Ericsson and Red Hat have announced a partnership at MWC 2017 to accelerate the adoption of open-source solutions for IoT, 5G, and other next-generation technologies. The collaboration focuses on providing customers with openness, choice, and scale through joint engagements and an extensive open-source portfolio. Together, they aim to deliver an integrated, flexible, and user-friendly cloud platform, leveraging their strengths in software-defined infrastructure and carrier-grade reliability.

1. Ericsson and Red Hat Partnership | Mobile World Congress 2017 | Public | 2017-02-27 | Page 1
Red Hat and Ericsson
Partnering to deliver
openness and choice
MWC Barcelona 2017

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Partnership to Accelerate Adoption of
Open Source Solutions
Drive innovation and new
product offerings based
on NFVi, SDN, SDI,
Containers and Services
Enable customers on
their journey to IoT, 5G
and other next-
generation solutions
Focus on openness
and choice with scale
and efficiency

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Collaboration Areas
Open Source Portfolio
#1 #2 #3
• OpenStack
• OpenDayLight
• OPNFV
• CNCF
• NFVi
• SDN
• SDI
• Containers
• Services
Business
• Joint engagements
• Proof-of-concept
• Co-marketing

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Giving operators more choices
The right environment for the right workload
CUSTOMER PLATFORMSCUSTOMER PLATFORMS
Operator choses the platform(s) to use
Ericsson becomes a single point of ownership and support
Securing multivendor, avoiding lock-in

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Leading in open source
The telco leader fully committed to the open community
• Founder, member and top contributor
through partners
• Realizing efficient telco workload support,
adding carrier grade reliability
The Open Source leader and top contributor
#1 OpenStack
#1 CEPH
#2 Kubernetes
#2 Docker
#1 KVM
#2 Linux
#2 Open
Daylight
#1 Open
vSwtich
UPSTREAM
FIRST

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The best from two worlds
• Industrialized OpenStack Solution
• Support SLA for RHEL workloads
• Software Defined Storage (CEPH)
• End-to-end NFVI solution support
• Carrier Grade
• Unified O&M (Fault and performance management)
• Advanced networking
• Software Defined Infrastructure
• Common management interface
A FLEXIBLE, SCALABLE, CLOUD PLATFORM FOR ENTERPRISES AND TELCOS

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Integrated with Ericsson NFVi
Ericsson Hyperscale
Datacenter System 8000
Ericsson Cloud SDNEricsson Cloud Manager

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INDUSTRIALIZED PLATFORM – PURE OPEN SOURCE – USER FRIENDLY
Industrialized OpenStack
Reference Configuration
Fault/Performance Mgmt.
Software Defined Networking
KEY functionalities
Common management interface
Infrastructure LCM
Software Defined Storage
Software Defined Infrastructure

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100+ Years of
Managing Global,
Predictable, Secure
Infrastructure
Understands
Governance In
180+ Countries
Experts at
Managing
Multiple Generations
of Technology
Your Trusted Partner
Cloud