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VMware Telco Cloud Automation is a unified orchestrator that onboards and orchestrates workloads seamlessly from VMs and container-based infrastructures. Telco Cloud Automation distributes workloads from the core to the edge and from private to public clouds for unified orchestration.
VMware Telco Cloud Platform is a common platform spanning core and RAN functionality. The platform self-tunes automatically depending on the workload that is deployed through it. All VNFs/CNFs from 5G Core to RAN are deployed using the same automation platform, operational tools, and Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) layer based on VMware Tanzu.
The following figure shows the VMware Telco Cloud Platform architecture:
The virtual infrastructure, the foundation of the platform, contains software-defined infrastructure, software-defined networking, and software-defined storage.
With Telco Cloud Platform core architecture, you can deploy and extend core applications into multiple data centers. The compute workload domain that you deploy in data centers using Telco Cloud Automation can contain multiple vSphere hosts, each running the user workloads to enable the 5G Core solution. These hosts can start with one ESXi host and then scale based on the resource and availability requirements of the solution that is being deployed.