The telecommunications industry continues to face mounting pressure to modernize, optimize and lower the costs of their networks. Doing so will enable faster service innovation to capture opportunities such as ultra-low latency, high-speed 5G networks, enable near flawless service availability, reliability and security to subscribers, and improve the bottom line.
But as telcos embrace modern containerized architectures, operational silos re-emerge. This adds new infrastructure management challenges to already complex environments. Thus, many remain invested heavily in expensive to manage, vendor-specific monolithic technology stacks. What’s required is a fundamental rethinking of how to approach network architecture, inclusive of new cloud-native technologies.
At Broadcom, we are taking a unified approach to delivering telco cloud infrastructure through a platform that meets today’s telco requirements for flexibility, scalability and carrier-grade reliability, while adapting to tomorrow’s unforeseen challenges.
Telco Cloud Infrastructure: Simplified
VMware Telco Cloud Platform (TCP), powered by VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation), allows customers and partners to accelerate service innovation, streamline operations, and achieve the agility they need to maintain competitive advantage. Our platform approach is built on three fundamental pillars:
- Unified Management: Platform designed to take the first step toward cloud modernization by running a broad set of VNFs and CNFs on consistent horizontal infrastructure. It ensures network resiliency, seamless cross-domain continuity, and multi-tenant isolation to meet business and compliance needs.
- Converged IT and Network Infrastructure: A fully converged platform that integrates IT and network infrastructure delivering operational advantages. By using common lifecycle management tools across both domains, telcos can streamline operations, optimize resource utilization, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) while eliminating traditional silos and complexity.
- Sustainability & Efficiency: Platform designed with energy efficiency and sustainability at its core, optimizing resource utilization for a greener network. It supports CSPs in meeting their sustainability goals while maintaining high performance and improving TCO.
Broadcom’s Approach to Network Modernization
VMware Telco Cloud Platform, powered by VCF, solidifies numerous capabilities into a powerful platform that gives you the flexibility to modernize your telecommunications network as you see fit. With years of experience in cloud infrastructure and network virtualization we are building the best in class cloud infrastructure for Telco data centers.
We are laser-focused on addressing the challenges telcos are experiencing with actionable solutions:
- Simplifying Automation and Operations: Automation lies at the heart of our platform approach, simplifying lifecycle management and network optimization through a unified platform. This significantly reduces manual intervention, lowers costs, minimizes errors, and accelerates deployments while enabling rapid service rollouts. The result is a network architecture optimized for superior application performance, scalability, and consistent service availability.
- High-Performance Infrastructure: The platform empowers telecom operators to overcome high-performance Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) and Container as a Service(CaaS) challenges with a unified, carrier-grade solution. VCF’s unique capabilities combined with TCP telco specific features, provides telecom operators a unified, automated infrastructure that simplifies management of both traditional and cloud-native workloads.
- Cloud Modernization: Investments in the network architecture enhance resiliency, multi-tenancy and performance improving agility while adhering to Telco standards and design guidelines. By empowering telcos to accelerate their journey toward cloud modernization by providing a consistent horizontal infrastructure to run a wide range of multi-vendor VNFs (Virtual Network Functions) and CNFs (Cloud-Native Functions) .
- Emerging Security Requirements: The platform offers security built into every layer of the stack to protect the infrastructure and applications, enabling compliance to diverse global regulatory requirements, enabling CSPs to strengthen cyber security defenses. By streamlining adjustments to security settings, network policies, and network topology, telcos can effectively address evolving security requirements.
- Future-Ready Flexibility: The platform’s horizontal design supports a broad set of telco workloads requirements, from network functions for mobile core, fixed networks and at the OSS/BSS layer. This flexibility allows CSPs to adapt diverse technologies including AI/ML based applications, powered by VMware Private AI Foundation to personalize services and predict customer needs, ensuring long-term success.
Join Us at Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the perfect venue to learn more about Broadcom’s Telco Core Platform plans. Join us at MWC Barcelona from March 3-6 in Hall 2.0 at Booth 2J30 to hear more about Broadcom’s vision, strategies, and the exciting developments we have in store.
We look forward to seeing you there and share how Broadcom can partner with you on your journey towards a connected and innovative future.
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