VMware announced innovations and expanded partnerships
across its service provider and edge product portfolios to meet the
evolving needs of Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and
enterprises.
"It's a time of change for service providers as they modernize their
networks and monetize their services," said Sanjay Uppal, senior vice
president and general manager, Service Provider and Edge, VMware.
"Meanwhile, enterprises are seeking more secure, reliable, and better
delivery of apps, data, and services to the edge for branch offices,
factory floors, clinics and retail stores. At Mobile World Congress
2023, we're announcing innovations to help our customers with their
transformation efforts by delivering multi-cloud solutions for service
providers and enhanced networking and security capabilities to support
the needs at the edge."
Enabling CSPs to Modernize their Networks to Leverage the Power of 5G
VMware today showcased deployment of the VMware Telco Cloud platform by CSPs as well as product advancements and an expanding partner ecosystem. Highlights include:
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VMware introduced innovations and enhanced offerings to help CSPs more
quickly modernize their networks. VMware unveiled its vision for the Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)
framework, which follows the O-RAN alliance's approach of simplifying,
optimizing and automating the RAN and its applications; and a new technical preview
that will allow CSPs to complement VMware ESXi by running disaggregated
and virtualized RAN functions directly on a bare metal server with
VMware Tanzu.
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Additionally, VMware is providing next-generation networking within VMware Telco Cloud Platform with VMware NSX
delivering telco-grade intelligent networking and lateral security
capabilities. With recent advances, including the DPU-based acceleration
announced last August, VMware offers accelerated networking and
security performance for VNFs and CNFs, while enhancing network
observability and increasing the host resources available to
applications. VMware announced the availability of DPU-based acceleration of lateral security features
like distributed firewall and distributed intrusion detection and
prevention along with energy efficiency use cases for 4G/5G core load
balancing needs.
Enhanced Mobility, Connectivity and Choice for Enterprises
VMware also announced
it is delivering new and enhanced edge connectivity and intelligent
wireless capabilities to its SD-WAN and SASE customers. Highlights
include:
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VMware is now inviting select customers and partners to evaluate the VMware SD-WAN Client across remote user and edge device use cases. VMware SD-WAN Client is expected to be available in VMware's Q1 FY24.
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Real world tests have shown VMware SD-WAN can provide over more than 40% improvement in QoE for voice and video applications when using satellite and cellular.
In addition to delivering higher application quality, the platform
enables higher network utilization through adaptive thresholds designed
from real-world learnings from more than 100,000 cellular and satellite
connections in use today by VMware customers.
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VMware introduced a VMware Certified Professional education program and certificate for VMware SD-WAN and SASE
to help partners and customers identify professionals with the skills
and expertise necessary to effectively deploy and manage VMware SD-WAN
solutions.