Telefónica Spain has adopted Red Hat OpenShift as platform you will use for your IT workloads and cloud-native networking functions. As part of its adoption and standardization, Telefónica is also integrating Red Hay OpenStack Services with OpenShift to renew its virtualized infrastructure on a unified foundation.
This change allows Telefónica to streamline management in different environments, and will allow virtual machines and cloud-native applications to run in parallel, while maintaining the agility of the architecture to quickly scale 5G and edge services.
As part of Telefónica’s phased adoption strategy for the platform, all new workloads will be deployed on Red Hat OpenShift, which becomes key to reducing the complications involved in managing diverse IT and network operations and the need for rapid response to market needs; and that provides Telefónica with more flexibility, efficiency and resilience, in addition to maintaining performance for new 5G applications and services.
Red Hat Open Shift supports applications designed for the latest IT and networking technologies, and uses cloud-native methods to achieve system- and network-level automation. With this new hybrid architecture in place, Telefónica has the portability to scale workloads in any environment, including Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
A high percentage of customer management processes in Telefónica’s residential segment are already in production on Red Hat OpenShift. This allows you to scale your capacity in seconds, versus weeks as before. In general, Telefónica has reduced application deployment time with Red Hat OpenShift, from eight hours to 90 minutes, which also reduces the scope of incidents and service degradation.
With Red Hat OpenShift, Telefónica also centralizes updates, event logging and security monitoring, and end users will benefit from more reliable network performance and faster service launches.
Rich Stephens, Vice President of Red Hat Telecommunications for EMEAhas highlighted that «Telefónica is leveraging a competitive advantage by unifying virtualized and cloud-native applications for both IT and network operations with Red Hat hybrid cloud technologies. The common and flexible platform provided by Red Hat OpenShift has helped Telefónica improve time to market, operational efficiency and application reliability, better preparing the operator to offer a new generation of innovative 5G and edge services throughout Spain«.
Mónica Huertas García, Head of IT Systems and Transformation at Telefónica Spainhas commented that «At Telefónica, we are committed to enterprise open source as the driving force behind the transformation of our systems. Through several years of strategic collaboration with Red Hat, we have been able to bring our real needs to the development of the community and see them transformed into functionality and features in Red Hat OpenShift. The operational maturity and experience we have developed with Red Hat positions us to go beyond simple digitalization«.
Other carriers also adopt Red Hat OpenShift
Telefónica Brazil has migrated the Service Bus IT production environment from legacy display to Red Hat OpenShift, which has allowed it to reduce resource scaling time from 24 hours to a few minutes, in addition to reducing CPU and memory consumption.
Besides, Vodafone Oman has rolled out a plan for the techco company to have all production workloads on Red Hat OpenShift by 2028, with the goal of reducing operational costs and driving 5G growth.
Bell Canada has expanded its collaboration with Red Hat, consolidating its IT, network and media strategy into a unified hybrid cloud foundation to overcome legacy virtualization. This unified telco cloud approach is designed to improve operational agility and business predictability, enabling the carrier to deliver high-performance services with greater speed and efficiency.
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By employing llm-d and vLLM on Red Hat OpenShift, the Aitras orchestrator can now dynamically distribute AI inference across multi-node environments, while also protecting the resiliency of the network core through hardware-aware optimization. This automated approach enables autonomous scaling of computing resources based on real-time demand, reducing power consumption and total cost of ownership for next-generation 5G and 6G networks.
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