Written by Andrew Wooden for Telecoms.com
Finnish telco Elisa and kit vendor Ericsson have deployed what they say is the first In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) capability on a live production 5G Standalone network in Europe.
The ISSU is being touted as a milestone in automating and creating self-driving networks by the firms. Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core is designed to be fully cloud-native and is deployed using containers with Kubernetes orchestration, we’re told.
The benefit of such a thing is apparently ‘the ability to have an implementation architecture built on smaller building blocks – microservices – each of which can have separated lifecycle management processes.’
Each microservice running in a live network can be upgraded and managed separately, which is supposed to mean there are no interruptions during the upgrade process or any impact on network KPIs.
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