[January 17, 2018] |
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Radisys Launches NFV-Accelerated Media Processing, Dramatically Improving ROI for Cloud Communications Services
Radisys®
Corporation (NASDAQ: RSYS), the global leader of open telecom
solutions, today announced enhancements to its virtualized MediaEngine™
platform that deliver 30 percent capacity increases on Intel (News - Alert)®
architecture based servers and support a broader range of public and
private cloud environments. In addition, MediaEngine
supports HW-Assist, an architecture that can utilize additional
available processing resources in off-the-shelf servers as well as Open
Compute Project architecture platforms. By coupling standards-based NFV
compliance with the ability to leverage all available hardware resources
including Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) and Graphics Processing Units
(GPUs), the resulting solution delivers advanced cloud media processing
for HD voice, video calling and unified communications services;
transcoding capabilities that enable carriers to connect users of
mobile, desktop, and landline devices; and a data center footprint that
is 6 to 10 times smaller than that of off-the-shelf servers' CPU-based
media processing alone, saving millions of dollars per year in capital
and operating expenses.
News Highlights:
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Service providers globally are embracing the cloud to deliver
communications services. However, a mix of disparate cloud
environments has led to the need for separate media platforms for each
cloud environment and individual applications. The end result is a
cost prohibitive solution for cloud communications services.
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To solve this problem, Radisys' MediaEngine platform provides
service providers the ultimate flexibility in their choice of
cloud and NFV management environments. The current release adds
ONAP support, along with compatibility with the latest Nokia (News - Alert)
Cloudband and HP OpenNFV VNF management; VMware, RedHat, KVM and
OpenStack hypervisors, and the Amazon EC2 platform to support
deployments in a broad range of common public and privae cloud
environments. Additionally, support for the Network Configuration
Protocol (NETCONF) allows for integration with additional
standards-based NFV management environments.
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Scalability in cloud environments is perhaps the most important aspect
of ensuring cost-effective migration from traditional telecom
architectures to cloud environments for demanding workloads like media
processing. The latest release of MediaEngine improves on an already
industry-leading scalability profile.
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The latest enhancements provide greater flexibility in managing
the number and size of individual instances of Media Resource
Function (MRF), enabling more compute resources to be employed for
voice and video services - and improving hardware utilization by
more than 10 percent while reducing CapEx and OpEx costs.
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Continued software performance optimization of Enhanced Voice
Services (EVS) codec yields up to 30 percent greater capacity for
the latest HD voice codec for mobile voice and audio services.
This represents a significant savings for service providers at a
time when more mobile handsets support the EVS codec. In addition
to enabling high quality audio services, service providers are
launching EVS-based services to lower their network costs by
increasing subscriber volume on existing spectrum and improving
the reach of their existing radio network infrastructure.
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The MediaEngine architecture is also built to take advantage of
additional hardware resources, including DSPs and GPUs, available
on off-the-shelf server configurations or through PCI (News - Alert) Express®
(PCIe®) expansion while still operating as a Virtual Network
Function (VNF), retaining full cloud management features and
workload elasticity.
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All existing applications using Radisys' standard control
interfaces can support this architecture - and ROI gain - without
modification. The new media processing hardware acceleration
options also include support for plug-and-play acceleration
modules and Open Compute Project architecture platforms designed
for telco data centers. This can further reduce the footprint of
media server and transcoding requirements for hyperscale
deployments.
"For all the benefits of NFV, compute resources are not infinite. As a
result, total cost of ownership still plays a role in determining
service providers' cloud investment strategies," said Diane Myers,
senior research director, IHS (News - Alert) Markit. "Radisys' MediaEngine approach
addresses this by coupling the operational benefits of supporting public
and private cloud environments, with the price-performance advantage of
hardware assist for workloads that benefit from it."
"As the trend to NFV has accelerated, the cost of virtualizing media
processing on a large scale has been prohibitive. This has forced many
service providers to a two-pronged strategy: moving application and
control to the cloud, while deferring the move of data plane and signal
processing intensive capabilities like media processing," said Al
Balasco, vice president, MediaEngine, Radisys. "Our latest MediaEngine
release, which combines the operational cost savings, service agility,
and management efficiency of NFV with the CapEx savings of
HW-acceleration, gives our customers the advantage of the best
price-performance in delivering media services that drive revenue,
improve service stickiness, and have an outsized impact on their bottom
line."
About Radisys
Radisys, a global leader in open telecom solutions, enables service
providers to drive disruption with new open architecture business
models. Radisys' innovative disaggregated and virtualized enabling
technology solutions leverage open reference architectures and
standards, combined with open software and hardware to power business
transformation for the telecom industry, while its world-class services
organization delivers systems integration expertise necessary to solve
communications and content providers' complex deployment challenges. For
more information, visit www.Radisys.com.
Radisys® is a registered trademark of Radisys. All other trademarks
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