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Our CEO Anita Döhler will share NGMN’s view and recommendations on the panel “Embracing Cloud-Native: Transforming Enterprise Agility and Growth”.

Join her and other industry leaders on Monday 03 March 1-2pm CET for an insightful session on how cloud-native strategies are transforming the telecom industry – ensuring security, cost efficiency and control.

Register now and find all the details on the agenda and speakers here featuring some of our NGMN Membership.

Access our latest publications here.

We invite interested industry players to become part of our endeavour. 

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We were pleased to be supporting organisation of the Telecom TV “DSP Leaders World Forum” at the Fairmont Windsor Park, from 5–26 June 2024, where our CEO Anita Döhler and our esteemed Board Member and Co-host Laurent Leboucher (Orange) attended for this exciting two-day event.

Together with other industry leaders they  looked at the dynamics of the digital services sector and the likely connectivity requirements for the years ahead, as well as explored key elements of network technology and operations.

Catch up with the 2024 session on demand here.

Access our latest publications here.

We invite interested industry players to become part of our endeavour. 

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Get NGMN´s Cloud Native Manifesto publication here.

We invite interested industry players to become part of our endeavor. 

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Laurent Leboucher, Member of the NGMN Alliance Board (Orange), our CEO Anita Döhler and Programme Manager Chris Hogg joined other global leaders across Fixed Networks, Mobile Networks and Telco Software to share NGMN´s considerations and recommendations on 6G, ODiN and Green Future Networks.

Get NGMN´s Cloud Native Manifesto publication: https://lnkd.in/e8Yk96pU

We invite interested industry players to join our endeavor: ngmn.org

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On the first panel “Engaging with multi-vendor supply chain” Anita and other executives  discussed engagement with multi-vendor supply chains, when going for open and disaggregated solutions – based on early experiences on purchasing, integrating, deploying and operating solutions, such as Open RAN.

On the second panel “Upskilling Summit” – opening up conversations around diversity, Anita shared her personal experiences and how she aims to aspire many young talents to reach for their goals.

Get more info on the agenda & other speakers who attended: https://lnkd.in/gXb2gNNz

We invite interested industry players to join our endeavor: https://lnkd.in/epFxHhgH

Access our latest publication on ODiN here: https://www.ngmn.org/publications/operating-disaggregated-networks-v2-0.html
Also, check out our Cloud Native Manifesto: https://www.ngmn.org/wp-content/uploads/NGMN_Cloud_Native_Manifesto.pdf

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Frankfurt, Germany, 13 September 2023. Today, the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) published the “Cloud Native Manifesto: An Operator View”. This important publication provides key principles and requirements for Cloud Native Telecom from an operator’s point of view, and a clear view on the focus required by the industry in order to accelerate the adoption of cloud native solutions in mobile networks. “Cloud Native” refers to a way of designing and operating applications, network functions and services in an open and flexible environment with the intention to enable greater efficiency in operations and faster time to market for new services, thereby enabling operators to meet their customers’ needs. 

“Given the strategic impact of the move towards cloud native, the already experienced and foreseen implications in its adoption for operators, and the multiple options and paths provided by industry players, it is the belief of the NGMN Board that a clear position on cloud native is required,” said Arash Ashouriha, Chairman of the NGMN Board and SVP Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom. “With this publication – written by the NGMN Board and invited operator experts – we provide that steering to the industry by outlining a clear set of prioritised calls to action, which, once addressed, will drive the migration at scale towards cloud native network workloads, for the benefit of the ecosystem and end-users”, he added. 

“Whilst the industry is embracing cloud native as a paradigm to boost efficiency and enhance flexibility for current and future networks, it is clear that several issues remain, which will hamper the objective to achieve scale deployment – unless these are urgently, consistently and cohesively addressed through an industry wide effort” said Mauro Costa, NGMN Board Member and Director of Network Cloud and Continuous Delivery at Telia Company. “In particular, together with the entire industry, we need to ensure that solutions can be truly cloud native and multi-vendor and that we have the tools and processes in place to enable these” he added. 

On the journey to highly flexible, sustainable, and resilient networks for the future, the NGMN Board believes in applying the following cloud native principles to all layers of network infrastructure, applications and services*: 

1. Decoupled infrastructure and application lifecycles over vertical monoliths  
2. ‘API first’ over manual provisioning of network resources  
3. Declarative and intent-based automation over imperative workflows  
4. GitOps** principles over traditional network operations practices 
5. Unified Kubernetes (or the like) resource consumption patterns over domain-specific resource controllers 
6. Unified Kubernetes (or the like) closed-loop reconciliation patterns over vendor-specific element management practices  
7. Interoperability by well-defined certification processes over vendor-specific optimisation. 
   

Through its Operating Disaggregated Networks (ODiN) project, NGMN continues to shape and develop processes to enable the industry – operators and vendors – to efficiently manage the full lifecycle of disaggregated networks. The Cloud Native Manifesto will play an important role in advancing this work of NGMN to deliver a set of operating model blueprints for disaggregated networks. The ODiN project, led by Deutsche Telekom and co-led by Bell Canada and Smart/PLDT, working with the entire value chain at NGMN, will publish its next recommendations at MWC2024.   

“As an industry alliance, we focus on collaboration, to unlock the smartest opportunities and to solve the biggest challenges the industry faces”, said Anita Doehler, CEO NGMN Alliance. “With this manifesto, coupled with the work of our ODiN project, we are providing a solid foundation for the industry to move forward at pace with adopting this key technology”, she added. 

Special acknowledgements go to the following Operator Members, who made significant contributions to the development of this publication: Bell Canada, BT, Chunghwa Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Smart/PLDT, Telia, TELUS, Turkcell, Vodafone. 

The full Cloud Native Manifesto can be downloaded here

* Does not imply order of priority
** Everything as code, single point of truth, immutable source of trust

About the NGMN Alliance

The NGMN Alliance (NGMN) is a forum founded by world-leading Mobile Network Operators and open to all Partners in the mobile industry. Its goal is to ensure that next generation network infrastructure, service platforms and devices will meet the requirements of operators and ultimately will satisfy end user demand and expectations. The vision of NGMN is to provide impactful industry guidance to achieve innovative, sustainable and affordable mobile telecommunication services for the end user with a particular focus on Mastering the Route to Disaggregation / Operating Disaggregated Networks, Green Future Networks and 6G, whilst continuing to support 5G’s full implementation.

NGMN seeks to incorporate the views of all interested stakeholders in the telecommunications industry and is open to three categories of participants/NGMN Partners: Mobile Network Operators (Members), vendors, software companies and other industry players (Contributors), as well as research institutes (Advisors). NGMN invites all parties across the entire value chain to join the Alliance in these important endeavours.

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On our journey to highly flexible, sustainable, and resilient networks for the future, we believe in applying the following cloud native principles to all layers of network infrastructure, applications, and services*:

1. Decoupled infrastructure and application lifecycles over vertical monoliths;

2. ‘API first’ over manual provisioning of network resources;

3. Declarative and intent-based automation over imperative workflows;

4. GitOps** principles over traditional network operations practices;

5. Unified Kubernetes (or the like) resource consumption patterns over domain-specific resource controllers;

6. Unified Kubernetes (or the like) closed-loop reconciliation patterns over vendorspecific element management practices; and

7. Interoperability by well-defined certification processes over vendor-specific optimisation.

We also believe that openness and compatibility principles need to be key drivers of future Telecom and network services implementations to ensure we leverage Cloud Native principles to encourage software – orchestration – and hardware disaggregation.

Building a cloud native architecture calls for a joint effort among telecom operators, suppliers, and partners. This is described in this document by stating a few principal requirements and by outlining the area of focus for this journey from an operator point of view.

* Does not imply order of priority

** Everything as code, single point of truth, immutable source of trust

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Therefore, one of our core projects of this strategic pillar is “Operating Disaggregated Networks” – ODiN. This pillar also embraces network automation as well as cloud native projects.

The objective of this project is to focus on the end-to-end operating model. The project ODiN will consider, amongst others, the following key aspects: processes, technology/tools and skill requirements. It will also provide guidance towards the industry players regarding roles and opportunities provided by disaggregation.

CTOs need to start preparing now for future-proof operating models that are built on:

• Orchestration of powerful ecosystems of solution partners
• Openness and flexibility to integrate new partners and technologies
• Highly diverse set of skills and capabilities to drive innovation and efficiency

Why? Because disaggregating or breaking the network components into more parts and opening the interfaces will allow more companies, new and smaller ones, to develop solutions as well as hardware and software products. This will allow faster development cycles as more minds, teams and companies are working towards one goal – improving solutions, performance, making the network more efficient and ultimately improving customer experience. This implicates faster development and quicker time to market of new functions, features and products.

However, to master disaggregation, including to master most efficient and performant operation of disaggregated networks, requires the introduction of new processes, skills and tools, among other.

Collaborating in the pre-competitive environment, our ODiN project will generate valuable input for MNOs and the entire ecosystem to master that challenge and also support the selection of most fitting operating models,  related to MNO’s specific situation.

The NGMN projects will enable vendors to develop better and more efficient products. Operators will extremely benefit as technology will keep on getting better in a shorter span of time. In addition, disaggregation will also allow more and better customisation of products based on the specific needs of each operator.

For additional insights, please listen to three of our member project leads representing the regions of Americas, Asia and Europe and what they share on #DisaggregatedNetworks and #NetworkAutomation and their regional characteristics. Our „Operating Disaggregrated Networks” Panel Discussion with Carlos Fernandes (Deutsche Telekom), Lennart Olaivar (Smart/PLDT) and Sebastian Thalanany (UScellular) was streamed on Wednesday June 30th on TelecomTV. Please find the on demand recording here:

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