VMware stellt Telco Cloud Orchestrator Project Maestro vor und unterstützt CSPs bei Beschleunigung der operativen Agilität in der Multi-Cloud
- Cloud-First-Lösung vereinheitlicht Orchestrierung und Automatisierung in jedem Netzwerk und jeder Cloud
- Millicom entscheidet sich für VMware zum Aufbau seiner Telco-Cloud, um digitale Transformation zu fördern
VMworld Europe 2019 – Barcelona / Zürich, 6. November 2019 – VMware hat auf der VMworld Europe 2019 eine Technologievorschau von Project Maestro präsentiert. Dabei handelt es sich um einen Telco Cloud Orchestrator, der Kommunikationsdienstleistern (CSPs) dabei hilft, die Time-to-Market moderner Netzwerkfunktionen und -Dienste über Clouds hinweg zu verkürzen, vom Core bis zum Edge, von Private bis Public Clouds. Darüber hinaus teilte das Unternehmen mit, dass Millicom, ein globaler Anbieter von Kabel- und Mobilfunkdiensten, sich für VMware entschieden hat, um eine Telco-Cloud-Foundation aufzubauen, die die Netzwerk- und IT-Transformation ermöglicht. Schließlich gab das Unternehmen Details zu seinem neuen Virtual Network Functions (VNF) Self Certification Programm bekannt, das auf seinem bestehenden VMware Ready for NFV-Zertifizierungsprogramm aufbaut.
„Während die Telekommunikationsbranche auf 5G und Edge-Computing umsteigt, bereiten CSPs ihre Infrastruktur vor, um Verbrauchern und Unternehmen agile und skalierbare Anwendungen und Dienste der nächsten Generation anbieten zu können. Dies erfordert eine Telco-Cloud-Architektur, die ihre Netzwerk- und IT-Umgebungen vereinheitlicht und mit Clouds von Privatunternehmen, Edge Clouds und Public Clouds verbindet,“ erklärt Shekar Ayyar, Executive Vice President und General Manager, Telco und Edge Cloud, VMware. „Um das Ganze zu verstehen, ist ein neuer Ansatz für die Orchestrierung erforderlich – ein Cloud-First-Ansatz, der die Komplexität der Multi-Cloud abstrahiert. Genau das streben wir mit Project Maestro an.“
Vorstellung von Project Maestro
Project Maestro wird einen einheitlichen Ansatz für die Modellierung, Integration, Orchestrierung und Verwaltung von Funktionen und Diensten virtueller Netzwerke liefern. Mit dieser Cloud-First-Orchestrierungslösung können CSPs Netzwerkdienste aufbauen und automatisieren, die sich über eine größere Vielfalt von Netzwerkfunktionsformaten erstrecken, die Interoperabilität ermöglichen und ihren Betrieb auf allen Ebenen der NFV- und Telco-Cloud-Architektur optimieren. Der Telco Cloud Orchestrator wird in der Lage sein, die Betriebseffizienz in großem Maßstab zu steigern, um CSPs dabei zu unterstützen, die Time-to-Market neuer Dienste zu verkürzen, die Kosten für die Verwaltung immer komplexerer Netzwerke zu senken und die Kundenzufriedenheit zu verbessern.
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“The modernization of telco networks is pushing orchestration challenges exponentially as CSPs must now manage network functions in various formats, from multiple-vendors, in a highly distributed multi-cloud network,” commented Caroline Chappell, lead analyst, Digital Infrastructure Strategies, Analysys Mason. “CSPs are looking for modern orchestration tools to tackle this complexity by automating the lifecycle management of network services and the underlying multi-vendor network functions across any cloud.”
Now in technology preview, Project Maestro will help CSPs:
- Accelerate time to revenue: Accelerate service time-to-revenue with a simplified vendor-neutral and standard-compliant approach for designing and onboarding VNFs/CNFs or network services.
- Automate operations with multi-cloud agility: Embed true cloud agility to operationalize processes with full lifecycle management automation capabilities. CSPs will be able to define and apply policies using a comprehensive decision engine to automate day zero through more complex day two operations.
- Enhance customer experiences: Deliver a new level of experiences with adaptable and resilient services. The solution will combine real-time decisioning capabilities with holistic Telco Cloud awareness for optimal close-loop actions that help deliver improved service quality. Furthermore, the telco cloud orchestrator will automate the distribution of network functions and service workloads across data centers and availability zones for optimal service quality and better resiliency.
- Transform to cloud-native networks: Evolve network architectures from OpenStack infrastructure to containers-based applications with seamless on-boarding and orchestration of VMs and container-based infrastructure for a future-proof service delivery foundation. Distribute workloads from the core to the edge and from private to public clouds for modern, unified network orchestration.
- Streamline orchestration: The telco cloud orchestrator will streamline the CSP orchestration journey with native integration into VMware cloud technologies and Virtualized Infrastructure Managers (VIMs) for operational consistency and ease of deployment while maximizing infrastructure resource utilization.
- Simplify interoperability: Built as a modular and model-driven solution, the Generic VNF Manager (G-VNFM) and NFV Orchestrator (NFVO) components of the solution will be able to integrate any SOL-compliant ETSI MANO architecture. Project Maestro will allow standards-based integration with OSS/BSS systems and Service Orchestrators through ETSI- and TMF-compliant interfaces. VMware will further enhance interoperability by expanding partner VNF certifications to cover infrastructure and orchestration through the VMware Ready for NFV program.
Millicom Selects VMware To Build Its Telco Cloud to Drive Digital Transformation
Millicom is a leading provider of cable and mobile services dedicated to emerging markets in Latin America and Africa. Through its various operating subsidiaries, Millicom provides mobile services to approximately 50 million customers, with a cable footprint of more than 11 million homes passed. As the company looked to differentiate themselves and improve how services and applications are delivered to consumer and enterprise customers, they determined their digital transformation required a multi-cloud approach. Enter the VMware Telco Cloud.
“As we continued to add new services and expand our geographic footprint in the past year, we were running up against an increasingly complex environment that consisted of siloed platforms for IT, core and cloud. We needed to find a way to bring these platforms together with a cloud-first approach,” said Xavier Rocoplan, CTIO, Millicom. “We are excited to begin working with VMware to develop a Telco Cloud that will provide a consistent platform for service and application delivery for all of our operating subsidiaries. We will use this opportunity to rationalize our IT infrastructure under the same ecosystem and finally get to our unified Tigo Cloud, comprised of our own as well as public cloud accesses. This bold move, along with our B2B offerings with VMware, will put us in a unique, cost efficient and fast-moving position for our customers with unmatched capabilities.”
VMware will partner with Millicom to build a Telco Cloud that is software-defined, automated, virtualized infrastructure built on NFV for core network workloads, and converged with IT workloads through a common, unified architecture. With vCloud NFV, Millicom will modernize its infrastructure to become 5G-ready and accelerate time to market for new services.
VMware Launches VNF Self Certification Program
VMware Ready for NFV is a comprehensive, award-winning certification program that enables interoperability and operational readiness between third party-developed VNFs and the ETSI-compliant VMware vCloud NFV platform. The program helps enable CSPs to rapidly onboard and deploy multi-vendor VNFs with the VMware vCloud NFV platform.
VMware today announced an extension of its VMware Ready for NFV certification program with a VNF Self Certification program. This program extension allows VNF vendors to accelerate their testing and application readiness on the vCloud NFV platform by running an automated certification testing in the cloud. This gives CSPs greater speed and flexibility to upgrade their vCloud NFV infrastructure with a validated and certified VNF for that specific release.
Through the program extension, VMware is further enhancing interoperability and simplicity for virtualized network deployments, allowing carriers to count on a continuous stream of validated VNFs on VMware vCloud NFV infrastructure. To sustain and monitor the high quality of the program, VMware will maintain control of the test plan and results review. VNF certifications will be available on marketplace.vmware.com. VNF certifications will be available on marketplace.vmware.com.
Additional Resources:
- Visit the VMware Telco and Edge Cloud team at VMworld Europe in the Telco & IoT Zone, stand #223.
- Read more about Project Maestro in this post on the Telco Cloud blog
- Find out more details on the VNF Self Certification program in this blog post from the Telco and Edge Cloud team
- Learn more about how VMware is helping service providers modernize their networks at telco.vmware.com.
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