Blog posts tagged
"telco edge cloud"

9 posts


Serdar Vural
19 July 2024

What is Open RAN?

Article 5G

You may have heard of the term Open Radio Access Networks (RAN) widely used in the telecom industry in recent years. In this blog, we are going to explain what Open RAN is, why it represents an important technology transformation, and how it will impact the telecom ecosystem. It is the first part of a

Serdar Vural
19 July 2024


Benjamin Ryzman
27 March 2024

What is a telco cloud?

Article Telecommunications

Explore the benefits & requirements of a telco cloud. Learn how it enhances telco agility, efficiency and customer experience. Implement a successful telco cloud with Canonical’s open-source software.

Benjamin Ryzman
27 March 2024


Serdar Vural
29 February 2024

Telco-grade Sylva-compliant Canonical platforms

Article Cloud and server

In December 2023, Canonical joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe to provide fully open-source and upstream telco platform solutions to the project. Sylva aims to tackle the fragmentation in telco cloud technologies and the vendor lock-in caused by proprietary platform solutions, by defining a common...

Serdar Vural
29 February 2024


Serdar Vural
23 February 2024

Bringing automation to telco edge clouds at scale

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Spectro Cloud have collaborated to develop an effective and composable telco edge cloud solution, which is built with Canonical’s open source infrastructure solutions and Spectro Cloud’s Palette containers-as-a-service (CaaS) platform. This technology stack empowers operators to benefit from the cost...

Serdar Vural
23 February 2024


Serdar Vural
5 December 2023

Canonical joins the Sylva project

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical is proud to announce that we have joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe as a General Member. We aim to bring our open source infrastructure solutions to Sylva and contribute to the project’s goal of providing a platform to validate cloud-native telco functions. Sylva was created to accelerate the...

Serdar Vural
5 December 2023


Serdar Vural
30 November 2023

Fast and reliable telco edge clouds with Intel FlexRAN and Real-time Ubuntu for 5G URLLC scenarios

Article Cloud and server

Intel and Canonical have been collaborating to deliver advanced infrastructure that can run the networks of the future. More and more, we see edge cloud systems deployed closer to end users and systems to meet the ever-increasing demand for faster edge networks that can rapidly deliver business services and boost...

Serdar Vural
30 November 2023


Serdar Vural
11 October 2023

SmartNICs in telco: benefits and use cases

Article Cloud and server

In our previous blog, we introduced smartNICs as technology enablers for next-generation converged data centres. We covered how smartNICs can increase efficiency and drive return on investment. In this blog post, we explain how this innovative technology can help the telecom industry. SmartNICs use cases for the telecom...

Serdar Vural
11 October 2023


Serdar Vural
14 September 2023

How a real-time kernel reduces latency in telco edge clouds

Article Telecommunications

Telco edge clouds are among the most popular and promising technologies with great potential to deliver performance improvements. An edge cloud is an infrastructure to run software located close to devices and end-users.  This type of local deployment brings several performance benefits, one of which is reduced latency....

Serdar Vural
14 September 2023


Tytus Kurek
8 September 2023

How telcos are building carrier-grade infrastructure using open source

Article Cloud and server

Telco cloud implementation with Canonical and HPE Service providers need cloud infrastructure everywhere, from modern 5G and 6G network functions running in the network core to sophisticated AI/ML jobs running on the edge. Given the sensitivity of those workloads to any interruptions, outages or performance...

Tytus Kurek
8 September 2023