Mavenir, a leader in mobile network transformation, today announced its
collaboration with Dell EMC OEM Solutions to deliver a broad range of
solutions for service providers and enterprises covering 5G Cloud RAN,
Packet Core, IoT, VoLTE, VoWiFi and RCS on Mavenir's cloud-native Open
Stack NFV and container CloudRange platform.
Communications service providers are under intense pressure to
simultaneously drive new revenue streams and aggressively reduce costs
as OTTs gain market share in voice and messaging services. This expanded
collaboration directly addresses these challenges, bringing together
Mavenir's extensive software stack for mobile network providers and Dell
EMC solutions for infrastructure, cloud and IOT to create new offerings
and best practices that enable the cost effective and rapid evolution of
service provider and enterprise networks. Mavenir and Dell EMC OEM will
pursue advanced engineering engagements in Cloud RAN, IOT and Enterprise
Private LTE Solutions, including CBRS initiatives.
"The service provider market continues to change and evolve at a rapid
pace," said Ron Pugh, vice president and general manager for the
Americas, Dell EMC OEM Solutions. "We are excited about expanding our
existing OEM Solutions collaboration to address real-world challenges
and opportunities of NFV, 5G, Enterprise LTE and IOT."
This expanded collaboration builds on Mavenir's extensive joint work to
date, focused on the delivery of high-scale, expansive NFV solutions on
Dell EMC's networking, compute and storage platforms and Intel ®
Skylake technology. Together, Mavenir and Dell EMC OEM have already
deployed and certified the full Mavenir application stack for
VoLTE/VoWifi/RCS applications, virtualized IMS core, virtualized EPC and
are expanding that to include cloud RAN and IOT applications. Mavenir
has also certified VMWare NFV 2.0 and have developed carrier-grade
integrated solutions and best practices to ensure the rapid introduction
of new applications into service provider networks.
"Mavenir and Dell EMC OEM have already shown the impact our partnership
can have: together, we have deployed the largest NFV open stack mobile
service provider network with over 100M subscribers, covering the
complete Mavenir application stack," said Pardeep Kohli, President and
CEO, Mavenir. "We are excited to expand our work together, tapping into
our complementary strengths to optimize and enable cloud-native NFV
solutions at scale."