Red Hat, Inc. announced that KDDI Corporation has chosen Red Hat to provide an open standard platform for their mobile network services including their 5G core and more. With Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes,Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, KDDI is able to more quickly and flexibly develop and deploy new services and applications that can meet evolving market demands. A 5G core enables network slicing and additional compelling ultra-low latency services and applications.

KDDI's new platform will be optimized for these services, with the added ability to provide high bandwidth and increased reliability. In addition, the new platform can host legacy workload such as LTE, fixed line voice services and value-added services. In working with Red Hat, KDDI aims to benefit from: More efficient and unified operations with integrated multi-tenant management across the full platform from the core to the edge and support of legacy workloads to cloud-native; Lower operational costs due to the ability to scale dynamically as needed; Easier manageability and faster upgrades of multivendor 5G core workloads using automation and zero touch provisioning.

Red Hat and KDDI share a common vision to accelerate 5G and edge workloads across any network landscape by collaborating through a diverse partner ecosystem to drive innovation and rapid deployment for new services. KDDI recognizes Red Hat's vast ecosystem and longstanding history as an open source leader. With this decision, KDDI will be able to better work with ecosystem partners to advance open cloud-native innovations and unlock new and emerging technologies to fuel next-generation 5G services.

In the coming months, Red Hat and KDDI plan to publish a new white paper that delves deeper into the platform design.