Using Cloud-Native Architecture for Communications SP Networks

As they digitally transform their networks to deploy 5G, many communications service providers (CSPs) have deployed virtual network functions (VNF) to reduce costs and increase agility. Now, software-defined networking (SDN) adoption and VNF deployment is shifting quickly toward containerized network functions (CNF)—making CNFs the 5G de facto standard.

This IDC report explores CSP cloud-native architecture and compute resources trends, including:

• Cloud-native architecture benefits
• Public and private cloud infrastructure for 5G workloads
• Containers and virtual machines in the telco cloud
• Containers and Kubernetes as the compute model for telco workloads
• Red Hat software technologies for telco clouds and 5G networks