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Canonical Open Source technology building blocks provide a unified approach to enabling Service Providers to meet any current or future use-cases, from OpenRAN, next generation Core (5G and beyond) or AI at the edge.

Canonical’s offerings adhere to the following core principles:

Pure upstream - leverage the power of the community to bring value and avoid lock-in

• Consistently quick releases after upstream (e.g. typically 2 weeks after upstream Kubernetes releases)
• Not forked, stripped down or having divergent APIs from upstream
• Contributions upstreamed and not residing in separate branches
• Facilitate greater adoption with Day 0 - Day 2 automation and commercial support

Meet demanding telco requirements - include the features and functionality needed in Telco environments.

• Performance - Low latency & real time kernels, EPA support (e.g.SR-IOV, DPDK, CPU Pinning), GPU support
• Longevity - partners can build products with confidence having a 10 year maintenance on all LTS releases
• Deployment flexibility - common open source tooling across private cloud, public cloud and edge
• Efficiency - systems management with Landscape, Observability stack, automation to reduce complexity (MAAS; Juju)

Secure - be the trusted source for open source to partners

• Available for use - (FIPS, Common Criteria, CIS, and DISA STIG profiles, snaps, Ubuntu Pro via Public Clouds),
• Supported - CVE patching on Ubuntu and 28,000+ 3rd party open source software packages for up to 10 years
• Continued commitment to security via our engagement with Service Provider Customers, Governmental Bodies and Standards/Security bodies to ensure product and solution compliance to the strictest Government regulations in the US, EU and Asia (e.g. FIPS, NCSC TSR compliance, CIS hardening, etc)

Commercially supported - Effective support models that bring “peace of mind” to partner production environments.

• Clear responsibility and accountability holistically from the infrastructure up to and including the applications
• SLA based phone & ticketing support
• Managed Services options for Infrastructure (Open Stack, Kubernetes, Ceph) and selective Applications.

Cost effective - deliver partner ROI that facilitates open source adoption & deployment

• A single Ubuntu OS from development to production; no “community” vs “enterprise” versions. Choose from standard, low latency & real time kernels.
• Cater to well defined central deployments and to high volume edge deployments
• “Mutual success” commercial model with simple per node pricing (physical or virtual)