Vodafone Completes European Roll-out of VMware Network Virtual Infrastructure to Accelerate Shift to Digital Network
April 07 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Working with VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), Vodafone Group has
completed the roll-out of network virtual infrastructure (NVI)
across all of its European business and 21 markets in total.
Operating a reliable, agile network that can be more efficiently
upgraded to maintain the quality of coverage has never been more
important as Vodafone customers across Europe rely on the operator
to provide critical connectivity and communications services during
the COVID-19 crisis.
With the completion of work in Albania, Vodafone now has a
single digital network architecture across its European markets,
enabling the operator to design, build, test and deploy next
generation functions more securely and around 40 percent more
quickly*. Infrastructure automation also helps limit the amount of
manual intervention required to operate and maintain Vodafone
networks.
VMware’s telco cloud infrastructure is deployed by Vodafone at
more than 57 sites across Europe and 25 in its Africa, Asia and
Oceania markets. The cloud-based infrastructure supports voice
core, data core and service platforms on over 900 virtual network
functions. Almost 50 percent of Vodafone’s core network nodes
providing voice and data services run on VMware’s NVI platform,
vCloud NFV.
Johan Wibergh, Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone Group, said:
“Vodafone wants to be the industry’s leading digital telco and we
are pleased with the progress made to introduce modern cloud-based
technology and automation. Working with VMware, we have improved
the speed and efficiency with which we can support customers and
estimate that the cost of our core network functions has been
reduced by 50 percent*.”
“Leading service providers, like Vodafone, are adopting a telco
cloud infrastructure to deliver next-generation applications and
services,” said Shekar Ayyar, executive vice president and general
manager, Telco and Edge Cloud, VMware. “The successful engagement
between our two companies is evident in the tremendous results
Vodafone has captured since starting on their network
transformation journey. We look forward to continuing to innovate
together to unlock the transformational benefits of network
modernization for Vodafone customers.”
VMware’s telco cloud platform provides the automation for
virtual compute, storage, networking, management and operations
capabilities to enable operators to provide virtualized network
services. Its transformative capabilities allow communication
service providers to accelerate time to market and increase revenue
with new services, streamline operations, reduce network
infrastructure costs, and deploy elastic business models for
telecommunications workloads.
Learn more about how VMware is helping service providers
modernize their networks at telco.vmware.com.
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*Source: Vodafone internal analysis and reporting, March
2020
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