Javier Peña
I have spent most of my career promoting Open Source in the enterprise. Always half-way between the Dev and the Ops side of the business, I have worked as a consultant, architect and developer on Linux, OpenStack and Kubernetes-based solutions.
Currently, I am in charge of helping Red Hat Telco partners integrate their RAN products on top of OpenShift.
Red Hat
Job title –Principal Software Engineer
Session
Over the last few years, the Telco space has seen a great amount of change in the way their workloads are deployed. Starting from purpose-built hardware appliances, they evolved into virtualized network functions, and now containerized network functions (CNFs).
Some of these containerized network functions are deployed on the Far Edge, away from a centralized datacenter, and come with their ownset of requirements and challenges for a successful implementation.
In this session, we will highlight the areas where CNFs add special requirements to Kubernetes/OpenShift, and the strategies put in place to tackle these challenges in real-life deployments.
Some of the topics we will cover:
- Overview of CNF-based RAN architecture
- Special requirements for Distributed Unit (DU) CNFs
- OpenShift functionality for Telco Edge deployments
- Reducing complexity for RAN deployments using a Reference Design Specification
- What’s next for RAN containerized deployments on the edge