Edge in telecommunications: 8 articles to read now

The telecommunication (telco) industry provides the infrastructure for billions of connections around the world. It’s a vital component of modern society, and it must be reliable and resilient. Of course technology never stands still, and so the networks that support telco must adapt with proven solutions built to withstand growing demand and to stand the test of time. But the design of a network must suit the needs of its users, and Red Hat is helping transform legacy networks into agile platforms with open, cloud-native infrastructure, from the core to the edge. There’s been a lot of exciting development in telcos recently, and to help you keep up with it all, here are articles covering the latest and most exciting progress in the telco industry.

1. Resilience and availability for telcos moving to the cloud

This article by Amy Fredj discusses the importance of resilience and availability for telco companies as they transition to cloud-based infrastructure. It explains the benefits for telcos, including flexibility, scalability and cost-efficiency. Just as importantly, the article explains why this transition is happening and what problems telco companies are attempting to resolve with new and open source technology like Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

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2. Observability in telco

For optimal functionality of a 5G telco service provider network, timely correlation of events and metrics must be ensured across the different layers and protocols in the network, including RAN, core and transport entities. To create this correlation, faults must be propagated to the management (local and remote) as quickly as possible, and, likewise, a response must be sent back to the origin.

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3. Challenges of AI at the edge

AI is more than just chat bots, and as machine learning (ML) starts to get integrated into critical workflows it’s important for the telco industry to be able to take advantage of AI even at the edge. There are many benefits to implementing AI in a distributed fashion, including performance, reliability and cost. There are also, of course, many challenges. Like all challenges, there are emerging solutions.

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4. 6 reasons to run AI at the edge

In case you’re still not convinced, here are 6 reasons telco companies should consider AI on the edge. In this article, experts Ben Cohen and Valentina Rodriguez Sosa draw on their real-world experience to demonstrate why AI doesn’t need to be a monolith, and, in fact, benefits from decentralization.

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5. RHEL image mode and the edge

With image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), you can build bootable operating system images as Open Container Initiative (OCI) container images. You can use tools like Podman, Red Hat Quay and Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines to run and manage these images and cloud-native DevOps and CI/CD processes to sustain and improve your operating environment.

RHEL for edge is the recommended means of deploying the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform on edge devices and edge gateways. It uses the image builder tool to produce an immutable operating system image, and RPM-OSTree for customization. Using OSTree repositories, you can distribute your customizations as over-the-air updates to your edge systems.

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6. Unlock the potential of 5G at the edge

You may already know that edge computing is good for processing lots of data on site instead of sending it all the way to a central location for processing. You may also know that 5G provides high-speed and low-latency connectivity. So, it probably isn’t a surprise that combining the two can massively benefit the manufacturing, healthcare and transportation industries. By keeping latency low and increasing effective bandwidth, 5G and edge computing enable real-time data processing and analytics, which are crucial for autonomous vehicles, smart factories and remote surgery.

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7. Top 5 edge computing challenges solved by Red Hat OpenShift observability

Some challenges are universal, and in his article Dan Bettinger identifies 5 of the most common ones in edge computing. Whether you’re in telco, manufacturing, health care or some other industry relying on edge computing, you can benefit from Red Hat OpenShift observability. Of course, knowing that observability is important is different than knowing what to look for.

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8. Mitigating threats against telco networks in the cloud

In telcos, security is a foundation of trust. Telcos enable global communication, transporting sensitive data across a global network. There are literally billions of connected devices, so there’s plenty of room for misuse of data. It’s vital for a telco to be able to protect its network.

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