SUSE Edge for Telco

SUSE Edge for Telco is a telco-optimized edge computing platform enabling communication service providers to innovate and accelerate modernization of networks. It offers a proven telco solution to host Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs) for 5G Packet Core and RAN.

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Why SUSE for telco?

Telcos and NEPs rely on SUSE Edge for Telco's open, cloud-native architecture delivering the carrier-grade performance requirements of telco workloadsds  sd

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Faster time-to-market

SUSE Edge for Telco is ready to automate and accelerate CNF provisioning and management, continuously validated for performance and security, with real world configurations on carrier-grade hardware.

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Automate CNF provisioning at scale

Support automated zero-touch deployments and lifecycle management of Linux, K8s, and CNFs. SUSE Edge for Telco leverages DevOps principles, using Gitops to deploy thousands of clusters repeatably.

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Optimize telco-grade performance

SUSE Edge for Telco is ideal for network function modernization, including intelligent workload placement, hardware-driven performance acceleration, and support for telco specific protocols.

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Become more energy efficient

Utilize hardware more efficiently, with smaller footprint Linux and Kubernetes distributions, purpose built for the telco edge.

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Parallel Wireless

Netanel Gabison | Chief Product Officer, Parallel Wireless

"The partnership with SUSE is not merely transactional, but strategic, allowing us to rapidly scale between DU hardware platforms, in order to perfectly match to the service providers’ needs”

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Key Features & Benefits

SUSE Edge for Telco enables customers to leverage DevOps principles and tools to enable 1-click provisioning of hundreds of compliant clusters.

Zero touch provisioning and LCM

Cluster provisioning to baremetal via ClusterAPI and Metal3. Rancher GUI for baremetal inventory management. Enhanced ORAN support. FIDO based node onboarding.

Platform support for Telco workloads

PTP and SyncE support for 4G/5G time sync. IPv6 and dual stack support in downstream clusters. DPDK & SR-IOV support for line rate data plane. Workload isolation with nested clusters. 

Observability and continuous validation

Energy consumption monitoring with Kepler. Expanded Rancher manager scalability and multi-Rancher visibility GUI. Public availability of ATIP stack validation results

Aligned with Project Sylva

SUSE ATIP is the commercially supported version of the Sylva stack and compliant with Sylva recommendations. Widely deployed in Sylva reference implementations hosting 5G functions

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