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Blog posts tagged
"Telecommunications"


Canonical
13 July 2016

Etisalat partners with Canonical to Deploy NFV Telco Infrastructure

Cloud and server News

Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telecoms provider announced today (download PDF) that it has built and launched its first live Network Function Virtualization telco cloud in Abu Dhabi. The NFV-based telco infrastructure has been built with Quanta servers, Arista switches and Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack, a multi-vendor combination int ...


Canonical
15 June 2016

Special report: Low latency and real-time kernels for telco and NFV

Cloud and server Article

The kernel is the fundamental core of a computer operating system. It is the first program to load, and it manages all core functions of the computer. With the expanding role of the Linux kernel in systems today, Canonical is often asked to provide leadership and support for kernel offerings for many purposes. Recently, Network ...


Canonical
6 June 2016

Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations

Cloud and server News

Vendors delivering SAAS experience on-premises with Juju charms Charms encapsulate deployment, integration, management, support, operations Reusable charms greatly reduce the operations cost of big software Centres of gravity around big data, machine learning and container management Rapid growth in use of Juju for OpenStack operations   ...


eBook: CTO’s guide to SDN, NFV & VNF

Cloud and server White paper

  Networking and communications standards and methodologies are undergoing the greatest transition since the migration from analogue to digital. The shift is from function-specific, proprietary devices to software-enabled commodity hardware. Why is the transition happening and why is it important? Read this eBook to: familiarise yourself ...


Chris Kenyon
23 March 2016

Tele2 begins major shift to cloud with Canonical

Cloud and server News

Tele2, one of Europe’s most innovative telecom operators, announced today that it will move its Network and IT infrastructure to the cloud to pave the way for future investment and network build out to 5G. This move puts Tele2 at the vanguard of the move to Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), a once in a generation change ...


James Donner
26 January 2016

Telco Demos With Juju: Intro

Cloud and server Article

In this blog series, we’ll be running through presentations featured during the Dangerous Demos session at TADsummit to show you how the next great innovations in telecom applications are only a click away with Juju. Stay tuned for more stories over the next few weeks as we approach Mobile World Congress. From big data to web ...


James Donner
18 December 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: December 2015

Cloud and server Article

With the holiday season upon us, we are feeling festive! Before you start your holiday, here’s a bit about what we’ve been up to lately! We have just release an eBook on Big Data for Telcos and a new webinar about upgrades of OpenStack with running workloads. Meanwhile, we have news about new Charm partners ...


Canonical
16 December 2015

Resolving Big Data in the New Year

Cloud and server Article

It’s probably best to have your New Year’s resolutions planned before January 1st is actually here. I started talking about this a few days ago with my friends. I have a few things in mind, one is to ride a century ride on my bike this year (that’s 100 miles or 160km). Another is to ...


Canonical
9 December 2015

Capturing the real IoT market, Telcos taking a data first approach

Cloud and server Article

I recently read on a Wall Street Journal blog that IDC says the IoT market is supposed to reach $1.7 Trillion by 2020. Let’s be clear here, not 1.7 BILLION, but 1.7 TRILLION US Dollars. At Canonical, we’re feverishly working to help our telco and service provider partners best monetize themselves in that burgeoning space. ...


Tom Callway
9 December 2015

Analytics and Big Data, Flexible Solutions for Evolving Telcos

Cloud and server White paper

This eBook describes what analytics processes telcos should be implementing to most benefit from the tremendous amounts of data available to them. Download this eBook to answer the following questions: How big data and analytics can mitigate many of the challenges faced by modern telecoms providers? How a data-first approach by telcos to ...


Maarten Ectors
20 November 2015

The Top 5 Telecom Problems can be Solved

Cloud and server Article

This year’s TAD Summit was a success but it was another sign that telecom operators are more likely to follow Kodak than become the next Google. The future of telecom will look very red, blood red, not Vodafone red, unless telcos start really upping their game. The future looks bad because telecoms have reached their ...


Artur Tyloch
23 July 2015

Juju for Telcos and Service Providers Pt. 2

Cloud and server Article

In the first blog of this series I introduced Juju and how it maps to the ETSI NFV architecture at the highest level. Now I’ll dig deeper into this relationship to see how it can be leveraged by telcos and service providers. So lets dive in… Juju is a neutral VNF modelling system Juju has ...