Explore Las Vegas Registration
August 21st – 24th, Las Vegas
We’re three weeks out from VMware Explore Las Vegas, and I couldn’t be more excited to connect with our customers and learn alongside them. We have curated the Explore experience for communications service providers (CSPs) to address the topics you bring up the most and answer the questions we continue to receive.
The sessions themselves are shaping up to be valuable resources for our telco customers, but I hope you’ll also join us to come see the latest demos, go to our hands-on labs and meet our wide range of enterprise customers.
So, what is the show all about for us this year?
We’ve been fielding a lot of questions about migrating IT workloads and performance across IT and network environments, so you’ll see many sessions about cloud native applications and telco-grade automation platforms. You’ll also find discussions about preparing for the scaled growth that has already begun at the edge.
Sanjay Uppal, GM & SVP of service provider and edge at VMware will take the stage in the “Everything Everywhere All At Once – Living on the Edge with VMware” keynote to talk about Edge sprawl. He will help you understand how enterprises are approaching this opportunity and highlight how the need for enterprise edge strategies is opening up an opportunity for our CSP customers.
Mariam Sorond, CTO of service provider and edge at VMware will also take to the keynote stage with John Swieringa, President and COO of DISH Wireless to highlight the necessity of programmable connectivity to enable enterprise growth at the edge.
With speakers from Cox, Singtel, City of Las Vegas, and Lumen, there are hundreds of sessions we welcome you to explore. We’ve also curated this list of sessions which are uniquely suited for CSPs.
Session Sneak Peek:
#2764 | Keynote – Everything Everywhere All At Once – Living on the Edge with VMware
Most business for a distributed enterprise runs outside of centralized locations and increasingly happens on the factory floor, in the retail store, in clinics, energy substations, 5G cell sites and millions of such “edge” locations. Different industries from telecom, retail and manufacturing to healthcare, energy and beyond are getting transformed with workloads moving and growing fastest at the Edge. From a 5G RAN, software-defined WAN with AIOPS to Computer Vision inferencing for making cars safely, use cases abound, but all need a consistent digital infrastructure with an underlying 5G/Fiber programmable network. The “Everywhere” distribution of the Edge, with the digital footprint down to a raspberry Pi, requires an “Everything” stack that is slim, runs automated at low latency and supports real-time workloads. Through real world examples, we will showcase how customers are solving their Edge use cases with VMware Edge technology.
Speakers: Sanjay Uppal, SVP and GM, Service Provider and Edge, VMware, Mariam Sorond, CTO, Service Provider and Edge, VMware, John Swieringa, President and COO of DISH Wireless
#2837 | Connectivity that Captivates Workshop
As Enterprises transform and embed AI/ML, automation, and analytics into their everyday, they often overlook the benefits or partnering with a service provider to help accelerate innovation. Join this workshop to learn how VMware and DISH Wireless can help businesses like yours improve operations, build applications, and improve customer satisfaction. Hear about new startups disrupting every industry from manufacturing, agriculture, medicine, oil and gas, banking, retail, and logistics. Learn about the DISH API marketplace, offering network services that can be leveraged to enhance enterprise applications. Hear about new solutions offered by VMware and DISH around Edge and private mobile networks. Lastly, participate in a round of speed networking so you can meet industry peers, DISH Wireless execs and VMware in an intimate setting.
Speakers: Stephen Spellicy, VP product marketing, enablement and business development, VMware, Michael Sherwood, CIO, City of Las Vegas, Brian Mengwasser, VP and head of marketplace and app design, DISH Wireless, Mariam Sorond, CTO service provider and edge, VMware
#2838 | An Integrated Approach to Helping Telcos Meet Emerging Security Standards
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre, or NCSC, has recommended the establishment of a robust security framework based on a set of telecommunications security requirements, or TSRs, that are intended to drive telcos to operate secure networks. This session summarizes the security risks and requirements that telcos face as they transition to 5G networks and increasingly rely on virtualization and cloud computing, including cloud-native technology. You’ll learn how to use the VMware telco cloud to implement an architecture with multi-cloud security that protects telecommunications networks in various global regions.
Speakers: Steven Hoenisch, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, VMware, Tuan Nguyen, Networking & Security Senior Technologist, VMware
#2147 | Exploring the Merits of Automation and Orchestration VMware & DISH Wireless
Automation and orchestration are essential components of modern telecommunications, allowing telecom operators to increase efficiency, decrease costs, and accelerate innovation. VMware and DISH Wireless are collaborating on this change by utilizing solutions such as VMware’s Telco Cloud Automation. VMware and DISH Wireless will examine the technical advantages of automation and orchestration, highlight use cases and best practices for success. We will discuss the advantages of Telco Cloud Automation to increased productivity, time-to-market, and more effective resource usage. This session will provide attendees with an in-depth grasp of the technical advantages of automation and orchestration, as well as the essential methods and tools required for success.
Speakers: Prakash Srinivasan, Head of Wireless CICD & Automation, DISH Network LLC, Moshe Lavi, Senior Director Product Management, VMware
#1051 | Deliver High-Performing Edge Services with Lumen Edge and VMware Edge Compute Stack
As businesses increasingly rely on edge-native applications to deliver faster and more reliable services, edge computing has become a critical solution. However, managing and running these applications can be complex and challenging. That’s where Lumen Edge comes in. Join us in this session to discover how Lumen Edge, powered by VMware Edge Compute Stack, is delivering high-performance edge services and managing distributed sites with ease. The speakers will provide a detailed architecture overview and demonstrate the solution’s capabilities, showcasing how it can help you achieve better performance and reliability for your edge computing needs. Whether you’re in retail, manufacturing or any other industry, this session is an excellent opportunity to explore the possibilities of Lumen Edge and discover how it can help you accelerate your edge-native applications.
Speakers: Girish Manmadkar, Product Management – Cloud Providers, VMware, Anthony Hakim, Senior Lead Product Manager, Lumen.
#1304 | Modernizing Applications for Telco of the Future
In this talk we present our journey towards modernizing Singtel’s digital services layer that serves our customers. Specifically, we discuss our ongoing work to introduce Backend as a Service (BaaS) Platform that can provide omni-channel capabilities through unified interface. This platform will be the core that enables Singtel to offer digital services and experiences with shorter time to market.
We first discuss the pre-BaaS state of the Backend Platform. The background on technical intricacies that slowed down our development speed, and various other issues impacting time to go live for new features sets the stage for this talk. We then present foundations of BaaS – concept, overall architecture, and technology developed in-house to build BaaS Platform. Finally, we finish by covering the work we have done so far, challenges we faced along the way, and the impact we have observed when transitioning to BaaS Platform.
Speakers: Alberto Resco Perez, Senior Director of Software Engineering, Singtel, Danny Suyanto, Lead Software Engineer, Singtel
#2735 | Connectivity that Captivates – Industry Panel
5G connectivity is bringing the sexy back for communication service providers and enterprises are the prime benefactors. Listen to industry leaders share how they are using artificial intelligence and machine learning driven applications coupled with wireless connectivity to improve enterprise productivity and enable new use cases.
Speakers: Debra Bradshaw, Director, Customer Marketing, VMware, Stephen Spellicy, VP, Service Provider Marketing, Sales Readiness & Business Development, VMware, Brian Mengwasser, Vice President, Head of MarketPlace and App Design, DISH Wireless, Michael Sherwood, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Las Vegas.
#2839 | Balancing Risk and Performance for Sustainable ICT Networks
For decades, enterprises have been working with VMware to help create the operational agility and network efficiencies needed to thrive in their marketplaces. As many of these enterprises turn up the heat on their sustainability initiatives, they’re looking again to the same consolidation and cloud-smart tools to reach their goals. Optimizing for efficiency can come with increased risk to performance, so in this session our experts will address how this risk can be controlled and reduced. From workload classification and understanding traffic patterns, to power management features and forward-looking technology optimizations, this session will help enterprises and communications service providers build a roadmap for their sustainability goals.
Speakers: Valentin Bondzio, Customer Sustainability Architect, VMware, Frank Escaros-Buechsel, Global Architect, VMware
#2951 | Embracing the Future of Networking at the Edge with Cox Edge and VMware
Cox Edge empowers businesses with the distributed compute infrastructure required to build the future. In this session learn how Cox is working with VMware to provide IAAS and PAAS services that are fast adaptable and reliable by leveraging their 19 data centers across the US. This Edge solution provides end to end networking from Edge to Cloud with Kubernetes — offering lower latency and yielding high results. With Cox’s leading network the next generation of AI, 5G, and software-defined-everything is now possible, right at the edge.
Speakers: Andrew DeLorenzo, Director of Edge Compute at Cox, Dave Comrey, Product Owner Cox Edge, Cox, Milind Honrao, Multi Cloud Strategist, VMware
Hands on Labs
ELW-HOL-2486-01-TEC – Overview of Telco Cloud Automation Solution
Please check-in for your ELW 15 minutes before the start time as we release seats to the standby attendees 5 minutes prior to the workshop start time.
Join us for an engaging workshop on VMware Telco Cloud Automation (TCA), the cutting-edge solution revolutionizing the telecommunications industry. This workshop provides in-depth insights into TCA’s capabilities, implementation strategies, and real-world applications. Experience firsthand how TCA accelerates time-to-market, boosts operational agility, and simplifies network management through unified multi-cloud automation. Through interactive sessions and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn to integrate 5G capabilities, enhance customer experience, optimize resource utilization, and leverage TCA’s extensive ecosystem of certified partners. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the future of telecommunications and leverage the power of TCA to drive innovation and success in your organization.
This lab is also offered in the Hands-on Labs Self-paced Lab seating area! No reservation required and the lab authors / product experts are available to answer your questions! Stop by the Hands-on Labs room anytime.
[SPL-HOL-2486-02-ISM] Infrastructure Automation for Performance Apps Using Telco Cloud Automation
This lab focuses on VMware Telco Cloud Automation, which simplifies the deployment, management, and performance configurations of Network Functions (NFs). Participants will: – Deploy a Kubernetes workload cluster and explore a Cloud Service Archive (CSAR) file. They will use the Telco Cloud Automation CSAR file designer to create NF configurations tailored to Telco applications, such as 5G Core or RAN applications. – The lab covers the deployment of a performance application, highlighting the coordination of SRIOV and DPDK configurations across physical and container layers. – Additional modules introduce Precision Time Protocol (PTP) for time-sensitive Telco cloud applications and integration with VMware RIC (Radio Intelligent Controller) via Energy Saving rApp instantiation using VMware TCA. This lab provides hands-on experience and comprehensive understanding of VMware Telco Cloud Automation’s capabilities in NF deployment, management, and integration with Telco applications.
[SPL-HOL-2486-01-TEC] Overview of Telco Cloud Automation Solution
VMware Telco Cloud Automation (TCA) is the cutting-edge solution revolutionizing the telecommunications industry. This lab provides in-depth insights into TCA’s capabilities, implementation strategies, and real-world applications. Experience firsthand how TCA accelerates time-to-market, boosts operational agility, and simplifies network management through unified multi-cloud automation. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll learn to integrate 5G capabilities, enhance customer experience, optimize resource utilization, and leverage TCA’s extensive ecosystem of certified partners. Explore the future of telecommunications and leverage the power of TCA to drive innovation and success in your organization.
Hands on Demonstrations
VMware Private Mobile Network: See how VMware Private Mobile Network, an enterprise-first end-to-end managed private mobile service, enables MSPs apply their wireless expertise to help the enterprise accelerate their edge digital transformation.
Mavenir & VMware: Demonstrating Commercial Open RAN Success: Learn how with Mavenir Open vRAN solution running on VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN, a CSP can deploy fully operational Open RAN cell sites at scale and in a matter of minutes.
vRAN assurance of Samsung vDUs: Learn how Samsung vDUs and vCUs gets auto-discovered with events monitoring and closed -loop automation and remediation.
VMware Telco Cloud Automation Workflow Hub: End-to-End DevOps & Automation for Service Providers: Workflow Hub for Telco Cloud Automation enables a CSP to assemble end-to-end DevOps automation workflows that cover everything from infrastructure setup to application deployment, testing and lifecycle management. With Workflow Hub, CSPs can create simplified, streamlined methods of managing various, discrete automation tools, components and products that support their complex networks. Serving as an umbrella orchestrator, Workflow Hub inherently cuts through scattered or siloed network architectures, allowing CSPs to easily set up infrastructure at network sites and quickly create new workflows–reducing operating expenses and accelerating paths to revenue.
VMware Energy Savings rApp: Learn how VMware Energy Savings rApp, powered by VMware RIC, minimizes power consumption by detecting cell traffic usage and powering down unused capacity cells without impacting overall network performance.
VMware Aria Operations Green Score: The new sustainability dashboard in VMware Aria Operations shows you how green or efficient your IT environment is by giving you a green score.
Telco Cloud Traffic Management for VNF/CNF with NSX ALB at Scale: Telco operators need to have a platform agnostic solution to publish VNF/CNF in a scalable and secure way. VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi) automatically exposes VNF/CNF by providing an application services fabric with consistent automation. This combines a single Load Balancing fabric with multiple vendor VNFs/CNFs along with advanced features including auto scale, security, and rich analytics.
Fostering RAN Sustainability by using Service Management and Orchestration framework to manage an energy-saving rApp: The Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) framework covers automation, orchestration, assurance, analytics, and optimization with a common data collection and management service. This demo illustrates how the SMO framework from VMware reduces energy usage by correlating data from O-Cloud resources and applications. The SMO framework and energy savings rApp use automation to orchestrate power-saving features and mechanisms.
Intelligent Power Management for Sustainability using VMware Telco Cloud Platform: VMware Telco Cloud Platform combines virtualization with improved resource utilization and automated power management to reduce energy consumption while improving efficiency, reliability, and performance as well achieving cost savings.
5G Network Transformation: Empowering CSPs with Oracle and VMware: Process for deploying and configuring VMware Telco Cloud Platform Public Cloud on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Expediting RAN Deployments with End-to-End Automation: Find out how you can power up RAN sites and generate revenue in minutes by using end-to-end automation for the RAN, from bare metal provisioning to network functions and services.
Are you ready to Explore with us? Reach out, let’s meet in Vegas!
