Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Telco Clouds not Your Grandfather's Oldsmobile

Telco computing platforms in the internet age are vastly different from the closed, proprietary platforms of the voice-only era. Less functionality is built internally and custom; more functionality is sourced from third parties. That requires a more-open platform able to run third party apps, using more open source and standardized operating systems. 


That is why one hears so much about virtual network functions, network virtualization and “telco clouds.” It has not been particularly easy to accomplish. But newer efforts in the mobile segment of the business to create Open RAN standards are an edge counterpart to core network virtualization.

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That now creates an architecture that might be called “Microsoft Inside” or “Anthos Inside” (Google) or “Amazon Web Services Inside.”


source: Microsoft

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