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Wajeeha Hamid

Wajeeha Hamid

12 posts

Product Manager

Wajeeha Hamid
14 February 2024

Auto-scaling of Intel FlexRAN components based on MicroK8s and Ubuntu real-time kernel support

Telecommunications Article

RAN has incrementally evolved with every generation of mobile telecommunications, thus enabling faster data transfers between user devices and core networks. The amount of data has increased more than ever with an increase in the number of interlinked devices. With existing network architectures, challenges lie in handling increasing work ...

Wajeeha Hamid
6 June 2023

How telco companies can reduce 5G infrastructure costs with open source

OSM Article

5G has the potential to revolutionise the telecommunications industry, offering high speed and connectivity for a wide range of devices ranging from radio access networks (RAN), user equipment (UE), and core networks. However, the high costs associated with 5G infrastructure have been a significant blocker for adoption, hindering innovati ...

Wajeeha Hamid
23 February 2023

Closed loop architecture and persistent volumes for network functions – Highlights in OSM release THIRTEEN

OSM Article

Open Source MANO (OSM) has announced its thirteenth version which is supported for six months (short-term support). This release targets feature enhancements for VNF vendors residing in the OSM ecosystem. It features new scalable architecture for service assurance and closed-loop operations, using Apache Airflow and Prometheus. It is capa ...

Wajeeha Hamid
1 December 2022

Telco network healing and auto-scaling with Open Source MANO TWELVE

Ubuntu Article

The second Open Source MANO (OSM) release with Long Term Support (LTS) has landed. Open Source MANO Release TWELVE offers two years of support with security patches. The release has outstanding features to offer to both VNF vendors and system integrators residing in the MANO (Management and Network Orchestration) ecosystem. ETSI OSM (Open ...

Wajeeha Hamid
1 November 2022

Public cloud for telco – Part 3: Microsoft Azure

Cloud and server Article

This is the third blog from a series focusing on how public clouds meet telecommunication operators’ business demands. In the previous two blogs, we talked about how Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform have enabled telcos to run critical workloads on public clouds. In this last part of our series, you’ll hear about ...

Wajeeha Hamid
22 September 2022

Public cloud for telco – Part 2: Google Cloud Platform

Networking Article

This is the second blog in a series focusing on how telecom operators can leverage public clouds to meet their business demands. In a previous blog, we talked about Amazon Web Services (AWS) and how its services made it possible for telcos to shift towards public clouds. In this blog, you’ll get to know about ...

Wajeeha Hamid
6 September 2022

Public clouds for telco – Part I: Amazon Web Services

Networking Article

The last few years have brought immense change in telco technology adoption trends, with the introduction of 5G,  artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, and mobile edge computing. So, finally, telcos are evolving? Yes, 5G has dramatically enhanced the radio access network and core network. The advent ...

Wajeeha Hamid
26 January 2022

Telco workloads orchestration in multi-clouds environments – focus for Open Source MANO release ELEVEN

Cloud and server Article

Open source MANO release ELEVEN is here with another set of exciting features for the telco world!! Promising the production-grade orchestration of telco workloads, OSM release ELEVEN focuses on the trends of cloud-native deployments in multi-cloud environments. To overcome the challenges that we have discussed in previous blogs, OSM this ...

Wajeeha Hamid
12 August 2021

Orchestration in Telcos: the multi-vendor and multi-cloud environments…

OSM Article

The use of NFV migration is becoming commonplace, it is made apparent there is a need for a higher degree of software management, smoother upgrades, and deployment process. Due to the complexity of the migration, Telcos have been deterred from adoption. A solution should be out there to aid businesses in managing and deploying network ...

Wajeeha Hamid
22 April 2021

Onboarding and orchestrating network functions with Open Source MANO (OSM)

OSM Article

Do I need to orchestrate my network functions? Well, the answer depends on the price-performance assumptions of your infrastructure and workloads.  It seems like ages that NFV is trying to fulfill the promises of reducing CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) and OPEX (operating expenses) by decoupling Network Functions (NFs) from the hardware and ...

Wajeeha Hamid
20 March 2021

NFV orchestration: Network functions auditability with the open-source LMA stack

OSM Article

The transition to virtualized infrastructure and software network functions requires a re-evaluation in the telecom production environments. Network function is not alone. It has always been an important piece in the puzzle but requires a set of non-functional bits to complete the big picture and which brings the lifecycle management of n ...

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