bhandari, CTO, Cloud and Network Services, Nokia and Lakshmi Mandaym discuss how the companies are collaborating to enable CoSPs to accelerate their digital transformation journey by certifying critical CNF/VNFs on VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform.