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Elevate your performance, agility and resilience

Ericsson Cloud Infrastructure gives you the critical network performance, service agility and resilience that your high-performing 5G operations demand.

Through a unified cloud-native platform that is designed for telecom industry, our cloud infrastructure solutions combine high performance with end-to-end operational automation.

Featuring the market-leading Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure (CNIS) and Operations Manager Cloud Infrastructure (OMC), our solutions deliver streamlined lifecycle management and enhanced interoperability across your tech stack, giving you reliable operational performance and high service agility at all times.

Watch how Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure simplifies operations and scales with confidence.

Our cloud infrastructure solutions are designed to improve your total cost of ownership, accelerate time to market and operational robustness and resilience – giving you higher consistent performance of network functions across all infrastructure layers and the confidence to transform to cloud-native operations where long-term business value awaits.

As a full-stack provider, Ericsson provides a single point of accountability for lifecycle management, fault isolation and end-to-end performance, ensuring a stable foundation for critical network services.

Robust, reliable and secure

Our cloud infrastructure solutions are built on a solid reference architecture designed to deliver telecom-grade resilience under high workloads. Validated through extensive system verification and real-world deployments, our solutions provide consistent performance—from single-server setups to large-scale environments—without disruption.

Reliability is built in through redundancy mechanisms, telco-grade failover capabilities, and fast recovery times. Security spans every layer of the stack, safeguarding critical workloads by default.

Faster to deploy

Our cloud infrastructure solutions provide an industrialized solution for faster launches, quicker adoption of new capabilities and earlier time to market. This is delivered through a common aligned roadmap, software release cadence, verified compatibility with VNFs and CNFs, as well as automated lifecycle management.

Optimized total cost of ownership (TCO)

Through a streamlined cloud-native architecture, you can benefit from comprehensive system integration and verification that covers interworking between several 3PP components, industrialized automation and optimized dimensioning as per application needs. This reduces the complexity inherent across your multi-vendor environments while providing a deterministic five-year TCO with zero risk.

Benefits in numbers

Up to 20.00 %

lower TCO compared to alternative cloud architectures

Up to 40.00 %

improvement in operational efficiency across the lifecycle compared to manual deployments

Up to 3.00 X

faster deployment compared to a do-it-yourself (DIY) approach

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Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure (CNIS)

Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure (CNIS) provides the high-performance, cloud-native platform needed to run VNFs and CNFs at scale. Built on a simplified Kubernetes-on-bare-metal architecture, CNIS delivers predictable performance, optimized resource utilization and telecom-grade resilience across central, edge and private network deployments. With system-verified integration and a common reference architecture, CNIS ensures consistent behavior across releases and environments—laying the foundation for automated, efficient and scalable cloud infrastructure operations.

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Ericsson Operations Manager Cloud Infrastructure (OMC)

Ericsson Operations Manager Cloud Infrastructure (OMC) provides unified lifecycle automation across CNIS deployments, simplifying Day 0–2 operations. OMC automates upgrades, configuration changes, deployment workflows and health checks through a Git-based and policy-driven operations model. OMC also provides end-to-end observability of cloud infrastructure deployments reducing the need for aligning multiple tools for assurance. By consolidating lifecycle management and observability into a single operational framework, it ensures consistent, reliable evolution of cloud infrastructure at scale

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Full stack solution: telecom-grade confidence

A system-verified, pre-integrated full stack solution ensuring predictable performance of critical telco workloads.

System-verified integration across hardware, infrastructure software, Kubernetes, VNFs and CNFs.
Aligned roadmaps ensure compatibility for infrastructure-dependent features, while verified system characteristics enable application performance optimization.

Automation and lifecycle management

An industrialized automation framework that embeds end-to-end lifecycle automation directly into the cloud infrastructure, enabling predictable, precise and scalable operations.

Git-based lifecycle operations
Policy-based smart upgrades
Built-in failure handling
Configuration validation
Comprehensive health checks across all equipment and clusters

Automated lifecycle management for both single-node and multi-node deployments

Simplified cloud-native architecture

A streamlined cloud-native design enables efficient deployments based on a reduced operational footprint.

Common reference architecture for central, edge and private networks
Flexibility in choosing compute hardware
Optimized core resource utilization reducing server count
Kubernetes deployed directly on bare metal

Single point of accountability

Providing “one hand to shake” with Ericsson as the single accountable partner for full-stack deployments, lifecycle management and support.

Full-stack verified deployments including selected hardware
Comprehensive full-stack lifecycle management with compatibility assured for every release
Coordinated support, fault isolation and remediation across all layers from applications to infrastructure

Open and Interoperable cloud architecture

Ericsson is the largest telco contributor to the CNCF ecosystem, actively shaping key open-source projects and driving their evolution across the industry. This influence enables us to guide technology direction and support our products more effectively.

Building on this foundation, we provide an open, interoperable cloud architecture designed to support telco workloads across all domains while enabling seamless onboarding and operation of Ericsson and third-party VNFs and CNFs.

One cloud for all telco business needs (Core, RAN, OSS/BSS and network-management workloads)
Verified interoperability with third-party VNFs/CNFs
Common tooling and a consistent operational model across environments
Built on proven open-source technologies, including key projects from the CNCF ecosystem.

Built-in security: end-to-end protection by design

Our cloud-native infrastructure solutions follow Ericsson Security Reliability Model enabling a robust zero-trust architecture across your operations. Secure coding practices are followed and a comprehensive set of security tools are used for testing and reporting. Software bill of material and security test reports are produced with every release and continuous vulnerability scanning and remediation is ingrained in the solution offering.

Key security features include:

Identity Federation
Integration with external PKI and automated certificate lifecycle management
Integration with external Key Management System
Network Security with separated control and data fabric
Data volume encryption
Centralized security and audit logging
Threat Detection enabled by Ericsson Security Manager

Lessons from the field: Cloud-native infrastructure for 5G Core

Explore key lessons learned from deploying cloud-native infrastructure (CNIS) for 5G Core across 100+ contracts and 50+ live networks. In this video series, we share what’s worked, the real-world challenges we faced, and the practical steps CSPs can take to unlock the full value of cloud-native transformation. From integration to operations, automation, and energy optimization—each lesson offers actionable insight based on proven field experience.

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Single accountability reduces risk and simplifies operations

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Energy efficiency is a business imperative

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Proven leadership across complex cloud-native telecom infrastructures

As the telecom industry shifts toward 5G and cloud native technologies, CSPs need more than just technology: they need a trusted partner who delivers proven results. Ericsson stands out with its global leadership, proven expertise and ability to handle the most complex telecom environments.

Ericsson’s cloud infrastructure solutions – trusted by industry leaders like Swisscom, Telefónica, Wind Tre, Telstra, SKT and DOCOMO – offer the agility and performance needed to power next-generation networks while simplifying operations and reducing costs.

Proven in real networks

Experience a 100% verified full-stack solution tested across thousands of interoperability scenarios and live customer environments. This ensures consistent behavior and reliability at scale across your networks, backed by decades of engineering and operational expertise.

A trusted partner for every step

With our experts as your prime integrator, you can benefit from one accountable partner for compatibility, lifecycle alignment and operational support. This simplifies your transformation journey, reducing the risks traditionally associated with multi-vendor cloud deployments.

Bare metal leadership with global scale

With the world’s largest footprint of telecom-grade bare-metal deployments, our expertise in optimizing performance and efficiency across diverse network environments is unmatched. We turn this experience into a cloud you can trust – high-performing, efficient and offering a future-ready evolution for your business.

Our global partnerships in numbers

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cloud infrastructure clients

190.00 +

live cloud infrastructure deployments

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MTN's 5G Core and cloud native journey

Explore MTN’s 5G Core and cloud native infrastructure network transformation journey, a crucial step toward 5G standalone

“Across our markets, data traffic is growing at about 30-55% year on year, underscoring the need for scalable, intelligent, agile network performance. Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure enables us to respond quickly to these demands through enhanced automation, including CI/CD pipelines and automated provisioning use cases."

- Solomzi Mnyaka, General Manager - Network, services engineering & L2 Support, MTN South Africa