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Shekar Ayyar, EVP of Strategy & Corporate Development at VMware gives an informative and dynamic presentation on how cloud infrastructure has enabled businesses to become even more agile providers of network services.
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Let me start off by first thanking MetTel, a great partner of ours for many years. One of the things that has fascinated us is how our partnership with MetTel has evolved over time. We began with discussions on virtualization and software abstractions, but more recently, our focus has shifted towards software-defined networking (SDN). VMware, which is our esteemed technology partner, now incorporates mobile, artificial intelligence, machine learning, edge computing, and IoT. These four elements play a crucial role in the discussions we’re having today and will continue to be significant in the future.
When we think about the cloud, we usually envision an extended capability with massive scale and compute capacity. However, the reality is that the cloud is evolving into a hybrid architecture and a hybrid infrastructure. In the past, different parties had contrasting views, with some favoring private infrastructure within corporate data centers and others emphasizing the public cloud outside the corporate firewall. In practice, it’s a combination of both. To make the cloud effective, you must be prepared to consume resources from a hybrid infrastructure and maintain a unified architecture connecting various cloud pools.
This uniform architecture is essential for applying security policies across your cloud infrastructure. Without this unified approach, managing and securing different cloud providers and touchpoints can become a complex problem. As an example, consider a medical application connecting hospitals, public clouds, telco clouds, and mobile networks. Each touchpoint must be secured and integrated, and a unified architecture makes this possible.
Now, let’s focus on the telco cloud. VMware and MetTel have been deeply involved in this space. We’re excited about the opportunity for communications service providers (CSPs) to become prominent players in the cloud economy. Traditionally, when you think of cloud providers, names like Amazon, Azure, and others come to mind, but CSPs like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint are now stepping into the spotlight. VMware has learned valuable lessons from IT providers and personnel and is applying this knowledge to the core of telecom networks.
As enterprises continue to expand and become more distributed, technologies like SD-WAN play a crucial role. This technology allows you to connect branches to the core, combine MPLS architectures with cloud provider offerings, and intelligently allocate resources. SDN becomes vital in this context. It’s about creating a policy-based network that can handle diverse traffic types, from IoT and AI to gaming and autonomous driving data.
This policy-based network, especially in the context of 5G, allows you to define and manage different traffic channels, combining SD-WAN with what carriers provide over a sliced 5G network. The result is end-to-end control and management of data flows across various applications, ensuring optimal performance and security.