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Lessons Learned from Using Nephio to Manage a Real-World 5G Core - István Kispál, Nokia#

ONE Summit 2024 digest Program Adjacent pick 29 April – 1 May 2024

Abstract Recording

István Kispál, Automation Architect, DMTS, Nokia Bell Labs

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  • Why: Honest "what we had to change" case studies of open-source orchestration on a production-identical workload are rarer and more useful than roadmap talks — this is one of them.
  • What: A case study deploying a Nokia 5G core (identical to the commercial offer) on AWS via Nephio R2, describing NF topology with a target-agnostic blueprint, then transforming it through automated processes plus human engineers into an AWS/Nokia-specific package deployed with a GitOps tool — including which parts of Nephio R2 had to be modified to cope. (from abstract only)
  • How: Generic, environment-agnostic blueprints are specialized into concrete deployment packages by a human+automation pipeline, then deployed and operated GitOps-style on AWS.
  • Where applicable: Teams evaluating Nephio for real workloads; Nokia/AWS-specific in detail, but the "what broke and what we changed" content is exactly the transferable part.