Cloud-native automation: assessing vendor support for Nephio

Nephio faces challenges with winning the support of vendors for its open-source, Kubernetes-based cloud-native automation initiative. Network function providers, cloud infrastructure vendors and OSS/orchestration vendors should assess how they can benefit from Nephio and how they can help communications service providers (CSPs) to achieve their cloud-native ambitions.

This report analyses the level of vendor support for Nephio and identifies key vendor motivations and challenges. 

Information included in this report

• An overview of the cloud-native automation market
• An analysis of vendor motivations for joining Nephio, alongside the key challenges that Nephio faces in gaining market support from different types of vendor
• Actionable insights and recommendations for vendors.