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Dell Technologies announces network cloud transformation solutions for African CSPs
Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat is a fully engineered hardware and software solution available with Dell global services . The solution uses Dell servers , such as Dell PowerEdge XR8000 with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes , to simplify telecom cloud design , deployment and lifecycle management .
Dell Technologies , announced new solutions to help African and global communications service providers , CSPs facilitate network cloud and operations transformation to achieve improved economics and agility , while maintaining network reliability . Dell is using its decades of experience in digital transformation and deep industry partnerships to design telecom solutions that reduce risk , so CSPs can ease the deployment , automate the operation and simplify the support and lifecycle management of disaggregated network cloud infrastructure .
The first step in network cloud transformation is installing the cloud infrastructure platform , both architecturally and operationally .
As CSPs integrate a broad ecosystem of technologies to build open , cloud-native networks , they need a simple way to deploy and manage infrastructure from multiple vendors across geographically distributed areas , without compromising network reliability or adding increased costs .
Dell announced the Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite , software designed to automate the orchestration and lifecycle management of multi-vendor , network cloud infrastructure at scale . The Automation Suite , based on open standards and APIs , integrates seamlessly into the network and offers CSP ’ s the flexibility to deploy and manage their choice of infrastructure across distributed , multivendor environments .
To deploy a telecom cloud across a multi-vendor network , Globe partnered with Dell , using Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat , to improve their deployment time , increase the efficiency of network operations , and provide faster validation of hardware and software compatibility . Dell collaborated with Amdocs in the Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab , using Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel processors , to validate Amdocs Policy management software on Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat .
The Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite provides :
• Days or weeks saved on configuration and provisioning using declarative automation , which simplifies server configurations and software deployment .
• Infrastructure discovery and automation down to the network ’ s infrastructure layer with open APIs and Dell services to support integration with the telecom business support systems , BSS and operations support systems , OSS .
• Comprehensive telemetry on equipment temperature , CPU and memory utilisation , to help AI operations make more informed decisions on network operations .
• Proactive , predictive support with specialized insights from a dedicated telecom-trained team , and new services to design and build custom blueprints tailored to a customer ’ s unique requirements . p
Dennis Hoffman , Senior Vice President and General Manager ,
Telecom Systems Business , Dell Technologies
The world is moving quickly toward cloudified networks while , in parallel , the network ecosystem complexity is multiplying . Amdocs Service Management and Orchestration simplifies the complexity of a growing number of vendors and is pre-integrated with the Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite to offer zero-touch deployment of the RAN , helping customers reliably deploy and manage their disaggregated networks at scale .
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