This week, Red Hat is attending OpenInfra Summit to share the news that Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 will be released in the coming weeks. This release will deliver enhanced flexibility, efficiency and security features with new management and operation tools that enable OpenStack users to further manage their infrastructure at the edge.
Last year, we announced continued efforts for service providers to rely on Red Hat OpenStack Platform as they build out massive, modern 5G network infrastructures. This year - we’re extending this work by helping service providers bridge existing 4G investments with new 5G networks. This helps realize advanced use cases like 5G standalone (SA) core, network, storage and compute and open virtualized radio access networks with increased resilience from the core to the edge.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 will enable service providers to scale faster and maximize their resources through a virtualized control plane running on Red Hat OpenShift. This is designed to drive optimized network capacity and performance, greater efficiency and further simplify deployments at scale, allowing for the management of both 4G virtualized and 5G containerized workloads from the same environment. This helps better position service providers to future-proof investments without leaving workloads behind and progress on their cloud-native journey more easily.