Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced a global collaboration with Fujitsu to deliver a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) solution on Red Hat OpenS...
Fujitsu selects Red Hat OpenShift as its preferred hybrid cloud platform to drive the next generation of RAN innovation
BARCELONA, Spain - MWC BARCELONA: Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced a global collaboration with Fujitsu to deliver a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) solution on Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. Fujitsu has chosen Red Hat OpenShift as its preferred hybrid cloud platform to deliver a cloud-native, AI-ready vRAN solution, intended to help service providers achieve improved efficiency and network optimization as well as expand operations to diverse applications with greater consistency and flexibility.
With this collaboration, Red Hat OpenShift will be the backbone for Fujitsu’s O-RAN O-Cloud based solution, a cloud-native platform to support virtualized and containerized open RAN functions, supporting software components and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads for RAN. Deploying and operating RAN at scale, often covering thousands of sites within a service provider’s network, requires enhanced automation, flexibility and security capabilities. With Red Hat OpenShift as the common platform for Fujitsu's vRAN solution, customers can gain:
Utilizing Red Hat OpenShift as a common cloud platform, service providers can achieve up to a 40% reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) by realizing improved resource sharing, productivity and automation implementation1. Fujitsu vRAN on Red Hat OpenShift aligns with open compute standards set by the O-RAN Alliance for RAN and O-Cloud architecture to deliver an integrated solution driven by an open source innovation and community-driven contributions.
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Honoré LaBourdette, vice president, Global Telco Ecosystem, Red Hat
“The future of RAN is AI, and it is powered by cloud-native technologies. With this collaboration, Red Hat and Fujitsu are helping service providers realize the full potential of RAN, encompassing virtualized, containerized and AI workloads across sprawling network footprints, to achieve new levels of enhanced network performance and optimization.”
Masaki Taniguchi, Head of Mobile System Business Unit, Fujitsu Limited
“We are pleased to extend our longstanding collaboration with Red Hat to deepen and broaden RAN capabilities for service providers in today’s AI era. Red Hat OpenShift offers an open, highly scalable cloud-native platform to deliver critical flexibility and integration for RAN, enabling service providers to meet rising network demands with greater ease and efficiency.”
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1Making financial sense of telco cloud, Red Hat, August 28, 2023.
Fonte: Business Wire
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