VMware releases raft of solutions for telcos

VMware is aiming to capture the communications services provider market, launching new telco focused solutions for 5G and the cloud economy. The VMware Telco Cloud platform is optimised for both 4G and 5G - a single architecture that supports both networks - to help communication service providers get to “5G-Ready” faster.“5G is at a massive inflection point, and planning decisions made today will have far reaching financial and operational ramifications for CSPs going forward,” says VMware strategy and corporate development executive vice president and Telco NFV group general manager Shekar Ayyar.  “By moving away from the inflexible, hardware-defined architectures of the past, and rolling out 5G as a fully-virtualised architecture right out of the gate, telcos will be able to beat competitors to market with new value-added services and improve the performance and operational efficiencies of their networks. VMware today provides the best foundation for the 5G-ready telco cloud.”