Red Hat, Inc. and Tech Mahindra announced a collaboration to make it easier for
telecommunications service providers to accelerate and manage 5G
adoption and deployments across the hybrid cloud. Tech Mahindra's
Multi-mode Companion Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift running on Amazon Web
Services (AWS) can support multiple network use cases, spanning RAN,
edge computing, transport and 5G core, to extend capabilities across
hybrid cloud environments with integrated automation and orchestration
capabilities.
As service providers adopt hybrid cloud to
enable more highly available and reliable 5G services, compute
resources and data are increasingly decentralized across core
datacenters, at the edge and in the cloud. With this in mind, service
providers are looking for ways to minimize the complexity that comes
with managing and securing workloads across these diverse environments.
Tech
Mahindra's Multi-mode Companion Cloud offering helps service providers
more seamlessly off-load on-premises workloads to hybrid cloud
environments, that includes Red Hat OpenShift on-premises and on AWS.
This helps to increase scalability, speed cloud migrations and make
managing 5G services easier via a centralized orchestrator and
integrated automation capabilities. Red Hat OpenShift
provides a more consistent infrastructure and application layer to
support operations at scale across any cloud environment, with Tech
Mahindra's netOps.ai offering a single-pane-of-glass view to manage
infrastructure and automate applications with zero touch provisioning.
In addition, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
enables full cloud lifecycle management to automate Day 0 and Day 1
configurations and orchestrate workloads across Red Hat OpenShift
clusters on-premises and on AWS.
Key benefits of Tech Mahindra's Multi-mode Companion Cloud running on Red Hat OpenShift include:
- Increased flexibility to roll out updates and streamline network provisioning across cloud infrastructure;
- Reduced costs by
enabling service providers to get the most out of existing cloud
budgets and committed spend with the leading public cloud providers like
AWS;
- Greater elasticity by using the power of AWS to deploy pay-as-you-use and pay-as-you-grow business models;
- Improved network resiliency
through the ability to more quickly and easily provision additional
compute power on demand in AWS as the network traffic dictates.
Effectively
and efficiently managing diverse, next-generation services across
hybrid cloud environments requires extensive automation capabilities.
The collaboration between Red Hat and Tech Mahindra gives service
providers this necessary level of automation across the hybrid cloud,
from the core datacenter to the edge to AWS, offering more seamless
cloud lifecycle management and intelligent workload placement. With this
offering, service providers can reduce manual tasks and minimize
network inefficiencies by integrating with existing systems and
platforms, enhancing synchronization across the hybrid cloud while still
supporting varied network needs.
To further support this offering, Tech Mahindra and Red Hat also collaborated with i2i systems and Rebaca.
i2i systems' 5G Core Network on Tech Mahindra's Multi-mode Companion
Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift on AWS can be used to create a redundant 5G
core network to help drive high-speed, low-latency connectivity. ABot,
Rebaca's cloud-native continuous test assurance and analysis solution
for 4G, 5G, and ORAN, can execute 3GPP-compliant test scenarios and
analyze real-time KPIs from different layers of the network, providing
an optimized framework for verification and "right-sizing" of telco
workloads on various platforms.