Analysys Mason: Benchmarking Edge-Native Cloud Stacks for vRAN and MEC

Communication Service Providers are seeking to deploy a common cloud stack to fully enable 5G network functions from a disaggregated and virtualized RAN. This report highlights the landscape of this transforming space and contains a profile of VMware’s Edge Cloud Stack as well as a vendor map of the current ecosystem.

Explore the report to learn:

• How CSPs will find that the properties needed for vRAN cloud stack will be very different from those in a centralized NFV cloud
• About vRAN cloud stack framework assessment categories and definitions
• Positions of cloud stack vendors assessed against the framework criteria
• How VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform RAN has an optimized version of its ESXi hpervisor and can co-locate and mange B2B edge apps
• Information about VMware’s leading vendor ecosystem