Dell Technologies believes that digital transformation is a key initiative for telecommunications customers, and that how to effectively manage infrastructure is a key challenge that must be addressed for successful transformation. To answer this question, Dell Technologies has created Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat, a solution that combines telecom-grade hardware and software products with professional deployment and support services to meet telecom workload needs and address the challenge of deploying and managing a physically distributed, ultra-low latency, cloud-native infrastructure.
The Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat solution uses the following tested software and hardware:
- Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite
- Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
- Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation
- Dell PowerEdge R660 or PowerEdge R650 servers for provisioning, management, and control planes
- Dell PowerEdge R760 or PowerEdge R750 servers for compute and storage
- Dell PowerEdge XR5610, Dell PowerEdge XR8610t, or Dell PowerEdge XR8620t servers for edge computing and radio access networks
- (Optional) Dell PowerSwitch S5232F-ON as the top-of-rack switch
- (Optional) Dell PowerSwitch S3048-ON or Dell PowerSwitch S4148F-ON as the out-of-band management switch