VMware NSX Powers Service Acceleration and Energy Efficiency for VMware Telco Cloud Platform
Mobile World Congress 2023 is upon us and that means new features and cool innovations to help telcos manage their increasingly complicated 5G networks. This year, we are focused on building smarter networks and increasing telco efficiency. These networks are expanding the concept of network functions virtualization (NFV), introduced over 10 years ago, to build a virtualized software-defined architecture with virtual network functions (VNF) and cloud-native network functions (CNF).
Modern telco networks depend on flexibility, scalability and security. The network demands constantly change requiring an integrated orchestration and automation strategy across different services and technologies. All of this needs to be done with an eye on efficiency, optimizing the human resources along with the energy and infrastructure requirements. VMware’s NSX platform is a key technology to enable these benefits.
The VMware Telco Cloud Platform is designed to address these challenges that Communications Service Providers (CSPs) face. The Telco Cloud Platform is a solution that integrates key VMware components (vSphere, vSAN, and NSX) to create a cloud and virtualization architecture for 5G core networks and their VNF/CNF environment. VMware NSX powers the Telco Cloud Platform to provide telco-grade networking and lateral security.
Enhanced Services Acceleration with DPU-based acceleration for NSX
Recent advances in the NSX platform include DPU-based acceleration to improve the networking and security performance for VNFs and CNFs, increasing the host resources available while providing enhanced network visibility. VMware is extending the DPU-based acceleration to include security features within the NSX platform including distributed firewall and intrusion detection and protection.
Enabling DPU-based acceleration enables CSPs to take advantage of the benefits of their infrastructure while expanding the operational benefits of their architecture. CSPs can reduce their infrastructure requirements and simplify their operational management with this technology.
Energy Efficiency through Auto-Scaling with NSX Advanced Load Balancer
VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer is designed to provide the elasticity and agility that modern networks require. NSX Advanced Load Balancer can auto-scale CNF/VNF resources up and down based on demand and energy availability. Thresholds can be preconfigured to automate the process through a closed-loop feedback system. You can learn more about how this is done in this recent blog post.
With Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) built into the solution, this can scale across multiple clouds and data centers to offer the unprecedented ability to manage energy consumption globally across different regions and power grids. CSPs now have the ability to minimize their impact on the increasing global energy demands through VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer’s advanced auto-scaling intelligence.
Driving Telcos to 5G and Beyond
VMware is committed to supporting the CSP community by constantly adding new capabilities and creating innovative use cases that provide significant benefit to the business. These recent announcements show how VMware NSX is powering VMware Telco Cloud Platform to enable telco-grade smart networking and security for modern 5G virtualized architectures.
