13 October 2022

Deutsche Telekom and Mavenir have successfully deployed cloud native 5G Core to Deutsche Telekom in Germany. Mavenir supplied its software applications to run on Deutsche Telekom’s defined hardware and the existing Kubernetes-based platform of its German business, ensuring an open architecture approach.

The Converged Packet Core was integrated with Deutsche Telekom’s existing multi-vendor access network and other system components. The new Converged Packet Core supports data, voice, and messaging services, as well as network slicing. The initial network slicing use case focuses on live video broadcasting.

The Mavenir solution is based on automated software delivery and network upgrades. This will allow new Converged Packet Core services with all the required network functions to be deployed in minutes by using the automation framework of Deutsche Telekom. It is largely self-updating for the entire lifecycle of each application. The platform can automatically synchronise production environment resources and configuration with changes expressed in code.

“The deployment of a cloud-native Standalone (SA) core marks a key milestone in the evolution of our 5G architecture,” said Abdurazak Mudesir, Group CTO, Deutsche Telekom. “This sets us on a path towards a fully automated network with the reliability, massive scale and flexibility required to deliver innovative 5G SA services to our consumer and enterprise customers.”

“The Mavenir solution deployed with Deutsche Telekom in Germany, creates the foundation for the future introduction of 5G standalone enabling new applications and services to take advantage of 5G features such as low latency and network slicing,” said Pardeep Kohli, Mavenir’s president and CEO.