The telecommunications industry is facing significant challenges due to vertical silo architectures, which were initially adopted to ensure performance and reliability in virtual packet core deployments. Although this approach served early virtualization efforts well, it has become a barrier to scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency.

VMware’s horizontal cloud architecture, based on VMware Telco Cloud Platform and built on VMware Cloud Foundation, offers a transformative solution. 

Read Peter Fetterolf's total cost of ownership analysis, which demonstrates the financial and operational advantages of moving from silo-based deployments to a horizontal cloud model. With a five-year cumulative savings of 40.8%, CSPs can achieve significant improvements in resource utilization, cost reduction, and environmental impact.