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Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are uniquely positioned to serve up a new generation of immersive, personalized, ultra-reliable experiences, applications, and solutions. Ericsson and Red Hat are 
expanding their collaboration for validation of network functions and platforms to enable service providers to bring their next generation services to market faster in a multi-vendor 5G Networks scenario.
As CSPs deploy 5G, they are focused on becoming more agile and innovative, allowing them to accelerate time to value. In undertaking this transformation, they must find the right balance between cost, risk, and time to market.
Ericsson and Red Hat recognize that a multi-vendor approach requires a different plan of action compared to a single-vendor approach with vertically integrated solution and lifecycle management. Building multi-vendor networks requires proven interoperability to reap the ultimate benefits of flexibility and choice. Beyond the joint Ericsson and Red Hat work, broader ecosystem collaboration is being pursued to simplify integrating different technologies and suppliers.
Ericsson Network Functions on Red Hat Platforms
The Ericsson and Red Hat collaboration helps service providers accelerate their network transformation and reduce risk when pursuing a multi-vendor strategy. Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud platforms are tested to run Ericsson’s network functions – which together make up a pre-defined reference configuration – that helps reduce the deployment complexity of distributed networks. Ericsson and Red Hat now have validated solutions ready to deploy, empowering service providers with an open platform that extends across a network for vEPC, 5G Core, IMS, OSS and BSS.
5G Core and Cloud RAN
The collaboration project for Cloud RAN hosted on OpenShift is in execution stage, centered around joint engineering teams making OpenShift ready to handle the cloud-native requirements of Ericsson’s Cloud RAN. For Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core hosted on OpenShift there are early commercial operations carrying live traffic, with larger scale commercial availability targeted for Q4, 2022. While the specific scope and challenges addressed for 5G Core and for Cloud RAN are different, the collaboration rests on the same methodology and engineering partnership.