Mavenir and Whitestack have announced successful completion of a technology alignment that enables Mavenir’s cloud-native integrated management system (IMS) solution to be seamlessly integrated into Whitestack’s telco cloud platform, demonstrating Mavenir’s pivotal expertise in facilitating cloud-native deployments.
The collaboration was initiated as part of a deployment with a leading tier one operator in Latin America and harnesses the power and performance capabilities of the Intel Xeon processor and Intel Ethernet technology.
Empowering mobile operators to deploy telco workloads on its cloud solutions is a fundamental aspect of Mavenir’s cloud-native strategy. The announcement marks the achievement of full integration with Whitestack’s telco cloud solution, offering telco operators a wider array of flexible options for deploying Mavenir’s solutions, and underscores the continued expansion of the telecom ecosystem aimed at liberating operators from legacy or monolithic solutions.
The two companies are capitalising on industry momentum, following significant announcements from operators adopting cloud infrastructure for critical network functions. This trend is generating substantial interest from traditional operators. To meet this clear demand, the companies are offering a compelling performance-to-cost ratio, making the transition to cloud solutions an easy decision.
Commenting on the announcement, Brandon Larson, senior vice president and general manager, cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and IMS business strategy, Mavenir, said, “We are very pleased to have completed the integration process in a reasonable timeframe, thanks in part to our experience with other Telco Clouds and Whitestack’s flexibility in adjusting their data plane configuration to maximise our performance. As the industry moves towards cloud infrastructure, cloud solutions must be adapted to be suitable for telco workloads. In order to accomplish this, it takes companies like Mavenir that have developed a specialised skillset in both cloud and telco.”
Meanwhile, Jose Miguel Guzman, business development manager, telco/network functions virtualisation (NFV), Whitestack, said, “One of the many key aspects of a telco cloud, compared to a regular private cloud, is the ability to utilise advanced techniques for accelerating network function performance. Each application has its own processing, memory, disk, and traffic profile. In WhiteCloud, we have granular control over these aspects, allowing us to provide each Virtual Network Functions (VNF) or cloud-native network function (CNF) with the optimal hardware settings to maximise their throughput, mixing and matching legacy and new-generation servers.”
Moreover, Alex Quach, vice president (VP), network and edge group, Intel, said, “Server configurations based on Intel Xeon processors include new features designed to accelerate user traffic. When combined with the Intel Infrastructure Power Manager software and Intel Ethernet E810 Controller, these configurations allow service providers to drive optimisation of their infrastructure for performance, energy efficiency and space in the telco data centre.”
