In addition, Nokia will leverage Red Hat's infrastructure platforms to accelerate the development and testing of Nokia's broad core network portfolio.
Nokia customers will continue to receive direct support from Nokia, while Red Hat will provide Nokia with ongoing development, services, and advanced support for Nokia NCS and CBIS. As customers' cloud strategies evolve, Red Hat and Nokia will support a smooth transition for customers who choose to migrate to Red Hat platforms. In addition, dedicated Nokia cloud infrastructure teams will become part of Red Hat to provide ongoing roadmap evolution, deployment services, and support on behalf of Nokia to its customers.
As service providers explore the opportunities offered by 5G, such as the core network, open RAN, multi-access edge computing (MEC), application modernization, and more, they need greater flexibility and options for deploying applications and services on the infrastructure and in the location of their choice. This means that integration and interoperability across the ecosystem are critical. With this move:
● Nokia will adopt Red Hat as its primary cloud infrastructure platform to develop, test and deliver Nokia's core network applications;
● Nokia will continue to support its core network applications on the Nokia NCS and CBIS platform offerings;
● Nokia's core network applications will be tightly integrated with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift, the leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes;
● Nokia will certify the cloud-native network functions (CNF) of Nokia's core network and virtualized network functions (VNF) on Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack Platform with customer deployment options on public cloud, virtualized and bare-metal telco infrastructure, including those from Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, and others.
Nokia's cloud infrastructure platform customers will have access to Red Hat's open source ecosystem service and support, as well as access to Red Hat's transformative 4G and 5G technologies and use cases.