From Cloud to RAN to Core: Opening, Orchestrating & Automating a Next-Gen 5G Network
The world is moving full steam ahead toward 5G in pursuit of new experiences, services and business models. For operators to capitalize on 5G they will need to be able to deploy a network capable of adapting to the diverse needs of a new breed of services. To gain this agility, operators are making the move to open architectures that foster innovation, accelerate service delivery and significantly reduce costs. As 5G services begin to be deployed, the need for advanced automation capabilities across these new, virtualized networks will be critical.
To address this need, some of the world’s most innovative operators have implemented advanced solutions that provide end-to-end automation of an Open RAN 5G solution, while offering zero-touch provisioning and orchestration across tens of thousands of cell sites. The result is a truly open solution that produces savings across several areas and significantly accelerates the time-to-market of new service offerings. By embracing the latest, cloud-native, open solutions these innovative operators are providing a shining example of the potential of the next generation mobile network.
In this session you will learn:
- How open and automated networks are spurring service delivery innovation for 5G
- Lessons learned from operator adoption of Open RAN for 5G
- How automation and orchestration are playing a role in new 5G deployments
- How vendors are enabling a Telco Cloud architecture for new 5G networks
Speakers:
- Jim Hodges, Chief Analyst – Cloud and Security, Heavy Reading
- Fernando Cerioni, VP of Product Management, Robin.io
- Anil Bhandari, Vice President of Product Management, Altiostar
From the Robin Team
VP Product Management & Marketing
Fernando has more than 20 years of experience in IT & Telecom with market leading companies, including Cisco Systems, Starent Networks, Motorola, Affirmed Networks and Parallel Wireless, being exposed to both VC-backed startups as well as established big companies. He joins Robin from Parallel Wireless where he led the Product Management team for the company’s virtualized RAN solutions. Throughout his career, Fernando held Product Strategy, Product Management, Business Development and Marketing roles for Cable Access, Voice over IP, Mobile Networks Packet Core and RAN / OpenRAN. He worked with global Tier 1 carriers on their network strategies and deployments. Fernando has an MBA from Babson College and MSEE from ITBA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Expanding the Mobile Ecosystem with Open RAN
The Open RAN model will only work if there are sufficient vendors and technology companies, all adhering to interoperable standards and specifications, to provide mobile operators with the necessary choices. How do we encourage diversity in the ecosystem, and support equally large vendors, small companies and innovative start-ups?
Panel Discussion:
- Fernando Cerioni, VP Product Management & Marketing, Robin.io
- Olivier Simon, Director of Radio Innovation, Orange
- Colin Bryce, Director, Mobile Network Engineering, CommScope
- Oğuz Sunay, Vice President R&D, Mobility, Open Networking Foundation (ONF)
From the Robin Team
VP Product Management & Marketing
Fernando has more than 20 years of experience in IT & Telecom with market leading companies, including Cisco Systems, Starent Networks, Motorola, Affirmed Networks and Parallel Wireless, being exposed to both VC-backed startups as well as established big companies. He joins Robin from Parallel Wireless where he led the Product Management team for the company’s virtualized RAN solutions. Throughout his career, Fernando held Product Strategy, Product Management, Business Development and Marketing roles for Cable Access, Voice over IP, Mobile Networks Packet Core and RAN / OpenRAN. He worked with global Tier 1 carriers on their network strategies and deployments. Fernando has an MBA from Babson College and MSEE from ITBA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Kubernetes has emerged as the application development platform of choice. As deployments scale, organizations need to simplify how they manage and secure these crucial environments.
Join StackRox and Robin.io in a discussion about how to operationalize Kubernetes. Robin extends Kubernetes by bringing a self-service experience and advanced data management capabilities for enterprise and 5G workloads. StackRox integrates with Kubernetes to use its rich context and native controls to protect cloud-native applications across build, deploy, and runtime.
Using StackRox with Robin, it is simple, and easy, to configure StackRox as part of Robin’s application bundles, helping you improve time-to-market, reduce cost, and run mission-critical applications with confidence.
Join our webinar to learn more about:
- Deploying stateful applications on Kubernetes
- Enabling life cycle management and data protection for applications
- Applying Kubernetes-native controls to enable better security
From the Robin Team
Technical Director, Robin.io
Architecture for High-Performance Cloud-Native CDN
The demand for cloud-based content delivery networks (CDN) is growing fast in the 5G era, driven by the ever increasing volume of media services and high-quality video content on the network. To minimize the distance this content travels over the internet, communication service providers (CSPs) are widely deploying their CDNs at the Edge – including central offices, regional data centers, and other data centers.
To reduce the challenges of deploying and managing a complex network infrastructure, CSPs need a scalable, high-performance, and cost-efficient CDN platform. This webinar examines the architecture for an optimized platform using cloud-native infrastructure for Content Delivery systems on the Edge, the use of hardware and network acceleration technologies, and best practices for automation and life cycle management.
Sponsored by QCT and Intel. Speakers:
- Jennifer Clark, Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading
- Marco Huang, Senior Technical, QCT
- Tushar Gohad, Principal Engineer, Intel
- Fernando Cerioni, VP of Product Management, Robin.io
From the Robin Team
VP of Product Management, Robin.io
Fernando has more than 20 years of experience in IT & Telecom with market leading companies, including Cisco Systems, Starent Networks, Motorola, Affirmed Networks and Parallel Wireless, being exposed to both VC-backed startups as well as established big companies.
He joins Robin from Parallel Wireless where he led the Product Management team for the company’s virtualized RAN solutions. Throughout his career, Fernando held Product Strategy, Product Management, Business Development and Marketing roles for Cable Access, Voice over IP, Mobile Networks Packet Core and RAN / OpenRAN. He worked with global Tier 1 carriers on their network strategies and deployments. Fernando has an MBA from Babson College and MSEE from ITBA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Register now for the Storage Developer Virtual Conference taking place on September 22-23, 2020.
Featured Robin presentation:
Re-Imagining the 3-2-1 Backup Rule for Cloud Native Applications Running on Kubernetes
US-CERT in its publication of Data Backup Options in 2012 recommended the 3-2-1 backup rule. Have 3 copies of data, 2 copies on different media and 1 offsite. As simple as it seems, it applies to the applications running on kubernetes to protect against the node, disk failures, manual errors, natural disasters.
In this presentation, we will present the storage architecture and various kubernetes building blocks to implement this practice. The details will include how to keep two copies of application data on two different disks (app replicated or CSI replicated storage). It will cover the intricacies and challenges of capturing the stateful app snapshot that includes kubernetes objects and persistent volume data to be able to transfer the backup copy to an offsite location. In the context of off-site copy, we will look into the storage architecture for using various cloud storage media including the object stores to enable use cases like disaster recovery, analytics and test and dev using cloud compute . It will be followed by a 3-2-1 rule demo of a complex distributed stateful app like mongodb/cassandra.
From the Robin Team
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, ROBIN.IO
Jagadish Mukku is a technical director leading the Data Protection and Cloud Mobility at Robin.io. He played a key role in architecting the ROBIN platform enterprise storage stack that powers data protection, cloud mobility, life cycle management of databases and data intensive applications. Prior to Robin.io, he was a Senior Architect at Violin Systems known for delivering the industry’s first million iops in a 4U All Flash Array. He has been in the storage industry for 19 years starting his career in Veritas and built products in scale out storage, distributed systems, and file systems throughout his career.
Why you should watch
- Understand why the time is now to continue on the modernization path
- Find out how, in uncertain times, you can achieve higher productivity, lower costs, and increased business agility across your IT teams
- Get answers to your most pressing digital transformation questions
Why Modernization is Even More Critical to get through This Crisis
Learn how opportunity presents itself even during difficult times, and IT leaders are now seeing the drive toward digital transformation and modernization will set up their organizations for success when we get through this. There are also shorter term benefits to continuing to invest in these areas: higher productivity of app developers, data science teams and DBAs, lower infrastructure costs, and increased organizational agility. The Robin application automation platform can help you stay on course toward these goals, and we’ll share how several companies have already seen dramatic results. Please join us!
From the Robin Team
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT, ROBIN.IO
Simone Sassoli leads the Customer Success organization at Robin.io. He is responsible for go-to-market and support activities that help customers solve fundamental deployment challenges for Big Data, Databases, Search and Indexing, and AI/ML applications.
Why you should join
- Learn about the most innovative cloud solutions for the enterprise
- Find out how you can transform availability, scalability, efficiency, and data protection in your datacenter
- Get LIVE answers to your most pressing cloud migration and adoption questions from top experts
- Have a chance to win a $500 Amazon gift card or an iPad Pro!
Building your own managed services on private/hybrid clouds
Learn how platform engineers and cloud architects can leverage Kubernetes to build in-house managed services with easy self-service provisioning and day-two operations. Developers expect the self-service experience and simplicity of public clouds to be translated to private and hybrid clouds. We’ll discuss how private clouds need to evolve beyond infrastructure management and provide an “as-a-service” experience similar to Amazon RDS, Amazon EMR etc.
From the Robin Team
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT, ROBIN.IO
Ankur Desai is a product management professional with over 13 years of experience in the enterprise software industry. At Robin, he is responsible for the go-to-market strategy for the Robin Platform. Prior to Robin, Ankur worked for SAP and MapR where he launched multiple platform products and led the product roadmap.