Red Hat y Orange have announced within the MWC 2025 a Collaboration to lay the bases of the Orange International Networks telecommunications cloudunifying their virtualized network functions and in containers with Onshift and Automation Platform, of Red Hat.
To accelerate your transformation and step to the cloudas well as the step to software of its services, Orange has decided to migrate its services to a cloud native infrastructure based on Red Hat platforms. Thus, this deployment takes advantage of OpenSHIFT as the basis for cloud native network functions, and incorporates Onshift Virtualization to improve Orange’s experience in virtualized work loads. On the other hand, Automation Platform an Automation, will allow automated deployment and scaling throughout its infrastructure.
Both companies are also working on the creation of a cloud native automation platform that is compatible with any supplier. It will apply to Orange’s global infrastructure, which reinforces the digitalization and standardization of network services.
This platform will house various cases of use, ranging from SD-Wan and Sase catwalks, to IMS; 4G and 5G, through IoT and Roaming Services. Among the advantages of the platform is greater availability and operational efficiency, with better life cycle management and a simpler update process, with a practically null inactivity time.
It also allows to improve in flexibility, scalability and projection for the future. This is, in addition to being common, to the possibility of hosting virtualized and container workloads, with consistency and in any environment. Apart from this, its use leads to more marketing, which is possible thanks to the fact that both the deployment and the climbing are totally automated with the platform, as well as to the “Zero-Touch” supply.
This also leads to a reduction in the risk of human error, as well as the deployment times of a service, which can be reduced up to four times. It also improves resilience thanks to using infrastructure such as Code (IAC), which allows to control versions, improves change management and allows rapid networks of clusters and network functions if there is any failure. All with better security capacity thanks to a better use of integrated functions, and a reduction in the carbon footprint due to the optimization of hardware configuration.
Orange is working on expansion. From its common telecommunications cloud infrastructure based on Red Hat Openshift to 75 presence points worldwide in two years. It will do it migrating its 50 current OpenStack platforms and implementing 25 more presence points. The company may also reuse the equipment that you already has and take advantage of the Openshift electricity consumption monitoring capabilities, with the aim of reducing its carbon footprint.
Fran Herran, Vice President of Global Telecommunications of Red Hatstressed that «Orange and Red Hat teams have built close collaboration over the years based on transparency and simplicity. We are pleased to see how Orange is obtaining important benefits in stability, resilience and marketing time thanks to the use of Red Hat technologies. Orange is an example of good practices in the use of integral automation and native orchestration of the cloud to address large -scale implementations and migration of workloads to modern infrastructure with the help of Red Hat”.
By Orange, Jean Louis Le Roux, his vice president of Orange International Networks, and Cto and Cio de Orange Wholesalehe stressed that “In recent years, we have collaborated with Red Hat in our extensive and successful network software strategy, achieving the flexibility and programability objectives for the services we offer to large companies and wholesale customers. Recently, we have selected Red Hat Openshift for our next generation of telecommunications cloud and our transition to containing. We are very satisfied with the first implementations and we are advancing to cover everyone with this new technology. We are prepared to house advanced telecommunications services, such as SD-WAN, IoT, voice and mobile nucleus, less than 10 milliseconds from any client«.
