Open-source solutions provider Red Hat announced today that its Red Hat OpenShift will power T-Mobile’s common telco cloud across its core and far-edge business.
OpenShift is a platform to build and deploy applications at scale. The service was launched in 2012 but had been in development since 2010.
Fran Heeran, VP of Global Telecommunications at Red Hat, said that the company will focus on areas such as streamlined operations, faster service delivery and a simplified approach to managing diverse workloads across the core network.
“Together, we’re enabling a flexible, carrier-grade platform that not only meets today’s needs but lays the groundwork for tomorrow’s advancements,” he said in a press statement.
According to Red Hat, T-Mobile “will be able to deploy a common telco cloud” by:
- Keeping costs low by consolidating and standardising infrastructure across various workloads, including end-to-end automation for greater operational efficiency;
- Standardised training, support, compliance and security capabilities across all stacks to help reduce risk and complexity in managing diverse telecom workloads;
- Accelerated time-to-market with simple certification, pre-validation and lifecycle management processes including integration of VNFs, CNFs and IT applications;
- Scalability and flexibility in hybrid multi-cloud environments for enablement of more reliable, carrier-grade services to meet telecommunication service provider’s needs.
“T-Mobile’s multipurpose cloud will bridge us from a traditional telco to a dynamic techco, exposing previously untapped innovation while enhancing operational efficiencies,” Lori Ames, SVP of Cloud, IP and Transport Technology at T-Mobile, said in the press release.
