Cloud Native Telco Day 2026
2026-03-23
Amsterdam, Netherlands
who it's for
telco operators, platform engineers, cnf developers, site reliability engineers, network engineers, devops engineers, ai engineers
topics
Sylva telco cloud; FluxCD GitOps deployment; Cluster API templates; gNodeB DU deployment; kpt KRM functions; porch mass orchestration; YANG to YAML conversion; gNMI/NETCONF reconciliation; KubeTrace distributed packet capture; agentic RCA agents; container-specific Linux scheduler; AI-driven observability (Telco Observer)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Gergely Csatari, Philippe Ensarguet | 09m |
Diamond sponsor is Linux Foundation Networking and the Sylva project and gold sponsor is Red Hat, with logistics: lunch in Hall 3, coffee machines around… | ||
| The Shift: Radio Network Functions as IT Applications | Guillaume Nevicato, Andre Puschmann | 23m |
Demonstrates a declarative path to run RAN as cloud-native IT: Sylva v1.6 plus Cluster API templates manage O-Cloud lifecycle, FluxCD applies CNF changes, and… | ||
| Are We Stuck With Helm Forever? A Landscape of Cloud Native CNF Manag... | Istvan Kispal, Liam Fallon | 26m |
Helm dominates CNF packaging (roughly ~90% market share), but this work shows concrete alternatives: kpt separates data from transformations and provides KRM… | ||
| Sponsored Keynote: Telco’s Next Act: Sc... | Ranny Haiby, Philippe Ensarguet | 06m |
Claims that networks move from code to agentic AI and that cloudification/NFV and CNCF projects provide the building blocks, with a Linux Foundation diagram… | ||
| The Autonomous Telco: AI Agents as First-Class Citizens in Cloud-Na... | Samy Nitsche, Dorian Lenzner | 31m |
KubeTrace is a distributed packet-capture system with one tracer pod per node, a discovery API, and an AI agent that composes kubectl, curl, jq and tshark to… | ||
| From YANG To YAML: How We Tamed the 5G Configuration Beast | Joel Studler, Peter Wörndle | 30m |
Operator and vendor collaboration produces a working GitOps prototype that converts YANG-derived intent into Kubernetes resources and pushes config to a CNF. A… | ||
| Panel: Kubernetes Networking: Present and Future | Gergely C, Lionel J, Antonio O, Surya S | 35m |
Panel summarizes concrete progress: DRA GA for GPUs in production enables scheduling of NICs, GPUs and FPGAs with NUMA/PCI affinity and bandwidth hints; Multus… | ||
| Teaching Machines To Debug Machines: Building an AI-Powered RCA... | Mihai Zaharia, Vladimir Braquet | 30m |
Built an autonomous RCA agent called Monbot that ingests alerts from Sylva‑Core, calls 80+ tool MCPs (Kubernetes, OpenStack, Grafana/Loki/Prometheus), and… | ||
| Reliability To the Edge: Telco Teaching Cloud Native | Priscila Veiga | 25m |
Telco practices mapped to cloud-native edge focus on measurable guarantees: 99.999% availability (about five minutes/year) and zero‑trust per NIST SP 800‑207… | ||
| Extracting the Last Microseconds of Performance From Co... | Feruzjon Muyassarov, Alexander Kanevskiy | 35m |
Claim: combining a container-specific Linux scheduler with CPU C‑state and frequency controls cuts wake‑up latency up to 99% in their tests. Implementation: a… | ||
| Panel: Agentic AI Infrastructure for Telecom | Yoshihiro N, Ranny H, Philippe E, Hui D, Yanjun C | 37m |
Demo shows agentic lifecycle automation for CNF deployment at MWC and a security use case where cooperating agents ingest logs, generate rules and adapt on the… | ||
| What Do You Mean It’s Broken? When AI Meets the Harsh Reality of Te... | Piotr Matysiak, Iwona Wojdan | 24m |
AI-driven observability framework called Telco Observer combines live telemetry (logs, metrics) with static knowledge (standards, vendor docs) and a query… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Operationalizing the NGMN Cloud Native Manifesto: CNTi and Sylva in... | Martin Matyáš | 12m |
NGMN’s manifesto becomes measurable: CNTi Test Suite acts like an OBD‑II scanner for CNFs, running automated checks for installability, upgradeability… | ||
| Panel: From Footprint To Value: Commercial Adoption of CAMARA... | Jill L, Andres B, Huub A, Nathan R | 43m |
CAMARA APIs are already live in pockets and moving toward scale: an aggregator aims for 25-country coverage target and is live in US, Germany, Spain, Canada… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Gergely Csatari, Philippe Ensarguet | 02m |
Room stays for a group photo after session and organizers note the day runs packed at about three to four times expected attendance, with sessions described as… | ||
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