The companies claim the partnership will “revolutionise” the deployment of telecom workloads running on AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a five-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with long-time partner Mavenir that will see the companies jointly architect Mavenir’s technology to streamline the development, testing, integration, and application of cloud-native solutions. They said that together they’ll create “a new telco-grade deployment model that is set to transform how operators launch 5G, IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), Radio Access Network (RAN) and future network technologies”.
As part of the agreement Mavenir and AWS will co-invest in developing functionalities, such as enhanced dynamic autoscaling, automation, and reliability enhancements, for telcos to enable migration to AWS.
“Building on our long-term partnership and individual leadership in cloud technology, Mavenir and AWS are now working together to leverage the key attributes of the public cloud to enable unprecedented adaptability of telco workloads,” said Mavenir EVP and chief technology and strategy officer Bejoy Pankajakshan. “As part of this collaboration, we are combining our strengths to support the ambition of operators to migrate into the public cloud, delivering uniquely optimised solutions that ensure fast and efficient deployment – and a dramatic reduction in total cost of ownership.”
Beyond technical collaboration and co-development, the two companies will also focus on accelerating market adoption: “with clear targets set to accelerate market adoption, bringing the value and power of cloud-based network solutions to telcos and their customers across the globe”, according to Mavenir EVP of emerging business and partnerships Aniruddho Basu.
Not only a private wireless play
In a market that is still evolving, it makes sense for Mavenir to gain wider exposure to AWS’s telco channel to offer its cloud-native and containerised approach to software development. In fact, Mavenir has been a bit of a go-to telco vendor for AWS as the cloud giant has been honing its virtualised network offers with the likes of Dell and VMware.
One conspicuous partner, Deutsche Telekom, has combined AWS and Mavenir technology in a few proofs of concept. For example, last October, the telco built a private 5G wireless platform featuring AWS services and infrastructure, VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform, Mavenir radio access network (RAN) and core functions – all based on Open Grid Alliance architecture running on Dell Technologies equipment.
As part of the demo, DT showed it could link disparate private 5G SA networks using hardware and software all managed from a single interface. It linked networks in Prague with Seattle (T-Mobile US) via Mavenir 5G core function hosted on AWS infrastructure in Bonn, utilising AWS’s Integrated Private Wireless platform.
Mavenir has its own track record with DT as well being part of the telco’s multi-vendor cloud Next Generation IP Multimedia Subsystem (NIMS) which now handles billions of voice minutes a year.
At MWC, in a demo, enhancing consumer interaction with generative AI leveraging MCE generative AI, from Nvidia, Vodafone, MCE and Mavenir showcased a consumer journey that included device and network support for latency sensitive applications using AWS Wavelength to achieve the required QoE powered device care. For network support they used Nvidia’s DGX platform on AWS and Mavenir to get root cause analysis of network degradation in real time using AWS generative AI service.