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VMware Unveils Project Maestro, A Telco Cloud Orchestrator, To Help CSPs Accelerate Multi-Cloud Operational Agility
BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 05, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today at VMworld 2019 Europe, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) unveiled a technology preview of Project Maestro, a telco cloud orchestrator built to help communications service providers (CSPs) accelerate the time to market of modern network functions and services across clouds, from core to edge, and from private to public clouds. In addition, the company shared that Millicom, a global provider of cable and mobile services, has selected VMware to build a Telco Cloud foundation to help enable its network and IT transformation. Finally, the company shared details of its new Virtual Network Functions (VNF) Self Certification program, which builds on its existing VMware Ready for NFV certification program. “As the telco industry transitions to 5G and edge computing, CSPs are readying their infrastructure to be able to deliver next generation apps and services to both consumers and enterprises with agility and scalability. This requires a Telco Cloud architecture that unifies their network and IT environments and connects them to private enterprise clouds, edge clouds, and public clouds,” said Shekar Ayyar, executive vice president and general manager, Telco and Edge Cloud, VMware. “To make sense of it all, a new approach to orchestration is required – one that is cloud-first and abstracts the multi-cloud complexity. This is precisely what we are aiming to address with Project Maestro.” Introducing Project Maestro “The modernization of telco networks is pushing orchestration challenges exponentially as CSPs must now manage network functions in various formats, from multiple-vendors, in a highly distributed multi-cloud network,” commented Caroline Chappell, lead analyst, Digital Infrastructure Strategies, Analysys Mason. “CSPs are looking for modern orchestration tools to tackle this complexity by automating the lifecycle management of network services and the underlying multi-vendor network functions across any cloud.” Now in technology preview, Project Maestro will help CSPs:
Millicom is a leading provider of cable and mobile services dedicated to emerging markets in Latin America and Africa. Through its various operating subsidiaries, Millicom provides mobile services to approximately 50 million customers, with a cable footprint of more than 11 million homes passed. As the company looked to differentiate themselves and improve how services and applications are delivered to consumer and enterprise customers, they determined their digital transformation required a multi-cloud approach. Enter the VMware Telco Cloud. “As we continued to add new services and expand our geographic footprint in the past year, we were running up against an increasingly complex environment that consisted of siloed platforms for IT, core and cloud. We needed to find a way to bring these platforms together with a cloud-first approach,” said Xavier Rocoplan, CTIO, Millicom. “We are excited to begin working with VMware to develop a Telco Cloud that will provide a consistent platform for service and application delivery for all of our operating subsidiaries. We will use this opportunity to rationalize our IT infrastructure under the same ecosystem and finally get to our unified Tigo Cloud, comprised of our own as well as public cloud accesses. This bold move, along with our B2B offerings with VMware, will put us in a unique, cost efficient and fast-moving position for our customers with unmatched capabilities.” VMware will partner with Millicom to build a Telco Cloud that is software-defined, automated, virtualized infrastructure built on NFV for core network workloads, and converged with IT workloads through a common, unified architecture. With vCloud NFV, Millicom will modernize its infrastructure to become 5G-ready and accelerate time to market for new services. VMware Launches VNF Self Certification Program VMware today announced an extension of its VMware Ready for NFV certification program with a VNF Self Certification program. This program extension allows VNF vendors to accelerate their testing and application readiness on the vCloud NFV platform by running an automated certification testing in the cloud. This gives CSPs greater speed and flexibility to upgrade their vCloud NFV infrastructure with a validated and certified VNF for that specific release. Through the program extension, VMware is further enhancing interoperability and simplicity for virtualized network deployments, allowing carriers to count on a continuous stream of validated VNFs on VMware vCloud NFV infrastructure. To sustain and monitor the high quality of the program, VMware will maintain control of the test plan and results review. VNF certifications will be available on marketplace.vmware.com. VNF certifications will be available on marketplace.vmware.com. Additional Resources:
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