Nokia upgrades CloudBand software for 5G deployments

Addressing a combination of IT and telco use cases enables Nokia CloudBand customers to reduce cost and complexity compared to proprietary siloed approaches. Nokia has announced its latest CloudBand Infrastructure Software that promises to give communication service providers (CSPs) and other customers sharper cloud management solutions that improve service delivery and significantly reduce operating costs as 5G deployments get underway. In a 5G digital services era, there is greater dependence on containers in the cloud – CloudBand allows CSPs to gain experience with cloud-native architectures without introducing completely different tool chains, Nokia says. CloudBand gives CSPs the capability to unify their NFV infrastructure/virtualized infrastructure manager (NFVI/VIM) to support centralized and distributed edge cloud deployments and workloads. It also includes full SDN domain controller pre-integration to give customers an end-to-end solution with lower integration costs and improved time-to-market.