VMware

Sashidhar Annaluru, the Head of SASE Engineering at VMware, notes the significance of industry transformation from SDWAN 1.0 to SDWAN 2.0 and the potential benefits for partners and customers from the multiple vendors and service providers at the conference.

The advent of 5G is driving deep changes in the way that telcos deploy and manage their networks. Telco Cloud infrastructure must adopt a distributed, multi-cloud architecture. It must also be ready to leverage public cloud capabilities to benefit from new business opportunities. Here are the insider views of Ram Venketaramani, Senior Director, Edge Solutions, VMware.

Open RAN simplifies the ability to do operations at scale. It allows operators to upgrade, manage, and deploy the network in a different way with opportunities to create new services, create new network slices, and open the RAN to third-party vendors for new features and capabilities. In this video, Rob Soni, Head of RAN Infrastructure at VMware, introduces two new logical network elements that can be deployed on cloudified platforms to do intelligent control and the opportunities these new elements offer operators. Download AvidThink's 2021 Open RAN Report to explore key infrastructure considerations for Open RAN and O-RAN adoption.