Red Hat, Inc. announced a global collaboration with Fujitsu to deliver a
virtualized radio access network (vRAN) solution on
Red Hat OpenShift,
the industry's leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by
Kubernetes. Fujitsu has chosen Red Hat OpenShift as its preferred hybrid
cloud platform to deliver a cloud-native, AI-ready vRAN solution,
intended to help service providers achieve improved efficiency and
network optimization as well as expand operations to diverse
applications with greater consistency and flexibility.
With this collaboration, Red Hat OpenShift will be the backbone for
Fujitsu's O-RAN O-Cloud based solution, a cloud-native platform to
support virtualized and containerized open RAN functions, supporting
software components and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads for RAN.
Deploying and operating RAN at scale, often covering thousands of sites
within a service provider's network, requires enhanced automation,
flexibility and security capabilities. With Red Hat OpenShift as the
common platform for Fujitsu's vRAN solution, customers can gain:
-
Advanced orchestration and automation - Red Hat OpenShift enables
zero-touch provisioning and offers built-in automation to help service
providers manage next-generation RAN networks at any scale on a common
platform.
-
Ultra low latency and improved performance - Fujitsu vRAN on Red
Hat OpenShift and running on ARM servers provide a more power-efficient
alternative for service providers to achieve lower latency,
deterministic processing and dedicated hardware acceleration for
enhanced network performance.
-
AI-ready vRAN - Red Hat OpenShift empowers service providers to
unlock new revenue opportunities by scaling with enhanced security
capabilities and managing both virtualized, cloud-native and AI-enabled
applications on a single, unified platform.
Utilizing Red Hat OpenShift as a common cloud platform, service
providers can achieve up to a 40% reduction in total cost of ownership
(TCO) by realizing improved resource sharing, productivity and
automation implementation. Fujitsu vRAN on Red Hat OpenShift
aligns with open compute standards set by the O-RAN Alliance for RAN
and O-Cloud architecture to deliver an integrated solution driven by an
open source innovation and community-driven contributions.
"The future of RAN is AI, and it is powered by cloud-native
technologies. With this collaboration, Red Hat and Fujitsu are helping
service providers realize the full potential of RAN, encompassing
virtualized, containerized and AI workloads across sprawling network
footprints, to achieve new levels of enhanced network performance and
optimization." -- Honoré LaBourdette, vice president, Global Telco Ecosystem, Red Hat
"We are pleased to extend our longstanding collaboration with
Red Hat to deepen and broaden RAN capabilities for service providers in
today's AI era. Red Hat OpenShift offers an open, highly scalable
cloud-native platform to deliver critical flexibility and integration
for RAN, enabling service providers to meet rising network demands with
greater ease and efficiency." --
Masaki Taniguchi, Head of Mobile System Business Unit, Fujitsu Limited