The cloudification of the network started with the introduction of SDN and NFV architectures in Telco networks and the network cloud is getting further distributed to the edge with the advancement in Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC)  technologies. 

This represents tremendous opportunities for the operators to turn Network in to a Distributed Cloud Platform that enables seamless delivery of customer experience based on the needs of the services. With 5G deployments the network will be challenged to delivery variety of services with differing requirements over the same network. 

Manish Mangal is Chief Technology Officer for Network Services at Tech Mahindra and he joins Renu Navale in this discussion for Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights to share how hyper-automation will be a necessity to scale network platforms.
 
Manish and his team are responsible for overall strategy for Tech Mahindra's network business, development of portfolio of market ready solutions, and work closely with alliance partners to build collaborative solutions and grow together.

In this interview, Manish speaks to Tech Mahindra’s approach to virtualization of RAN and the prominence of 5G which is driving unprecedented pace of change in the industry.

Manish highlights how enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation journeys to align with network transformation.

In lieu of Mobile World Congress, Manish describes the technology demonstration planned for MWC20, which include hyper-automation, the Tech Mahindra platform netOps.ai, as well as the “Factory of the Future” -- an industrial use case for Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC).
 
For more information visit: http://www.techmahindra.com

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Network as an Automated Distributed Cloud Platform - Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode 271

Paul Stevens, Marketing Director, Advantech Cloud-IoT Group joins Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights to discuss several demos which were prepared for MWC 2020. Tune into discover how Advantech intends to democratize the industry through ecosystem innovation.

Paul and his team are responsible for white box solutions for uCPE and the network at the edge. They are focused on partners around the world to bring more virtualized solutions to market.

In this interview, Paul describes Advantech’s new SD-WAN Starter Kits (with Enea and flexiWAN) and the multi-vendor solution featuring a Virtual Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG) demo with netElastic which is running in the World Wide Technology (WWT) Advanced Technology Center, running on Red Hat. The vBNG demo, which was to play at Intel’s booth, utilizes 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors as well as Intel® Select Solutions for NFVI Forwarding Platform and demonstrates how a multi-vendor ecosystem provides integrated, validated, benchmarked solutions which are already available as a commercial solution.

Paul highlights how Advantech and the Intel® Network Builders ecosystem continue to embrace the role of open source in democratizing the use of new technology.

To learn more about Intel Select Solutions for uCPE with Advantech White Boxes visit:
https://builders.intel.com/docs/networkbuilders/intel-select-solutions-for-ucpe-with-advantech-white-boxes-v3.pdf 

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Advantech Optimized Intel® Select Solutions - Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode 272

Sven Freudenfeld, Chief Technology Officer, Telecom Application Business Unit at Lanner joins Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights to discuss new white boxes for uCPE and the continued roll out and growth of SD-WAN. 

Defining the Edge is not always obvious. Creating the right edge architecture for compute, networking and storage are the foundation to a successful 5G launch.

In this interview, Sven considers next steps in the network development to sustain the network and computing demand with low latency requirements and disaggregated systems.

Lanner is an Intel® Select Solutions partner, with the following products: Lanner uCPE NCA-4020 which was made commercially available in 2018; Lanner NCA-6210, now a Certified Intel® Select Solution for Visual Cloud Delivery Network (CDN) to Accelerate Next-Gen CDN Deployments, launched in September 2019). 

Sven describes how Multi-Access Edge Computing, a key focus for Lanner, combines storage and networking which demands improved scalability and multi-access for edge devices.

Lanner recently launched MEC solution developed in collaboration with Noviflow, Fortinet, as well as Intel's Barefoot Networks. Optimized for simple, scalable, and secure services at the network edge, the Lanner HybridTCA™ Series is the white-box MEC hardware platform that aggregates up to (12) 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, with two high-speed P4-programmable Barefoot Tofino switching ASICs, and massive storage with support for precision time protocol (PTP), as an all-in-one modular appliance.

For more information about Lanner visit:
http://www.lannerinc.com/ 

To find out more about their white box solutions visit:
http://www.whiteboxsolution.com/ 

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Defining the Network Edge - Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode 273

5G gaming could be one of next-generation mobile networks’ first killer apps. 

5G and extremely low latency guarantees have enabled an explosion of gaming in the cloud, not to mention augmented and virtual reality. This new development will revolutionize how and where gamers experience their gaming worlds. Critical to its success will be a trust model that guarantees performance to the player, as well as between gaming companies and their partners.

Richard Piasentin, Chief Strategy & CMO at Accedian joins Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights to discuss the most important features that 5G brings to the revolution in cloud gaming and Gaming-as-a-Service (GaaS).

In this interview, Piasentin explores how GaaS utilizes mobile edge computing and network slicing. Uncover Accedian’s role in the development of GaaS – a look to the future which evokes thought-provoking questions about this emergent market, Accedian’s partnership with MobiledgeX, and the business value to mobile operators, gamers, and the gaming companies.

Read more about this topic via Piasentin’s recent post on the Accedian blog:
https://accedian.com/service-providers/gaming-as-a-service-set-to-emerge-as-a-5g-killer-app/

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Next Gen Mobile Networks 5G Gaming - Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode 274

As an end-to-end system integrator and solution provider in 5G space, Wipro is developing a set of solutions based on Intel Edge platform OpenNESS. Wipro develops prototypes on traffic management, intelligent smart space and vehicular communication related solutions.

Subhas Mondal, Fellow and Chief Architect of 5G at Wipro joins Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights to feature Wipro’s collaboration through Intel on Edge Platform and OpenNESS which offers jointly built solutions in intelligent traffic management, monitoring high-value assets and immersive media applications. 

In this interview, Mondal addresses MEC and interplay of technologies like AI in 5G architecture.

To learn more about 5g and Wipro visit: 
https://www.wipro.com/innovation/5g-at-wipro/ 

Listeners interested in learning about Wipro and Edge Computing in a 5G Network can go here: https://www.wipro.com/innovation/edge-computing-in-a-5g-network/ 

And to experience the BrightTALK webinar – Transforming Experiences in the Media & Entertainment Industry with 5G Edge Architecture -- please see: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12229/362349  

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The Evolution of Edge Architecture in 5G - Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode 275

The rise in mobile data usage, especially streaming video, has driven the evolution of mobile networks toward 5G and Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC). This evolution paves the way for the vCDN from Qwilt running on OpenNESS. The opportunity and promise of these solutions working together in mobile service provider networks is discussed in this episode. 

Mark Fisher, VP of Marketing in Business Development for Qwilt joins Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights to explore how the growth of mobile data usage and how 5G and Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) have caused an evolution in mobile infrastructure. Qwilt’s vCDN uniquely provides mobile content delivery solutions via OpenNESS. Hear why capacity, not speed, is the biggest challenge facing OTT content delivery.

Qwilt is a Founding Member, Board Member and Chair of the Open Caching Working Group within the Streaming Video Alliance, an industry forum of over 60 companies within the streaming ecosystem. Over the last four years, Qwilt has helped establish the specifications for Open Caching which is an open standard that defines how in-ISP network edge cache can be used by public and private CDNs and content publishers for content delivery.

To learn more about how Qwilt is navigating the evolving mobile landscape, please visit:
https://qwilt.com/the-capacity-gap-is-here/ 

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How Qwilt Supports Mobile Data Growth Using OpenNESS - Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode 276

With Open RAN, service providers can deliver an open, agile, software-driven network that enables richer services, with greater flexibility at a lower cost. World Wide Technology (WWT) developed an Open RAN blueprint, validated in their Advanced Technology Center (ATC), which is an end-to-end turnkey solution that accelerates operators' time to revenue while providing a rapid upgrade path to deliver secure 4G/5G services to business and residential customers.

In this interview, Obinna Egonu, Practice Manager, GSP Solutions Engineering at WWT uncovers the progress toward 5G represented by Open RAN. Further topics include customized deployment models and WWT’s Open RAN program enablement.

The 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors , Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, Intel® Optane™ SSDs, and new Intel® FPGA programmable acceleration cards (PACs) preconfigured with real workloads and apps come integrated into WWT’s ATC Innovation Ecosystem. This resource is designed to be a multi-vendor solution provider. Rather than being locked into a single proprietary system, users can pull together the best server, storage and software technologies for each unique requirement.

To learn more about how WWT is accelerating business outcomes please visit:
https://www.wwt.com/news/wwt-intel-accelerate-business-outcomes-2020 

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Forging a path to 5G with Open RAN  - Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode 277

Gibson Ang, VP Technology  and Product Management for Casa Systems, Inc., joins Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights to explore how 5G’s convergence of wireless and wireline networks will provide subscribers with a seamless experience as they move between wireless and fixed connectivity. 

Gibson explains how next-generation connectivity will bring with it increased complexity, requiring operators to support more spectrum bands, protocols and access types; deploy and manage tens of thousands more cell sites; push services closer to users at the edge; and deliver tailored network slices to meet the needs of new use cases. Using a common 5G core, converged service providers can optimize their network resources, lower network costs, and swiftly capitalize on new revenue opportunities.

Learn more about the advantages for operators through Casa Systems and BT’s implementation of a multi-tenancy and multi-access edge compute architecture, with disaggregated broadband network gateway functionality. This proof-of-concept design took top honors for Best New 5G Technology at Broadband World Forum 2019.

Gibson shares how 2nd gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors make it possible to transition from using discrete architectures for major workloads (e.g., applications, controls, packets, and signal processing) to a single architecture that consolidates the workloads into a more scalable and simplified solution.

This powerful set of software libraries removes the most-common performance bottlenecks for packet processing software on the Intel x86 platform. It allows Casa Systems to improve the packet processing performance of the solution by more than 10x*, resulting in performance gains that outpace legacy solutions many times over. 

*Download the whitepaper featuring Casa System’s Axyom Platform visit: https://www.casa-systems.com/assets/Casa-White-Paper-Axyom-Takes-Performance-to-the-Edge.pdf 

For more information on Casa Systems and to see virtual demonstrations, please see: www.casa-systems.com 

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5G Convergence - Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode 279

Fronthaul is a key technology area for accelerating 4G and 5G deployments, but there is a lack of fronthaul white boxes in the market. Intel and Altran are collaborating to create white box fronthaul gateway designs based on Intel® FPGA with Intel Fronthaul FPGA IP, and Altran Network software. Altran, headquartered in Paris, is an Intel Partner in multiple areas, including Intel FlexRAN , and the FPGA for Fronthaul.

Guest Host Renu Navale sits down with Altran’s Assistant VP of Technology Kalimani Govindarajan to discuss developments in fronthaul gateways, Open RAN, white box, and network operating systems. Mobile operators can accelerate their 5G network buildout thanks to an integrated software framework based on Intel data-centric technology.

Altran has created a disaggregated fronthaul framework based on Intel field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that enable wireless carriers and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) to accelerate large scale and scalable 5G fronthaul deployment.

Altran is a Intel® Network Builders Winner's Circle Solution Partner: https://www.altran.com/co/en/ 

For more information about how Altran’s Fronthaul gateway solution accelerates 5G deployment through their partnership with Intel visit : 
https://www.altran.com/us/en/news_press_release/altran-mobile-fronthaul-gateway-solution-accelerates-5g-deployment-with-intel-technology/

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Scalable 5G Fronthaul Deployment - Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode 280

SD-WAN provides a fresh perspective to enterprise networking, from security to routing, there is a 360-degree shift with the advent of this technology. While there is a generous amount of software involved in SD-WAN, it needs a breakthrough hardware technology like Intel® QuickAssist Technology and Data Plane Developer Kit (DPDK) which supports Lavelle’s SD-WAN platform. Together, this combination provides a revolution in the field of networking.

In this episode, Lavelle Networks Founder and CEO, Shyamal Kumar discusses the challenges presented by a rapidly changing technology and how the SDN software, used in tandem with Intel processors and system hardware is helping to achieve this transition. Shyamal also talks about network security in the age of SD-WAN and its role in Edge-vs-Cloud computing. Lavelle Networks’ own use cases serve as example. System integrators, SD-WAN collaborators and ecosystem partnerships are all addressed in defining the landscape.

To experience the ScaleAOn SD-WAN webinar visit:
https://lavellenetworks.com/scaleaon-sd-wan-enterprise-boardwalk-to-the-internet/  

To hear Shyamal's interview with SDX Central visit:
https://lavellenetworks.com/blog/lavelle-networks-ceo-shyamal-kumar-discusses-sd-wan-and-the-principles-of-b4/ 

For more information about Lavelle Networks visit: 
https://lavellenetworks.com/  

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ScaleAOn SD-WAN - Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode 278

Intel® Chip Chat: Network Insights is a recurring podcast series that delves into the technologies, topics and issues facing the networking industry. These informal, one-on-one interviews with industry experts examine the network transformation taking place through the adoption of software defined networking and network functions virtualization across telecommunication & enterprise organizations.

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