SUSE Telco Cloud
SUSE Telco Cloud provides a secure, carrier-grade foundation for 5G, fixed access, and edge infrastructure. Built on open source and rigorously validated, it delivers reliable performance at scale. Its AI-ready, architecture supports automation and the flexibility to integrate best-of-breed NFs.
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Why SUSE for Telco
SUSE Edge is a secure, AI-ready, container-native foundation enabling customers to efficiently manage the lifecycle of edge deployments at scale, and drive innovation with modern workloads
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Faster time-to-market & time-to-revenue
SUSE Telco Cloud is a computing platform designed for Telco. It supports a range of applications including 5G Core & RAN. Its open architecture allows customers to integrate their preferred AI models to power innovative applications.
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Improve operational efficiencies
Realize cost savings through simplified, onboarding of Telco-grade hardware and NFs, removing the necessity for on-site skilled personnel. Streamline operations with GitOps, enabling automated management of thousands of clusters.
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Optimize telco-grade performance
SUSE Telco Cloud excels in modernizing and optimizing network functions by offering intelligent workload placement, hardware-driven performance acceleration, precision timing, and support for telco-specific protocols.
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Become more energy efficient
SUSE Telco Cloud provides Kubernetes and Linux distributions that are lightweight and designed for resource-constrained environments. It optimizes power usage supporting energy-efficient ARM systems.

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”
Key features and benefits
SUSE Telco Cloud enables customers to leverage DevOps principles and tools to enable 1-click provisioning of hundreds of compliant clusters.
Zero touch provisioning and LCM
Automated LCM of hundreds of distributed edge sites. Cluster provisioning to baremetal via ClusterAPI and Metal3. Rancher GUI for baremetal inventory management.
Platform support for Telco workloads
PTP and SyncE support for 4G/5G time sync, ensuring QoE for latency sensitive applications. IPv6 and dual stack support in downstream clusters. DPDK & SR-IOV support for line rate data plane.
Observability and continuous validation
Periodic, automated validation of SUSE Telco Cloud stack, to ensure reliability. Public availability of stack validation results. Improved Rancher manager scalability & GUI.
Aligned with Project Sylva
SUSE Telco Cloud 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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