Ericsson joins the likes of AT&T, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Rackspace, Red Hat and SUSE as a Platinum Member of the Openstack Foundation.
With 14 live OpenStack deployments and more than 80 customers running OpenStack globally, Ericsson is investing in OpenStack as the platform for edge computing and distributed cloud.
Ericsson is powering global telecoms’ transition to 5G networks, and OpenStack has emerged as the standard technology for these next-generation networks.
Support for the OpenStack Foundation at the Platinum and Gold membership levels has grown steadily since the foundation formed in 2012. Platinum membership is limited to eight members, and Gold membership is limited to 24 members.
There are 23 Gold Members, including 99Cloud, Aptira, Canonical, CCAT, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Cisco, City Network, Dell EMC, Deutsche Telekom, EasyStack, FiberHome, Fujitsu, H3C, Hitachi, Inspur, inwinSTACK, Mirantis, NEC, NetApp, UnitedStack and ZTE.
Ericsson has formed a broad alliance with Red Hat last year to work together on network functions virtualization (NFV) products and to support the Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
Chris Price, Open Source Strategist, CTO Office, Ericsson
With 14 live OpenStack deployments and more than 80 customers running OpenStack globally, Ericsson is taking this bigger leadership commitment to the future of OpenStack, precisely because it’s proven, powerful and poised to continue leading the software-defined future of networking.
Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, Openstack Foundation
Ericsson has taken an active, advocacy role in collaborating with adjacent open source communities like the Open Network Automation Platform and the Open Platform for NFV.