News summary
- Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite software automates
deployment and management of multi-vendor telecom infrastructure
for simpler, cost-effective operations
- Dell Telecom Infrastructure Block adds support for 5G core
workloads at the edge and a Dell certification program for industry
partners to speed validation of network technologies
- Globe advances network cloud deployment and increases network
operations efficiency with Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for
Red Hat
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Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces new solutions to help
communications service providers (CSPs) facilitate network cloud
and operations transformation to achieve improved economics and
agility, while maintaining network reliability.
Dell is using its decades of experience in digital transformation
and deep industry partnerships to design telecom solutions that
reduce risk, so CSPs can ease the deployment, automate the
operation and simplify the support and lifecycle management of
disaggregated network cloud infrastructure.
"The first step in network cloud transformation is installing the
cloud infrastructure platform, both architecturally and
operationally," said Dennis Hoffman,
senior vice president and general manager, Telecom Systems
Business, Dell Technologies. "It takes a team to successfully
address the people, process and technology aspects of these
programs. We're contributing not only our technology, but our years
of cloud transformation experience to ecosystem partnerships with
communication service providers around the world."
Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite accelerates
network cloud transformation
As CSPs integrate a broad ecosystem of technologies to build
open, cloud-native networks, they need a simple way to deploy and
manage infrastructure from multiple vendors across geographically
distributed areas, without compromising network reliability or
adding increased costs.
Dell announces the Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation
Suite, software designed to automate the orchestration and
lifecycle management of multi-vendor, network cloud infrastructure
at scale. The Automation Suite, based on open standards and APIs,
integrates seamlessly into the network, and offers CSP's the
flexibility to deploy and manage their choice of infrastructure
across distributed, multi-vendor environments.
The Automation Suite provides:
- Days or weeks saved on configuration and provisioning using
declarative automation, which simplifies server configurations and
software deployment.
- Infrastructure discovery and automation down to the network's
infrastructure layer with open APIs and Dell services to support
integration with the telecom business support systems (BSS) and
operations support systems (OSS).
- Comprehensive telemetry on equipment temperature, CPU and
memory utilization, to help AI operations make more informed
decisions on network operations.
- Proactive, predictive support with specialized insights from a
dedicated telecom-trained team, and new services to design and
build custom blueprints tailored to a customer's unique
requirements.
"The world is moving quickly toward cloudified networks while,
in parallel, the network ecosystem complexity is multiplying," said
Anthony Goonetilleke, group
president of technology and head of strategy, Amdocs. "Amdocs
Service Management and Orchestration simplifies the complexity of a
growing number of vendors and is pre-integrated with the Dell
Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite to offer zero-touch
deployment of the RAN, helping customers reliably deploy and manage
their disaggregated networks at scale."
Dell Telecom Infrastructure Block portfolio adds new
capabilities, supports Globe Telecom's network cloud
deployment
Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat is a fully
engineered hardware and software solution available with Dell
global services. The solution uses Dell servers, such as Dell
PowerEdge XR8000 with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Advanced
Cluster Management for Kubernetes, to simplify telecom cloud
design, deployment and lifecycle management. Advancements
include:
- Support for 5G core workloads running at the edge, which
builds on existing 5G core and RAN workload support, so CSPs can
deploy a validated, consistent cloud platform from the core to the
far edge of the network.
- Integrations with the Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation
Suite, which provides an infrastructure management and
orchestration framework to support multi-vendor environments.
- Dell Technologies Certification on Infrastructure
Blocks, to test and certify 5G Core, OSS, BSS and open RAN
workloads for Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks in the Dell Open
Telecom Ecosystem Lab. Certification confirms the software and
workloads from various partners, beginning with 6D Technologies,
Amdocs, Casa Systems, Expeto and MATRIXX Software, will be
supported on Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks.
To deploy a telecom cloud across a multi-vendor network,
Globe partnered with Dell, using Dell Telecom
Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat, to improve their deployment
time, increase the efficiency of network operations, and provide
faster validation of hardware and software compatibility. Dell
collaborated with Amdocs in the Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab,
using Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel processors, to validate
Amdocs Policy management software on Dell Telecom Infrastructure
Blocks for Red Hat.
"We're building an open, cloud-native network with multiple
vendors, so we can deliver the best network experience for our
customers," said James Lim, vice
president, core network planning, engineering and implementation,
Globe. "Testing and integrating various vendors demand too much of
our time and budget. That's why we're now partnering with Dell
Telecom Infrastructure Blocks to do the validation and testing for
us, so we can focus on how we can use our modern network to deliver
services and benefits for our customers."
Availability
- Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite will be globally
available in April 2024.
- Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat enhancements
will be globally available in April
2024.
- Dell Technologies Certification on Infrastructure Blocks is
available globally beginning today.
Additional resources
- Visit Dell at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024 at Booth
3M30 in Hall 3
- Hear Michael Dell keynote on
Monday, February 26 during Mobile
World Congress Barcelona 2024
- Learn more about Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation
Suite
- Connect with Dell via X and LinkedIn
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