Tag: Telecommunications

Today, O2 Telefónica announced its 5G Cloud Core – a new 5G cloud network built entirely in the cloud, using technologies from European network equipment provider Nokia and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’re increasingly seeing more telecom operators recognize the value of moving network workloads to the cloud. Earlier this year, NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO), […]

As the largest and most comprehensive Amazon Web Services (AWS) event, AWS re:Invent 2023 brings together the cloud computing community to connect, collaborate, and learn. With hundreds of sessions, workshops, and labs, it’s the perfect place for telco professionals to explore how AWS can help transform their business. re:Invent offers an unparalleled opportunity to learn […]

In the era of 5G, telecommunication services providers (telcos) are under pressure to find new ways to build, operate, and monetize networks while delivering new and greater value to customers. As a result, telcos are shifting to adapt to system disaggregation and open specification, and even harnessing the power of the cloud. For many providers, […]

According to a recent Gartner® CEO survey – The Pause and Pivot Year, what is the “top new technology that CEOs believe will significantly impact their industry over the next three years”? You guessed it: Artificial Intelligence. “21% of CEO’s say AI is the top disruptive technology.”i Telcos are not alone in recognizing the immense […]

Over the last decade, telecom operators and network vendors have transformed communications networks from vertically integrated hardware and software systems to software Network Functions (NF) capable of operating on Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) hardware. We now stand at the cusp of the next phase of their evolution to cloud-native functions capable of taking advantage of the […]

This blog was written in collaboration with OpenSesame and the 5GFF Technical teams from Vodafone, Rogers and Verizon. On March 1, 2023, at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, the 5G Future Forum (5GFF) and Open Sesame Media, Inc. (Open Sesame) demonstrated a first-of-a-kind cross-operator music jam session using AWS multi-access edge compute (MEC) technologies […]

When Communication Service Providers (CSP) deploy Long Term Evolution (LTE) or 5G network functions on AWS, they are presented with different options for user plane data network breakout through the SGi (for LTE) or N6 (for 5G) interface. 3GPP defines SGi Interface as the reference point between the Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway – S-GW […]

It’s taken a few days to digest another whirlwind MWC, and here’s a summary of my personal highlights, plus my picks of the key trends and announcements. First and foremost, what was really apparent to me at MWC23 was the move from focusing on individual technologies and services to real live use cases and solutions. […]

Reliability and high availability are key design principles for an application deployment. Even though an Availability Zone (AZ) is comprised of one or more data centers, you should design your applications to handle AZ failure in rare circumstances. Some applications, such as telco and networking applications, rely on highly-available floating/virtual static IP addresses to provide […]

Telco 5G and IMS container based workloads utilize Multus CNI to achieve traffic and routing separation and packet acceleration. Multus container network interface plugin enables Kubernetes pods to attach to multiple interfaces and networks. Multus CNI being a “Meta-plugin”, achieves this by invoking other CNIs, such as VPC CNI (default CNI in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes […]