The open-source initiative was set up in 2022 – participants include Europe’s biggest operator groups under the auspices of the Linux Foundation
The telco cloud stack initiative, Project Sylva, has released v1.2 of its software stack. The announcement says that the update “introduces key enhancements aimed at improving scalability and performance, particularly in containerising workloads and optimising cloud-native operations for telecom operators”.
Project Sylva was launched in 2022 and members include Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Red Hat, Suse, Telefónica, TIM and Vodafone. Its purpose is to develop “a cloud-native, scalable, and energy-efficient telco cloud infrastructure that will meet the evolving demands of modern telecom services. This infrastructure will support technologies such as Open RAN, edge computing, and AI-driven networks,” the Linux Foundation stated.
“I’m glad to see that Sylva continues to deliver at a regular pace, bringing significant additional features and including some for the telco & IT convergence. This release goes one step further towards our production requirements and deployments over our international footprint,” comments Guillaume Nevicato, Orange Telco Cloud Product Manager and TSC Co-Chairman of the Sylva project
Kai Steuernagel, VP of Cloud Technology at Deutsche Telekom, adds, “While Sylva continues to deliver these new releases, the project also puts its focus on a longer-term view and how it should evolve in the future where new challenges arise. There is still some time until 6G will be deployed, but the time should be spent wisely to close the gap of the fast evolving IT cloud technology and the NT [network technology] space and eventually open the game for a true conversion.”
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