As cloud-based businesses, the Companies telecommunications is one of the first, and it should be. Today Canonical, best known for Ubuntu Linux, won an important customer for Charmed OpenStack: The Russian company MTS telecommunications.
With more than 80 million mobile subscribers, MTS is a serious player and of course the company needed a serious cloud for its network. With this new partnership, MTS aims to accelerate the development of new services such as 5G. And, of course, as everyone does with the cloud, it wants to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO of total cost of ownership) of the cloud infrastructure.
MTS will do this with Charmed OpenStack. With base the popular OpenStack an open source cloud, this stack works together with: Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS), Juju Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM), OpenStack Charms and Ceph open source stack.
OpenStack has long been a cloud chosen by telecommunications.
"Σε όλο τον κόσμο, οι πάροχοι αγαπούν το OpenStack. Αυτό που ξεκίνησε ως ένα ευέλικτο πλαίσιο για την ανάπτυξη και διαχείριση λειτουργιών δικτύου έχει εξελιχθεί σε μια προτιμώμενη πλατφόρμα για τη διαχείριση της εξέλιξης των δικτύων από το LTE στο 5G", ανέφερε ο Mark Collier, COO του Open Infrastructure Foundation.
Indeed, last year Canonical won a contract with BT, formerly British Telecom, to use Ubuntu Linux and OpenStack in its 5G deployment in United Kingdom and all over the world.
A good reason for Canonical's success in the market is that Charmed OpenStack is designed to provide easy deployment and use of private cloud applications. It comes with improved SDN handling and edge capabilities compute.
Financial details have not been revealed at this time, but Canonical is pleased with the deal.
"Η Canonical είναι πραγματικά ενθουσιασμένη που συνεργάζεται με την MTS και παρέχει μια πλατφόρμα στην οποία μπορούν να αναπτύξουν το 5G δίκτυό τους", δήλωσε ο Regis Paquette, VP της Global Alliances της Canonical.