Many telecom operators have been gearing up to generate business opportunities that drive new revenue streams and commercial growth through 5G. The priority of these operators is to create new business models that meet the emerging needs of their customers. Success depends on driving technical innovation to bring new 5G services to market quickly, easily adjust them on demand, and reduce the costs of telecom operations.
Two technical innovations from VMware by Broadcom — Dynamic Infrastructure Policies and Workflow Hub — help drive commercial growth by streamlining the rollout and management of 5G services.
Dynamic Infrastructure Policies help you radically reduce the lifecycle management costs of operating a 5G network by automatically adjusting resources and customizing nodes to meet the requirements of a network function.
Workflow Hub speeds up the roll out of new 5G services by letting you define automated, repeatable workflows that minimize errors, scale deployment processes, and reduce operating expenses.
As part of VMware Telco Cloud Platform, these two technical innovations join the platform’s end-to-end automation and assurance capabilities to foster a cloud-native environment focused on agility and repeatability. The platform rapidly speeds up time to market for new services backed by the scalability required to support numerous business use cases.
Driving Business Growth with Efficient Lifecycle Management
The Dynamic Infrastructure Policies of Telco Cloud Platform reduce the costs of lifecycle management while helping drive growth through the rapid rollout of new services. Dynamic Infrastructure Policies are a key advanced network automation capability that enables you to automatically adjust the underpinning resources to fulfill the requirements of each network function. With the on-demand nature of Dynamic Infrastructure Policies, you can architect your networks for optimum application response, scale, and service availability.
The automated customization of the following items empowers you to fulfill network function requirements with speed, consistency, and efficiency:
Hardware Resources
• DPDK binding for SR-IOV interfaces
• Passthrough devices for PTP
• NUMA alignment
• GRUB config
Linux Kernel
• Real-time Linux kernel versions
• Kernel arguments like Huge Pages
Linux Packages
• Custom Linux package installations
• Configuration for the tuned daemon
• SR-IOV CNI installation and configuration
The result prevents the overprovisioning of platform resources and significantly reduces the need for most manual pre-deployment configuration.
Reducing OpEx with Repeatable Workflows
Workflow Hub enables you to easily define automated, repeatable workflows that minimize manual errors, save time, and reduce operating expenses. By using pre-built templates as building blocks in a drag-and-drop GUI, you can quickly stitch together processes that address various use cases. Here are some examples of what you can do with Workflow Hub:
• Create a pipeline that application teams can use to bring up a Kubernetes cluster for CNF version testing, obtain the results, and terminate the environment.
• Link deployment steps that take place outside the automation of Telco Cloud Platform, such as setting up an external network, with the deployment of a CNF.
• Save a predefined workflow as code so that an operations team can perform and repeat it later after customizing it to fit its environment.
Telco Cloud Platform also provides APIs to act as a single point of integration for DevOps practices and CI/CD tools.
Workflow Hub and Dynamic Infrastructure Policies enable you to deploy your 5G networks fast, resulting in a rapid services rollout while allowing you to adjust networks when needed. After those networks are deployed, the assurance capabilities of Telco Cloud Platform help ensure the quality of the customer experience.
Automated Closed-Loop Remediation for Better Customer Experience
By combining the service assurance capabilities of Telco Cloud Platform with its network automation capabilities, the platform lets you automate the processes and procedures for common network faults so that they can be handled without human involvement. The combined capabilities introduce automated closed-loop remediation. You can define policies to automatically remediate network faults affecting customer experience.
Automated closed-loop remediation reduces the burden on operations teams to write, test, and maintain the rules in how faults are reported and, more critically, in how they are fixed, resulting in a significant reduction in trouble resolution time and an improvement in the number of problems that are automatically resolved before they affect customer experience.
As a result, you can focus on accelerating the time to introduce innovative revenue-generating 5G services.
