As customers bridge current services from 4G to 5G, service assurance becomes critical. VMware already provides automated capabilities to operators, helping customers accelerate their virtual network function deployments with end-to-end service assurance—but there’s even more that can be done to intelligently accelerate and optimize networks and applications, even as we build on our service assurance capabilities.
With these challenges at the forefront of telco today, VMware has announced our intent to acquire Uhana, a company that has built a real-time deep learning engine to optimize carrier network operations and application quality experience, deployable in the operator private cloud or public cloud infrastructure. Uhana brings critical talent from Stanford, as well as deep AI and machine learning experience specific to mobile carrier networks and their operations. Uhana’s talent, combined with cutting-edge technology like bandwidth slicing and network intelligence, will help to power the VMware Service Assurance portfolio.
VMware is dedicated to helping the telco industry—including communication service providers (CSPs) and over-the-top (OTT) providers—evolve networks through the power of the cloud. As users demand higher speed and quality of service even as organizations prepare to make the journey to 5G, the ability to intelligently accelerate and analyze networks and applications is critical to success.
On behalf of VMware and our Telco and Edge Cloud Business Unit, I look forward to welcoming the Uhana team to VMware.
Cloud-enabled services are helping CSPs today, but are also the key to success for tomorrow. In some ways, the shift to 5G marks the “cloudification” of the telecom industry, which requires a new paradigm and mindset. After the transaction closes, we expect Uhana’s capabilities to round out our telco portfolio and help customers continually improve their networks.
For additional information, please read today’s announcement blog.
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