SUSE Edge for Telco
SUSE Edge for Telco is a telco-optimized computing platform enabling communication service providers to shorten innovation cycles, enable new revenue streams and accelerate modernization of networks. It offers a proven telco solution to host Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs) for 5G Packet Core and RAN.
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Why SUSE for Telco?
SUSE Edge for Telco's open, cloud-native architecture provides CSPs with the carrier-grade performance required for telco workloads, enabling the rapid deployment of 5G.
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Faster Time-to-Market
SUSE Edge for Telco enables CSPs to automate and accelerate CNF provisioning and management. It is continuously validated for performance and security, with real world configurations on carrier-grade hardware.
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Automate CNF provisioning at scale
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Optimized for Telco-grade performance
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Become more energy efficient
Utilize hardware more efficiently, with smaller footprint Linux and Kubernetes distributions, purpose built for the telco edge
Karin Bering | Strategic Product manager, Ericsson
“SUSE Linux Enterprise Server allows us to bring together our platforms in a way that simplifies management and ensures compatibility across both VNFs and CNFs.”
Key Features & Benefits
SUSE Edge for Telco enables customers to leverage DevOps principles and tools to enable 1-click provisioning of hundreds of compliant clusters.
Zero touch provisioning and LCM
Automated cluster provisioning to baremetal via ClusterAPI and Metal3. Rancher GUI for bare metal inventory management. Enhanced ORAN support.
Platform support for Telco workloads
PTP and SyncE support for 4G/5G time sync. IPv6 and dual stack support in downstream clusters. DPDK & SR-IOV support for line rate data plane. Workload isolation with nested clusters.
Observability and continuous validation
xpanded Rancher manager scalability and multi-Rancher visibility GUI. Nightly validation of SUSE Telco stack and public availability of Telco stack validation results
Aligned with Project Sylva
SUSE ATIP is the commercially supported version of the Sylva stack and compliant with Sylva recommendations. Widely deployed in Sylva reference implementations hosting 5G functions
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Blog
Understanding 5G Telco Cloud in 2025 and Beyond
Accelerate Telco Edge Innovation: SUSE Edge 3.3 Unleashes Scalable Arm Power for 5G
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