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Etisalat partners with Canonical to Deploy NFV Telco Infrastructure

Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telecoms provider announced today (download PDF) that it has built and launched its first live Network Function Virtualization telco cloud in Abu Dhabi. The NFV-based telco infrastructure has been built with Quanta servers, Arista switches and Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack, a multi-vendor combination int

Special report: Low latency and real-time kernels for telco and NFV

The kernel is the fundamental core of a computer operating system. It is the first program to load, and it manages all core functions of the computer. With the expanding role of the Linux kernel in systems today, Canonical is often asked to provide leadership and support for kernel offerings for many purposes. Recently, Network

Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations

Vendors delivering SAAS experience on-premises with Juju charms Charms encapsulate deployment, integration, management, support, operations Reusable charms greatly reduce the operations cost of big software Centres of gravity around big data, machine learning and container management Rapid growth in use of Juju for OpenStack operations  

eBook: CTO’s guide to SDN, NFV & VNF

  Networking and communications standards and methodologies are undergoing the greatest transition since the migration from analogue to digital. The shift is from function-specific, proprietary devices to software-enabled commodity hardware. Why is the transition happening and why is it important? Read this eBook to: familiarise yourself

Tele2 begins major shift to cloud with Canonical

Tele2, one of Europe’s most innovative telecom operators, announced today that it will move its Network and IT infrastructure to the cloud to pave the way for future investment and network build out to 5G. This move puts Tele2 at the vanguard of the move to Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), a once in a generation change

Telco Demos With Juju: Intro

In this blog series, we’ll be running through presentations featured during the Dangerous Demos session at TADsummit to show you how the next great innovations in telecom applications are only a click away with Juju. Stay tuned for more stories over the next few weeks as we approach Mobile World Congress. From big data to web

Canonical Cloud Chatter: December 2015

With the holiday season upon us, we are feeling festive! Before you start your holiday, here’s a bit about what we’ve been up to lately! We have just release an eBook on Big Data for Telcos and a new webinar about upgrades of OpenStack with running workloads. Meanwhile, we have news about new Charm partners

Resolving Big Data in the New Year

It’s probably best to have your New Year’s resolutions planned before January 1st is actually here. I started talking about this a few days ago with my friends. I have a few things in mind, one is to ride a century ride on my bike this year (that’s 100 miles or 160km). Another is to

Capturing the real IoT market, Telcos taking a data first approach

I recently read on a Wall Street Journal blog that IDC says the IoT market is supposed to reach $1.7 Trillion by 2020. Let’s be clear here, not 1.7 BILLION, but 1.7 TRILLION US Dollars. At Canonical, we’re feverishly working to help our telco and service provider partners best monetize themselves in that burgeoning space.

Analytics and Big Data, Flexible Solutions for Evolving Telcos

This eBook describes what analytics processes telcos should be implementing to most benefit from the tremendous amounts of data available to them. Download this eBook to answer the following questions: How big data and analytics can mitigate many of the challenges faced by modern telecoms providers? How a data-first approach by telcos to

The Top 5 Telecom Problems can be Solved

This year’s TAD Summit was a success but it was another sign that telecom operators are more likely to follow Kodak than become the next Google. The future of telecom will look very red, blood red, not Vodafone red, unless telcos start really upping their game. The future looks bad because telecoms have reached their

Juju for Telcos and Service Providers Pt. 2

In the first blog of this series I introduced Juju and how it maps to the ETSI NFV architecture at the highest level. Now I’ll dig deeper into this relationship to see how it can be leveraged by telcos and service providers. So lets dive in… Juju is a neutral VNF modelling system Juju has

Flying mobile base stations

Lime Microsystems builds open source hardware chips to enable any type of wireless communication, called software defined radio. Elre-robotics makes app-enabled open source drones with Snappy Ubuntu Core. Are you able to create flying mobile base stations? That is exactly what Lime did with an Erlecopter. Imagine emergency or military ad-

Juju for Telcos and Service Providers Pt. 1

I joined Canonical a year ago to work with the telco ecosystem – Network Operators, Communication Equipment Providers and innovative new players and startups interested in expanding or building their presence in the telco domain. During this year we have worked on many projects focused on the deployment of Virtual Network Functions in clo

Ubuntu 15.04: What’s new for cloud users?

Ubuntu 15.04: OpenStack ready to roll with Kilo and first outing of Snappy Core Adds LXD, a new hypervisor with incredible density and speed First release of Snappy Ubuntu Core for cloud container hosts and smart devices OpenStack “Kilo” – Ubuntu leads with choice of SDNs, easy install and management Updated developer tools for cloud

Ericsson and Canonical partner to drive cloud innovation

Three-year partnership to support industry with proven cloud technology and drive cloud innovation Innovation around OPNFV (NFV/VNF) and IT cloud Ericsson to deploy Ubuntu Server OS as Host OS for Cloud offering Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced a three year partnership with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), a world leader in co