Nokia and Red Hat Collaborate to Deliver Open Stack-Powered Telco Cloud

Such technologies may offer operators the flexibility, agility, scalability and operational efficiency to be successful.

Nokia Networks and Red Hat, Inc. have extended their collaboration to enable mobile operators to create a more efficient and flexible telco cloud infrastructure. This latest collaboration enables efficient operation of the Nokia virtualized core network functions and management systems on top of Red Hat’s OpenStack technology, with commercial joint solutions expected to be available in early 2015.

“Red Hat is an open source and OpenStack leader and its enterprise-class cloud solutions are widely used in the market,” said Michael Clever, senior vice president of Core at Nokia Networks. “We have cooperated with Red Hat since 2004, and are excited about the expanded relationship, as it strongly supports our strategy to smoothly transition proven carrier-grade core software applications to NFV OpenStack cloud environments.”

“OpenStack and NFV hold such significant promise for carriers that are looking to modernize their infrastructure and embrace the innovation that open source is enabling in the cloud,” said RadheshBalakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack at Red Hat.

The telco cloud has the potential to revolutionize the way operators run their networks and launch new services.