The Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat solution is an engineered, fully-supported telecommunications stack for 5G core network and radio access network (RAN) use cases. Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat offers customers a zero-touch, end-to-end Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform deployment running on servers provisioned, managed, and monitored by Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite.
Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat is created by using the following components:
- Customer Information Questionnaire files and Enterprise Project Services.
- An Infrastructure cloud that consists of Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite and its Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform plug-in.
- One or more Management clouds that hosts Red Hat software on Dell PowerEdge servers.
- Several Workload clouds for running 5G core network and RAN containerized applications.
The following figure shows the region, cloud, hardware, and software arrangement that was tested for Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat:
- Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat architectural overview acronyms
- ACM—Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
- CNF—cloud-native network function
- OCP—Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- ODF—Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation