The nature of 5G RAN and disaggregated edge computing architectures are forcing EU telecom operators to transform themselves into IT savvy companies and deploy remote management solutions where the different business domains are all consumers of a shared underlying telco cloud platform. This presentation will describe a new distributed open architecture based on OpenNebula with a single NOC management cloud front-end instance to operate and maintain tens to hundreds of geo-distributed clusters (PoPs with edge nodes) with minimal hardware infrastructure. This European open source alternative enables operators to use the same software stack to deploy different cloud platforms for their 5G and fixed access network, core network, edge computing, private, and third-party cloud needs.

In this session you will learn from someone with more than 20 years experience at Telefónica about telco cloud considerations compared to enterprise cloud environments, and about the specific technical challenges associated with the deployment of 5G/edge use cases based on open source technologies, including support to distributed User Plane Function (UPF) in 5G Core Networks, CDN or O-RAN, Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA) for the fine-grained matching of processor capabilities for Virtual Machine (VM) and Kubernetes workloads, exposing low-level CPU and NIC acceleration components for Network Function Virtualization (NFV), DPDK and SR-IOV support, GPU hardware support, native multi-tenancy, bare-metal automation, and multi-cluster management.