Introducing SUSE ATIP 3.1: Telco Cloud platform to accelerate 5G deployments

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Adaptive Telco Infrastructure Platform (ATIP) 3.1. ATIP 3.1 offers improved manageability, flexibility and long-term support while remaining reliably high-performing.

“SUSE ATIP 3.1 is a telco-optimized edge computing platform designed to help Communication Service Providers realize the benefits of cloud migration by adopting a single horizontal cloud, single toolchain and single skillset approach,” said Keith Basil, General Manager of the SUSE Edge Business Unit. “ATIP is an open and flexible platform that supports the stringent performance requirements of telco workloads and allows CSPs to freely choose the best of breed vendors to deliver cloud native telco networks of the future.”

What is SUSE ATIP?

SUSE ATIP 3.1 is an edge computing platform that enables telecom companies to transition to a cloud native architecture, without incurring substantial additional costs. ATIP 3.1 is secure and flexible, and supports the deployment of a variety of containerized telco network functions, such as Open RAN, signaling, SDM and policy, procured from best of breed vendors, allowing telecom operators to shorten innovation cycles.

ATIP 3.1 is fully aligned with and fulfills the Project Sylva requirement for an open, horizontally integrated, and common container-as-a-service (CaaS) layer. In addition, ATIP also supports the deterministic latency and forwarding performance needs of 5G RAN and broadband access networks. These capabilities of ATIP 3.1 are instrumental in helping telecom companies guarantee the right Quality of Experience (QoE) for customers. 

What’s new in SUSE ATIP 3.1?

SUSE ATIP 3.1 is a telco-optimized platform, specifically validated for high data throughput at various packet sizes, and for its ability to maintain stringent timing synchronization, without drift. ATIP 3.1 additionally builds on ATIP 3.0’s zero-touch deployment and management capabilities, setting a new benchmark for easy, GitOps-ready operations at massive scale.

Additional benefits of the SUSE ATIP 3.1 solution include:

• Tailored validated designs: SUSE’s ATIP solution provides a flexible, telco-optimized platform with validated designs for CSPs and their ecosystem of vendors. ATIP supports both ARM and Intel platforms. The validated designs dramatically improve customer ramp-up time and ensure the performance of telecom networks.
• Easily scaled and deployed: ATIP provides a management solution that is designed to easily deploy the full Telco cloud stack, from OS to network functions, and handle operations in a fully automated manner. ATIP 3.1 provides 24 months of long-term support. 
• Best-in-class security and compliance: ATIP builds on the integrated compliance and security capabilities and certifications of SUSE’s underlying platforms. ATIP then extends the value, applying best practices in configuration, delivery and governance utilizing these capabilities.
• Built for the edge: More than a decade of working as a supplier to tier-1 network equipment providers means a mature high-performance edge runtime and a small-footprint edge stack with components purposely built for edge computing.
• Better protection of customer investments: Using industry standard and vendor-neutral API for GitOps-based infrastructure and configuration management provides higher return on customer investment.

SUSE ATIP partner ecosystem is expanding

As one of the world’s leading network operators, Orange is at the forefront of the CNF transformation. Along with 26 other major industry partners, the company is playing a key role in Sylva: a project to create a cloud software framework tailored for telco and edge requirements. Through Sylva, Orange and other project participants aim to break the industry’s dependence on costly proprietary systems by leveraging open source technology. 

To support the development of this new generation of interoperable network infrastructure for the telco industry, Orange uses SUSE ATIP (Adaptive Telco Infrastructure Platform) to manage and secure Kubernetes clusters at startup speed and enterprise scale. Through its partnership with SUSE, Orange is contributing to open, industrywide projects such as Sylva, cutting time-to-market for innovative edge services and enhancing the scalability and security of cloud native network functions.

According to Philippe Ensarguet, VP Software Engineering & Orange Expert Technical Forum Chairman, “With ATIP, SUSE offered us the technology we needed to implement the CAPI bootstrapper on our Kubernetes nodes, enabling us to manage 100% of our cloud deployments with Kubernetes.”

Orange’s story is typical of the journey of many other telecom operators: they seek to innovate at the edge by deploying cloud-native ORAN or broadband access gateways–to foster an open, interoperable, and multi-vendor environment. They discover that a purpose-built telco cloud platform will work best for their business goals. SUSE has been a trusted partner for such telecom operators, offering a scalable, open and secure telco cloud platform. More importantly, SUSE also provides  world-class support  and  consulting services to simplify the deployment of telco cloud platforms and complement their resources. 

SUSE ATIP 3.1 will be generally available in October 2024. Reach out to SUSE and explore how we can help you in your journey to implement edge solutions that work the best for you.

Meet us at KubeCon Salt Lake City

SUSE Telco experts will be attending KubeCon Salt Lake City, Nov 12 – 15, 2024, to showcase SUSE ATIP 3.1. To learn more first-hand, we invite you to set up a meeting with SUSE experts at KubeCon or stop by Booth #D2.

Sponsor Co-Located Events: SUSE Day 2024

Co-Located Events: Kubernetes on Edge Day

Kubecon location: Booth #D2

Learn More

• Vision for Telecom at the Edge – White Paper
• SUSE Telecom Industry Solutions
• SUSE Edge Solutions
• Orange Customer Success Story
• Project Sylva: Video
• Project Sylva: Blog