Telco Cloud refers to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources that meet the requirements of network functions and services.
This Reference Architecture provides technical guidance for operators throughout the telco edge value chain (telco operators, edge operators, cloud providers) on how to design and deploy their services.
Referring to a common design drastically improves interoperability in between products and services developed by different companies. Also, this reference architecture will reduce risks of vendor lock-in by building over well-established virtualisation and containerisation technologies, enabled by a multi-provider management layer.
Crucially, the IPCEI-CIS Architecture board will adopt this reference architecture as a baseline for their own developments.
This reference architecture contributes to the vision for Connected Collaborative Computing (3C) networks laid out in the White Paper 'How to Master Europe's Digital Infrastructure Needs?'.