SUSE, the company behind SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher and NeuVector, announced the all-new version of its telecommunications cloud platform SUSE ATIP 3.0, to help customers to accelerate the marketing of their services and to sustain their networks. This development builds on SUSE’s extensive experience working with telecommunications operators and as a key supplier for Tier 1 Network Equipment (NEP) vendors, such as Ericsson, Huawei and others.
Purpose-built for the telecommunications industry, SUSE ATIP 3.0 delivers simpler, more flexible zero-touch deployment and management, setting a new benchmark for easy, GitOps-enabled operations at scale while delivering new features with high added value to the platform. SUSE ATIP is subject to ongoing quality assurance with telecom-specific hardware, configurations and workloads.
“The telecommunications market is transforming, and our customers are interested in SUSE ATIP , which offers an adaptable platform for telecommunications operators. We see them adopting it for a wide range of use cases across mobile and fixed networks, such as 5G Packet Core, Cloud Radio Access Network (RAN), fiber-to-the-home/building and others” , said Thomas Di Giacomo , director of technology and products at SUSE.
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SUSE ATIP 3.0 is the first commercially available telecommunications cloud stack that is strongly aligned and co-developed with the Linux Foundation Europe’s Sylva project , an initiative founded by the five largest European telecommunications operators Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Vodafone as well as Ericsson and Nokia to develop a reference cloud software framework.
“The Sylva project addresses the urgent need for greater homogeneity between open source telecom cloud stacks, as the current technical diversity between different stacks slows down the entire ecosystem,” explains Stéphane Demartis, vice president of telecommunications cloud infrastructure at Orange. “SUSE is a key contributor and sponsor of the project. SUSE ATIP as an off-the-shelf support offering allows us to more easily integrate Sylva into Orange Telco Cloud, our own internal horizontal telecommunications cloud stack, deployed across our EMEA subsidiaries. »
Additionally, SUSE ATIP 3.0 allows telecom operators to:
- Deliver cloud-native network functions (CNF) deployments such as 5G Packet Core and Cloud RAN at scale with telecom-grade Kubernetes clusters. SUSE ATIP 3.0 provides automated zero-touch deployment and lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters and the underlying cloud infrastructure (bare-metal or private).
- Protect integration investments, reduce operating costs, and maintain a flexible platform strategy with SUSE ATIP ‘s widely adopted, vendor-neutral integration points based on the CNCF Cluster API. Telcos can unlock enormous value from disaggregation while adopting the Cluster API helps avoid hidden lock-in effects often found in other solutions on the market.
- Become energy efficient by using hardware more efficiently with small footprint components optimized for Edge telecom. SUSE, as a leading member of the Linux Foundation Europe’s Sylva project, is significantly contributing to the open source community to create an open framework for net-zero networks through comprehensive monitoring and optimization of carbon emissions.
- Run virtual machines side-by-side with containers through integration with Kubevirt. As containers and Kubernetes are widely accepted as the future of network functions virtualization (NFV), this provides a consistent Kubernetes-native orchestration approach that allows operators to modernize their legacy VM-centric telecom cloud infrastructure to run containers.
- Reduce capital expenditure on RAN deployments , which provides a proven telecom-grade Kubernetes and Linux stack to meet the specific needs of RAN software and management solutions to deploy and manage the stack at scale.
In the Open RAN space, SUSE has partnered with Parallel Wireless , a leading provider of agnostic Open RAN solutions. This collaboration aims to integrate ATIP into its ecosystem, enabling the world’s first fully hardware agnostic ORAN stack. This will enable Parallel Wireless’ energy-efficient GreenRAN™ solutions to manage, optimize and process data flexibly and securely, while significantly reducing the total cost of ownership for operators.
SOURCE: PRNewsWire