Dell Refreshes Solutions for Communication Service Providers

Dell Technologies has introduced new and enhanced offerings for communication service providers. The company is anchoring the open, cloud-native telecom ecosystem—with infrastructure and solutions, industry partners and a new innovation lab—to put communications service providers (CSPs) on the fast track for innovation and revenue growth.

As organizations across all industries look to drive new value with edge technologies, Gartner projects that applications at the edge will increase by 800 percent by 2024. CSPs are aiming to transform their businesses and networks to support this enormous growth and benefit from the edge opportunities ahead.

“Telecom companies need ways to mitigate the risk and complexities associated with evolving their network infrastructure,” said Dennis Hoffman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Dell Technologies Telecom Systems Business. “An open, cloud-native approach is the answer to quickly capture this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and move beyond the hype of 5G to the reality of a resilient next-generation network that creates more opportunities for operators, industries of all kinds and communities around the world.”

“With increased demand of connectivity and requirement of high bandwidths network 24*7, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are forced to upgrade their network infrastructure and provide better connectivity to their customers. Currently, CSPs need to ensure that the new infrastructure is well aligned and can overcome any kind of risk or challenges while offering services to their customers”, said Saurabh Tewari, Director & Chief Technology Officer (Telecom), Dell Technologies India

Dell Technologies is creating open software solutions and services designed for the unique requirements of the telecom industry. Collaborating with Dell, CSPs can use these new solutions to embrace software-defined industry standards, simplify integration and management of data at the edge and capture new revenue opportunities.

Dell Technologies is launching a cloud-native network infrastructure foundation with a full stack of open, scalable carrier-grade server and software solutions to simplify and accelerate this journey. Today, CSPs can use Dell Technologies validated reference architectures to deploy full-stack telecommunications solutions from industry leading partners, including VMware and Red Hat, with optimal Dell hardware, software and services.

With Project Metalweaver, the company is taking this cloud-native infrastructure foundation farther, to support the need to scale across broad geographies. Project Metalweaver is a flexible software solution enabling CSPs to easily select, autonomously deploy and manage thousands of compute, network and storage devices across multiple locations. CSPs can simply deploy and manage globally distributed 5G networks with zero-touch provisioning, remote diagnostics and telemetry, backed by Dell Technologies global support and services.

Furthermore, Dell Technologies is introducing new reference architectures that build on the flexibility and scale of Project Metalweaver to span telecommunications edge, core and Open RAN environments. Further, Dell Technologies is introducing Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab to create a place where it can work with its partners and customers to explore and collaborate on future telecom technologies and applications. New solutions can be incubated in the lab, then quickly brought to market, allowing CSPs to create new enterprise edge services and applications. Dell’s technology partner program provides engineering resources and project management support to design, build, market and sell network solutions and services.