Transform your infrastructure with secure and cloud-native telecom solutions
Canonical is the trusted and agile partner you need to boost network performance, optimise costs and achieve digital transformation with open source.
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Why choose Canonical for telco?
- Improved agility and reduced costs
- Experts to help optimise your systems
- Long-term support and security updates
Gain flexibility and innovate at speed with open source
Open source software frees you from proprietary features and puts you in control. Staying true to the upstream also lets you harness the latest open source technology. Canonical offers the best of open source with enterprise-grade security and support.
Canonical is active in key open source initiatives for telco
Enabling 5G adoption with industry leaders
See how BT and Canonical deliver 5G to UK stadiums
Canonical worked with BT Group and its consumer division, EE, to drive better in-stadium connectivity across the UK as part of a larger 5G roll out strategy.
Trusted by telco vendors around the world
“In the last year, we’ve moved the entire mobile base for EE onto this infrastructure. So if you’re on EE, you’re on Canonical”.
Gary Roberts
Director, Network Cloud
BT Group
“We wanted to ensure that we wouldn’t be bogged down with licence fees long-term. Most of the open source vendors we looked at charged steep per core or per server licence fees, which would have meant escalating costs as we scaled up. Canonical was the exception.”
Jahanzeb Arshad
VP Operations
Nayatel
“We’re reinventing how we scale by becoming simpler and modular, similar to how applications have evolved in cloud data centres. Open source and OpenStack innovations represent a unique opportunity to meet these requirements and Canonical’s cloud and open source expertise make them a good choice for AT&T.”
Toby Ford
Assistant Vice President of Cloud Technology, Strategy and Planning
AT&T
Carrier-grade open source for telcos, from cloud to edge
Canonical offers secure, modular and interoperable solutions.
Ideal for public and private clouds, multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments at centralised or distributed sites.
Trusted operating system
Ubuntu is the standard secure Linux for telco workloads running on servers and virtual machines. It offers the widest open source software library and supports the fastest, biggest and most successful digital operations. Ubuntu is also widely tested on the world’s leading silicon to optimise resource consumption.
66% of experienced developers prefer Ubuntu. Chiselled Ubuntu images drive optimal and minimally-sized containers.
Optimal virtualisation infrastructure
Build your own cloud and use powerful automation tools to lower your maintenance burdens and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Choose Canonical OpenStack for data centres or Microcloud for small private clouds and edge environments. Running on top of both, Canonical Kubernetes provides repeatable and trusted deployment and operations of CNFs.
Full security coverage
Offload the compliance, security and support of your entire open source telco stack.
Benefit from 10 years of security maintenance with timely CVE patches and software dependency management.
Automate operations to lower your total cost of ownership
Navigating uncertainty of next-generation infrastructure investment can be overwhelming. Canonical gives you the tools to mitigate risks and control costs.
Enhance performance with a cloud-native stack
Enhance telco workloads security, power efficiency and performance with our cloud-native technologies integrated into one comprehensive solution.
Get more system efficiency with Canonical's silicon partnerships
Canonical collaborates closely with leading silicon vendors, including AMD, ARM, Intel and NVIDIA, to fine-tune solutions for 5G, edge computing and AI/ML.
- Harness the full potential of the latest hardware supporting Hugepages and DPDK
- Take advantage of optimised real-time and low-latency kernels
- Supercharge your performance and efficiency with cutting-edge technologies such as Smart NICs, DPUs and GPUs
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