Nokia on Red Hat OpenShift

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Red Hat® serves as Nokia’s primary platform for developing, testing, and delivering core network functions and autonomous networks applications. By certifying our cloud-native CNFs on Red Hat OpenShift®, Nokia allows service providers to deploy across telco clouds (vertically or horizontally) with the flexibility, reliability, and security of Red Hat’s trusted platform. “Nokia on Red Hat OpenShift” is the same product, with a new name, for “Nokia Cloud Platform.” It continues to use un-modified Red Hat products.

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Choosing vertical and/or horizontal integration for your cloud

Customizable network infrastructure lets you optimize performance and scalability to meet your technical and business objectives. With Nokia and Red Hat, you can choose horizontal and/or vertical cloud options.

Available directly from Nokia, the complete vertical stack includes our core network functions and autonomous networks applications on Red Hat OpenShift. This pre-integrated option simplifies network operations with a single vendor service-level agreement (SLA) for the entire solution.

Available from Red Hat, the horizontal option lets you deploy and manage any third-party vendor solution including Nokia CNFs on Red Hat OpenShift, allowing you to choose the applications that best meet your requirements. With this option, you can deploy core network, radio access network (RAN), transport, OSS/BSS, and IT workloads on a common cloud platform, architecture and infrastructure to increase operational efficiency and control costs across your telco cloud environment.

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Choose vertical and/or horizontal deployments
What should be the benefits of a cloud platform?
How to automate your cloud platform?
How to increase security across your network?
How to ensure performance?
Related solutions and products
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Example vertical deployments:

Example horizontal deployments:

What should be the benefits of a cloud platform?

You can benefit from our cloud platform by:

Reducing risk with certified network functions.
Enhancing security across your network.
Increasing operational efficiency.
Simplifying workload management.

The benefit of Nokia’s and Red Hat’s joint approach is based on Red Hat technologies that simplify deployment and management of Nokia cloud-native core network functions (CNFs) and autonomous networks applications. As a result, you can deploy flexible, cloud-native networks that deliver the performance and resiliency required for 5G and for optimizing 4G and IMS.

Nokia on Red Hat OpenShift is an integrated solution that combines Red Hat OpenShift with Nokia 5G Core’s CNFs, applications, reference hardware and reference architecture for a vertically integrated stack. With comprehensive capabilities including networking solutions, load balancing capabilities, and robust ingress and egress control mechanisms, Nokia on Red Hat OpenShift provides high availability and scalability.

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A partnership born in the cloud

How to automate your cloud platform?

Automate your cloud platform with our solution, which enables you to streamline and automate operations for agile, efficient container management across your telco cloud environment. Avoid inefficient operations, which can increase costs, prolong service outages, and slow responses to changing subscriber demands.

Automate to reduce manual intervention with automated CNF deployment, configuration, scaling, and management through a single console with Red Hat OpenShift operators. Boost application reliability with a platform that can rapidly scale CNFs to thousands of instances across hundreds of nodes. Simplify maintenance with automated installation, even in air-gapped environments, and over-the-air (OTA) platform upgrades. And minimize downtime when updating CNFs across your network with Red Hat OpenShift container management capabilities.

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Innovate on a telco cloud platform

How to increase security across your network?

Implement comprehensive security across your telecommunications network to protect sensitive data, maintain user privacy, and safeguard against threats and malicious attacks. Nokia and Red Hat provide a robust security framework.

With a scalable approach to securing the entire application platform stack, from operating systems to containers to applications, Red Hat OpenShift helps protect critical Nokia CNFs:

Security context constraints ensure that core network functions and applications run with the minimum required privileges to prevent unauthorized access and operations.
Role-based access control (RBAC) lets you assign specific permissions to users and services, limiting access to sensitive resources and data.
Secrets management increases protection of sensitive information—including passwords, application programming interface (API) keys, and certificates—against unauthorized access and potential data breaches.
Network policies for pod-to-pod communications let you define and enforce rules that restrict traffic and prevent lateral attacks within your telco cloud infrastructure.
Data encryption, both at rest and in transit, protects critical information across your telecommunications network.
Image scanning and signing technologies help you deploy only trusted source code and images in your telco cloud environment.
Centralized logging and monitoring for security events deliver real-time detection of potential threats to your telecommunications network, helping you identify incidents, investigate anomalies and remediate vulnerabilities in less time.

How to ensure the performance of your cloud platform?

Ensure performance thanks to the guidance and assistance from teams of experts helping you adopt new technologies and business models, address complex challenges, and maximize the value of your investments. Nokia and Red Hat provide a unified customer experience for troubleshooting and support. Combining expertise in telecommunications and open-source application platforms, Nokia and Red Hat configure Red Hat OpenShift to meet the workload requirements of Nokia CNFs (core networks and autonomous networks), helping you deliver reliable, high-performance service across your network.