Vodafone expands Open RAN rollout in Europe with Wind River cloud platform
Vodafone has chosen Wind River Cloud Platform as the CaaS (containers-as-a-service) layer for its Open RAN sites in Germany, adding the UK operator’s footprint to existing deployments in Europe.
This partnership increases Vodafone’s Open RAN footprint, working towards a more open, flexible and energy-efficient network design.
Wind River Cloud Platform, with roots in the open-source StarlingX project, offers a Kubernetes and container-enabled platform for controlling edge networks at scale. Open RAN delivers benefits from reduced capex and opex, enhanced energy efficiency, new use cases, and an improved customer experience.
“Vodafone continues to advance and collaborate with the industry in realizing the promise of Open RAN. We’re proud to extend our partnership to enable the next wave of large-scale deployments,” says Paul Miller, chief technology officer, Wind River. “Wind River Cloud Platform delivers the scalable, distributed cloud infrastructure service providers need to run next-generation networks efficiently.”
Wind River is also a part of several notable telecom industry firsts, such as the world’s first 5G data session on a fully virtualized infrastructure and the service provider industry’s first commercial deployment of Open RAN in Canada.
Wind River Technology covers the entire cloud continuum from core to far edge for efficient next-generation network operations.
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