Blog posts tagged
"OSM"

14 posts

Wajeeha Hamid
6 June 2023

How telco companies can reduce 5G infrastructure costs with open source

Article OSM

5G has the potential to revolutionise the telecommunications industry, offering high speed and connectivity for a wide range of devices ranging from radio access networks (RAN), user equipment (UE), and core networks. However, the high costs associated with 5G infrastructure have been a significant blocker for adoption,...

Wajeeha Hamid
6 June 2023

Wajeeha Hamid
23 February 2023

Closed loop architecture and persistent volumes for network functions – Highlights in OSM release THIRTEEN

Article OSM

Open Source MANO (OSM) has announced its thirteenth version which is supported for six months (short-term support). This release targets feature enhancements for VNF vendors residing in the OSM ecosystem. It features new scalable architecture for service assurance and closed-loop operations, using Apache Airflow and...

Wajeeha Hamid
23 February 2023

Wajeeha Hamid
26 January 2022

Telco workloads orchestration in multi-clouds environments – focus for Open Source MANO release ELEVEN

Article Cloud and server

Open source MANO release ELEVEN is here with another set of exciting features for the telco world!! Promising the production-grade orchestration of telco workloads, OSM release ELEVEN focuses on the trends of cloud-native deployments in multi-cloud environments. To overcome the challenges that we have discussed in...

Wajeeha Hamid
26 January 2022

anastasiavalti
7 June 2021

How to accelerate migration towards NFV with Open Source MANO

Article Telecommunications

Download whitepaper Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Cloud native network functions continue to draw immense attention from the telecom sector. From the beginning, virtualisation is trying to fulfill the promises of reducing CapEx and OpEx by decoupling Network Functions from the underlying infrastructure and...

anastasiavalti
7 June 2021

Andreea Munteanu
17 December 2020

Telco and Ubuntu: 2020 roundup

Article Ubuntu

2021 is around the corner and we had such a tremendous journey this year. Like many others, at Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, we lived different times and maybe more than ever we saw how important it was to stay connected. Therefore, Canonical continued to innovate in the telco world and brought Ubuntu closer to

Andreea Munteanu
17 December 2020

Alex Chalkias
28 September 2020

Canonical at OSM Hackfest MR#9

Article OSM

The 12th OSM Hackfest, or OSM mid-release NINE (MR#9) Hackfest, is one for the books and Canonical happily shared the presenter floor with the rest of the Open Source MANO (OSM) community. The event spanned the whole week from September 7th to 11th, with Wednesday September 9th afternoon being used for the OSM Ecosystem day.

Alex Chalkias
28 September 2020

Alex Chalkias
2 September 2020

Canonical at KubeCon EU 2020: our first virtual KubeCon experience

Article Cloud and server

Another great KubeCon has recently come to an end – which is nothing less than what we expected. After all, that’s why Canonical and Ubuntu have been consistently present at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon EU, to connect with the community. This year, we showcased Canonical’s conformant, interoperable, multi-cloud Kubernetes...

Alex Chalkias
2 September 2020

Alex Chalkias
31 July 2020

Charmed OSM Release EIGHT available from Canonical

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical is proud to announce the general availability of OSM release EIGHT images in it’s Charmed OSM distribution. As of Release SEVEN, OSM is able to orchestrate containerised network functions (CNFs) leveraging Kubernetes as the underlying infrastructure for next-generation 5G services. Release EIGHT follows the...

Alex Chalkias
31 July 2020

Alex Chalkias
5 June 2020

OSM#9 Hackfest: the highlights

Article Cloud and server

Canonical concluded its participation in the 9th OSM Hackfest with a renewed sense of fellowship with the Open Source MANO (OSM) community and great pride in the collaborative work that enabled an end-to-end mobile network orchestration demo using OSM’s model-driven capabilities to onboard network services. Following...

Alex Chalkias
5 June 2020

Tytus Kurek
11 May 2020

Canonical at the 9th OSM Hackfest

Article OSM

To all telecommunications service providers, global system integrators, research institutions, OSM community members and innovators all over the world: heads-up! The 9th OSM Hackfest starts in a few weeks and Canonical will as always be there. We will lead hackfest sessions, answer any questions you may have and help...

Tytus Kurek
11 May 2020

Tytus Kurek
27 February 2020

Canonical at the OSM-MR#8 Hackfest, Madrid

Article OSM

To all telecommunications service providers, global system integrators, research institutions, OSM community members and innovators all over the world: heads-up! The OSM-MR#8 Hackfest starts in two weeks and Canonical as always will be there. We will lead hackfest sessions, answer any questions you may have and help...

Tytus Kurek
27 February 2020

Tytus Kurek
31 January 2020

Charmed OSM release SEVEN: Container network functions

Article OSM

Canonical is proud to announce the general availability of OSM release SEVEN images in Charmed OSM distribution. OSM release SEVEN introduces a range of exciting features, such as the ability to deploy container network functions on Kubernetes with K8s charms, and several improvements which enhance Open Source MANO...

Tytus Kurek
31 January 2020

Canonical
20 November 2019

Canonical introduces Charmed OSM to enable telcos with network functions management and orchestration

Article Cloud and server

November 20, 2019: Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, today announced Charmed OSM – a pure upstream Open Source MANO (OSM) distribution designed for production-grade, highly available and scalable deployments. Charmed OSM provides telecommunications service providers (TSPs) with a generic approach to network functions...

Canonical
20 November 2019

Tytus Kurek
1 October 2019

5G Core implementation: Challenges in the field

Article Telecommunications

With an emerging demand for higher speeds, lower latency, and increasing connection density,  telecommunications providers have started implementing 5G. While the initial roll-out usually takes months, the entire process is going to take years. This is because designing and implementing 5G entails a number of...

Tytus Kurek
1 October 2019