Architectural overviewThe 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. Customer Information Questionnaire files and Enterprise Project Services Infrastructure cloud Management cloudsDell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat requires at least one management cloud located in the National Data Center. The management cloud deploys and manages workload clouds, which host the communication service provider's 5G core network and radio access network. Workload cloudsWorkload clouds provide the containers as a service (CaaS) layer for the 5G core network and radio access network (RAN) workloads. Cloud-native network functions Radio access network components Red Hat subscriptions Whether you install Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as a cluster with Internet access or as a disconnected cluster, all Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform-related components that you install require registration. Validated and tested hardware componentsThe following tables list validated servers, network interface controllers, storage and storage types, and switches used for internal testing. Validated softwareThe following software is used to create Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat.