As AI use cases crystallize and general technology is adapted for domain specificity, in this case, telecoms, the song remains the same—aligning investment with opex reduction and monetizable service delivery. AI has a clear role to play but in the context of networks that...
Red Hat envisions "a singular, modernized network fabric" connecting and automating distributed, mass-scale infrastructure
Red Hat today announced that the latest release of its OpenStack Platform, called Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, is now generally available. The company, which was acquired by IBM in...
In this special episode of Will 5G Change the World, presented in partnership with NETSCOUT, we continue our exploration of telco AI. Beyond the technological challenges to adoption, there are a number of key considerations around organizations and operating models. As operators reinvent as...
“A fully-automated, zero-touch deployment…self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-evolving…That’s the nirvana,” of telco AI according to Red Hat Senior Director of Technology and Architecture Azhar Sayeed. Speaking recently with RCR Wireless News, he laid out that long-term vision then looked at the incremental steps operators can...
Artificial intelligence isn't entirely new — although its manifestation as generative AI certainly is — and the telecom industry has been pursuing it in one way or another for some time. So why is it difficult to fully realize AI for telecommunications providers' businesses?
During...
IBM’s research and development (R&D) unit has issued an interesting blog about domain-specific generative AI (gen AI) for Industry 4.0, which talks about how developers can convene around a “community-driven approach” to language model development. It has introduced a new technique for training enterprise-geared...
Vodafone said the O-RAN trial took place in two towns in Northern Italy
Vodafone and Nokia announced they have completed a three-month Open RAN (O-RAN) trial across a live 5G Standalone (5G SA) test network in Italy, Vodafone said in a release.
Vodafone said that the...
MWC, Barcelona; last week. Red Hat and Intel have developed a (relatively) easy and cheap edge/cloud computing solution for enterprises to deploy and multiply AI-based applications on private 5G networks. The duo have a reference solution, they said, which easily flexes distributed edge/cloud compute...
Intel is pushing the private 5G angle ahead of MWC in Barcelona at the end of the month – plus the AI one, the edge one, the transformation one, and the ecosystem one. It has issued a press announcement to trumpet its involvement in...
On November 15, Red Hat hosted its fourth annual Open5G virtual event, with session tracks dedicated to open source advancements in 5G core, RAN, edge, cloud, AI, sustainability and more - discussed from the perspectives of over 25 leading service providers and key partners,...
Design, data, network and organizational strategies are key to effective telco AI adoption
Under its current CEO, IBM has put artificial intelligence (AI)—along with hybrid cloud, automation and security—at the center of its software and services strategies. Speaking with RCR Wireless News for the Telco...
Spark also selected U.S. company Red Hat as one of its vendors for the 5G SA rollout
New Zealand carrier Spark has selected Ericsson to supply its 5G Core solution to suppor its 5G Standalone (SA) network in the country.
Spark also secured Red Hat as...
Red Hat will serve as the primary reference platform for Nokia as it develops, tests and delivers its core network applications.
Red Hat announced today that it will “tightly integrate” Nokia’s core network applications with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift. The deal will also allow...
Through products and partnerships, Dell Technologies is pushing open network architectures as a key enabler of 5G monetization
Dell Technologies sees significant growth potential as telecom networks transition to cloud environments, hardware and software is disaggregated, and compute is distributed throughout the network to operator's,...
AI and hybrid cloud drive IBM Consulting’s growth platforms
The types of generative AI solutions drawing investor and media hype at the moment—ChatGPT-4 and MidJourney, for instance—are huge models with broad capabilities. But for enterprises looking to add generative AI to their technology strategy in...
In August 2022, Spark had completed what it claimed to be the first end-to-end 5G SA network trial in the country
New Zealand telco Spark, together with Ericsson and Red Hat, announced the successful completion of a 5G Standalone (5G SA) trial in New Zealand.
Spark...
CEO Tareq Amin said a per-appliance software subscription fee “killed my business model”
Rakuten Mobile is in the process of removing Red Hat software from its network deployment in Japan, and working with Rocky Linux for processing software workloads in distributed units across its Open...
Big Blue will make Red Hat Storage its own, and promises to keep ODF, Ceph and others 100% open source
IBM announced on Wednesday plans to integrate Red Hat’s storage products and associate teams into IBM’s Storage business unit. The goal, said IBM, is to...
Dell, HPE, Intel, Red Hat, Wind River working with Samsung on multi-vendor "solution roadmaps"
Samsung Networks has been at the front of the push toward virtualization of radio access networks and is now working with key hardware, software and silicon partners to conduct interoperability...
Network testing company EXFO has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat, focused on adaptive service assurance for a 5G world.
Specifically, EXFO's Nova Active μ-Verifier service assurance solution is now available as a Red Hat-certified container, which can be deployed on Red Hat's...
Lord knows what Red Hat does, exactly, if you’ll excuse the language, but Christ knows it is good to talk to. And clearly, on the interplay between cellular networking and cloud computing at the enterprise edge, it should be listened to – as the...
