Ericsson, Red Hat, Intel, and HPE join forces to further the Cloud RAN with a successful 5G call with cloud-native and scalable infrastructure.

Ericsson has set a new milestone after being able to make a 5G Cloud RAN call using a server built by HPE called ProLiant Compute DL110 Gen12 which runs Intel Xeon 6 SoC. At the center of this achievement is the Red Hat technology, most significantly, the Red Hat OpenShift which supports the cloud-native architecture that offers a hosting environment to the Ericsson Cloud RAN software.

The efficiency of Ericsson, HPE, Intel, and Red Hat is an indication of a strong, open ecosystem that will speed up the adoption of scalable and efficient 5G networks. The Red Hat OpenShift platform supports high-performance, cost-effective, and AI-driven operations through the repurposing of applications and avoiding lock-in to older processor generations for communication service providers (CSPs).

The first-call event indicates that Ericsson is ready to operate on the cloud-native platforms and use Red Hat hybrid cloud leadership. According to Ericsson chief Johan Hultell, they are empowering CSPs so that they can fast-track their Cloud RAN deployments.

You can do that by mixing Red Hat technology with the new Intel chipset architecture and an HPE server designed to optimize the requirements of the telecommunications industry to offer operators a lower-cost, higher-agility path to modernization. This accomplishment also supports the approach of openness and multi-vendorization that has long been the Ericsson strategy and is one of the defining characteristics of the emerging Open RAN area.

As the backbone of deployment, Red Hat demonstrates the willingness of the next-gen telecom solutions to handle increasing demands.