Towards the Cloud Native Telco: Learning from the Trenches

Explore Swisscom's journey towards cloud-native transformation in this conference talk. Gain insights into the challenges and learnings from deploying a 5G Core platform using Kubernetes. Discover the four key improvement areas identified for telco service development and operation within the CNCF ecosystem. Learn about the need for network function independence, mature configuration and state management, addressing 3GPP architecture constraints, and enhancing service observability. Understand how these improvements can accelerate delivery, improve efficiency, and maintain reliable services in a competitive telco environment. Hear about Swisscom's experiences with Git Pipeline, Simano, and vendor relationships. Engage with the speakers' call for advancements in cloud-native technologies for telecommunications.

Introduction
Josua Hiller
What we do
Simano
Git Pipeline
Learnings
Independence
Configuration Management
Architecture Standards
Observability
Call for Improvement
Conclusions
Questions
When did you start the journey
How are you managing your relationship with telco vendors