VMware and Samsung Form Alliance to Accelerate Communication Service Providers’ Transformation to 5G
October 27 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced it has collaborated
with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to further extend its leadership
in 5G. Through this alliance, the companies seek to help
Communication Service Providers (CSPs) meet the requirements of 5G
networks and accelerate the roll-out of 5G by optimizing Samsung’s
portfolio of telco offerings from Core to Edge to RAN for both
containerized network functions (CNFs) and virtualized network
functions (VNFs) with VMware Telco Cloud Platform.
As 5G continues to gain traction, CSPs will require a cloud
native network that will improve the flexibility and efficiency of
deploying services into new verticals faster. At the same time,
CSPs can only achieve this with a cloud-first automated network
designed to simplify management and operations while lowering
operational costs. The Samsung and VMware collaboration aims to
accelerate the innovation cycle through better network design
end-to-end, and support the agility required for 5G networks. With
VMware Telco Cloud Platform, CSPs can deploy a cloud native,
software-defined 5G network that will accelerate the delivery of
services and applications across distributed telco clouds with
operational consistency, integrated lifecycle management and
multi-layer automation while maintaining carrier-grade performance,
scalability and reliability.
As part of this collaboration, the companies have been working
together at Samsung’s lab to optimize and accelerate the readiness
of Samsung’s various VNFs and CNFs, such as vRAN, 5G Core, MEC,
Management, and Analytics, with the VMware Telco Cloud Platform.
Samsung’s VNFs and CNFs have been and continue to be integrated
with VMware’s Ready for Telco Cloud program. The VMware Ready for
Telco Cloud program will support Samsung to accelerate the
onboarding and deployment of their 5G-ready services on the VMware
Telco Cloud Platform, thereby enabling CSPs to accelerate their
time to deploy and time to revenue.
“With innovative and open 5G networks beginning to transform the
landscape, Samsung sees the value in delivering carrier-grade
solutions with VMware that help CSPs easily embrace cloud native
technology and efficiently deliver our network functions and
services across their 5G networks with automation,” said Wonil Roh,
Senior Vice President and Head of Product Strategy, Networks
Business at Samsung Electronics.
“The infrastructure supporting 5G will depend on virtualized and
containerized network functions delivered from software-defined
telco and edge cloud platforms,” said Shekar Ayyar, executive vice
president and general manager, Telco and Edge Cloud Business Unit,
VMware. “We are thrilled to be working with Samsung to deliver
carrier-grade solutions that leverage the VMware Telco Cloud
portfolio to help CSPs seize this 5G moment and transform
themselves into leading technology innovators.”
“5G investments will continue to accelerate globally, and over
time, CSPs will expand their focus on delivering Enhanced Mobile
Broadband (eMBB) to include Ultra-Reliable Low-latency
Communications (URLLC) and Massive Machine-type Communications
(mMTC), leveraging new core, edge and RAN infrastructure,” said
Patrick Filkins, IDC senior research analyst. “To efficiently and
simultaneously support these new services, CSPs are best-served
adopting cloud-native architectures that can provide the service
agility, accelerated innovation and end-to-end optimization to meet
today and tomorrow’s customer requirements. VMware and Samsung have
demonstrated their leadership in 5G, and we see this partnership
beneficial for CSPs as they modernize their network
infrastructure.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about how VMware is helping service providers
modernize their networks at telco.vmware.com.
- Bookmark the VMware Telco Cloud blog
- Get all VMware Telco updates on Twitter and LinkedIn
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