VMware Expands Its VMware Ready for Telco Cloud Program to Accelerate the Deployment of 5G Services on Its Telco Cloud Platform
24 Junho 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
New Certification Program Levels Will Focus on
Network Functions Orchestration and Automation, As Well As
Certification of Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs)
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced it has expanded its
award-winning VMware Ready for Telco Cloud program, formerly known
as the VMware Ready for NFV program. The enhanced certification
program will enable telco network functions partners to test the
interoperability and readiness of their Virtual Network Functions
(VNF) and Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNF) with the VMware
Telco Cloud platform.
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The enhanced VMware Ready for Telco Cloud
certification program will enable telco network functions partners
to test the interoperability and readiness of their Virtual Network
Functions (VNF) and Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNF) with the
VMware Telco Cloud platform. (Graphic: Business Wire)
To date, more than 35 partners have received more than 170
certifications as part of the program. The expanded program will
offer two new certifications:
- VMware Ready for Telco Cloud certifies network functions
for deployment and lifecycle operations through VMware Telco Cloud
Automation, a multi-cloud orchestration and automation platform. As
part of this certification program, VMware collaborates with
partners to create an ETSI-Compliant descriptor, as well as
workflow, resource, and artifacts for a validated and tested Cloud
Service Archive (CSAR). This level requires the partner to complete
the VMware Ready for Telco Cloud Infrastructure certification as a
pre-requisite.
- VMware Ready for Telco Cloud Infrastructure, formerly
known as VMware Ready for NFV, identifies telco network functions
that interoperate with the core infrastructure layers of the VMware
Telco Cloud, as referenced by the VMware ETSI-compliant vCloud NFV
Reference Architecture. The focus of this certification level is on
the virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) based on VMware Cloud
Director and VMware Integrated OpenStack and, shortly, CaaS
(Container as a Service): VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
compatibility, as well as the compatibility with the platform’s
core components: VMware vSphere for virtualized compute, VMware NSX
for virtualized networking and VMware vSAN for virtualized storage.
The program is available at no cost to VMware partners. Testing can
be completed either in the VMware on-premise certification lab or
in the cloud as a self-service model.
The expanded program enables VMware partners to accelerate the
onboarding and deployment of their 5G-ready services on the VMware
Telco Cloud platform, thereby reducing communications service
providers (CSPs) time to revenue. CSPs benefit from having access
to advanced network functions and services, such as 5G Core
components, that are ready to be deployed on the VMware Telco Cloud
platform.
“As the telecommunications industry starts its migration to 5G
and cloud native telco cloud design principles, there are two
trends that will shape the industry for years to come – a need for
improved orchestration and a shift of network functions to a cloud
native architecture,” explained Gabriele Di Piazza, vice president
of solutions, Telco & Edge Cloud, VMware. “The expanded scope
of the VMware Ready for Telco Cloud program reflects VMware’s
understanding of these shifts, and our focus on helping customers
more seamlessly architect, deploy, and manage software-defined
telco clouds.”
Partner Commentary
Today VMware announced the following ecosystem partners and
network functions have successfully completed the end-to-end VMware
Ready for Telco Cloud certification:
- Broadpeak CDN
- ENEA MSP
- NetNumber Titan
- Nokia Cloud Mobile Gateway (CMG)
Broadpeak: “With network operators having to deal with
rapidly growing volumes of video content, there is a need for video
traffic to be delivered at the lowest possible cost. One direction
taken by the industry is the NFV approach where network functions
are deployed on private clouds. Broadpeak is leading the charge in
the cloudification of the video components with our virtualized CDN
platform fully supported by VMware Telco Cloud Automation,” said
Jacques Le Mancq, CEO, Broadpeak. “With flexible deployment models
and scale-in/out solutions, Broadpeak is deploying virtual CDN
capacity using its Bks400. Video traffic is served from virtual
instances and deployed in key locations, always as close as
possible to the consumers, leading to reduced network transport
costs and superior quality of experience.”
ENEA: “We have been collaborating with VMware under the
VMware Ready for NFV program since the earliest version of the
VMware Telco platform. The framework that VMware put together for
technical collaboration under the “Ready for” program means that we
can better support our mutual customers and quickly resolve
issues,” said Indranil Chatterjee, senior vice president of
products, sales & marketing, Enea Openwave. “Our customers’
move to virtualization and cloud native introduces many operational
challenges that VMware efficiently addresses in a collaborative and
open fashion. We are happy to show our support for the advanced
capabilities that VMware Telco Cloud Automation brings.”
NetNumber: “NetNumber platforms are deployed in numerous
telco cloud networks and support the transition from NFV to cloud
native. As much as the industry is talking about 5G, there is a
crucial need to support signaling control, routing policy
enforcement, and subscriber database services in the network—while
also protecting the telco’s investment in 3G and 4G generations.
VMware makes it easy and sustainable for us, as a network function
supplier, to prepare for customer deployments,” shared Matt
Rosenberg, NetNumber Chief Revenue Officer. “VMware provides a
published reference architecture; has established an open and
welcoming certification program that is focused on how customers
are using its Telco Cloud platform and intend to use our software
in production; and provides us a technology collaboration
framework. We are proud to be part of the VMware Telco Cloud
partner ecosystem.”
Nokia: “We are pleased to announce the immediate
certification of our Cloud Packet Core as VMware Ready for Telco
Cloud, which includes interoperability with VMware Telco Cloud
Automation,” said Vach Kompella, Vice President, Mobile Packet
Core, Nokia. “As our customers embark on their 5G journey in an
increasingly complex technology landscape, they are looking to
strategic partners like Nokia and VMware to help guide them on that
journey. This program is a perfect example of how partners can come
together to help our mutual customers in the design, rollout, and
lifecycle management of their software-defined telco cloud
infrastructure.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about how VMware is helping service providers
modernize their networks at telco.vmware.com.
- Visit the VMware Solution Exchange for a full list of VMware
Telco Cloud partners
- Bookmark the VMware Telco Cloud blog
- Get all VMware Telco updates on Twitter and LinkedIn
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