Red Hat and O-RAN Alliance accelerating cloud adoption at the Edge

Red Hat and O-RAN Alliance accelerating cloud adoption at the Edge Foundational principles Cloudification Metal3 Vibrant and robust SMO ecosystem Broad O2-IMS API applicability O-cloud architectural approach Providing thought leadership and direction Community collaboration and open source projects O-RAN Alliance working groups (WG) O-RAN software community (SC) O-cloud proof-of-concept (PoC) integration and evolution Working on an open radio access network Red Hat Learning Subscription | Product Trial About the authors Ian Jolliffe Rob McManus More like this Blog post Blog post Original podcast Original podcast Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share In telecommunication, bringing compute resources and intelligence closer to users improves the user experience, significantly reduces service provider costs, and unlocks the innovation needed to deliver compelling services that increase revenue. However, telecommunication service providers are faced with challenges when adopting new technologies, methodologies, and automation. Every option must be evaluated for compatibility with a radio access network (RAN). Solving these challenges are the reasons Red Hat has been collaborating and contributing to the O-RAN Alliance. Red Hat is committed to advancing the open radio access network (O-RAN) ecosystem through contributions to open source projects, and industry collaboration. Red Hat is collaborating on critical O-RAN interfaces, fostering a robust hardware partner ecosystem, working with service management and orchestration (SMO) providers, and making ongoing contributions to vital open source O-RAN initiatives. These contributions, of course, all end up in Red Hat's cloud-native products. Red Hat's O-RAN strategy is built on four core principles, all underpinned by open source collaboration. Adoption of cloud-native methodology drives down operational costs and increases reliability of deployment and ongoing management of O-RAN clusters for thousands of nodes at the edge. Cloud-native server clusters span from service provider IT systems, the core, and now to the edge. With AI becoming a part of many deployments, cloud-native principles are more important than ever. Adoption of cloud-native principles in the service provider market has been a challenge, and is a barrier to lower operational expenditure (OpEx).