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Webinar

What Comes After Kubernetes? Building the Telco Cloud for the AI Era

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1500 Minutes

The Kubernetes-based container platform telcos built for cloud-native network functions is now facing new demands — AI inferencing, AI-RAN, data-heavy OSS/BSS and edge services that run in a thousand places, from core to edge. Operators today are making architectural choices they’ll live with for a decade or more.

Kubernetes orchestrates workloads — but it’s not enough. It doesn’t deliver the persistent storage, high availability, recovery and portability that carrier-grade operations require.

In this live session, Fierce Network TV Editorial Director Mitch Wagner is joined by [panelists] to work through what operators are building beyond the container platform and why the data layer is a strategic choice rather than a procurement line item. The discussion draws on new Fierce Network research and interviews with technology leaders at leading operators and their vendors.

What you’ll take away:

  • How to absorb CNF, OSS/BSS and AI workloads on one platform without compounding complexity, risk and cost
  • Extending containerized architecture beyond Kubernetes
  • Why autonomous networks depend on a strong data foundation
  • The secrets of extending workloads to the edge
  • The importance of operational sovereignty — what regulators and enterprise customers now expect, well past the question of where data and infrastructure physically sit

Speakers

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Alex Boyd

Director of Client Engineering for Telecoms
Everpure
Rick Lievano

Rick Lievano

Worldwide Chief Technology Officer
Microsoft

Rick Lievano is the Worldwide Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft’s Telecommunications & Media industries, where he partners with leading service providers and ecosystem partners to shape the future of telecommunications. He works at the intersection of cloud, data, networks, and artificial intelligence, helping operators design and adopt industry grade solutions and reference architectures that address the rapidly evolving demands of global telecom markets.

A recognized industry leader and frequent speaker, Rick is a strong advocate for open standards and collaborative innovation. He holds TM Forum Open Digital Architecture and Business Development Manager Career Certifications and actively contributes to industry alignment efforts as a member of TM Forum’s Composable IT & Ecosystems Mission, where he helps drive the development and adoption of pragmatic, value focused best practices across the industry.

Rick has served as a Board Member of the Mplify Alliance and Linux CAMARA, playing a key role in advancing open APIs, ecosystem interoperability, and composable architectures for the next generation of digital services. In his current role, he leads Microsoft initiatives focused on enabling telecom operators to achieve more by responsibly infusing agentic artificial intelligence across their businesses—accelerating innovation, improving operational autonomy, and unlocking new sources of value in a secure and trusted manner.

Mitch Wagner

Mitch Wagner

Editorial Director
FNTV

Mitch Wagner is editorial director for FNTV. Wagner has been covering enterprise and telco technology for more than 30 years, including leadership positions at Light Reading and InformationWeek. He has also helped drive content marketing in a full-time position at Oracle and as a consultant for business-to-business technology companies for the data center, cloud platform, networking and security spaces. He lives in San Diego with his wife and too many pets. His editorial content for Fierce Network won a 2024 Eddie and Ozzie Award in the News Coverage category.

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