Vendor-hyperscaler partnerships: Building the multi-cloud native future?

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Vendors and hyperscalers want to serve telcos with cloud-native network functions that are public cloud-ready – but there are few takers. What should they do?

Description

Format: PDF filePages: 33 pagesAuthor: David MartinPublication Date: May 2024

Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
    • Network functions are becoming cloud-native, running on hybrid cloud
    • Operators have been slow to take up joint vendor-hyperscaler offerings
    • Recommendations: Vendors and hyperscalers should embrace telcos as equal partners in application networking
    • Vendors and hyperscalers can choose whether to help or hinder telcos’ journey to application networking
    • Next steps
  • Table of Contents
  • Vendors and hyperscalers want telcos to succeed in the cloud
    • Terminology
  • Achievements to date in vendor-hyperscaler partnerships
    • Ericsson: Multi-vendor CNF deployment and orchestration on hybrid cloud
    • Nokia: Single-vendor CNFs-as-a-service across any cloud
    • Mavenir: Delivering CNFs across any cloud
    • Samsung: Delivering vRAN across any cloud
  • How can vendors and hyperscalers help telcos move to public cloud?
    • The NaaS 2.0 economy
    • Distinct roles for vendors, hyperscalers and telcos
    • Can vendors and hyperscalers bring telcos with them into cloud-native and the open cloud?
  • Conclusion: What if telcos cannot deliver?
  • Index

Table of Figures

  • Figure 1: New roles for vendors, hyperscalers and telcos in application networking
  • Figure 2: Ericsson cloud stack components involved in collaborations with hyperscalers
  • Figure 3: Ericsson hybrid cloud architecture
  • Figure 4: Nokia cloud stack components involved in collaborations with hyperscalers
  • Figure 5: Google Cloud’s Cloud RAN Solution
  • Figure 6: Mavenir cloud stack components involved in collaborations with hyperscalers
  • Figure 7: Mavenir, Deutsche Telekom, VMware and AWS PoC
  • Figure 8: Samsung vRAN on AWS at DISH and on Verizon’s private cloud
  • Figure 9: Samsung’s vRAN Ecosystem
  • Figure 10: Connectivity revenues today vs. connectivity + NaaS 2.0 revenues in 2035
  • Figure 11: New roles for vendors, hyperscalers and operators in NaaS 2.0

 

Technologies and industry terms referenced include: AT&T, AWS, CNFs, Communications Age, Coordination age, Ericsson, Gen AI, google, HCPs, Hyperscalers, Information Age, Mavenir, NaaS 2.0, Nokia, Red Hat, Samsung, Swisscom, VMWare, VNFs