Vodafone has extended its strategic partnership with
The first application for the common platform will be the provision of 5G standalone (5G SA), giving Vodafone the ability to automate and orchestrate new applications based on this technology in multiple countries at the same time. Other new services will quickly follow, like enriched voice services over data, the connection of many more Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and next generation video conferencing and Virtual and Augmented Reality.
With 5G SA at the core and in the cloud, Vodafone will offer customers dedicated slices of its high-speed network, quickly and on a large scale, to support critical applications requiring ultra-low latency connectivity, such as connected vehicles and industry 4.0. In this scenario, all elements of the network use 5G, instead of the more common method of overlaying 5G equipment over a core 4G network infrastructure.
Working with
The latest deal takes this process a step further, underpinning the deployment of new network features, and extending Vodafone's leading position as the first company in
By deploying
"As service providers modernise their networks to transition to 5G, they require a single platform to automate and streamline delivery of multi-vendor network functions across network core, RAN and edge. VMware Telco Cloud Platform provides this unifying platform to simplify operations, accelerate automation and increase feature velocity across all parts of the network," said
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Vodafone is now deploying the full VMware Telco Cloud Platform in all European markets. This means that in addition to using VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure for virtualisation of its network NFV, Vodafone will leverage VMware Tanzu for Telco and VMware Telco Cloud Automation to orchestrate all network functions and services, regardless of vendor, to run its 5G core networks.
VMware Telco Cloud Platform is a cloud-native platform that enables service providers to rapidly deploy and efficiently operate multi-vendor Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs) and Virtualised Network Functions (VNFs) with agility and scalability across 5G networks that span from the core and the edge to the radio access network (RAN). The two fundamental elements of this architecture are VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure and VMware Telco Cloud Automation - both of which Vodafone will deploy across its European markets.
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