VMware Announces Innovations at Mobile World Congress 2023 that Enable Service Providers and Enterprises to Expand 5G Capabilities
At Mobile World Congress 2023, VMware announced significant innovations aimed at enhancing service providers' networks to harness the benefits of 5G and improve edge connectivity for enterprises. Senior VP Sanjay Uppal emphasized the need for secure and reliable applications. Key highlights include the introduction of the Service Management and Orchestration framework and advancements in VMware NSX, promising accelerated networking and security for VNFs and CNFs. The firm also unveiled the VMware SD-WAN Client, expected in Q1 FY24, enhancing application quality. VMware's multi-cloud solutions were also showcased at its stand during the event.
- Introduced innovations for quicker modernization of networks for CSPs.
- Announced advancements in VMware NSX for enhanced networking and security.
- Showcased VMware SD-WAN Client aimed at improving user experience and application quality.
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“It’s a time of change for service providers as they modernize their networks and monetize their services,” said
Enabling CSPs to Modernize their Networks to Leverage the Power of 5G
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VMware introduced innovations and enhanced offerings to help CSPs more quickly modernize their networks.VMware unveiled its vision for the Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) framework, which follows the O-RAN alliance’s approach of simplifying, optimizing and automating the RAN and its applications; and a new technical preview that will allow CSPs to complement VMware ESXi by running disaggregated and virtualized RAN functions directly on a bare metal server with VMware Tanzu. -
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VMware is providing next-generation networking within VMware Telco Cloud Platform with VMware NSX delivering telco-grade intelligent networking and lateral security capabilities. With recent advances, including the DPU-based acceleration announced last August,VMware offers accelerated networking and security performance for VNFs and CNFs, while enhancing network observability and increasing the host resources available to applications.VMware announced the availability of DPU-based acceleration of lateral security features like distributed firewall and distributed intrusion detection and prevention along with energy efficiency use cases for 4G/5G core load balancing needs.
Enhanced Mobility, Connectivity and Choice for Enterprises
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VMware is now inviting select customers and partners to evaluate the VMware SD-WAN Client across remote user and edge device use cases. VMware SD-WAN Client is expected to be available in VMware’s Q1 FY24. -
Real world tests have shown VMware SD-WAN can provide over more than
40% improvement in QoE for voice and video applications when using satellite and cellular1. In addition to delivering higher application quality, the platform enables higher network utilization through adaptive thresholds designed from real-world learnings from more than 100,000 cellular and satellite connections in use today byVMware customers. -
VMware introduced a VMware Certified Professional education program and certificate for VMware SD-WAN and SASE to help partners and customers identify professionals with the skills and expertise necessary to effectively deploy and manage VMware SD-WAN solutions.
VMware’s multi-cloud solutions are on display at its
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