Telco Cloud objectives have transformed from the initial need for CSPs to virtualize infrastructure to being able to scale with technology, driving continuous innovation, and deploying new services fast. However, the transformation must address CSP business growth now while paving the path toward the future. In addition, CSPs need to deploy applications, services, and greater network intelligence across the network to deliver a higher quality of experience (QoE) to their customers.
To accelerate and achieve this transformation, CSPs must modernize their existing siloed monolithic clouds to be future-ready—an operating model that leverages horizontal infrastructure with agile and flexible networks. Ultimately, the transformation must enable CSPs to succeed now and to continue that success by allowing them to adopt the technologies of tomorrow without disruption.
However, there are several challenges to the implementation of new technologies. CSPs need to be able to select the telco workloads, horizontal infrastructure, and places of deployments while reducing their operational complexities with tightly coupled orchestration, automation, and assurance solutions that best suit both current and future requirements.
The VMware Approach Toward Network Modernization
VMware Telco Cloud Platform is a key technology that fulfills the vision of modernizing CSPs’ networks. Purpose-built for demanding telco environments, the horizontal telco cloud solution lets CSPs deploy an industry-leading ecosystem of telco solutions with the confidence that they will interoperate efficiently.
By supporting a diverse set of industry-standard tools, including vendor-neutral APIs, to manage the lifecycle of telco workloads, CSPs have a high-performance platform that consists of horizontal infrastructure, cloud-smart automation, and multi-vendor service assurance to accelerate telco cloud deployment now while preparing for technologies of the future.
Supporting Diverse Use Cases
As much as telco cloud is about technology innovation, it is also about business model and services innovation. New service descriptions, pricing models, and go-to-market strategies all make up the key pillars of successfully realized telco cloud-based services.
With its horizontal architecture design, VMware Telco Cloud Platform fundamentally changes the ways you can develop, deploy, and run innovative, differentiated, or in-demand services:
- Mobile Core: Offer differentiated services with flexibility and scale in wired and wireless environments.
- Voice Services: Deploy IP telephony services, with virtualized IMS, quickly, efficiently, and reliably.
- Operations Support Systems: Run the business critical applications powering the delivery of revenue-generating services.
- Virtual CDN: Make processing power available at the edge to optimize video and auxiliary applications.
- Smart Cities: Develop smarter and sustainable public services with a multitude of telco workloads.
A Field-Proven Platform
VMware Telco Cloud Platform is a field-proven solution that several of the world’s leading CSPs rely on to offer scalable telco services, achieve new revenue streams, and lower costs. Its horizontal design supports a broad set of telco workloads, including network functions and OSS/BSS applications, creating a large ecosystem through which you can fulfill your unique requirements.
With infrastructure, automation, and assurance for creating and delivering new services, you can modernize your existing telco clouds to match the agility of cloud service providers while providing telco-grade resiliency and service availability.
Field-proven and software-defined, VMware Telco Cloud Platform, with its combination of horizontal architecture, multi-vendor support, future-ready flexibility, and telco-grade capabilities, empowers you to achieve the full benefit of telco cloud now and be poised for whatever comes next.
Cloud-Smart Automation
The automation capabilities are natively integrated with the platform, providing continuous knowledge of the telco cloud state, optimized placements, VIM and cluster configurations while providing the synchronization between the infrastructure and the workload requirements. The platform transforms integration-intensive projects into efficient product deployments with cloud-smart automation. It accelerates service deployment, simplifies future upgrades, and reduces overall costs while eliminating error-prone manual configurations.
Dynamic Infrastructure Policies
VMware Telco Cloud Platform dynamically adjusts the underpinning infrastructure resources to accommodate the requirements of each workload. With this capability, you can automate what were once complex operations of manual infrastructure provisioning and customization to support a specific telco workload. With Dynamic Infrastructure policies, cloud resources are configured on-demand based on the workload requirements, for example, GitOps facilitates the lifecycle management of CNFs, expediting their onboarding, deployment, and scaling processes.
Workflow Hub
The automation capability of VMware Telco Cloud Platform includes Workflow Hub, enabling you to easily define repeatable workflows that are less error prone and require less manual intervention. The objective of Workflow Hub is for you to save time and reduce OpEx. By using pre-built templates as building blocks in a simple drag-and-drop GUI, Workflow Hub lets you quickly stitch together processes that address various use cases.
Service Assurance
VMware Telco Cloud Platform empowers you to simplify the operations of your networks and services, ensuring high availability while providing performance, closed-loop automation, and issue remediation. With the inherent service assurance capabilities, the platform can monitor and collect data from an entire network, including cloud infrastructure, VNFs and CNFs, virtualized telco workloads as well as physical networking devices. This information coupled with automated Day 1 and Day 2 operations like healing and scaling enables closed-loop action for issue remediation.
A Multi-Service Multi-Tenant Solution
VMware Telco Cloud Platform provides a robust horizontal infrastructure that tightly integrates with a wide range of telco workloads, creating a solid foundation for agile, modernized clouds for today and tomorrow. This horizontal infrastructure can be securely shared across multiple isolated tenants or applications using policy-based allocation of segmented compute, storage, and networking resources mapped to individual tenants or applications on virtualized infrastructure, providing an environment with enhanced security for each of them.
Best-in-Class Partner Ecosystem
Since the inception of its telco workloads certification program in 2015, VMware has been enhancing the program by investing significant resources to ensure the interoperability and operational readiness between VMware Telco Cloud Platform and partner solutions. With more than eight years of continued commitment, the certification program now offers you an unparalleled choice, from 350+ certified network functions to select the best solutions for your use cases.
Furthermore, the certification program removes time-consuming and difficult integration work associated with the complexity of onboarding various telco workloads. The objective of the program is to create a vibrant multi-vendor ecosystem so that you can accelerate your innovation speed and the deployment of new services.
The Time is Now
With VMware Telco Cloud Platform, you can deploy a multitude of telco workloads to support diverse use cases while paving a clear and simple path toward cloud-native technologies for the future. The inherent agility and flexibility of the platform protect your investments to deploy and manage various telco workloads while also reshaping your telco cloud environments to host both virtualized and cloud-native workloads whenever you are ready.
With the largest ecosystem of telco workloads, and continual evolution of the cloud technologies to meet changing market requirements, VMware Telco Cloud Platform provides you with a single platform solution capable of supporting all business functions and services today and for the future.
