Blog posts written by Serdar Vural

Serdar Vural
27 February 2025

Experience Edge AI use cases with Canonical at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2025

Article 5G

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) are increasingly driving change in telecommunications. Increased adoption is building organizational confidence in the positive impact that AI can bring, which in turn is leading business leaders to push for AI/ML to expand into new use cases. As such, AI/ML will play...

Serdar Vural
27 February 2025

Serdar Vural
26 February 2025

5G without compromise: Building mission-critical private networks for Industry 4.0 with open source

Article 5G

Enterprises across industry verticals are looking for new ways to increase the efficacy of their businesses. One way to do this is building an efficient pipeline of processes, employees, devices, and services that are all tightly integrated to get the best return on investment. However, this requires an efficient...

Serdar Vural
26 February 2025

Serdar Vural
25 February 2025

Cloud-native telecom infrastructure with Canonical Kubernetes at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2025

Article 5G

At this year’s Mobile World Congress, we’re excited to showcase the capability of Canonical Kubernetes LTS (long-term support), which brings up to 12 years of support and security maintenance to Kubernetes. Available via Ubuntu Pro, Canonical Kubernetes LTS will prove to be transformational for telco customers who...

Serdar Vural
25 February 2025

Serdar Vural
12 November 2024

Bringing automation to open source 5G software at Ubuntu Summit 2024

Article 5G

In today’s massive private mobile network (PMN) market, one of the most common approaches to PMN software and infrastructure are proprietary private business solutions. However, as our recent demonstrations at the October 2024 Ubuntu Summit in the Hague showed, open source software with enterprise-grade support is a...

Serdar Vural
12 November 2024

Serdar Vural
28 October 2024

Canonical at India Mobile Congress 2024 – a retrospective

OpenStack AI

With an ambition to become Asia’s technology hub for telecommunications in the 5G/6G era, India hosts the annual India Mobile Congress (IMC) in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. IMC is an annual trade exhibition for the telecommunication sector, bringing together operators, system integrators, as well as software and hardware...

Serdar Vural
28 October 2024

Serdar Vural
4 October 2024

Build your private 5G network with Charmed Aether SD-Core

Article 5G

You might recall that we recently announced the beta release of Charmed Aether SD-Core, bringing automation to the Linux Foundation’s open source 5G software-defined core (SD-Core) networking software. SD-Core is distributed by the Aether project and is for anyone who wants to build a private 5G network. Canonical’s...

Serdar Vural
4 October 2024

Serdar Vural
26 September 2024

5G mobile networks: A driver for edge computing

Article 5G

Recently, a striking report published by Omdia and Canonical highlighted that 86% of communication service providers (CSPs) are optimistic about the future of edge computing on telco networks. This is a market that is expected to grow substantially in the coming years, with our report shedding light on the motivation...

Serdar Vural
26 September 2024

Serdar Vural
20 September 2024

Canonical and OpenAirInterface to collaborate on open source telecom network infrastructure

Article 5G

Canonical is excited to announce that we are collaborating with OpenAirInterface (OAI) to drive the development and promotion of open source software for open radio access networks (Open RAN). Canonical will bring automation in software lifecycle management to OAI’s RAN stack, alongside additional infrastructure...

Serdar Vural
20 September 2024

Serdar Vural
19 July 2024

What is Open RAN?

Article 5G

You may have heard of the term Open Radio Access Networks (RAN) widely used in the telecom industry in recent years. In this blog, we are going to explain what Open RAN is, why it represents an important technology transformation, and how it will impact the telecom ecosystem. It is the first part of a

Serdar Vural
19 July 2024

Serdar Vural
11 July 2024

Bringing Real-time Ubuntu to Amazon EKS Anywhere customers with Ubuntu Pro

Article 5G

Earlier this year at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 in Barcelona, Canonical announced the availability of Real-time Ubuntu on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services Anywhere (EKS Anywhere). With this technology enablement, a telecom operator can confidently run its Open Radio Access Network (RAN) software workloads on...

Serdar Vural
11 July 2024

Serdar Vural
11 June 2024

Introducing Charmed Aether SD-Core: Automated open source 5G mobile core network

Article 5G

We are excited to announce that Charmed Aether SD-Core – our automation solution for the open source 5G core networking software distributed by The Linux Foundation – is available as a beta release. Charmed Aether SD-Core is a set of Juju charms (open source software operators) that can automate the deployment,...

Serdar Vural
11 June 2024

Serdar Vural
29 February 2024

Telco-grade Sylva-compliant Canonical platforms

Article Cloud and server

In December 2023, Canonical joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe to provide fully open-source and upstream telco platform solutions to the project. Sylva aims to tackle the fragmentation in telco cloud technologies and the vendor lock-in caused by proprietary platform solutions, by defining a common...

Serdar Vural
29 February 2024

Serdar Vural
23 February 2024

Bringing automation to telco edge clouds at scale

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Spectro Cloud have collaborated to develop an effective and composable telco edge cloud solution, which is built with Canonical’s open source infrastructure solutions and Spectro Cloud’s Palette containers-as-a-service (CaaS) platform. This technology stack empowers operators to benefit from the cost...

Serdar Vural
23 February 2024

Serdar Vural
26 January 2024

Meet Canonical at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024

Article Ubuntu

We’re returning to MWC in 2025 – check out our latest blog and stop by our booth The world’s largest and most influential telecommunications exhibition event, Mobile World Congress (MWC), is taking place in Barcelona on 26-29 February 2024. Canonical is excited to join this important annual event once again and meet the...

Serdar Vural
26 January 2024