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Canonical is the trusted and agile partner you need to boost network performance, optimize 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 optimize 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.

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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 partnered with BT Group and its consumer division, EE, to modernize and improve in-stadium connectivity across the UK, contributing to a nationwide 5G roll out strategy.

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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 license fees long-term. Most of the open source vendors we looked at charged steep per core or per server license fees, which would have meant escalating costs as we scaled up. Canonical was the exception.”

Jahanzeb Arshad

VP Operations
Nayatel

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“We’re reinventing how we scale by becoming simpler and modular, similar to how applications have evolved in cloud data centers. 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 trusted, modular and interoperable solutions.

Ideal for public and private clouds, multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments at centralized or distributed sites.

Trusted operating system

Ubuntu is the standard trusted Linux for telco workloads running on servers and virtual machines. It offers the widest open source software library and supports the fastest, largest, and most successful digital operations. Ubuntu is also widely tested on the world’s leading silicon to optimize resource consumption.

66% of experienced developers prefer Ubuntu. Chiselled Ubuntu images drive optimal and minimally-sized containers.

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Optimal virtualization infrastructure

Build your own cloud and use powerful automation tools to lower your maintenance burdens and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Choose Canonical OpenStack, Canonical’s highly customizable cloud platform for data centers, or Microcloud, our lightweight, low-entry barrier solution, to build small private clouds and edge environments.

Canonical Kubernetes, which runs on top of both of these solutions, provides repeatable and trusted deployment and operations of CNFs.

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Full security coverage

Offload the compliance, security, and support of your entire open source telco stack with Canonical’s comprehensive subscription designed for those challenges: Ubuntu Pro.

Ubuntu Pro gives you access to a trusted open source repository, compliance profiles for the most stringent security standards, platform, and fleet management tools, seamless integration into the largest public cloud platforms, and up to 15 years of timely vulnerability fixes for your OS, infrastructure, and applications.

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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 optimized 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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Gain a competitive edge with the latest advances in open source

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Canonical provides a full stack for your telecom infrastructure. To learn more about our telco solutions, get in touch.

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