Turkcell deploys Cloud Native Infrastructure clusters with Odine utilizing Red Hat

Turkcell announced the deployment of Cloud Native Infrastructure clusters with Odine utilizing Red Hat OpenShift.
Turkcell has started its digital transformation journey with a unified virtualization platform with Odine and Red Hat OpenStack 4 years ago and virtualized its mobile core network more than 75 percent. Currently, more than 8 Tbps of traffic runs through the platform mainly belongs to mission critical services of Turkcell core network.

Turkcell, Odine and Red Hat completed the deployment of unified Cloud Native infrastructure, Red Hat OpenShift and onboarding process of containerized network functions rapidly utilizing the experience of the companies have developed during last 4 years.

Red Hat OpenShift Platform will provide a scalable, flexible foundation for Turkcell Telco Cloud, an open solution with commercially-proven reliability, automation and robust security for deploying network functions.

Turkcell will manage, automate and orchestrate the services over the Cloud Native and Virtualization platforms via Management and orchestration framework that Turkcell and Odine have deployed.

“We have deployed a cloud native infrastructure which will be the foundation that will enable us to realize the full potential of digital transformation, providing automated new services,” said Gediz Sezgin, Chief Technology Officer of Turkcell.

“We continue the digital transformation with Turkcell as the Integrator of the Cloud Native Core Infrastructure. Unified Cloud Native Infrastructure will be one of the most significant milestones in the operator’s digital transformation journey,” said Alper Tunga Burak, CEO at Odine.