Mavenir has announced support for deployments and integration of
cloud-native telecom network functions with telco infrastructure
solutions on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS).
Mavenir's
collaboration with AWS allows Communications Service Providers (CSPs)
to deploy Mavenir's market leading 4G and 5G products and applications
with AWS's computing infrastructure, state of the art container
deployment and management technologies, and big data analytics services.
The solution is designed to scale and leverages the same tools and
technologies offered by AWS to enterprise applications today. These
tools are the backbone for visibility and automation for any AWS-based
offering and generally referred to as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This
translates to offloading some of the telco application business to
cloud functions, reducing complexity and putting service providers at
par with organizations enjoying cost savings from cloud migrations
without losing insight, performance, and control on their networks.
Another
key element from this collaboration is the enablement of Private
Networks and Edge deployments on AWS, powered by Mavenir's Digital Enablement platform.
With a digital app store for enterprise and various industry 4.0
applications such as IVA, AR/VR, IIoT and Robotics control, Mavenir's Edge AI application suite is
empowering an ecosystem of developers, service providers, partners, and
enterprises to create and deploy applications in AWS to power
digitalization and industry 4.0 with 5G.
This
collaboration also lowers the network deployment time and cost for MNOs
and enterprises equally fulfilling use cases of either adding 5G and
edge capabilities to an existing network or a greenfield 4G/5G network
launch leveraging public clouds.
"The
collaboration with Mavenir and AWS allows us to build out our 5G
network and messaging platforms in a true cloud-native manner,
harnessing the speed and agility that the AWS cloud brings along with
Mavenir's expertise in deploying and operating cloud-native network
functions," said Sidd Chenumolu, Vice President of Technology
Development, DISH. "Together, we will enable our customers to take full
advantage of the potential of 5G, reimagining wireless connectivity and
giving our customers the ability to customize their network experience."
"Working
with AWS enables us to bring new customer-focused 5G use cases and 5G
deployments to the market faster and with unique capabilities to realize
true 5G potential," said Bejoy Pankajakshan, Mavenir's Chief Strategy
Officer. "Mavenir's solutions are designed to support full public cloud
as well as hybrid cloud deployments."
"We're
delighted to collaborate with Mavenir to offer voice and messaging
solutions for core network and RAN customers along with AI/ML solutions
for orchestration and observability," said Amir Rao, General Manager
Telco Solution Portfolio and Tech Alliances, AWS. "Together, we are
providing true cloud native benefits to CSP customers, combining
Mavenir's expertise in the NFV market with the global scale of the AWS
infrastructure to meet industry challenges of agility, scaling, slicing,
and resiliency."
Mavenir's 4G and 5G deployments on AWS provides unique capabilities, including:
- Integration
of Mavenir's cloud-native Open RAN (vDU, vCU-CP, vCU-UP), Converged
4G/5G Packet Core, IMS, and Messaging with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes
Service (Amazon EKS) anywhere supporting AWS Outposts.
- Use of AWS platform services and tools to deploy and manage cloud native network functions.
- Options
for existing deployments to migrate Mavenir's IMS core, voice, and
messaging solutions to Amazon EKS and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) infrastructure.
- Mavenir's Orchestration and Network Slicing solutions to manage hybrid cloud workloads running on AWS.
- Adoption of AWS for centrally managed telco workloads on far-edge, network edge and core simultaneously.
- Deployment
of Mavenir's standards compliant observability framework, RIC, NWDAF,
AIOps and Analytics platform in AWS to collect the data from various AWS
nodes in a centrally managed data lake and process the data using AI/ML
for network wide insights and optimization.
- Integration
of Mavenir's telecom adaptation layer (Telco PaaS) as a common open
source-based platform adaptation layer designed for telco specific
workloads to support various carrier grade requirements on top of Amazon
EKS and AWS PaaS functions.