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Road to Network Cloudification: Summary Table (WIP)

 Road to Network Cloudification: Summary Table

This post is to summarize in a table the operators covered as part of "Road to Network Cloudification" series so far. In this post we are summarizing the NFV ecosystem of the operators - NFVI/VIM/MANO, Vendors involved and 5G status. 
 
This post is a WIP and will be updated based on any updates in the existing posts of the regions or when new regions post is released as part of this ""Road to Network Cloudification" series. 

Hyperlinks have been provided in the table on the region to take to the post of that respective region.

Last Updated:5th May 2021.
 
CountryOperatorNFVI/VIMMANOVendors part of the initial NFV Journey for 4G,other use cases5G deployment VendorsOther Vendors for 5G use cases(if applicable)Other details
AT&TOpenstack Airship project from MirantisONAPEricsson, Tail-F Systems AB, Metaswitch Networks ltd & Affirmed NetworksEricsson, Samsung, NokiaMicrosoft Azure, Google Cloud
NFV program: Domain 2.0
5G Status: 5G Launched
VerizonRed Hat Openstack with Big Switch NetworksIn house Opensource MANOEricsson, NokiaEricsson, Samsung(replaced Nokia), Intel, Wind River, Mavenir. AWS5G Status: 5G Launched
T-Mobile In house Kubernetes platform "Conducktor"
Cisco,NokiaNokia, Cisco & Ericsson
5G Status: 5G Launched
Dish (New)AWS + VMWare Telco Cloud

N/AMavenir, Altiostar, Fujitsu, Nokia

Greenfield Operator planning to launch 5G
Bell CanadaIn house Kubernetes PlatformONAPCisco,ViptelaNokia, Ericsson
Network 3.0 Strategy
5G Status: 5G Launched
Telus CanadaOpenstack
Affirmed(Microsoft), NetcrackerEricsson, Nokia & Samsung
5G Status: 5G Launched
Rogers CanadaOpenstack

Ericsson
5G Status: 5G Launched
AirtelRed Hat Openstack/OpenshiftNokia CloudbandVMWare, Nokia, EricssonEricsson, Altiostar, Cisco, Nokia
5G Status: Pending. Expected 2021
5G Trials with Ericsson and Nokia in 2021
Vodafone Idea Ltd (VIL)Red Hat Openstack/OpenshiftEricsson & Nokia VNFM, Red Hat Ansible Automation platformN/AEricsson, Mavenir, NokiaCisco5G Status: Pending. Expected 2021
5G Trials with Ericsson and Nokia in 2021
Reliance Jio(RJIO)Customized Mirantis Openstack; Own SDN controller using ONOS & OpenDaylightIn house MANO Solution based on ONAPSamsung, Mavenir, Nokia, Oracle, CienaIn house 5G solution
5G Status: Pending. Expected 2021
5G Trials with Samsung, Ericsson, Nokia & In house products.
Vodafone UKVMWare vCloud NFV virtual infrastructure management platform - Openstack & Kubernetes along with Juniper Networks, Mirantis & Nuage Networks.VNFM from Nokia, EricssonEricsson, MavenirCisco, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, MavenirMediaTek, OPPO, Qualcomm,5G Status: 5G Launched
O2 (Telefonica) UKUNICA platform running on Openstack.Fusion Network - Telefonica's Cloud enabled network built using Juniper Networks
EricssonNokia, Ericsson, MavenirDenseAir, WaveMobile5G Status: 5G Launched
EE Limited (BT)Canonical Openstack; Juniper
HuaweiNokia, Ericsson, Huawei
5G Status: 5G Launched
Three UKRed Hat Openstack; Nokia Nuage SDN
Nokia, SamsungNokia, Samsung, Huawei, Affirmed Network, MavenirExfo, Mycom, BMC5G Status: 5G Launched
Deutsche Telekom (DT)Openstack based NFVI with help of Common NFVI Telco Taskforce

Vmware, Mavenir(Czech Republic, Slovakia & lab trial Germany), Ericsson (Croatia, Germany), Collaboration with Nokia and Qualcomm to validate end-to-end network slicing based on a multi-vendor platform using integrated Standalone 5G New Radio and 5G Core.)5G Status: 5G Launched
Poland in 2018
Austria in March 2019
Hungary in April 2020
Germany in June 2020
TelefonicaUNICA platform running on Openstack using Ericsson's Data Center & Cloud SDN.
Wind River's Titanium cloud also VIM for NFV Workloads on UNICA
Ericsson Cloud Manager & VNFMHuawei(Germany & Spain)
Mavenir (Germany)
Oracle(Spain), Nokia(Spain)		Nokia, Huawei, Ericsson, AWS(Germany for 5G Core along with Ericsson), Juniper(Spain for 5G backhaul)

5G Status:
Germany:Will go live on 3rd October.
5G turned on in Spain but commercially expected Oct/Nov 2020
VodafoneVMWare vCloud NFV virtual infrastructure management platform - Openstack & Kubernetes along with Juniper Networks, Mirantis & Nuage Networks.
Mavenir(Germany), Huawei(Italy), Ericsson(Netherlands, Spain, Czech Republic)Ericsson(Germany, Netherland, Portugal, Spain, Ireland,Romania), Nokia(Italy), Huawei(Spain, Italy,Romania, Germnay)Affirmed (M2M in Germany & Spain)5G Status: Launched in
Spain in June 2019
Italy in June 2019
Romania in June 2019
Germany in July 2019
Ireland in August 2019
Netherlands in April 2020
OrangeRed Hat Openstack, Juniper Network's Contrail solution for the SDN controller and hardware from HPE & Dell NetworkingONAP(Poland)NokiaNokia, Ericssson(Romania, Poland,Spain), ZTE (Spain), Huawei(Spain)Amdocs(Spain)5G Status:
Launched in Romania in Nov 2019
TelenorRed Hat Openstack/KVM with Red Hat Linux
Ericsson, Nokia, HuwaeiNokia & Ericsson (Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway)Affirmed(Finland)5G Status:
Launched in Norway only so far in March 2020.
Telecom ItaliaRed Hat Openstack
EricssonEricsson
5G Status: Launched in July 2019
SwisscomOpenstack based Ericsson Data Center & Cloud SDNEricsson Cloud Manager & VNFMEricssonEricssonHPE's Openstack based NFV cloud for TV and Media Services5G Status: Launched in April 2019. By Dec 2019, 90% 5G coverage.
SingtelVMWare Telco Cloud
EricssonEricsson
5G Status: Launch in 2021 in NSA directly
StarhubRed Hat Openstack & SDN Controller from Cisco & Huawei
Nokia
Starhub-M1 JV for 5G

Nokia

5G Status: Trial Aug2020-Feb 2021 for NSA implementation directly
M1VMWare, Paolo Alto & Huawei collab for nextgen SDN
Huawei, Nokia
5G Status: Launch in 2021 in NSA directly
SK TelecomTACO (SK Telecom All Container OpenStack) using Openstack's Airship project along with Openstack HelmT-MANO (In house)NokiaSamsung, Ericssson, NokiaSamsung(IOT), Microsoft(Gaming), AWS (Edge cloud)
5G Status: 5G Launched in April 2019
LG UPlusOpenstack & KVM based Wind River Titanium Cloud network virtualization platform

Affirmed Networks, EricssonJuniper5G Status: 5G Launched in April 2019
Korea TelecomRed Hat Openstack & Opendaylight based infra
Ericsson, NokiaEricsson, Samsung, Nokia, Cisco
5G Status: 5G Launched in April 2019
Rakuten Mobile (New)In house Cloud Native infrastructure

Nokia, Altiostar, Cisco, Mavenir, Airspan and NECIntel, Qualcomm, Sercomm(Small Cells)
Greenfield Operator planning to launch 4G and 5G
NTT docomoOpenstack based Ericsson Data Center
Nokia, NEC & FujitsuEricsson, Nokia, NEC & Fujitsu

au by KDDIOpenstack & KVM based Wind River Titanium Cloud network virtualization platform
Nokia, Ericsson, CiscoNokia, Ericsson, Cisco

Softbank (formerly Vodafone)Openstack based Ericsson Data Center & Cloud SDN
EricssonEricsson, NokiaAffirmed(Microsoft)
TelstraEricsson's Telco Cloud - Openstack NFVI and SDN offering
EricssonEricsson
5G Status: 5G launched in May 2019
Vodafone (VHA)Ericsson Data Center with Cisco SDN
Ericsson, CiscoEricsson, Cisco, Nokida
5G Status: 5G launched in March 2020
Optus


Ericsson
5G Status: 5G launched in November 2019
Vodafone

NokiaNokia

Spark

Cisco, Metaswitch(Microsoft)Nokia, Samsung, Huawei, Ericsson, Cisco

2Degrees

Affirmed(Microsoft), Metaswitch(Microsoft)


 

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