Automate your network and accelerate new services with VMware vCloud NFV.

VMware vCloud NFV is an ETSI compliant fully integrated, modular and multi-tenancy NFV platform. vCloud NFV enables wireline and wireless service providers to deploy an elastic business model for cross-cloud services and service enablement while simplifying networks and reducing TCO.

The Foundation for 5G

PRODUCTS

vCloud NFV is an open, carrier grade NFVI platform. It delivers a tightly integrated and fully tested solution with virtual compute, storage, and networking resources coupled with a powerful and flexible Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM), along with robust, intelligent operations management. Eliminate vendor lock-in and deploy multi-vendor Virtual Network Functions (VNF), allowing you to accelerate and automate the process of instantiating, provisioning and managing services that can be personalized and customized as required.

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VMware Smart Assurance:

Proven in the world’s most demanding environments, Tier 1 service providers, VMware Smart Assurance provides automated service assurance for virtual and physical networks meeting the operational intelligence needs of today’s and tomorrow’s diverse networks.

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AUTOMATED SERVICE ASSURANCE

VMware Smart Assurance provides integrated monitoring and management of physical and virtual networks with automated root cause analysis across all domains.

CSPs faced with top-line and bottom-line pressures are moving from a packaged hardware approach to an NFV-driven, software-defined approach for their core network environments. While NFV is critical to CSP’s ability to deliver services and capitalize on new opportunities, their capacity to virtualize and deploy services quickly is hampered by a lack of effective root cause analysis and systems that can quickly detect service interruptions and service degradations that impact subscribers Quality of Experience. High levels of network performance and availability become even more imperative as CSPs prepare for new 5G services including the support of augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning and IoT.

VMware Smart Assurance provides automated assurance capabilities to deliver service impact and root-cause analysis with visibility across physical, virtual and cloud environments to quickly identify the true root of problems across all network layers and services for faster remediation. Extraneous alarms are automated suppressed and events are correlated and prioritized based on customer, cost and service impact so that Network Operators can immediately focus on the most important issues at hand and not waste time sifting through multiple heterogenous systems and events. This transparency enables CSPs to visualize, analyze and optimize their environments to enable faster resolution times, provide high availability and meet stringent SLAs. Automation and proactive identification of issues provides greater return on NFV and IT investments and improves the quality of service (QoS) they provide their customers. Multi-tenancy and multi-vendor support allows CSPs to monitor and proactively manage multiple customers with diverse environments within a single eco-system. Through VMware Smart Assurance’s integration with VMware technologies including VMware vCloud NFV, VMware vRealize Operations, and VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud, CSPs have a rich set of tools to provide the highest quality of service for their customers at all times.

Benefits include:

Holistic view of entire network

• Correlated fault and performance management across all layers
• Integration with vRealize Operations analytics

Reduced spending in OPEX

• Up to 95%+ reduction in alarms
• Prioritization based on impact
• Automated actions and remediations
• Bulk config & compliance management

Improved Customer Experience

• Proactive discovery of incidents
• Maintain SLAs

Prioritization based on both Business and Service Impact

• Prioritization based on tenants and services

Increased Uptime & reduced MTTD and MTTR

• Visibility into relationship between services, protocols and infrastructure
• Prescriptive diagnosis of root cause of problems
• Integration with orchestration tools (e.g. OSS, VNF-M, NFV-O)

Rapid Operationalization of new services

• Dynamic discovery of physical devices, virtual functions and services
• Multi-tenant, Intelligent operations

PARTNERS

VMware Ready for NFV is a certification program that recognizes VMware VNF partners who have validated their solutions with the vCloud NFV platform.

VMware Ready for NFV certified partners will have completed a range of interoperability and interworking assessments in a dedicated accreditation facility and will have greater access to VMware product roadmaps and solution development strategies to ensure their solutions continue to maximize the potential of the underlying vCloud NFV platform.

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VMware and Intel have made a broad range of advances throughout the hardware and software solution stack that enable NFV adoption by communication service providers. Together, both companies are driving the trend toward network virtualization as operators prepare for the emerging demands of 5G and IoT.

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