"software defined"

Network slicing should be thought of as true business-level virtualization for 5G networks. Operators will be able to share the same 5G physical infrastructure among many multiple tenants – 5G service operators, enterprises and consumers.

The goal of 5G deployments is to provide consumers and business users with highly engaging experiences that leverage the high reliability and high performance provided by the underlying network.

To break this out into numbers, a typical CSP will deploy hundreds of thousands of network services as virtual network functions (VNFs) or CNFs. VNFs will run in virtual machines that can optionally be run inside a Kubernetes distribution.

In this blogpost, we introduced and discussed the benefits of ROSA. Based on my daily customer conversations, this should be an exciting offering to customers who like OCP but want a more seamless cloud based offering.

GitOps is a fast-maturing space that is emerging as the goto architecture pattern for cluster admins, and developers charged with developing cloud-native applications. In that light, we will cover the two most popular tools Flux & ArgoCD in subsequent posts.

Proton provides platform teams with the tools to manage and enforce consistency across environments while helping developers as well.

Telcos are very attractive partners to hyperscalers, and it is not uncommon to see operators partner with multiple cloud vendors. Expect to see much more revenue sharing, joint GTM, and marketing as 5G becomes reality in late 2021.

Introduction Various posts on this site have touched on the topic of SDN. One of the key features provided by SDN is network programmability – the control plane directed data…