SYDNEY โ Mobile World Congress 2023 (March 1, 2023) โ Today,ย VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) 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.
โItโs a time of change for service providers as they modernise their networks and monetise their services,โ said Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider and Edge, VMware. โMeanwhile, 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, weโre 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.โ
Enabling CSPs to Modernise their Networks to Leverage the Power of 5G
VMware today showcased deployment of theย VMware Telco Cloud platform by CSPsย as well as product advancements and an expanding partner ecosystem. Highlights include:
- VMware introduced innovations and enhanced offerings to help CSPs more quickly modernise their networks. VMware unveiled its vision for theย Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)ย framework, which follows the O-RAN allianceโs approach of simplifying, optimising and automating the RAN and its applications; and a new technical preview that will allow CSPs to complement VMware ESXi by running disaggregated and virtualised RAN functions directly on a bare metal server with VMware Tanzu.
- Additionally, VMwareย is providing next-generation networking within VMware Telco Cloud Platform withย VMware NSXย 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 VNF and CNFs, while enhancing network observability and increasing the host resources available to applications.ย VMware announced the availability of DPU-based acceleration of lateral security featuresย 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 Enterprisesย
Today,ย VMware also announcedย it is delivering new and enhanced edge connectivity and intelligent wireless capabilities to its SD-WAN and SASE customers. Highlights include:
- VMwareย is now inviting select customers and partners to evaluate theย VMware SD-WAN Clientย across remote user and edge device use cases. VMware SD-WAN Client is expected to be available in VMwareโs Q1 FY24.
- Real world tests have shownย VMware SD-WANย can provide over more than 40% improvement in QoE for voice and video applications when using satellite and cellular1. In addition to delivering higher application quality, the platform enables higher network utilisation through adaptive thresholds designed from real-world learnings from more than 100,000 cellular and satellite connections in use today by VMware customers.
- VMware introduced aย VMware Certified Professional education program and certificate for VMware SD-WAN and SASEย to help partners and customers identify professionals with the skills and expertise necessary to effectively deploy and manage VMware SD-WAN solutions.
VMware at Mobile World Congress 2023
VMwareโs multi-cloud solutions are on display at its Mobile World Congress stand โ Hall 3.0, Stand 3M11. Visitย VMware News & Storiesย for all VMware announcements made at the show as well as customer testimonials, partner updates and more.
About VMwareย
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- VMware internal testing, January 2023
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