Artificial Intelligence
Red Hat drives network modernization and AI at global scale
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
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Richard Harris |
Built on open hybrid cloud and automation, this press release outlines how Red Hat supports service providers and enterprises. Red Hat drives network modernization and AI at global scale with new collaborations and live MWC Barcelona 2026 news.
Red Hat is advancing a practical path for service providers and enterprises to modernize networks and operationalize artificial intelligence at scale. With an open hybrid cloud strategy and a growing ecosystem of partners, Red Hat is helping organizations move from fragmented infrastructure to a common platform that spans core, edge, and enterprise IT. Red Hat news for MWC Barcelona 2026 is live, highlighting new collaborations and validated solutions that focus on real outcomes, measurable efficiency, and the flexibility to choose the right deployment model for every workload.
Open hybrid cloud as the network operating model
The foundation for modernization rests on a consistent environment that can host virtual machines and cloud native applications side by side. Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack Platform together create a unified telco cloud that supports high throughput network functions and the container platforms used by modern application teams. With Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, operators can codify workflows once and apply them across fleets, infrastructure domains, and application lifecycles. This operating model reduces drift, improves predictability, and creates a path to automation assisted operations.
Real world momentum across leading service providers
Bell Canada has extended its multi year collaboration with Red Hat to accelerate network innovation and strengthen its leadership in fifth generation services. By integrating Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Bell is modernizing virtualized workloads and establishing a scalable approach to digital sovereignty that spans IT, network, and media infrastructure. This unified telco cloud strategy is designed to improve operational agility and business predictability while enabling high performance services to be delivered more quickly and efficiently.
Vodafone Oman continues its transformation to a technology company by standardizing on Red Hat OpenShift as a single platform for both virtualized and cloud native workloads. Since launch, the company has surpassed one million subscribers on its fifth generation network. It is now transitioning virtualized workloads to a high performance bare metal architecture and unifying disparate layers into a consistent open source platform. The result is improved performance density, simplified operations, and a more direct path to application modernization.
Telefonica Brazil has migrated its business critical Service Bus from legacy virtualization to Red Hat OpenShift. The shift has transformed operational efficiency, cutting resource scaling time by ninety nine percent while reducing CPU and memory consumption. With a cloud native platform underpinning core integration services, the provider can scale capacity in minutes, align resources to demand, and simplify lifecycle management.
Telefonica Spain is creating a common foundation for network and IT transformation with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift. The provider can run virtual machines and cloud native applications on the same platform while retaining architectural agility to rapidly scale fifth generation and edge services. This approach helps unify toolchains, accelerate onboarding, and streamline operations across domains.
AI that respects sovereignty security and efficiency
Artificial intelligence is becoming a core part of network operations, customer experience, and enterprise services. Red Hat is building an AI ready platform approach that respects sovereignty requirements while optimizing resource usage. The Telenor AI Factory uses Red Hat OpenShift AI, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to give customers access to their choice of AI tools and models while keeping sensitive data within national borders. Two sites are already running on renewable energy and hosting several multi tenant customers. The focus is scale, security, and resource efficiency for AI in production, not only experimentation.
Red Hat is also working with NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks to create a standardized foundation for AI native telecommunications. The collaboration combines accelerated computing from NVIDIA with the Prisma AIRS capabilities of Palo Alto Networks for real time threat detection at the infrastructure layer. Operators can build and run AI workloads close to their data, integrate security into the platform, and move from pilots to production with consistency across core, edge, and enterprise environments.
AI in the radio access network and at the edge
The integration of llm d with SoftBank AITRAS, the AI RAN orchestrator, brings production scale management of AI and traditional radio access workloads to advanced mobile networks. This approach makes it possible to schedule and optimize heterogeneous workloads based on performance and power targets, which is especially important at the edge where resources are constrained. It also helps operators evolve from static capacity planning to adaptive, data driven operations that can improve user experience while controlling cost.
From telecom to techco with polycloud and data sovereignty
StarHub is building an architecture that moves beyond basic hybrid cloud into a polycloud operating model. With Red Hat platforms, the company is developing the ability to place each workload in the optimal compute environment in real time, balancing performance, cost, and compliance. This foundation supports agent driven AI across diverse environments and reinforces data sovereignty, a core need for national information infrastructure. The result is a path from a traditional communications service provider to a technology and trusted service provider, with production AI models that are protected and services that are automated end to end.
A standard foundation across core edge and enterprise IT
Modern networks demand a standard way to deploy, protect, and operate software across multiple sites, regions, and clouds. Red Hat platforms give operators and enterprises a consistent control plane, a curated software supply chain, and the tools to automate everything from infrastructure provisioning to day two operations. With validated patterns for network functions, private wireless, and AI workloads, organizations can reduce integration risk while increasing the speed of delivery.
This approach is practical. It meets teams where they are, supports legacy and cloud native together, and respects the regulatory, security, and sovereignty needs of each market. It is also extensible. As new accelerators, storage types, and cloud services appear, the platform can incorporate them behind the same interfaces and automation, protecting investments while enabling innovation.
Availability and how to engage
Red Hat news for MWC Barcelona 2026 is live, with details on partner solutions, customer momentum, and new capabilities that bring network modernization and AI to production at global scale. Organizations that want to standardize on an open platform, automate operations, and operationalize AI can engage with Red Hat and its partners to plan a roadmap that fits their strategy, compliance needs, and timelines.
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