Swisscom – Towards the Cloud Native Telco: Learning from the Trenches

In this talk Swisscom share their observations from working for the past two years on the deployment of their 5G Core platform.

In particular, while Kubernetes allows for full life-cycle automation of telco network functions, they see the need for four improvements areas:

1. Independence between network functions and the underlying infrastructure;
2. Increasing the maturity of configuration and state management of network functions;
3. Some constraints of the 3GPP architecture; and
4. The need for service observability.