Ericsson and VMware said this week that work has begun to validate Ericsson’s 5G Core to run on VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform. The validation will confirm that VMware’s platform can onboard and host Ericsson’s 5G Core Cloud Native Functions (CNFs). The effort will yield more flexible and lower-cost 5G Core deployments for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), the companies said.
The companies are validating three different infrastructure and orchestration options for CSPs leveraging Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core, which concurrently operates 4G LTE and 5G networks. Customers can go all-in on Telco Cloud Platform as the infrastructure for Ericsson’s network function execution, using VMware Telco Cloud Automation to manage network function orchestration and lifecycle management.
