C-level leaders are increasingly interested in the capabilities of private wireless networks as they look to enhance connectivity through their entire organizations. Unlike Wi-Fi or a public cellular network, traffic over a private wireless network is free from interference or congestion, making these networks perfect for mission-critical data with a high degree of mobility. This briefing is designed to help organizations understand the basics of private wireless technology, how enterprises are leveraging this technology and typical paths toward adoption.

The VMware Telco Cloud Platform Radio Access Network (TCP RAN) lab is designed to provide customers and OEMs the ability to demo and validate workloads operating in the VMware TCP RAN reference architecture.

Private LTE delivers a controllable, cost-effective network that bolsters security while providing a wider and more reliable coverage area to enhance productivity and foster innovation. Service providers are using Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) to replace last-mile fiber access and deliver fixed wireless services to end customers while augmenting existing capacity. Enterprises and managed service providers are utilizing the 3.5 GHz band to deploy private LTE for IoT connectivity and deliver a quality of experience that Wi-Fi cannot guarantee.

Web applications are something every company has and needs to secure. We see headlines announcing the latest breach, yet this doesn't slow the pace to move business process to web applications. Gone are the days when a perimeter firewall was all a company needed to secure their applications. As changing business needs drive applications into the cloud, security needs change as well. In order to protect their vital applications, organizations must invest in robust applications protection model allowing for rapid development and repeatable security to protect the applications that drive modern business.

Mobile operators face an increasingly competitive and demanding business environment in which technology is changing more rapidly than ever, which makes it imperative to implement future proof, end-to-end open network solutions to innovate and compete. The Software-Defined Mobile Network (SDMN) solution is a multi-vendor, software-based end-to-end 4G/5G mobile network that includes Virtualized RAN (Open vRAN), telco cloud infrastructure, transport and mobile core solutions -- each virtualized and residing on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware. This briefing -- available for both the Option 2 and Option 7-2x Split RAN architectures-- provides a blueprint for a disaggregated, virtualized, best-of-breed and fully open 4G/5G mobile network. A Cisco transport network is placed in between these data centers to connect these applications together to achieve end-to-end voice and data connectivity for subscribers.