Will Nephio become the standard for cloud-native automation in the network cloud?
02 December 2022 | Research
Strategy report | PPTX and PDF (6 slides) | Cloud and AI Infrastructure
Nephio is an open-source project launched by the Linux Foundation and Google Cloud. It aims to standardise cloud-native automation for the network cloud across multiple domains so that communication service providers (CSPs) can fully realise the benefits of cloud-native architecture.
Topics included in this report
- The potential benefits of Nephio’s Kubernetes-based approach to configuration compared to current approaches
- The impact on CSPs and vendors of standardising cloud-native automation across different network domains
- How CSPs and vendors can contribute to Nephio
Author

Joseph Attwood
Analyst
Ameer Gaili
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