Nimble platforms that keep up with your fast-moving markets and customers?
Check.
Agile solutions that unify your fast-growing edge with right-sized infrastructure, pull-based orchestration, and network programmability?
Check.
Software-defined edge strategies that change the game for your business?
Check, check, check.
We are getting excited to show you all this and more at Mobile World Congress, 26 – 29 February 2024 in Barcelona. Join us at the Fira Grand Via, Hall 3, Stand 3M11 and discover how VMware by Broadcom solutions extend beyond infrastructure to create new user experiences and drive business value.
You’ll see a few themes running through our presence at this year’s show:
- For communication service providers (CSPs) moving from traditional telco models to TechCo, the ability to programmatically manage connectivity – from the core, RAN and edge – is triggering innovative use cases in the industry. From intelligent overlays to RIC partners, we’ll have lots to show you in this area.
- As cloud native networks become the norm, the need for automation and multi-vendor approaches becomes more apparent. Advanced management is enhancing service levels, increasing availability and enabling effective monetization strategies. The booth will be ripe with orchestration opportunities.
- Efficiency is crucial for sustainable operations. VMware’s cloud-smart approach optimizes network operations, fosters service innovation, and reduces costs drastically by leveraging improvements in processing power, energy consumption, and resource optimization. If you stop by you’ll be able to play with opportunities to save power and reduce your footprint.
The concept of the software-defined edge has captured the attention of both CSPs and enterprises. At Mobile World Congress, you will learn from VMware’s experts during breakout sessions, tech showcases, and demos. They will highlight how VMware’s cutting-edge features can transcend traditional boundaries of networking, from securing distributed edges to modernizing core and RAN infrastructures.
But what exactly is the software-defined edge? VMware defines it as distributed digital infrastructure for running workloads across a number of locations, close to endpoints that are producing or consuming data. It extends to where users and devices are – examples range from offices and work-from-anywhere locations to cell sites, retail stores, factory floors, medical centers, wind turbines, or a first-responder vehicle on the move.
Breakout session on technologies shaping Industry 4.0
Cloud computing and smart edge technologies are coming together in a way that is very important for the future of Industry 4.0. This combination of cloud services and devices at the edge of networks is creating new and exciting ways to make industrial processes more efficient, flexible, and innovative. Join VMware’s Lakshmi Mandyam, VP of Service Provider Product Management & Partner Ecosystem as she presents “Cloud & Intelligent Edge: Shaping the Future of 4IR.
→ Mark your calendars for Tuesday February 27, 14:45 – 15:45 Barcelona time on Stage A at the Fira Grand Via.
Experience Software-Defined Edge Demonstrations:
…from the core to the RAN…
- Network Efficiency Center with Intel and Equinix – Build your own network with guidance from a VMware expert and a handy touchscreen calculator, for an informative hands-on experience and simulate energy savings.
…in the RAN…
- Network programmability and intelligence in the RAN with Vodafone – With our customer Vodafone, we’re showing how smart programming can transform the RAN.
- A GPT for the RAN with Aira Technologies – Aira Technologies will demonstrate RANGPT™, the world’s first LLM-based utility for managing and controlling the radio access network.
- Testbed as-a-service with Viavi – Check out VIAVI’s Testbed-as-a-Service for validating RIC applications. It’s a cloud-based playground that helps you develop and validate xApp and rApp, integrating VMware’s RIC with VIAVI’s RAN Scenario Generator and RIC Tester.
…at the edge….
- VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator manages edge compute with simplicity at scale – VMware Edge Compute Stack is an edge-optimized runtime and orchestration platform for frictionless management of edge apps and infrastructure across many sites with limited resources. Try it now at veco.showcase.vmware.com.
- VMware SD-WAN at the edge: Easy to provision, secure to use – As part of the intelligent overlay at the software-defined edge, VMware SD-WAN is revolutionizing the way businesses connect.
- VMware SASE: Smart security with integrated intelligence – The VMware SASE (Secure Service Access Edge) demo will illustrate how VMware by Broadcom is teaming with Symantec to provide more secure and streamlined network access for organizations.
- Healthcare, anywhere – What if lifesaving healthcare were available in any location around the world? In our connected ambulance tech showcase, an ambulance equipped with VMware SD-WAN™ and VMware Edge Compute Stack™ in a small form factor connects with medical expertise via video over Eutelsat OneWeb, a leading provider of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite services.
Other VMware demos at Mobile World Congress are slated to include:
- Workflow Hub, Telco Cloud Automation and Service Assurance
- Open RAN 4G/5G brownfield solution
- RAN transformation using single-node Kubernetes cluster
- VMware Telco Cloud using tiered multi-tenancy with VMware Cloud Director, VMware NSX, and VMware Telco Cloud Automation
- Intelligent overlay: Network slicing and programmability for the enterprise
- Anywhere Workspace with VMware End User Computing
TECHCOnnect Innovation Showcase: See the winners
On February 13, Intel and VMware by Broadcom presented the TECHCOnnect Innovation Showcase. The digital event highlighted game-changing solitons across use case monetization, RAN optimization, and efficiency from energy savings to streamlined management. The winning use cases—judged by a stellar panel of innovators from Virgin Media O2, AT&T, ABI Research, Deutsche Telekom, ACG Research, and AvidThink—will be announced at Mobile World Congress on February 26, and displayed at our stand.
VMware’s goal is to help companies stay ahead of the curve by harnessing the power of the software-defined edge, a vision that will be brought to life at Mobile World Congress 2024. Join us at Hall 3, Stand 3M11, and change the game with us!
