Transform your infrastructure with security-maintained, cloud-native telecom solutions
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.
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
“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.
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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Canonical provides a full stack for your telecom infrastructure. To learn more about our telco solutions, get in touch.
