Nokia has completed interoperability tests of 5G Standalone (SA) Packet Core’s User Plane Function (UPF) in the Sylva open-source cloud software environment. These tests took place at the Project Sylva Validation Centre in France, which is operated by Orange, a long-standing partner of Nokia.
Project Sylva’s main objective is to create an open-source cloud software framework designed for telecommunications and edge requirements. It aims to address the technical challenges faced by the industry.
Launched in late 2022 under the Linux Foundation Europe, Project Sylva has garnered support from Nokia and Orange. The validation of these tests is a significant milestone in the development of a flexible cloud-native solution that allows for large-scale deployments of 5G SA Core Network functions. Project Sylva aims to provide an efficient way for 5G private wireless enterprise customers to deploy Industry 4.0, IoT, and B2B2X use cases at the edge.
“Nokia’s fully cloud-native Core Network portfolio is designed to support the evolving telco cloud environment through open, flexible deployment options with greatly reduced integration and advanced automation capabilities,” said Fran Heeran, a senior vice president and general manager of core networks, cloud, and network services, at Nokia. “The successful completion of the interoperability tests of our 5G SA Core’s User Plane Function at Sylva Validation Centre, hosted by Orange, underscores our commitment and the advances we are making.”
“This successful test made with Nokia constitutes an important step towards the adoption of Sylva as an industrial standard reference implementation for demanding telco workloads,” said Laurent Leboucher, a group chief technology officer at Orange. “More specifically, it addresses use cases (industrial campus, IoT, computer vision) where the traffic can be managed locally on a simple and open infrastructure and can still be controlled by the public network. Many more use cases will come soon.”
“The validation programme is intended to demonstrate that cloud-native workloads can deploy in a reference Telco cloud stack, promoting standardisation to reduce fragmentation,” said Luis Velarde, a head of cloud and infrastructure at Telefónica and leader of validation programme at Sylva. “The validation of Nokia UPF in the platform provided by Sylva is a milestone for the adoption of a cloud-native designed ecosystem.”
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