Kaloom this week announced its expanded partnership with Telenor and the integration of its 5G packet core User Plane Function (UPF) within Telenor’s larger ecosystem of integrated partner solutions.
Telenor along with its partners has deployed a truly multi-vendor 5G core built on Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, to provide an open, more efficient vendor-neutral solution. Telenor recently demonstrated its PoC trial with Kaloom’s unique and proven UPF offering, as well as Telenor’s other partners’ web-scale, cloud-native technologies. With the eventual goal of commercializing a vendor neutral standalone 5G Core solution, the PoC demonstrated Telenor’s ability to on-board network functions provided by vendors such as Kaloom onto a microservices-based, containerized, vendor-neutral Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) architecture that features scalability, user-friendliness, resource efficiency and openness.
Kaloom said it offers a fully programmable and automated cloud networking solution that is disrupting how edge and data center networks are built, managed, and operated. Kaloom’s 5G packet core User Plane Function (UPF) integrates with Red Hat OpenShift and provides a multi-tenant, high performance (multi-Tbps throughput capacity), low latency, cloud-native solution with embedded support for more secure 5G network slicing complemented by full automation capabilities to enable faster time to services and 10X TCO savings.
Patrick Waldemar, Vice President, Telenor Research
This trial proves that a multi-vendor 5G Core is indeed possible on a vendor neutral platform. It is important to mention that we were positively surprised by the readiness of the involved partners for cloud native.
Paul Parker-Johnson, Chief Analyst & Practice Lead, Cloud & Virtual System Infrastructures at ACG Research
Telenor’s open 5G core is the perfect showcase for demonstrating Kaloom’s unique solution. Amid the clamor for new apps and innovation in 5G, Kaloom’s full-stack slicing clearly shows its ability to support diverse applications securely.
