AWS Showcases Enterprise Cloud Partnerships

The collaboration between Ribbon Communications and AWS centers on containerizing Ribbon's core voice communication tools for the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This allows enterprises to deploy Ribbon's Session Border Controller (SBC) for security, its PSX for policy and routing, and its RAMP management platform as a cloud-native solution. The offering is available on the AWS Marketplace, aiming to reduce both operational and capital costs associated with managing voice networks. A key benefit of moving these voice workloads to AWS is the ability for companies to migrate at their own pace. This architecture provides near-real-time capacity scaling to meet customer demand and improves resiliency by leveraging AWS's multiple availability zones. One early adopter, Aircall, reported that this setup was fundamental to its ability to scale globally with speed and reliability. The Nokia and AWS partnership introduces what they call an industry-first "agentic AI-powered" 5G-Advanced network slicing solution. This system uses intent-based AI to autonomously create and manage network slices, moving beyond static, manually configured setups. Telco operators du and Orange are the first to explore the innovation in their live 5G networks. Nokia's solution integrates its 5G AirScale base station and MantaRay SMO with the Amazon Bedrock AI platform. The agentic AI analyzes real-world data like traffic, events, and maps to autonomously adjust network policies. This allows for on-demand slicing that can boost performance for first responders during emergencies or guarantee service levels for industrial applications like robotics and IoT. Network slicing itself allows a carrier to divide a single 5G network into multiple, independent virtual networks. Each "slice" can be optimized with its own guaranteed bandwidth, latency, and security, effectively creating dedicated lanes on the digital highway for specific enterprise uses. These partnerships are part of a broader AWS strategy to move legacy telecom systems to the cloud. AWS Chief Technologist for Telecommunications, Ishwar Parulkar, noted a significant opportunity in migrating aging mainframe and Sun Solaris applications to more modern, cloud-based models. This "cloudification" of core network functions is aimed at increasing agility, reducing costs, and enabling telcos to launch new services more quickly.