Dell EMC announced CenturyLink, Sprint and Telefonica are using the DSS 9000 rack scale infrastructure to address workload demands.
The DSS 9000 rack scale infrastructure is helping carriers and service providers accelerate the shift to software-defined data centers and cloud computing initiatives.
“Carriers and service providers need hyperscale-inspired infrastructure to balance the need to innovate at the speed of business while spending less,” said James Mouton, senior vice president, Extreme Scale Infrastructure, Dell EMC.
Dell EMC claims that the DSS 9000 can reduce TCO by up to 27 percent over five years and hike competitiveness and enable rapid innovation for modern technologies including 5th generation wireless (5G) networks, Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data.
The DSS 9000 provides compute, storage, networking, power, cooling and open management in a pre-integrated rack scalable up to 96 nodes with Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
Dell EMC DSS 9000
CenturyLink, a global communications and IT services company, selected the DSS 9000 as a building block for its public and private cloud offerings.
“We chose the DSS 9000 to be a key component of our CenturyLink Private Node offering because of its flexible design and ability to give our customers a build-to-order private cloud solution. Our public cloud offerings are also offered on the DSS 9000,” said David Shacochis, vice president of Hybrid IT product management, CenturyLink.
Sprint recently selected the DSS 9000 to test its new C3PO (Clean CUPS Core for Packet Optimization – CUPS: Control & User Plane Separation), an open source network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN)-based mobile core reference solution to improve performance of the network.
Telefonica is building a software-based global network that will reduce costs, increase service development and fuel innovation. Telefonica NFV labs is using DSS 9000 for supporting future networks based on NFV/SDN technologies.
“UNICA virtualization project is designed to meet the needs of the network environment, including carrier-grade, performance and operational capabilities – while being as open as possible,” said Antonio Elizondo, Network Virtualization Senior Manager at Telefόnica Systems and Network Global Direction.
“With the rapid advances in network, compute, and storage virtualization, it is important to have a common underlying infrastructure platform that spans both currently-accepted virtualization principles and incorporates a path toward more advanced tooling and operations such as containers, micro-services, automation, and DevOps,” said Kevin Shatzkamer, vice president, Dell EMC Service Provider Solutions.
