SUSE, the company behind SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher and NeuVector, has announced the latest version of its flagship cloud telecommunications platform SUSE ATIP 3.0 to help customers achieve faster time to market and future-proof your networks. This is based on SUSE’s extensive experience working with telecom operators and as a key supplier to Tier 1 network equipment providers (NEPs) such as Ericsson, Huawei and others.
Designed specifically for telecommunications, SUSE ATIP 3.0 provides simpler and more flexible zero-touch deployment and management, setting a new benchmark for simple, GitOps-ready operations at massive scale, while bringing new, high-value features to the platform. SUSE ATIP has continuous quality assurance with telecom-grade hardware and telecom-specific configurations and workloads.
“The telecommunications market is undergoing a transformation and our customers are responding to SUSE ATIP because it delivers on the promise of an adaptable platform for telecom operators. We are seeing adoption of a wide range of use cases across mobile and fixed networks, such as 5G Packet Core, Cloud Radio Access Network (RAN), fiber to the home/building and others,” said Thomas Di Giacomo , chief technology and product officer at SUSE.
SUSE ATIP 3.0 is the first commercially available telecom cloud stack that is strongly aligned and co-developed with the Linux Foundation Europe Sylva Project , an initiative founded by the five largest European telecom operators Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and Vodafone, as well as Ericsson and Nokia who will develop a reference cloud software framework.
“Project Sylva addresses the urgent need for more commonality between open source telecom cloud stacks, as the current technical diversity between different stacks is slowing down the entire ecosystem,” said Stephane Demartis , vice president of infrastructure at Orange telecommunications cloud. “SUSE is a key collaborator and sponsor of the project. The availability of SUSE ATIP as a commercially available support offering makes it much easier for us to integrate Sylva into Orange Telco Cloud, our own in-house horizontal telecom cloud stack, deployed in our EMEA subsidiaries”.
Additionally, SUSE ATIP 3.0 enables telecom providers to:
Achieve cloud-native network functions (CNF) deployments such as 5G Packet Core and Cloud RAN at scale with telco-grade Kubernetes clusters. SUSE ATIP 3.0 features automated zero-touch deployment and lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters and the underlying basic or private cloud infrastructure.
Protect integration investments, keep operating expenses low, and have a flexible platform strategy with SUSE ATIP ‘s widely adopted vendor-neutral integration points based on the CNCF Cluster API. Telecom providers can gain enormous value from disaggregation, while adopting Cluster APIs helps avoid the hidden lock-in effects often found in other solutions on the market.
Achieve more efficient energy use by using hardware more efficiently with smaller components optimized for the telecom edge. SUSE, as a leading member of the Linux Foundation Europe’s Sylva Project, contributes significantly to the open source community to create an open framework for net-zero networks through holistic monitoring and optimization of carbon emissions.
Run virtual machines alongside containers through an integration with Kubevirt. With containers and Kubernetes widely accepted as the future of network functions virtualization (NFV), this provides a consistent Kubernetes-native orchestration approach that allows operators to modernize their legacy VM-centric telecom cloud infrastructure to run containers.
Lower CAPEX for RAN deployments providing a proven telco-grade Kubernetes and Linux stack to support specific RAN software needs and management solutions to deploy and manage the stack at scale.
In the Open RAN space, SUSE has partnered with Parallel Wireless , a leading provider of Open RAN platform agnostic solutions. This collaboration aims to integrate ATIP into its ecosystem, enabling the world’s first fully hardware-independent ORAN stack. This will enable Parallel Wireless’ energy-efficient GreenRAN™ solutions to manage, optimize and process data flexibly and securely, while significantly reducing the total cost of ownership for service operators.
