Vodafone has chosen Wind River Cloud Platform as the CaaS (containers-as-a-service) layer for its Open RAN sites in Germany, adding the UK operator’s footprint to existing deployments in Europe.
This partnership increases Vodafone’s Open RAN footprint, working towards a more open, flexible and energy-efficient network design.
Wind River Cloud Platform, rooted in the open-source StarlingX project, provides a Kubernetes and container-enabled platform for managing edge networks at scale. Open RAN offers advantages like cost reduction, energy efficiency, diverse use cases, and improved user experience.
“Vodafone continues to lead in advancing Open RAN’s potential through collaboration with the industry. We are excited to expand our partnership to enable large-scale deployments,” stated Paul Miller, Wind River’s Chief Technology Officer. “Wind River Cloud Platform offers the scalable, distributed cloud infrastructure essential for efficient next-gen networks.”
Wind River has been involved in several groundbreaking telecom industry milestones, including the world’s first 5G data session on a fully virtualized infrastructure and the first commercial deployment of Open RAN in Canada by service providers.
Covering the entire cloud spectrum from core to far edge, Wind River Technology supports efficient operations for next-gen networks.
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