Technology

At AWS, I lead the global container practice for two key verticals – Telcos and M&E (Media and Entertainment). My group spends a lot of our time being customer-focused and working with customers & partners on a daily basis to understand trends, use cases, and business goals.

As service providers begin to roll out 5G POCs and initial deployments, there is no question that these cloud native platforms will be huge Capex and Opex investments on their part. These platforms should be able to handle diverse workloads such as telco, edge and enterprise applications. They must be efficient as well as robust from an operational standpoint. They must also serve the operator well for years. While it is never my intention to be hyperbolic or combative, the question is if Openstack is a viable 5G platform – when compared with hyperscaler clouds.

Using the above architecture and dataflow model, eBPF programs can be attached to key ingress and egress points when the kernel processes networking packets. That leads us to SDN, monitoring, tracing et al.

This post is an introduction to eBPF where we will discuss the key capabilities Solutions Architects and Technology Managers should look for. We will follow up with a deep-dive around individual capabilities in the following posts.

This post will consider the top four intertwined system architecture considerations in deploying edge applications successfully on a hardware platform.

We continue our technology-focused look into industry verticals by beginning a series in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry. Perhaps no other industry vertical, apart from Healthcare, has had such…

This post discusses the third 5G architecture pattern – where both the 5G Core is deployed on the cloud and the Radio Access Network (RAN) components are deployed on managed hardware. We will also examine how it solves the major usage scenarios defined for 5G by 3GPP while designing for the seven architecture domains we discussed in the previous blog.

I will be attending the Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona from February 27 to March 4. MWC Barcelona is the world’s most influential event for the connectivity industry.

For most production deployments, the 5G core should be deployed on a hyperscale cloud provider. This is to ensure scalability and dynamic orchestration of network resources over an infinitely scalable base. This blog post covers the key reasons to do so.

This post discusses the first 5G architecture pattern – where both the 5G Core and the Radio Access Network (RAN) are deployed on the cloud.