Fujitsu Collaborates with Red Hat to Deliver AI-Driven vRAN Solution
Fujitsu has selected Red Hat OpenShift as its preferred hybrid cloud platform to drive the next generation of Radio Access Network (RAN) innovation. This collaboration will see the delivery of a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) solution on Red Hat OpenShift, the industry-leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes.
Enhanced Network Efficiency and Optimization
By leveraging Red Hat OpenShift, Fujitsu aims to provide a cloud-native, AI-ready vRAN solution that will help service providers enhance efficiency, optimize their networks, and expand operations to various applications with improved consistency and flexibility.
One of the key components of this collaboration is Fujitsu's adoption of Red Hat OpenShift as the backbone for its O-RAN O-Cloud based solution. This cloud-native platform will support virtualized and containerized open RAN functions, along with software components and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads for RAN.
Benefits for Service Providers
Deploying and operating RAN at scale requires advanced automation, flexibility, and security capabilities. By utilizing Red Hat OpenShift as the common platform for Fujitsu's vRAN solution, service providers can achieve a variety of benefits, including:
- Up to a 40% reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) through improved resource sharing, productivity, and automation implementation.
- Alignment with open compute standards set by the O-RAN Alliance for RAN and O-Cloud architecture.
- Integration with an open source innovation and community-driven contributions.
Industry Insights
Honoré LaBourdette, Vice President of Global Telco Ecosystem at Red Hat, highlighted the importance of AI and cloud-native technologies in shaping the future of RAN. This collaboration aims to empower service providers to leverage virtualized, containerized, and AI workloads to enhance network performance and optimization.
Masaki Taniguchi, Head of Mobile System Business Unit at Fujitsu Limited, expressed excitement about deepening and broadening RAN capabilities in the AI era. Red Hat OpenShift's open, AI-ready vRAN platform offers critical flexibility and integration for service providers to meet evolving network demands efficiently.
