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Dell announces major telecom partner initiative at MWC 2023

Mats Granryd, director general of the GSMA, is shown delivering his keynote address in Barcelona.

Dell Technologies unveiled an initiative at Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona that it said is designed to “simplify today’s disaggregated telecom landscape.”

That simplification will occur, it said, through the Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem Community that will bring together telecom partners and communications service provider (CSPs), leveraging the Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab to expedite the delivery of telecom offerings.

As part of the announcement, the company revealed new collaborations with technology partners Amdocs, Juniper Networks, Nokia, Qualcomm, Microsoft and Samsung to accelerate the adoption of open, cloud-native technologies.

Dell said in a release, “the telecom industry is transforming to an open and application-agnostic ecosystem, allowing communications service providers (CSPs) to integrate innovative applications and services into their networks and deliver more revenue-generating services to their customers.

“Multicloud technologies have become a fundamental pillar to support this ecosystem, eliminating vendor-siloed infrastructure stacks, providing efficient operations and developing a future-proof network foundation to pave the way for 6G and beyond.”

The agreement with Microsoft will see the two organizations collaborate in a strategy to “redefine the deployment and operations” of multicloud disaggregated networks.

“Network operators are looking to adopt cloud technology to modernize and monetize the network, lowering network total cost of ownership, driving operational efficiency and resiliency and improving security,” said Yousef Khalidi, corporate vice president, Azure for Operators, at Microsoft. “Our collaboration with Dell helps us deliver an innovative, carrier-grade platform to operators that are looking to deploy the next generation of network technology.”

Details of the other five partnerships are as follows:

Dennis Hoffman, who leads the telecom systems business at Dell, said CSPs want “to use open solutions in their networks that enable them to leverage various combinations of hardware and software to meet the specific needs of their network services. The RAN portion of the network requires specific features from infrastructure and software to support this highly-demanding, business-critical workload.”

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