Nokia-led consortium to develop 5G platform-as-a-service

News Wireless Europe 9 AUG 2017
Nokia-led consortium to develop 5G platform-as-a-service

Nokia Bell Labs announced that it will be leading a consortium of industry vendors, operators, IT companies, SMEs and academic institutions in an EU-funded project to develop a next-generation Platform-as-a-Service (NGPaaS) for the 5G era. With NGPaaS, the consortium's goal is to realise the vision of adopting the PaaS model to optimally support cloud-native 5G systems, said Nokia Bell Labs in a statement.

The company added that an ideal 5G cloud-native platform must facilitate building, shipping and running virtual network function (VNF) applications with 'telco-grade' quality in terms of latency, reliability and capacity, thereby delivering the promise of 5G performance. It should also combine all sorts of third-party applications with VNF ones to create more versatile and powerful cloud objects.

The project is set to last 24 months and the 12-strong consortium includes BT, Orange and Atos, said Nokia Bell Labs, adding that NGPaaS is part of the 5G Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership (5G-PPP) launched in 2014 as an initiative between the European Union and telecom concerns.


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