--- title: Blog posts tagged "OSM" description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/osm?format=md --- # Blog posts tagged "OSM" #### [Closed loop architecture and persistent volumes for network functions – Highlights in OSM release THIRTEEN](https://canonical.com/blog/closed-loop-architecture-and-persistent-volumes-for-network-functions-highlights-in-osm-release-thirteen) Open Source MANO (OSM) has announced its thirteenth version which is supported for six months (short-term support). This release targets feature enhancements for VNF vendors residing in the OSM ecosystem. It features new scalable architecture for service assurance and closed-loop operations, using Apache Airflow and Prometheus. It is capa --- OSM #### [Telco workloads orchestration in multi-clouds environments – focus for Open Source MANO release ELEVEN](https://canonical.com/blog/telco-workloads-orchestration-in-multi-clouds-environments-focus-for-open-source-mano-release-eleven) Open source MANO release ELEVEN is here with another set of exciting features for the telco world!! Promising the production-grade orchestration of telco workloads, OSM release ELEVEN focuses on the trends of cloud-native deployments in multi-cloud environments. To overcome the challenges that we have discussed in previous blogs, OSM this --- Cloud and server #### [How to accelerate migration towards NFV with Open Source MANO](https://canonical.com/blog/how-to-accelerate-migration-towards-nfv-with-open-source-mano) Download whitepaper Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Cloud native network functions continue to draw immense attention from the telecom sector. From the beginning, virtualisation is trying to fulfill the promises of reducing CapEx and OpEx by decoupling Network Functions from the underlying infrastructure and ensuring flexibility --- Telecommunications #### [Telco and Ubuntu: 2020 roundup](https://canonical.com/blog/telco-and-ubuntu-2020-roundup) 2021 is around the corner and we had such a tremendous journey this year. Like many others, at Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, we lived different times and maybe more than ever we saw how important it was to stay connected. Therefore, Canonical continued to innovate in the telco world and brought Ubuntu closer to --- Company #### [Canonical at OSM Hackfest MR#9](https://canonical.com/blog/osm-hackfest-mr9) The 12th OSM Hackfest, or OSM mid-release NINE (MR#9) Hackfest, is one for the books and Canonical happily shared the presenter floor with the rest of the Open Source MANO (OSM) community. The event spanned the whole week from September 7th to 11th, with Wednesday September 9th afternoon being used for the OSM Ecosystem day. --- OSM #### [Canonical at KubeCon EU 2020: our first virtual KubeCon experience](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-at-kubecon-eu-2020-our-first-virtual-kubecon-experience) Another great KubeCon has recently come to an end – which is nothing less than what we expected. After all, that’s why Canonical and Ubuntu have been consistently present at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon EU, to connect with the community. This year, we showcased Canonical’s conformant, interoperable, multi-cloud Kubernetes through our two Kube --- Cloud and server #### [Charmed OSM Release EIGHT available from Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/charmed-osm-release-eight) Canonical is proud to announce the general availability of OSM release EIGHT images in it’s Charmed OSM distribution. As of Release SEVEN, OSM is able to orchestrate containerised network functions (CNFs) leveraging Kubernetes as the underlying infrastructure for next-generation 5G services. Release EIGHT follows the same direction and br --- Canonical announcements #### [OSM#9 Hackfest: the highlights](https://canonical.com/blog/osm9-hackfest-the-highlights) Canonical concluded its participation in the 9th OSM Hackfest with a renewed sense of fellowship with the Open Source MANO (OSM) community and great pride in the collaborative work that enabled an end-to-end mobile network orchestration demo using OSM’s model-driven capabilities to onboard network services. Following the successful organi --- Cloud and server #### [Canonical at the 9th OSM Hackfest](https://canonical.com/blog/9th-osm-hackfest) To all telecommunications service providers, global system integrators, research institutions, OSM community members and innovators all over the world: heads-up! The 9th OSM Hackfest starts in a few weeks and Canonical will as always be there. We will lead hackfest sessions, answer any questions you may have and help drive the evolution o --- OSM #### [Canonical at the OSM-MR#8 Hackfest, Madrid](https://canonical.com/blog/osm-mr8-hackfest) To all telecommunications service providers, global system integrators, research institutions, OSM community members and innovators all over the world: heads-up! The OSM-MR#8 Hackfest starts in two weeks and Canonical as always will be there. We will lead hackfest sessions, answer any questions you may have and help drive the evolution of --- OSM #### [Charmed OSM release SEVEN: Container network functions](https://canonical.com/blog/charmed-osm-release-seven) Canonical is proud to announce the general availability of OSM release SEVEN images in Charmed OSM distribution. OSM release SEVEN introduces a range of exciting features, such as the ability to deploy container network functions on Kubernetes with K8s charms, and several improvements which enhance Open Source MANO (OSM) across various ar --- OSM #### [Canonical introduces Charmed OSM to enable telcos with network functions management and orchestration](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-introduces-charmed-osm-to-enable-telcos-with-network-functions-management-and-orchestration) November 20, 2019: Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, today announced Charmed OSM – a pure upstream Open Source MANO (OSM) distribution designed for production-grade, highly available and scalable deployments. Charmed OSM provides telecommunications service providers (TSPs) with a generic approach to network functions management and orc --- Cloud and server #### [5G Core implementation: Challenges in the field](https://canonical.com/blog/5g-core-implementation-challenges-in-the-field) With an emerging demand for higher speeds, lower latency, and increasing connection density,  telecommunications providers have started implementing 5G. While the initial roll-out usually takes months, the entire process is going to take years. This is because designing and implementing 5G entails a number of challenges. These include dep --- Telecommunications