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European Telecom Giants Prioritize a Kubernetes-Based Open Cloud Platform

Recently, five European telecom operators (Deutsche Telecom, Orange, Telefonica, TIM S.p.A., and Vodafone) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost innovation in Open RAN, industry-wide interface standards that allow radio access network equipment and software from different vendors to communicate. Collectively, the European telecoms published a “Technical Priorities Document” that aims to list down the technical priorities/requirements for building Open RAN architecture.

This means that Kubernetes will be the key orchestration framework that will manage the lifecycle of software-based O-CU, O-DU, and RIC.

Kubernetes is the key tool that will push operators to have cloud native Open RAN and the rest of the core of modern 4G/5G networks. For telecom companies, Kubernetes is the breakthrough technology that is helping in the roadmap of transition to the containerized application workloads from the legacy virtualized layer that has infrastructure overheads and still requires more investments to host the applications.