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Nokia’s Common Software Foundation Platform Supports AWS

Nokia claims this offers communication AWS in June 2019. The system supports orchestration, and device management
service providers (CSPs) extra deployment more than 1,000 of Nokia’s applications and operational support systems suites.
choices and faster time to service when delivery engineers across the globe. In future, all new Nokia Software cloud-
rolling out 5G or digital services. The “Interest in AWS from the CSP market native network functions and applications
company also says this is the next step segment beyond IT workloads is growing will be available on AWS upon release. “Our
in Nokia’s move to deliver cloud-native rapidly,” said Matt Garman, Vice President Common Software Foundation continues
network functions and applications, of AWS Compute Services, Amazon Web to drive commercial value forward for our
enabled by the company’s Common Services. “We are delighted to be working customers including choice of deployment
Software Foundation (CSF). “Whether for with Nokia and helping them leverage options. CSF now enables all our cloud-
opex optimization, on-demand capacity the power of AWS for their network native network functions and applications
to optimize capex, quick time to market, infrastructure solutions and business and on AWS,” said Bhaskar Gorti, President of
or support of 5G and other edge compute operational support applications.” Nokia Software. “And when we combine
applications, public cloud deployments Applications on AWS Nokia pre-engineered solutions with
of advanced network software are a Nokia offers several applications on AWS, AWS deployment, CSPs will be able to
critical new option for CSPs,” said Dana including customer experience, service commission a new 5G mobile core or
Cooperson, Research Director, Analysys fulfilment, and orchestration solutions. provision a new service offering with the
Mason. “Companies such as Nokia and Through this engineering collaboration, click of a button – meaningfully changing
AWS [Amazon Web Services] working Nokia will prioritize 5G solutions including CSPs’ economics and operational time
together is a positive step in making this mobile core, network and service frames.”
option a reality.”
AWS’ role
Since the start of the relationship in
October 2017, AWS has played a role in
Nokia Software’s modernization efforts,
spanning the development, delivery,
and hosting services for its software
infrastructure. This began with putting
network functions and applications into
containers, in a unified way, using CSF, and
then enabling CSF and Nokia containerized
software deployment on AWS. The first
benefits of this collaboration include
a CSF-based, cloud-native system for
automating applications integration and
customization procedures rolled out on

Nokia and VMware Expand Partnership to Ease Large-Scale, Multi-Cloud
Operations

Nokia and VMware today announced of this strategy is dependent on seamless develop integrated solutions. As a result,
an expanded partnership that includes interoperability and efficient operations of CSPs will be able to more easily meet
the development of integrated solutions cloud-based network functions. VMware their business and use case objectives,
to support communications service and Nokia have a broad mutual customer using VMware cloud infrastructure that is
providers’ (CSPs) drive for operational base globally, across both companies’ engineered to work together with Nokia
improvements and cost efficiency through portfolios. Through the expanded virtualized and containerized network
large-scale, multi-cloud operations. partnership announced today, the two functions. Nokia and VMware have been
After years of working with virtual or companies will advance the interoperability working together to create seamless
cloud-based network functions in limited between Nokia software applications and cloud redundancy by running Nokia’s
production deployments, CSPs need VMware’s Telco Cloud, including VMware applications, such as Nokia Service
to build out these functions at scale to vCloud NFV. Nokia and VMware will also Management Platform, on VMware’s
handle the increasing use of new data- increase their investments in a deeper Telco Cloud platform and VMware HCX, an
intensive applications for tomorrow’s 5G partnership with technology collaboration application mobility platform designed for
and edge computing use cases. Success and advanced research & development to simplifying application migration, workload

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