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"Telco"


estelacarmona
11 June 2026

The next era of telco clouds: get open infrastructure choice with Sylva and Canonical Kubernetes

5G Ubuntu tech blog

Achieving vendor neutrality in telco clouds requires an infrastructure layer that respects open standards, without wrapping them in rigid platform layers. By combining upstream alignment with up to 15 years of support longevity, Canonical’s approach to Sylva is built around a requirement that matters deeply to telcos: follow upstream clou ...


Isobel Kate Maxwell
10 February 2026

Building new revenue streams: 3 strategic cloud opportunities for telcos in 2026

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

PWC claimed the ‘fundamental challenge’ behind slowing growth is that telecom’s ‘core products and services’ are ‘becoming commodities.’ The way forward lies in modernizing and diversifying: evolving from traditional telecommunications to ‘techco’ (technology company) services. In 2026, many of these opportunities will come from cloud com ...


Benjamin Ryzman
8 December 2025

How telco companies can reduce 5G infrastructure costs with modern open source cloud-native technologies

5G Ubuntu tech blog

5G continues to transform the telecommunications landscape, enabling massive device density, edge computing, and new enterprise use cases. However, operators still face significant cost pressures: from accelerating RAN modernization and 5G SA rollouts to energy demands and the shift to cloud-native network functions (CNFs). As telcos rede ...


Benjamin Ryzman
13 November 2025

Canonical Kubernetes officially included in Sylva 1.5

5G Ubuntu tech blog

Sylva 1.5 becomes the first release to include Kubernetes 1.32, bringing the latest open source cloud-native capabilities to the European telecommunications industry. With the launch of Sylva 1.5, Canonical Kubernetes is now officially part of the project’s reference architecture. This follows its earlier availability as a technology prev ...


Benjamin Ryzman
5 September 2025

Bringing Canonical Kubernetes to Sylva: a new chapter for European telco clouds

5G Ubuntu tech blog

The telecommunications industry is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades. The move from vertically integrated, proprietary systems to disaggregated, cloud-native infrastructure has unlocked enormous potential for agility and innovation. Yet, for many operators, the challenge has been how to realize that potential while ...


Pedro Lazzarotto
15 May 2025

vBRAS NFVI reference architecture with Huawei OceanStor and Canonical OpenStack

OpenStack Ubuntu tech blog

A note from the editor: This post was written by Zhanglei Mao. A broadband remote access server (BRAS) is an access gateway oriented to broadband network applications. It bridges broadband access and backbone networks, providing basic access methods and management functions for broadband access networks. Traditionally, BRAS has suffered f ...


Serdar Vural
27 February 2025

Experience Edge AI use cases with Canonical at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2025

5G Ubuntu tech blog

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) are increasingly driving change in telecommunications. Increased adoption is building organizational confidence in the positive impact that AI can bring, which in turn is leading business leaders to push for AI/ML to expand into new use cases. As such, AI/ML will play a key role in brin ...


Serdar Vural
26 February 2025

5G without compromise: Building mission-critical private networks for Industry 4.0 with open source

5G Ubuntu tech blog

Enterprises across industry verticals are looking for new ways to increase the efficacy of their businesses. One way to do this is building an efficient pipeline of processes, employees, devices, and services that are all tightly integrated to get the best return on investment. However, this requires an efficient telecommunication system ...


Serdar Vural
25 February 2025

Cloud-native telecom infrastructure with Canonical Kubernetes at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2025

5G Ubuntu tech blog

At this year’s Mobile World Congress, we’re excited to showcase the capability of Canonical Kubernetes LTS (long-term support), which brings up to 12 years of support  and security maintenance to Kubernetes.  Available via Ubuntu Pro, Canonical Kubernetes LTS will prove to be transformational for telco customers who require extremely long ...


Edoardo Barbieri
26 November 2024

Is a real-time OS right for your business?

IoT Ubuntu tech blog

With automation spanning virtually every sector of society, real-time capable operating systems (OS) are becoming critical across industries, from automotive and telecommunications, to industrial manufacturing. A real-time operating system (RTOS)  ensures precise and deterministic responses, meeting strict timing requirements essential fo ...


Serdar Vural
12 November 2024

Bringing automation to open source 5G software at Ubuntu Summit 2024

5G Ubuntu tech blog

In today’s massive private mobile network (PMN) market, one of the most common approaches to PMN software and infrastructure are proprietary private business solutions. However, as our recent demonstrations at the October 2024 Ubuntu Summit in the Hague showed, open source software with enterprise-grade support is a cost-effective alterna ...


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