Parallel Wireless, the leading provider of Open RAN platform-agnostic solutions., announced a partnership with SUSE, the company behind SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), Rancher and NeuVector, to integrate SUSE’s Adaptive Telco Infrastructure Platform (SUSE ATIP) into its ecosystem. This will allow Parallel Wireless GreenRAN™ solutions to flexibly manage, optimize, and process data securely, while significantly reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for network operators.
Compared to traditional coding environments and VM setups, Kubernetes offers superior scalability, resource efficiency, and automation capabilities, making it a preferred choice for modern, cloud-native application development and deployment. SUSE ATIP builds on this by providing not only Kubernetes, but all the additional components needed to deliver and manage telco-optimized infrastructure around it.
Aligned with their relentless commitment to innovation, Parallel Wireless has successfully enabled its Radio Access Network (RAN) functionality, including the virtualized Baseband Unit (vBBU) encompassing Central Unit (CU) and Distributed Unit (DU), the near Real-Time Radio Intelligent Controller (RIC), the Service Management and Orchestration (SMO), along with all supporting computing resources, to be deployed with Kubernetes-based platform technology. This transformative shift empowers Parallel Wireless’s hardware-agnostic, Open RAN-based solutions to seamlessly operate on both traditional bare-metal servers or in the cloud, tailored to meet diverse use-case requirements.
By introducing SUSE ATIP into this powerful ecosystem, Parallel Wireless takes a quantum leap. This alliance comes on top of and supports Parallel Wireless’ diversified hardware and chipset portfolio and opens up its solutions support to a leading cloud and Kubernetes platform. The result: Substantial TCO reduction for end customers, a wider selection of platform implementation options, and unprecedented deployment flexibility.
Parallel Wireless’s GreenRAN™ solutions, together with its Open RAN hardware-independent cross-platforms technology, enable substantial TCO reduction and energy optimization. The company’s comprehensive 2G/3G/4G/5G Macro RAN solutions are implemented across all deployment scenarios and reduce operating expenses while optimizing spectral efficiency. The collaboration with SUSE plays an instrumental and pivotal role in realizing these visionary objectives, marking a new era in the telecommunications industry.
Netanel Gabizon, Chief Product Officer at Parallel Wireless
The partnership with SUSE is not merely transactional, but strategic, allowing us to rapidly scale between DU hardware platforms, in order to perfectly match to the service providers’ needs. Combined with our ZTP (zero touch provisioning), we will be able to deploy and maintain large scale deployments very efficiently.
Thomas Di Giacomo, Chief Technology and Product Officer at SUSE
Parallel Wireless’s Open RAN innovations are reimagining the way the mobile data industry has operated for the past 15 plus years. SUSE is pleased to be part of strengthening the rollout of these cutting-edge cellular technologies and provide business and individuals with greater capabilities to meet the demands of business today and tomorrow. Partnerships like this go hand in hand with our work in initiatives like Project Sylva to help build more flexible and agile networks for Operators.
