Nokia

Nokia and Red Hat collaborate to speed and simplify the adoption of new technologies for communication services providers (CSPs).

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Strategic Collaboration Between Nokia and Red Hat on Cloud RAN

Red Hat and Nokia believe that openness ignites transformation and innovation for the telco industry, paving the way for faster progress, lower costs, greater simplicity, increased customer choice, and a more connected world. Nokia is a leader in many industry initiatives, including the O-RAN ALLIANCE and Open Networking Forum, helping to develop global standards to maximize adoption of new technology.

“This successful collaboration with Elisa confirms that our Cloud RAN solution is ready for commercial deployment. Under our anyRAN approach, we work very closely with strategic partners like Red Hat … to offer true flexibility and scalability to operators and enterprises. For our customers, cloudification will enable new revenue models and monetization options.”

Aji EdHead of Cloud RAN, Nokia
SUCCESS STORY

New Zealand’s 2degrees chooses Nokia 5G core software solutions running on Red Hat OpenShift

By capitalizing on the collaboration between Red Hat and Nokia, 2degrees is able to benefit from the latest technology innovation and capabilities provided by an open source platform with Nokia’s core network applications for more choice and flexibility than ever before.

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Benefits to working with Nokia

Agility & Scalability

Nokia Cloud RAN on Red Hat OpenShift is an agile platform that supports the scaling of new and adaptive services that deliver the throughput, and low latency that telcos demand



Nokia 5G Core blueprint based on Red Hat OpenShift

Full architecture and design by Nokia and Red Hat, including Networking, Security, Cluster Configuration and more

Pre-Integrate RAN Solution

Nokia Cloud RAN on Red Hat OpenShift is a pre-integrated and optimized solution architecture that ensures holistic software and hardware release management

Energy Efficiency

Nokia Cloud RAN workload power monitoring with Kepler includes a solution for energy efficiency characterization by Nokia and Red Hat To reduce and optimize power consumption for platform and workload holistically

Our partnership

Together, Nokia and Red Hat provide the expertise and hybrid cloud infrastructure that allow service providers to transform their 5G networks, applications, and services to be cloud-native and ready for future innovation. Through enterprise-grade service and support, Red Hat and Nokia equip service providers to meet the demands of compute-heavy applications for core network, open RAN, multi-access edge computing, private 5G, and more.

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