Red Hat Telco ecosystem

Build the applications of tomorrow

The Red Hat telco ecosystem program brings together industry-leading partners and trusted open source communities to deliver innovative, validated, and integrated solutions to the telecommunications industry.

As a valued partner, we want to best support your Red Hat network function certification strategy. We know these can be substantial projects, but we have taken steps to simplify your journey from virtualized to containerized network functions to best meet our customer’s needs.

Red Hat telco ecosystem benefits

Sell on Red Hat Marketplace

Showcase your product to millions of potential clients, customers, sellers, and developers. On Red Hat Marketplace, customers can shop for certified enterprise software to install on Red Hat Openshift.

Nominate a cloud-native network function or other network function

Red Hat certifications deliver confidence that cloud-native functions and other network functions you use are tested and aligned with the platforms you trust. Suggest one or more third-party applications that you would like ported to—or certified on—Red Hat’s platform.

Access role-based training

Red Hat offers global role-based partner training to help grow your skills and validate your sales and technical expertise. There are multiple ways to train: self-paced online and self-paced with labs, videos, and classroom training.

Joint go-to-market and sales

Showcase your product to millions of potential clients, customers, sellers, and developers. Take advantage of marketing resources that help you get to market faster and more efficiently. Contact us to learn more.

A partnership to rely on

The Red Hat network ecosystem brings together industry-leading partners and trusted open source communities to deliver innovative, validated, integrated solutions to the telecommunications industry. You can be part of this great ecosystem, too.


Start building modern applications now

Browse through our collection of resources to help you develop with Red Hat products—which you can download for free as a Red Hat Developer member. You’ll find handy guides on a range of the latest developer tools and technologies, including Kubernetes, microservices, containers, and more.

Hear it from our customers & partners

Icon-Red_Hat-Media_and_documents-Quotemark_Open-B-Red-RGB Our collaboration with Red Hat has helped us deploy Universal Cloud based on open standards and systems. Effectively working with various ecosystem stakeholders and rapid development cycles has enabled us to design efficient pods for widely distributed deployments running throughput-intensive workloads.

Vishant Vora

Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone Idea Limited

Icon-Red_Hat-Media_and_documents-Quotemark_Open-B-Red-RGB By adhering to the concept of openness, ZTE has carried out extensive cooperation with mainstream vendors such as Red Hat in various fields including hardware, NFVI and VNF, to provide flexible network construction choices for operators. We plan to continue to work with Red Hat to help global operators build more secure, more open and more cost-effective cloud core networks.

Chen Xinyu

General Manager of Telecom Cloud & Core Network, ZTE

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