Nokia and VMware expand partnership to ease large-scale, multi-cloud operations
November 14 2019 - 8:00AM
Nokia and VMware today announced an expanded partnership
that includes the development of integrated solutions to
support communications service providers’ (CSPs)
drive for operational improvements and cost
efficiency through large-scale, multi-cloud operations.
After years of working with virtual or cloud-based network
functions in limited production deployments, CSPs need to build out
these functions at scale to handle the increasing use of new
data-intensive applications for tomorrow’s 5G and edge computing
use cases. Success of this strategy is dependent on seamless
interoperability and efficient operations of cloud-based network
functions.
VMware and Nokia have a broad mutual customer base globally,
across both companies’ portfolios. Through the expanded partnership
announced today, the two companies will advance the
interoperability between Nokia software applications and VMware’s
Telco Cloud, including VMware vCloud NFV. Nokia and VMware will
also increase their investments in a deeper partnership with
technology collaboration and advanced research & development to
develop integrated solutions. As a result, CSPs will be able to
more easily meet their business and use case objectives, using
VMware cloud infrastructure that is engineered to work together
with Nokia virtualized and containerized network functions.
Nokia and VMware have been working together to create seamless
cloud redundancy by running Nokia’s applications, such as Nokia
Service Management Platform, on VMware’s Telco Cloud platform and
VMware HCX, an application mobility platform designed for
simplifying application migration, workload rebalancing, and
optimized disaster recovery across data centers and clouds. This
will enable customers to embrace a multi-cloud strategy to unify
network and IT environments and connect them to private enterprise
clouds, edge clouds, and public clouds.
Nokia will continue to focus on the technical certification of
Nokia VNFs and software applications on VMware vCloud NFV platform
through a dedicated, on-site VMware Ready for NFV Certification
Lab. The new lab includes performance characterization to enable
CSPs to properly configure their technology environments for the
best results. With the Certification Lab, Nokia and VMware will
serve customers in an accelerated fashion, keeping pace with new
features and releases and enabling better roadmap alignment between
the two companies’ portfolios.
Several Nokia software applications, such as Nokia CloudBand
Application Manager and Nokia Smart Plan Suite, along with virtual
IMS, virtual packet core and session border controller are already
certified for operations in VMware cloud environments. These and
others can be found on VMware Solution Exchange.
Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi, Senior Vice
President, Strategy & Technology Innovation, Deutsche Telekom,
said: “We are pleased to see Nokia and VMware come closer
together to enable a more seamless deployment of Nokia VNFs and
CNFs on VMware’s Telco Cloud platform. We see great value in these
two companies’ portfolios featuring greater interoperability and
believe the contribution this expanded partnership will make to a
viable ecosystem will help us accelerate our digital
transformation.”
Shekar Ayyar, Executive Vice President
and General Manager, Telco and Edge Cloud, VMware, said:
“With the advent of 5G and edge computing, customers are adopting
VMware’s container-ready Telco Cloud supported by innovative
efforts like Project Maestro multi-domain orchestrator. We are
delighted to partner with Nokia to enable faster deployment of
Nokia virtual and containerized virtual functions on VMware cloud
infrastructure, ultimately helping our customers prepare their
telco cloud networks for the future.”
Bhaskar Gorti, President of Nokia Software,
said: “In today’s digital era, communications service
providers expect software solutions to be cloud-native and
hardware-agnostic, with multi-vendor and multi-network capabilities
built in. The expanded partnership we are announcing today gives
Nokia and VMware greater scope and capacity to accelerate
innovation and best anticipate and deliver against the expectations
of our mutual customers.”
About Nokia We create the technology to connect
the world. We develop and deliver the industry’s only end-to-end
portfolio of network equipment, software, services and licensing
that is available globally. Our customers include communications
service providers whose combined networks support 6.1 billion
subscriptions, as well as enterprises in the private and public
sector that use our network portfolio to increase productivity and
enrich lives.
Through our research teams, including the world-renowned Nokia
Bell Labs, we are leading the world to adopt end-to-end 5G networks
that are faster, more secure and capable of revolutionizing lives,
economies and societies. Nokia adheres to the highest ethical
business standards as we create technology with social purpose,
quality and integrity. www.nokia.com
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