SD-WAN and 5G with Network Slicing

Cashier-less automated check-out and smart workload placement across the Edge.

MEF 3.0 PoC (133)

Customer Use Case: End-to-end lifecycle management of AT&T SD-WAN with 5G network slicing solution for cashier-less automated check out use cases and smart workload placement across edge or HCP cloud locations that can be used for: Healthcare, Retail, Automotive and Education channel customers.

Business Challenges:

  • Need to have optimized routing, provide solid computing speed close to the edge
  • Need to have edge-to-edge security for the workloads
  • Smart placement of the workloads for enterprise
  • Faster TTM with rolling out the service

Solution Summary:

  • Full implementation of Order-to-Service solution including smart placement.
  • Demonstrates the next innovation for enterprises, which accelerates the adoption of advanced value-added services through automated delivery to get faster TTM.
  • Powered by a AT&T SD-WAN with 5G Slicing and dynamic orchestration solution which provides a self-service portal, E2E Order Management and smart placement of workloads to help efficiently deliver and manage the advanced use cases.
  • Today the enterprises are trying to figure out advanced use cases they need to deploy for their use. This solution will allow them to try out new services at will and fail faster in case it doesn’t work.

In The Spotlight

SD-WAN and 5G with Network Slicing: Highlights from MEF 3.0 PoC Showcase 2021

AT&T, Ericsson, and VMware joined together to explore how AT&T SD-WAN, with VMware and 5G, can utilize a powerful hosted gateway and scalable architecture coupled with Ericsson’s multi-environment deployment capable dynamic orchestration platform. Vinayak Mohite discusses the benefits of combining SD-WAN and 5G and how they enhance the network experience.

What can be achieved as a result of this PoC?

Service providers can deliver high margin cashier-less automated checkout services in the healthcare, retail, automotive and education market segments using a combination of SD-WAN, 5G, network slicing and smart workload placement in the Edge.

Significance

AT&T SD-WAN with VMWare's powerful hosted gateway and scalable architecture coupled with Ericsson’s multi-environment deployment capable dynamic Orchestration platform utilizing AT&T 5G network speeds, customers can deploy advanced use cases and with AT&T 5G Slicing technology that is capable of increased resiliency and productivity.

Inspiration

With rapid growth of AT&T FlexWare & SD-WAN portfolio AT&T has successfully demonstrated ability to deploy state of art SDN/NFV & SD-WAN network solutions globally. Technology innovation and smart placement of workloads will help us solve many customer network challenges while continue to improve customer experience.

Near Future

As we continue to expand and integrate AT&T SD-WAN with AT&T 5G network, this PoC helps showcase our latest SD-WAN multi-domain orchestration platform to work with 5G Network Slicing based forward looking use cases.

Action Needed

Through this PoC learn and understand customer needs and work with customers to help efficiently deliver and manage the advanced use cases. Customers are trying to figure out on what all advanced use cases they need to deploy for their use. This solution will allow them to try out new services at will and fail faster in case it doesn’t work.

Without This PoC

Great opportunity to connect & communicate with our customers to understand their business needs and how we can solve them using innovative technology showcases in this PoC. Without this PoC we will miss unique opportunity to work with our partners & vendors to interface with our customers.

PoC Participants

AT&T Business
VMWare
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