THE VALIDATION OF NOKIA UPF IN THE PLATFORM PROVIDED BY SYLVA IS A MILESTONE FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CLOUD- NATIVE DESIGNED ECOSYSTEM .
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Nokia conducts successful tests of 5G Standalone Core with Orange on Sylva open-source cloud stack
Nokia has announced the first successful completion of interoperability tests of 5G Standalone ( SA ) Packet Core ’ s User Plane Function ( UPF ) in the Sylva open-source cloud software environment . The tests were conducted at the new Project Sylva Validation Centre in France operated by Orange , a long-standing Nokia partner .
The broad goal of Project Sylva is to provide a reference open source cloud software framework , tailored for telco and Edge requirements , that addresses the technical challenges of the industry . Sylva was launched at the end of 2022 under the Linux Foundation Europe and its supporters include Nokia and Orange .
The test validation is a key step towards offering a flexible cloud-native solution that enables large-scale deployments of 5G SA Core Network functions . For 5G private wireless enterprise customers , Project Sylva aims to provide an efficient way to deploy Industry 4.0 , IoT and B2B2X use cases at the Edge .
Fran Heeran , Senior Vice President and General Manager of Core Networks , Cloud and Network Services , Nokia , said : “ Nokia ’ s fully cloud-native Core Network portfolio is designed to support the evolving telco cloud environment through open , flexible deployment options with greatly reduced integration and advanced automation capabilities . The successful completion of the interoperability tests of our 5G SA Core ’ s User Plane Function at Sylva Validation Centre , hosted by Orange , underscores our commitment and the advances we are making .”
Laurent Leboucher , Group Chief Technology Officer at Orange , said : “ This successful test made with Nokia constitutes an important step towards the adoption of Sylva as an industrial standard reference implementation for demanding telco workloads . More specifically , it addresses use cases ( industrial campus , IoT , computer vision ) where the traffic can be managed locally on a simple and open infrastructure and can still be controlled by the public network . Many more use cases will come soon .”
Luis Velarde , Head of Cloud and Infrastructure at Telefónica and leader of validation programme at Sylva , said : “ The validation programme is intended to demonstrate that cloud-native workloads can deploy in a reference telco cloud stack , promoting standardisation to reduce fragmentation . The validation of Nokia UPF in the platform provided by Sylva is a milestone for the adoption of a cloud-native designed ecosystem .” p
THE VALIDATION OF NOKIA UPF IN THE PLATFORM PROVIDED BY SYLVA IS A MILESTONE FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CLOUD- NATIVE DESIGNED ECOSYSTEM .
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