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June 28, 2026

When OpenStack Meets Governments: How Pinaka ZTi Builds Sovereign Clouds Governments Can Actually Trust

How India’s Pinaka ZTi distribution demonstrates how hardened, validated OpenStack can deliver sovereign, government-grade cloud infrastructure by bridging the gap between upstream open source and production-ready enterprise deployments.

Ajith Narayanan
April 7, 2026

Ongoing Development and Next Steps for DOCOMO and Tacker

Learn how DOCOMO is now developing and deploying container-based VNF as vRAN and 5GC
Yuya Kuno
Yasafumi Ogawa
February 3, 2026

NTT DOCOMO’s Tacker Activity

DOCOMO succeeded in virtualizing 100% of its core network that accommodate all mobile network service for 4G and 5G using OpenStack in 2025. Learn how DOCOMO leverages OpenStack, especially Tacker.

Yuya Kuno
January 14, 2026

NTT DOCOMO’s Journey of Virtualization for Mobile Networks

Learn now NTT DOCOMO is evolving its network through NFV with OpenStack and what the journey reveals about NFV’s benefits and challenges

Yuya Kuno
March 14, 2024

Tacker’s Contributions to ETSI-NFV Standards

OpenStack Tacker is an open source project for realizing a reference implementation of ETSI-NFV-compliant Generic Virtual Network Function Manager (G-VNFM) and NFV Orchestrator (NFVO).

Yasufumi Ogawa
July 5, 2022

Emulating Lifecycle Management of Virtualised Network Functions

This article talks about the VNF LCM Emulator that has been developed by the ETSI Industry Specification Group for Network Functions Virtualization (ISG NFV) and its Solutions (SOL) Working Group with an aim to facilitate a “try-and-learn” approach to understanding lifecycle management (LCM) of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
Hammad Zafar
Bruno Chatras
Zarrar Yousaf
Giacomo Bernini
October 1, 2020

OpenStack 10 Years: A Revolution for Telco

Building the world’s largest NFV project, China Mobile tells the story of the revolution and transformation OpenStack has made for telco operators

Fu Qiao
June 10, 2020

Where are they now? Superuser Awards winner: China Mobile

Here we catch up with China Mobile and hear how they carry out in-depth practice of OpenStack as the cloud infrastructure, to build their NFV/SDN network.

Superuser
May 22, 2019

Takeaways from the first open multi-vendor NFV showcase

Whitestack’s Gianpietro Lavado reports on the event that shows carriers how they benefit from a horizontal NFV platform, instead of monolithic solutions from a single vendor.

Gianpietro Lavado
February 25, 2019

5G projects building strong use cases for Open Source MANO NFV

Whitestack’s Gianpietro Lavado reports from the first OSM 5G day held in Spain.

Gianpietro Lavado