Transform your 5G infrastructure with Canonical
Build the foundation for an open, sovereign, AI-ready carrier-grade telco cloud platform with Canonical. Meet your future 5G Core demands with a trusted suite of tools that is scalable, flexible, security maintained, and delivered with predictable costs.
An open foundation for high-performance 5G Core networks
Comprehensive 24/7 support to sustain continuous network availability
Up to 15 years of security maintenance
Built-in support for advanced networking and data-path optimization to reduce network latency
Scalability to meet demand
Trusted by leading telco providers
“In the last year, we’ve moved the entire mobile base for EE onto this infrastructure. So if you’re on EE, you’re on Canonical.”
Gary Roberts
Director, Network Cloud
BT Group
“We wanted to ensure that we wouldn’t be bogged down with licence fees long-term. Most of the open source vendors we looked at charged steep per core or per server licence fees, which would have meant escalating costs as we scaled up. Canonical was the exception.”
Jahanzeb Arshad
VP Operations
Nayatel
Excellence in 5G operations
Meet stringent 5G Core requirements with ease. Canonical offers a suite of tools and support that enables you to maintain the highest standard of service.
Reliable performance
Ensure continuous network uptime and minimal service disruptions
High throughput
Achieve high-throughput packet processing for demanding Core workloads through advanced hardware acceleration capabilities
High scalability
Handle exponential growth in connected devices and data traffic
A trusted open source foundation
Protect the network from cyber threats with a secure-by-design platform that is backed by up to 15 years of security maintenance
Efficient automation
Streamline network operations and simplify Day-2 lifecycle management across your infrastructure with model-driven orchestration tools
AI readiness
Establish a consistent infrastructure substrate that allows models, agents, and network functions to run side-by-side with production-grade reliability
Leading in open source and cloud-native transformation
An OS that's built for performance and scale
Ubuntu offers a unified enterprise-grade Linux experience across desktops, servers, devices, and public clouds. With real-time kernel capabilities and support for advanced processors, Ubuntu meets the stringent demands of 5G Core networks, enhancing data-plane efficiency and ensuring production-grade reliability.
Data plane efficiency
Ubuntu integrates advanced, high-performance software libraries and virtual switching functionalities designed to improve network performance. By enabling faster data processing, these capabilities help to ensure seamless and efficient network operations.
Scalability and flexibility
Deploy and manage your infrastructure with ease. Ubuntu Server scales as your needs grow, handling increases in demand and the expansion of 5G networks, while staying responsive and cost-effective.
Centralized management
Using Landscape, administrators can automate security patching, audit compliance profiles, and monitor system performance across thousands of Ubuntu instances simultaneously, offering lean operational overhead as your clusters grow.
Security and compliance as standard
Benefit from the stability of Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) releases, which include security patching for 5 years as standard. Get Ubuntu Pro, Canonical’s optional enterprise-grade subscription, to gain access to a trusted open source repository, compliance profiles for the most stringent security standards, and up to 15 years of vulnerability fixes for your OS, infrastructure, and applications.
Comprehensive hardware support and integration
Achieve high reliability and performance with extensive hardware support, including NVIDIA Bluefield, as well as features like Intel vRAN boost and AVX512 for packet processing.
Ubuntu certified hardware ensures the best performance and reliability with Ubuntu. Each device undergoes rigorous testing for OS compatibility, covering over 500 tests including audio, Ethernet, wireless, and power management.
One subscription for security, compliance, and support across your stack
Ubuntu Pro is Canonical’s comprehensive subscription for open source security, support, and compliance.
Ubuntu Pro brings you comprehensive coverage and up to 15 years of security maintenance and vulnerability management for everything – from your OS and infrastructure to your application stack – on desktops, servers, public clouds, or smart devices.
Get access to a trusted repository of open source toolchains and frameworks, automation tools, hardening and compliance profiles for FIPS, DISA-STIG, and other security standards, along with advanced features designed to meet the stringent requirements of 5G Core networks.
Cloudify your data center
Run your data center like a public cloud with Canonical. We provide a unified, cloud-native infrastructure to integrate virtualized network functions (VNFs) and cloud-native network functions (CNFs) straightforwardly. With this unified approach, you can modernize your data center progressively, while meeting the most stringent 5G Core requirements.
Virtualize key network functions with Canonical OpenStack
OpenStack is our highly customizable, enterprise-grade cloud platform. For modern telecom networks, OpenStack provides the infrastructure necessary to host VNFs efficiently, helping telecom companies to achieve the requirements for 5G Core networks.
What's included
- Enhanced platform awareness (EPA)
- Service chaining and integration
- Workload lifecycle management
- Scalability and flexibility
Orchestrate your core with Kubernetes
As a proud member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Canonical Kubernetes helps telecom networks to manage CNFs. Kubernetes is the leading container orchestration platform. It automates workload deployment, scaling, and operations.
What's included
- Automated scaling
- Self-healing
- Rolling updates
- Enhanced platform awareness (EPA)
Deploy private 5G networks with minimal operational overhead
Canonical provides a lightweight, cloud-native infrastructure substrate to host localized core network functions and edge applications side-by-side. Our unified approach minimizes deployment complexity, so enterprises and system integrators can launch trusted, high-performance private networks.
Build your private 5G network with MicroCloud
Our lightweight, open source cloud platform, MicroCloud, helps to simplify private 5G network deployments. With MicroCloud, you can establish a highly available clustered environment in minutes, scale localized core infrastructure, and host edge-native workloads.
What's included
- Fine-grained access control and multi-tenancy
- Support for system containers and virtual machines
- High availability (HA)
- Enhanced platform awareness (EPA)
Gain end-to-end visibility with Canonical Observability Stack (COS)
COS delivers a highly integrated, low-operations telemetry suite built on high performance open source tools. Engineered to run efficiently alongside lean edge-core deployments, it provides a comprehensive monitoring framework to maintain network health and visibility.
What's included
- Centralized observability dashboards
- Multi-dimensional metrics collection and analysis
- Cloud-native log aggregation and correlation
- Distributed tracing and telemetry correlation
Learn more
Webinars
Suggested reading
- Unlock the full potential of Kubernetes for telco performance
- The next era of telco clouds: get open infrastructure choice with Sylva and Canonical Kubernetes
- How telco companies can reduce 5G infrastructure costs with modern open source cloud-native technologies
- Safeguarding your telco infrastructure with Ubuntu Pro
- 12 year long-term support for Canonical Kubernetes
- How to run workloads on bare metal Kubernetes with MAAS
- Overcome the telco dilemma: reduce 5G infrastructure costs with open source
- Discover how HPE and Canonical's Kubernetes Telco validated design can future-proof your network