Blog posts tagged
"Telco"

112 posts


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


Maciej Mazur
17 May 2021

Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks

Article Telecommunications

It’s so easy these days to set-up your own WiFi network. You order a router online, plug it into the electrical socket, define a password and you’re good to go. WiFi is fast, reliable and easy to use. But if you want to cover a wider area or connect hundreds of small devices it quickly

Maciej Mazur
17 May 2021


anastasiavalti
13 April 2021

Telecom AI: a guide for data teams

Article Telecommunications

Data is the new oil, and Artificial Intelligence is the way to monetize it. According to an IDC report, Artificial Intelligence (AI), alongside 5G, IoT, and cloud computing, is one of the technologies reshaping the telecom industry. From data-driven decisions to fully automated and self-healing networks, AI developments...

anastasiavalti
13 April 2021


Maciej Mazur
25 February 2021

What is MEC ? The telco edge.

Article Telecommunications

MEC, as ETSI defines it, stands for Multi-access Edge Computing and is sometimes referred to as Mobile edge computing. MEC is a solution that gives content providers and software developers cloud-computing capabilities which are close to the end users. This micro cloud deployed in the edge of mobile operators’ networks...

Maciej Mazur
25 February 2021


Canonical
13 January 2021

Telefonica Brazil selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack for industry-leading cloud-based online charging system

Article Canonical announcements

13th January 2021 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack has been selected by Telefonica Brazil to – in a first for the region – migrate its online charging system (OCS) to its private cloud, Unica Next. The transformation project will see eight private clouds built on Charmed...

Canonical
13 January 2021


anastasiavalti
6 January 2021

OpenStack for telcos by Canonical

Article Ubuntu

Learn how Charmed OpenStack offers telcos fast networking, security, stability of performance, and optimal SDN and storage options.

anastasiavalti
6 January 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


Canonical
10 November 2020

Malawi’s TNM selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to help lead virtualisation charge

Article Canonical announcements

10 November 2020 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack, an open source private cloud solution that allows businesses to control large pools of computer, storage and networking in a datacentre, has been selected by Telekom Networks Malawi Plc (TNM), to modernise and virtualise...

Canonical
10 November 2020


Canonical
5 November 2020

MTS selects OpenStack and Canonical for next-generation cloud infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

5th November, 2020: MOSCOW, Russia – MTS (NYSE:MBT; MOEX:MTSS), Russia’s largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services, announces the selection of Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to power the company’s next-generation cloud infrastructure. MTS plans to leverage Charmed OpenStack’s advanced...

Canonical
5 November 2020


Canonical
21 October 2020

Canonical & Ubuntu Join AfricaCom Virtual 2020

Article Ubuntu

This year, AfricaCom becomes a virtual event as part of the new Virtual Africa Tech Festival – the largest and most influential tech and telecoms event on the continent. Canonical and Ubuntu will be joining as a Lead Stream Sponsor, introducing the  Digital Infrastructure Investment stream of sessions and exhibits with...

Canonical
21 October 2020


Tytus Kurek
21 October 2020

Telco cloud: what is that?

Article Telecommunications

Telco cloud or a network function virtualisation infrastructure (NFVI) is a cloud environment optimised for telco workloads. It is usually based on well-known technologies like OpenStack. Thus, in many ways, it resembles ordinary clouds. On the other hand, however, it differs from them. This is because telco workloads...

Tytus Kurek
21 October 2020


Tytus Kurek
8 October 2020

Canonical – Supermicro partnership at the NFV&MEC Plugtests 2020

Article Telecommunications

The NFV&MEC Plugtests 2020, hosted remotely during the week of June 15-19th 2020 by ETSI, offered network function virtualisation (NFV) and mobile edge computing (MEC) solution providers, hardware vendors and other companies involved in open source initiatives an opportunity to meet and assess the level of...

Tytus Kurek
8 October 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