Keysight Network Visibility Enhances User Experience of Vodafone’s 5G Mobile Network
Keysight Technologies announced that Vodafone is using its 5G Network Visibility Solutions to enhance the user experience of its 330 million customers during the transition to 5G. The solutions provide automated, real-time visibility into subscriber-level traffic across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, reducing operational expenses and improving security. As global 5G subscribers are expected to more than triple from 1.6 billion in 2023 to 5.3 billion by 2029, Vodafone requires tools capable of handling increased traffic while maintaining quality service. Keysight's solutions enable efficient monitoring, advanced 5G protocol correlation, scalable orchestration, and enhanced security. Vodafone's Head of Digital & OSS, Simon Norton, highlighted the importance of these tools in building scalable, innovative, and future-proof networks.
- Vodafone is using Keysight’s 5G Network Visibility Solutions to enhance user experience, potentially increasing customer satisfaction.
- Keysight's solutions help reduce operational expenses, improving financial efficiency for Vodafone.
- The adoption of Keysight's tools supports scalable orchestration, enabling Vodafone to handle increased 5G traffic effectively.
- The solutions provide enhanced security measures tailored for 5G networks, safeguarding subscriber data.
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The implementation of Keysight’s 5G Network Visibility Solutions by Vodafone highlights a significant step towards enhancing the user experience amid the global transition to 5G. Keysight's solution brings real-time, automated visibility into subscriber-level traffic, which is important for maintaining service quality as traffic scales up. This visibility allows Vodafone to efficiently manage and process vast amounts of data across various environments, including physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures.
Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) is particularly beneficial for reducing latency and improving the responsiveness of Vodafone's network, which is essential for supporting lower latency applications. The network slice awareness and advanced 5G protocol correlation features ensure that Vodafone can adapt to evolving 5G technologies seamlessly, enhancing their competitive edge in the market. Additionally, the robust security measures integrated into the solution fortify Vodafone's infrastructure against potential threats, ensuring a secure user experience.
Overall, Keysight’s technology empowers Vodafone to handle increased traffic volumes and complex service demands efficiently, positioning them favorably as 5G adoption continues to surge globally.
From a financial perspective, Vodafone's adoption of Keysight’s 5G Network Visibility Solutions could lead to substantial operational cost savings. By automating network monitoring and management, Vodafone can reduce the need for manual intervention, thereby lowering labor costs. The scalable nature of the solution means that Vodafone can handle growing subscriber numbers and data traffic without proportionally increasing operational expenses. This efficiency can potentially enhance Vodafone's profitability in the long term.
Reducing operational expenses while maintaining high service quality is essential for Vodafone to stay competitive in the saturated telecommunications market. As global 5G subscriptions are projected to triple by 2029, Vodafone's proactive investment in advanced monitoring tools ensures they are well-prepared to manage this growth sustainably. This move also signals to investors that Vodafone is committed to leveraging cutting-edge technology to optimize its operations and deliver high-quality service, which could positively impact its stock performance.
In conclusion, the financial benefits of reduced operational costs, combined with improved service quality, make this a strategic move for Vodafone, likely to enhance shareholder value over time.
- Solution offers automated, real-time visibility into subscriber-level traffic across physical, virtual, and cloud environments for insights into subscriber behavior and experiences
- Provides efficient processing of massive amounts of mobile data to reduce operational expenses and improve security
According to the Ericsson Mobility Report, global 5G subscribers are projected to more than triple from 1.6 billion in 2023 to 5.3 billion by 2029. With the adoption of cloud technology, Vodafone needs robust monitoring tools capable of handling this significant increase in traffic and associated subscriber sessions while maintaining high quality of service.
Keysight’s 5G Network Visibility Solutions meet this challenge with automated, real-time, end-to-end visibility of subscriber-level traffic across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. Vodafone is using the MobileStack 5G Network Visibility Software in combination with Vision Series Network Packet Brokers as a flexible, cost-effective solution to help scale up its 5G network and deliver the quality of experience needed to compete for subscribers.
The solution provides Vodafone these benefits:
- Enables Cost Efficient Monitoring at Scale: Offloads and streamlines the management of real-time data flows to downstream systems.
- Adapts to new 5G technologies: Features network slice awareness and advanced correlation of 5G protocols across virtual and physical environments.
- Scale and orchestration with distributed CUPS: Uses Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) for scalable orchestration across distributed 5G environments, enabling lower latency applications for a responsive experience.
- Enhanced 5G security: Offers robust security measures tailored for 5G networks, safeguarding infrastructure, and subscriber data.
Simon Norton, Head of Digital & OSS, Vodafone, said: “Vodafone is building scalable and innovative networks capable of managing more traffic, a larger number of services with greater complexity for business to consumer and business to business sectors. Keysight provides Vodafone with automated and scalable visibility tools that are critical to improving the performance of our 5G network and help us establish a future-proof, reliable, resilient, and secure network with highest possible end-user quality of experience.”
Recep Ozdag, Vice President and General Manager, Network Visibility Solutions at Keysight, said: “The transition to 5G is reshaping the landscape for network operators like Vodafone, bringing unique challenges and opportunities. Keysight's 5G Visibility Platform offers unparalleled performance and flexibility, enabling operators to dramatically reduce operational costs while ensuring the highest level of subscriber satisfaction in a secure robust 5G network.”
Resources
- Keysight's 5G Network Visibility Solutions
- MobileStack 5G Network Visibility Software
- Vision Series Network Packet Brokers
About Keysight Technologies
At Keysight (NYSE: KEYS), we inspire and empower innovators to bring world-changing technologies to life. As an S&P 500 company, we’re delivering market-leading design, emulation, and test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster, with less risk, throughout the entire product life cycle. We’re a global innovation partner enabling customers in communications, industrial automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and general electronics markets to accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Learn more at Keysight Newsroom and www.keysight.com.
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