The second quarter in the telco industry is typically go-time. Without the distraction of significant holidays and many of the major trade-shows behind us, this is our time to accelerate projects. That being said, I, like you I presume, find myself approaching this season of speed with a renewed sense of appreciation. Appreciation for the diligence and dedication of my teams, partners and customers from around the world. We have an important role on this planet to facilitate communications across boundaries. I must start this month’s update by thanking you. Thank you for joining me in this cause to help make sure this world is unified by a similar mission – to thrive.
With that important message being shared, let’s move onto the fun stuff – an entire month of updates in under 5 minutes. We have a team of thousands of telco and cloud experts around the world working to help your digital transformations. It can be hard to stay informed with all the updates a team of this significance has. That’s our goal here – to make it easier for you to find all the updates relevant to your network transformation in one place. Please watch the 5 minute video below and follow coordinated links inline.
As always, we are moving at the speed of software over here. Be sure to reach out if you have questions about how VMware can support your digital transformation.
Customer Leadership
TelecomTV Interview: SK Telecom and VMware Discuss Integrated 5G Edge
Dish MWC Demo – Services of a Network of Networks
TelecomTV Interview: Dish Wireless and VMware: breaking new ground and all the rules in networking
NTT DOCOMO – The World of Open RAN
Virgin Media O2 Partners with VMware to Complete 5G Roll‑Out Across UK and EU
“Virtualising and modernising our network is essential if we are to cement our position as the leading telco provider across UK and EU and we are delighted to partner with VMware to achieve this. By utilising a consistent, NFV- and cloud-native platform for onboarding and managing our workloads and network functions, we are able reinvest into the network and our customers with a service we can be proud of.”
Chris Buggie, Director of Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering & Delivery, Virgin Media O2
New Demos
RAN DEMO – Transforming any RAN into a Multi-Services Hub with VMware and Cellwize
RAN DEMO – Telco Cloud 5G MUP Demonstration with SoftBank, VMware and Arrcus
RAN DEMO – Scale and secure modern cloud-native deployments with advanced load balancing
RIC DEMO – Democratizing 5G Device Location with VMware and Polte
RIC DEMO – Activating Sustainable Broadband with VMware RIC and Cohere Technologies
RIC DEMO – Automated ORAN Optimization with VMware and Airhop
RIC DEMO – Scale and secure modern cloud-native deployments with advanced load balancing
5G DEMO – 5G Mobile Service Assurance
5G DEMO – Lockstep with 5G Network Slicing Assurance
5G DEMO – Zero-Touch-Provisioning of Altiostar Open vRAN
EDGE DEMO – Enterprise Private Mobile Network: VMware Edge Compute Stack for Private 5G
Article Spotlight
Fierce Telecom Article – Is Your Containerized Network Function Cloud-Native
Vanilla Plus Interview with Lakshmi Mahdyam – CSPs look to virtualise the benefits of 5G without the costly metal
Understanding Virtualization Performance
VMware Network Performance Learning Library
Evaluating Cloud-Native Platform Capabilities To Run Multi-Vendor CNFs
Platform for Change: Building Scalable, Flexible, Secure 5G
An Intel TelecomTV Interview: Implementing vRAN workloads in 5G networks
Cloud Native Initiatives
Linux Foundation Nephio Project
Explore RAN Transformation
VMware RIC: Activating Programmability for Software-Defined RAN Networks
New Executive Leadership
Mariam Sorond joins as VMware Service Provider and Edge CTO
Come Meet with Us – Upcoming Events
Commsday Summit Sydney – 3-4 May
FutureNet World, London – 9 – 15 May
Cloud Operator Days Japan – 11 May – 29 July
Big 5G Event, Austin Texas – 17 – 18 May
5G Orchestration and Service Assurance, Virtual – 7 & 9 June