Dell Technologies is helping the telecommunications industry accelerate the adoption of open,
cloud-native technologies with new solutions and partnerships, including Dell
Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat, new Dell PowerEdge edge servers, a
private wireless program and expanded lab capabilities.
"The promise of open telecom
network architecture is clear to operators, but has so far been a challenge to
realize," said Dennis Hoffman, senior vice
president and general manager, Dell Technologies Telecom Systems Business. "To address this challenge, the industry needs to create
consumable, tested solutions that telecom operators can confidently deploy in
their networks. With our new partnerships, solutions and expanded lab
capabilities, Dell Technologies is quickly growing the industry ecosystem and
bringing together communications service providers and technology partners, so
we can put open innovation into action."
Dell
collaborates with Red Hat to expand Telecom Infrastructure Block portfolio
Dell introduces Telecom
Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat to help network operators meet the
demands of 5G core and radio access network (RAN) workloads. The fully
engineered, cloud-native solution is co-designed with Red Hat and backed by
Dell services and support. The solution includes the hardware, software and
subscriptions network operators need to build, scale out and power core network
functions using Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for
Kubernetes.
Today's telecom networks are
typically built with siloed, vendor-specific stacks that limit operational
agility and infrastructure efficiency. Dell's solution is based on open
technologies and simplifies the design, deployment and lifecycle management of
a telecom cloud. With the expanded Telecom Infrastructure Block portfolio, network
operators can improve the efficiency of how they use their IT resources to
reduce operational costs and power consumption, which lowers their carbon
footprint.
ACG Research estimates that
CSPs deploying Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks can reduce OpEx by 40% and
CapEx by 10% versus deploying telecom cloud infrastructure without the Dell
solution. ACG found that, by reducing power and cooling expenses, 833 Metric
tons of total CO2 emissions can be saved over five years, which
is equivalent to driving 179 gas-powered cars for one year or the average
amount of electricity used by 162 homes during one year.
"We are excited about the
value that Dell is delivering with their Telecom Infrastructure Block strategy
and their commitment to providing choice in the telecom cloud stack," said Marc
Rouanne, executive vice president and chief network officer, Dish Wireless.
"Red Hat is a strategic player in telecom. We see this announcement as a
positive step toward further ecosystem diversity and accelerating open and
virtualized networks."
"Networks operating at scale
from the core to the edge require layered capabilities, across infrastructure
and software-defined architecture, with added security measures, orchestration
and cloud-native applications," said Honoré LaBourdette, vice president, telco,
media, entertainment and edge ecosystem, Red Hat. "By collaborating through an
ecosystem of skilled hardware and software vendors, we are better equipped to
deliver tailored solutions for network operators that meet their unique needs.
Red Hat OpenShift provides a standard cloud-native platform to power core
network functions across any IT landscape for greater flexibility, agility and
business results."
Dell introduces PowerEdge
servers designed for open telecom networks and the enterprise edge
New Dell PowerEdge
XR8000, XR7620 and XR5610 servers are specifically designed for
telecom, open RAN and mobile edge computing workloads while simplifying edge
operations. The compact servers are based on 4th Gen Intel
Xeon Scalable processors. Those with Intel vRAN Boost can eliminate the need
for an external accelerator card resulting in approximately 20 percent
additional compute power savingsfor
lower cost of ownership than previous servers.
The scalable, modular designs simplify
deployment and maintenance, while Network Equipment Building Systems Level 3
compliance and Zero Trust enabling capabilities help provide safety and
security in the field. With Dell's Smart Cooling technology the servers can use less power and offer
increased performance. In addition, the systems will support temperatures from
-5 to 55 degrees Celsius in edge locations from the factory floor to remote
cellular base stations.
"Through our valued technical
partnership and accommodating our requirements for evolved distributed unit
platforms, Vodafone applauds the addition of the XR8000 to the Dell
Technologies PowerEdge portfolio," said Andy Dunkin, Open RAN RF and digital
platform development manager, Vodafone. "It is a dense compute and modular
solution with the environmental specification and form factor that will
facilitate O-RAN deployment."
Dell private 5G wireless
portfolio delivers choice and flexibility for CSPs and enterprises
The Dell Private
Wireless Program, built upon a diverse ecosystem of partners, is
designed to offer CSPs and enterprise customers more choice in private wireless
solutions, so they can find the best fit for their own needs. Jointly developed
with technology partners, the private wireless solutions, based onopen
architectures, are pre-tested and validated by Dell and include self-service
operations capabilities. Dell
professionals remove complexity through solution integration, end-to-end
management and support.
Dell Private Wireless with Airspan and
Expeto is a fully integrated solution
for medium and large enterprises to extend on-site and remote application support
across private and public 4G and 5G networks. Dell Private Wireless
with Athonet helps small and medium businesses quickly deploy their choice of network architecture, radio vendor or spectrum
band for an affordable, easy-to-use private wireless solution.
Dell
drives global telecom ecosystem collaboration with expanded lab capabilities
The Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem
Lab, located in Round Rock, Texas, supports more than 25 customers and partners
with testing, certifying and validating open telecom solutions and
applications, so they can be quickly and easily deployed in telecom networks.
Dell is ramping its efforts to accelerate innovation and simplify ecosystem
collaboration with:
- A new Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab in Cork, Ireland,
open today, to offer customers and partners another location to
collaborate across the global, open telecom ecosystem.
- Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab Validation Services, which build upon the
lab's capabilities to give customers dedicated access to Dell
engineers for ongoing design consultation and validation, helping CSPs to
mitigate risk and launch new solutions and services more quickly.
- A new Wind River self-certification lab testing
environment for partners to test and validate their software with
the Wind River Studio cloud-native platform before deploying in a telecom
network.
Availability
- Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat will be
globally available in the second half of 2023.
- The new Dell PowerEdge servers will be globally available
beginning in May 2023.
- Dell Private Wireless with Expeto and Airspan is available
globally beginning today.
- Dell Private Wireless with Athonet is available globally
beginning today.
- Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab
Validation Services will be globally available starting in the first half
of 2023.