Orange is migrating its telecom cloud to a cloud-native infrastructure using Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform.
Orange is migrating its telecom cloud infrastructure to a cloud-native platform based on Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. The collaboration aims to improve the flexibility, efficiency, and scalability of telecom services. Red Hat has been focusing on the telecom sector for quite some time.
Orange is collaborating with Red Hat to modernize its telecom cloud. Both parties announced this on the sidelines of MWC. Orange is migrating network functions to a cloud-native infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift as the foundation. This also includes OpenShift Virtualization for virtualized workloads and Ansible Automation Platform for automated deployment and expansion.
Orange has been working on digitalizing its international networks for eight years. The virtualization of network functions leads to more flexibility and efficiency. The company has already virtualized more than 30 telecom functions from twelve suppliers, including SD-WAN, voice, CDN, and roaming. The transition to a cloud-native infrastructure is the next step in the evolution.
Scalability and Efficiency
The new platform supports various applications, such as SD-WAN, 4G and 5G core, IoT, and roaming. Orange already has six new points of presence (PoPs) running live on the infrastructure. According to the provider and Red Hat themselves, the technology offers several advantages. These have a high We from GenericProductName content, but nonetheless provide an interesting insight into Orange’s strategy and the software choices that come with it.
- Improved availability and operational efficiency through enhanced lifecycle management and easier upgrades with minimal downtime.
- Flexibility and scalability through a platform that supports both virtualized and containerized workloads.
- Faster deployments thanks to automated network expansion and zero-touch provisioning.
- Increased resilience via infrastructure as code (IaC) and improved version control.
- Enhanced security with built-in network and container isolation and controlled access.
- Lower ecological footprint through optimized hardware and energy monitoring.
Orange plans to expand the new telecom cloud infrastructure globally to 75 PoPs in the next two years. This will be done through migration from 50 OpenStack platforms and the deployment of 25 new PoPs.