In 2023, Red Hat met with so many customers and partners - from industry event interactions and individual meeting rooms to cross country visits and late-night service calls, we've learned so much from our trusted ecosystem.
Now, service providers will be able to leverage AI models within networks.
Think about radio access networks - service providers can leverage AI models in the RAN and core for a more dynamic control of frequencies, sectors, cells and base stations to go beyond just time-of-day presets.
Blurred boundaries between network cloud, core, edge and IT are driving service providers to embrace a holistic approach that unifies management practices and leverages shared technologies.
Service providers will be paying extra attention to systems security and risk managementService providers' disaggregated networks and IT transformation create well-defined layers using cloud native design principles.
Striving to balance market momentum and risk, service providers will look to SaaS and on-demand offerings from hyperscalers and software vendors to accelerate innovation before deployment of these capabilities at scale.
Service providers have negotiated large committed spend agreements with multiple cloud providers, primarily for digital business applications.
They are also considering these providers for modernized operation and business support systems as well as specific network use cases with additional caution, given service providers' requirements for operational efficiency, security, span of control and economics at scale.
Many service providers will attempt to build the elasticity and scale of public cloud capabilities into their own environments and may also choose to build specific MEC and edge offerings through various partner arrangements to pursue geographic and industrial solution opportunities.
Service providers allocate a substantial 20% to 40% of operating costs towards energy expenses.
This commitment to sustainability extends deep into the supply chain, compelling service providers to exert pressure on vendors to consider carbon footprints, particularly in relation to network infrastructure hardware and software.
In order to increase their reliability at scale while improving their net carbon footprint, service providers will look to meter and automate the measurement and control of their power consumption and cooling using innovative hardware, software and AI models - especially in the RAN but also in their core, datacenter and hybrid cloud deployments.
With these initiatives and challenges in mind, the focus for service providers will be to embrace intelligent automation and AI technologies.
This is fueled by increasing interest rates, which make it very expensive for service providers to secure capital for new projects as well as serve existing obligations with existing network equipment.
There will be greater collaboration between manufacturers and service providers with the rise of private 5G networks and edge computingThis year at Red Hat's Open5G event, we talked with Yesmean Luk, private networks practice lead at STL Partners, about enterprise edge and private networks opportunities.
Service providers are perfectly positioned to help manufacturers handle the massive increase in the volume of machine generated data.
Service providers have gained a nuanced understanding of the actual costs associated with operating across multiple clouds.
Service providers modernizing networks and IT with Red Hat technology have seen their businesses flourish, while keeping costs under control, like being able to launch new applications 50% faster and reduce AI development and operations costs by 70%. Red Hat's portfolio delivers built-in security capabilities and extensive automation, while our trusted software supply chain practices help to reduce the risk in the underlying application and cloud platforms.
Red Hat and its extensive partner ecosystem help service providers take control of their expanding public, private and hybrid-multi cloud resources, gaining more visibility, and operational flexibility to implement innovation strategies that work best for them.
To help service providers operate in a more energy efficient way, Red Hat is working with the open source community, partners and customers to define and build a sustainable architecture in a cloud-native environment.
This Cyber News was published on www.redhat.com. Publication date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:43:04 +0000