Red Hat and Sylva unify the future for telco cloud

Red Hat and Sylva unify the future for telco cloud About the author Rich Stephens More like this Blog post Blog post Original podcast Original podcast Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share The telecommunications service provider landscape continues to be rewritten with the coming of 5G Advanced, edge computing, automation, and AI. But realizing their full potential demands a continued shift in infrastructure for service providers to be more agile and efficient. Cloud-native architectures and open source principles have emerged as the path forward, offering the flexibility and speed needed to differentiate from offering pure connectivity. Yet, a significant challenge of fragmentation persists thanks to complex islands of legacy infrastructure and technical debt that have built up over the years. For service providers, this involves managing multiple stacks and skill sets. For vendors, it means costly, time-consuming certifications against numerous platforms. The industry is looking for ways to reduce operational costs, speed up service rollouts to drive new revenue, and capitalize on the full agility that cloud-native technologies and methodologies promise. Introducing Sylva Sylva is an open source project initiated by five of Europe’s largest service providers, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Telefónica, and Telecom Italia, along with network providers Ericsson and Nokia, and has expanded to include many more participants. Its objective is to release a cloud software framework tailored for telco and edge requirements and a reference implementation and validation program to implement it. By converging the cloud layer around open source components with Kubernetes at its core, Sylva eliminates fragmentation. It establishes a single, validated foundation upon which network functions can be certified once and run anywhere, reducing complexity and unlocking the operational agility service providers desperately need. This “develop once, deploy anywhere” model is Red Hat’s core proposition and our hybrid cloud platforms align directly with the goals of Sylva.