Red Hat – Solutions for the Cloud Native Telco

Red Hat offers a comprehensive suite of solutions tailored for Cloud Native Telco environments, leveraging its expertise in open-source technologies to address the unique demands of telecommunications providers transitioning to cloud-native architectures.

Customers include Orange, who recently announced Red Hat OpenShift will form the foundation for their cloud native network functions.

These solutions are designed to enhance scalability, flexibility, and efficiency while supporting modern network demands like 5G, edge computing, and AI-driven services.

OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift, a leading Kubernetes-based container platform, serves as the foundation for cloud-native telco solutions. It enables telecom operators to build, deploy, and manage containerized applications and network functions across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Key Features:

• Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs): OpenShift supports the deployment of CNFs, which are critical for modern telco workloads like 5G Standalone (SA) cores and Open RAN (Radio Access Network). It provides certified interoperability with a broad ecosystem of CNFs, ensuring vendor neutrality.
• Scalability and Flexibility: OpenShift allows telcos to scale workloads dynamically and deploy them across core, edge, and cloud environments, reducing deployment times and improving time-to-market for new services.
• Hybrid Cloud Support: It offers a consistent operational environment across on-premises infrastructure, public clouds (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), and edge locations, simplifying management of distributed telco networks.
• Security: Built-in features like network and container isolation, role-based access control (RBAC), and integration with security-focused tools ensure compliance and protection for telco workloads.

Red Hat’s solutions empower telecommunications providers to transition from traditional, hardware-centric models to agile, software-driven cloud-native architectures.

By combining OpenShift, OpenStack, RHEL, Ansible, and Connectivity Link with a robust partner ecosystem, Red Hat addresses the full spectrum of telco needs—from core network modernization to edge innovation—positioning it as a leader in the cloud-native telco space, as recognized by industry surveys and deployments worldwide.

Telco Solution Partnerships

Red Hat partners with a number of key industry players to deliver complete telecomms solutions, such as Amdocs.

Here Red Hat’s Ather Chaudhry and Niall Byrne from Amdocs discuss the progress being made in developing a cloud-native end-to-end stack that will deliver the promises of AI-enabled automation and orchestration to network operators, and provide an update on how the two companies are combining their expertise for AI-native telco operations.