China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile communications service provider, has selected an advanced network functions virtualisation (NFV) solution from Brocade to support its most strategic corporate development initiative. Deployment of the Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) within key China Mobile data centres will help the company deliver highly available and agile cloud services, while keeping operating costs under control.
China Mobile plays a key role in the Chinese government’s Internet Plus initiative to increase competitiveness and support the development of new business models within conventional industries through technologies such as fixed and mobile Internet connectivity, cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things. In addition to providing IP connectivity services, China Mobile is also a large-scale cloud service provider.
Brocade vTM will initially be deployed at China Mobile’s Southern Base and Northern Base data centres in conjunction with Nokia which, through its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, became China Mobile’s strategic supplier of software-defined networking (SDN) and NFV infrastructure. Brocade vTM software will run within the Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform, a commercially supported version of the OpenStack SDN orchestration environment.
“The promise of network functions virtualisation is the ability to scale services on demand. When it comes to service providers, they don’t come much bigger than China Mobile in terms of potential scale,” said Henry Zhu, Country Manager of Brocade China. “This is a groundbreaking project within China’s service provider landscape and we are fully committed to ensuring it results in complete success.”
As an NFV software appliance, Brocade vTM runs on the same industry-standard hardware and virtualisation environment employed throughout China Mobile’s cloud data centres. During testing, the project team was able to spin up a Brocade vTM instance of 200 Mbps on a single virtual machine host. With the orchestration upgrade for China Mobile’s Cloud data centre, Brocade vTM can achieve elastic capacity from 1 to 1,000 Mbps on a single virtual machine host. The testing also revealed that getting the equivalent load balancing performance on a hardware-based application delivery controller would be 50% more expensive than the Brocade vTM solution.
China Mobile plays a key role in the Chinese government’s Internet Plus initiative to increase competitiveness and support the development of new business models within conventional industries through technologies such as fixed and mobile Internet connectivity, cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things. In addition to providing IP connectivity services, China Mobile is also a large-scale cloud service provider.
Brocade vTM will initially be deployed at China Mobile’s Southern Base and Northern Base data centres in conjunction with Nokia which, through its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, became China Mobile’s strategic supplier of software-defined networking (SDN) and NFV infrastructure. Brocade vTM software will run within the Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform, a commercially supported version of the OpenStack SDN orchestration environment.
“The promise of network functions virtualisation is the ability to scale services on demand. When it comes to service providers, they don’t come much bigger than China Mobile in terms of potential scale,” said Henry Zhu, Country Manager of Brocade China. “This is a groundbreaking project within China’s service provider landscape and we are fully committed to ensuring it results in complete success.”
As an NFV software appliance, Brocade vTM runs on the same industry-standard hardware and virtualisation environment employed throughout China Mobile’s cloud data centres. During testing, the project team was able to spin up a Brocade vTM instance of 200 Mbps on a single virtual machine host. With the orchestration upgrade for China Mobile’s Cloud data centre, Brocade vTM can achieve elastic capacity from 1 to 1,000 Mbps on a single virtual machine host. The testing also revealed that getting the equivalent load balancing performance on a hardware-based application delivery controller would be 50% more expensive than the Brocade vTM solution.
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