Billions of devices are becoming connected – from smartphones to cars to factories – and that brings new use cases and service opportunities that drive unprecedented growth in network and storage demands. Today's networks are not designed in a way that allows communications providers to quickly or cost effectively expand their infrastructure. To realize the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) and enhance mobile computing experiences, communications networks need to be re-architected, with increased programmability and built-in flexibility throughout the infrastructure to handle the anticipated increase in volume and complexity of data traffic.
The growth of the digital services economy is spurring a move from proprietary network frameworks to cloud-ready, open standards-based architectures. This change will be transformative, driving cost and operational efficiencies while delivering the flexibility, agility and scale required to support business velocity.
While 5G networks are still a few years away from being a reality, we already know their impact on user experience and communications networks will be staggering. To prepare, Communications Service Providers are assessing what is required to build an agile infrastructure that can support this transformation.
Intel is preparing for the shift to agile, cloud-ready network architectures with foundational technology building blocks that deliver unprecedented flexibility and agility that comes with a virtualized, software-defined infrastructure. And we’re actively leading ecosystem alignment to facilitate the development and rapid deployment of standards-based solutions to drive this change.
Intel & Ecosystem Collaboration Accelerate Network Transformation
Intel has a growing portfolio of solutions to help the Communication Service Providers transition to a cloud-ready communications network, including the Intel® Xeon® Processor D family that brings advanced performance and intelligence to the network edge.
In addition, we’re actively growing partnerships across the industry to improve the transition. Our ecosystem collaborations span from 5G efforts with Verizon, to joint development of standards-based solution blueprints with Red Hat. We are committed to paving the way for a seamless transition to the cloud-ready networks.
Hear Sandra Rivera, vice-president of the Data Center Group and general manager of the Network Platforms Group at Intel, along with speakers from Verizon and Cisco, share perspectives on how emerging digital trends and new technologies will reshape the networks of the future.
New offerings in the Intel® Xeon® processor D-1500 product family provide a foundation for extending intelligence from the network core to the edge for improved performance and lower latency. The eight new processors offer high-performance, low-power and twice the maximum memory of previous generations in an integrated system-on-chip, making them well-suited for various networking, cloud storage, enterprise storage and IoT applications that operate in dense, rugged environments. More than 50 networking, cloud storage, enterprise storage and IoT system designs using the Intel Xeon processor D-1500 product family are in development.
The new Intel® Ethernet Multi-host Controller FM10000 Family combines proven Ethernet technology with advanced switch resources for use in high-performance communications network applications and dense server platforms. With up to 200 Gbps of high-bandwidth multi-host connectivity and multiple 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports, it delivers exceptional packet processing capability and significantly reduces performance bottlenecks in moving network traffic within and between servers.
The new Intel® Ethernet Controller X550 family is a low-power, cost-effective 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity solution that can offer a performance boost to data center servers and network appliances.
Intel is actively driving a networking ecosystem and has grown the Intel® Network Builders program to more than 180 companies. In August, Intel introduced the Intel® Network Builders Fast Track to increase the pace of innovation in the networking ecosystem by optimizing hardware and software solutions, supporting technology integration within the ecosystem and driving interoperable solutions.
Red Hat* is the first ISV to actively contribute to all key focus areas of the Intel Network Builders Fast Track. Red Hat brings strong expertise in commercializing open source technologies and has a long-standing collaboration with Intel to deliver standards-based solutions to the telecommunications industry. Through the expanded collaboration, the two companies will work together on optimizations to deliver carrier-grade solutions based on Red Hat software and Intel technology, jointly develop solution blueprints for communications networking use cases, and perform interoperability testing of their platforms with other ecosystem solutions.
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