Blog posts tagged "Telco"

Achieving vendor neutrality in telco clouds requires an infrastructure layer that respects open standards, without wrapping them in rigid platform layers. By combining upstream alignment with up to 15 years of support longevity, Canonical’s approach to Sylva is built around a requirement that matters deeply to telcos: follow upstream clou

PWC claimed the ‘fundamental challenge’ behind slowing growth is that telecom’s ‘core products and services’ are ‘becoming commodities.’ The way forward lies in modernizing and diversifying: evolving from traditional telecommunications to ‘techco’ (technology company) services. In 2026, many of these opportunities will come from cloud com

5G continues to transform the telecommunications landscape, enabling massive device density, edge computing, and new enterprise use cases. However, operators still face significant cost pressures: from accelerating RAN modernization and 5G SA rollouts to energy demands and the shift to cloud-native network functions (CNFs). As telcos rede

Sylva 1.5 becomes the first release to include Kubernetes 1.32, bringing the latest open source cloud-native capabilities to the European telecommunications industry. With the launch of Sylva 1.5, Canonical Kubernetes is now officially part of the project’s reference architecture. This follows its earlier availability as a technology prev

The telecommunications industry is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades. The move from vertically integrated, proprietary systems to disaggregated, cloud-native infrastructure has unlocked enormous potential for agility and innovation. Yet, for many operators, the challenge has been how to realize that potential while

A note from the editor: This post was written by Zhanglei Mao. A broadband remote access server (BRAS) is an access gateway oriented to broadband network applications. It bridges broadband access and backbone networks, providing basic access methods and management functions for broadband access networks. Traditionally, BRAS has suffered f

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) are increasingly driving change in telecommunications. Increased adoption is building organizational confidence in the positive impact that AI can bring, which in turn is leading business leaders to push for AI/ML to expand into new use cases. As such, AI/ML will play a key role in brin

Enterprises across industry verticals are looking for new ways to increase the efficacy of their businesses. One way to do this is building an efficient pipeline of processes, employees, devices, and services that are all tightly integrated to get the best return on investment. However, this requires an efficient telecommunication system

At this year’s Mobile World Congress, we’re excited to showcase the capability of Canonical Kubernetes LTS (long-term support), which brings up to 12 years of support  and security maintenance to Kubernetes.  Available via Ubuntu Pro, Canonical Kubernetes LTS will prove to be transformational for telco customers who require extremely long

With automation spanning virtually every sector of society, real-time capable operating systems (OS) are becoming critical across industries, from automotive and telecommunications, to industrial manufacturing. A real-time operating system (RTOS)  ensures precise and deterministic responses, meeting strict timing requirements essential fo

In today’s massive private mobile network (PMN) market, one of the most common approaches to PMN software and infrastructure are proprietary private business solutions. However, as our recent demonstrations at the October 2024 Ubuntu Summit in the Hague showed, open source software with enterprise-grade support is a cost-effective alterna

With an ambition to become Asia’s technology hub for telecommunications in the 5G/6G era, India hosts the annual India Mobile Congress (IMC) in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. IMC is an annual trade exhibition for the telecommunication sector, bringing together operators, system integrators, as well as software and hardware vendors. It has now

Canonical and Omdia’s report reveals that 96% of CSPs will launch commercial 5G edge computing within 2 years. In this blog, we examine the drivers behind this optimism.

Recently, a striking report published by Omdia and Canonical highlighted that 86% of communication service providers (CSPs) are optimistic about the future of edge computing on telco networks.  This is a market that is expected to grow substantially in the coming years, with our report shedding light on the motivation that CPSs are drawin

Canonical is excited to announce that we are collaborating with OpenAirInterface (OAI) to drive the development and promotion of open source software for open radio access networks (Open RAN). Canonical will bring automation in software lifecycle management to OAI’s RAN stack, alongside additional infrastructure capabilities. This will be

Report by Omdia and Canonical finds network cloudification a key priority, shows CSPs embracing open source technologies London, UK. 12 September 2024. Today, Omdia and Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, released a new research report which indicates that communications service providers (CSPs) in the  US, UK and Germany increasingly vie