1. Kangrui Ling
Our No. 1 most-read story of the week is about ABI Research’s list of 5G telco cloud-native platforms. VMware and Red Hat are at the top of new rankings.
Kangrui Ling is industry analyst at ABI Research and he made waves for noting that CSPs are looking to enable cloud-native 5G capabilities through the deployment of a horizontal platform. The platform can span their entire network from the core to RAN to edge.
“Some of the key criteria that CSPs look for include the ability to build a multivendor network, avoiding vendor lock-in. As the 5G SBA value proposition revolves around providing services on-demand through microservices and cloud-native principles, flexibility, agility, and scalability become major factors CSPs look out for when choosing a platform,” Ling said.
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