A major telecom operator had a growing challenge: rising infrastructure costs and unreliable services at regional data centers were threatening customer experience and SLA commitments. Their existing environment lacked automation and consistency, especially across sites running legacy NFV platforms.
Design Highlights:
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Deployed dedicated workload domains for Core, RAN, and BSS functions, ensuring fault isolation and policy control per service type
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Leveraged vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) to reduce latency for high-throughput Telco apps (see: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSAN/8.0/vsan-whats-new/GUID-10C09F57-8787-466F-BAEA-90DB672E5BCE.html)
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Enabled self-service provisioning of test environments via VMware Cloud Director (VCD) to support agile DevOps teams
TAM Partnership: We executed a phased modernization plan aligned with their fiscal roadmap. I worked closely with network architects and finance stakeholders to model TCO and plan for seamless migrations. Aria Operations provided real-time observability into workloads and helped tune capacity utilization across sites.
We introduced network slicing concepts using NSX-T segmentation and built custom dashboards to monitor SLA performance for each slice.
Results Delivered:
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30% infrastructure savings via hardware consolidation
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4x improvement in service deployment velocity
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Zero unplanned downtime across 5G pilot rollouts
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Real-time reporting on cost, SLA, and resource usage for BSS/OSS integration
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