Oracle Communications Core Network

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core uses cloud native architecture and automation to standardize processes across distributed 5G environments. Repeatable processes can support configuration, deployment, scaling, upgrades, and ongoing operations. Operators can use these capabilities to minimize manual variation and manage complex 5G network functions more consistently.

A cloud native 5G core combines scalable network functions with repeatable automation. Common deployment and lifecycle activities can be automated instead of relying entirely on manual processes. This can help teams reduce manual steps, apply changes more consistently, and adapt network functions as requirements evolve.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core brings together the network and operational capabilities needed to introduce and manage 5G services. Automation can streamline deployment and testing, while policy control and charging can define how services behave and how they are commercialized. Operators can move more efficiently from creating a service to deploying, managing, and monetizing it.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core connects network capabilities with policy and charging mechanisms that can support differentiated services. Operators can combine policy control, charging, signaling, network slicing, and analytics to create offerings based on service requirements, applications, usage, or network slices. These capabilities can help communications service providers develop consumer and enterprise offerings that extend beyond undifferentiated connectivity.

Operators can connect differentiated 5G network behavior with corresponding service and charging models. Policy control, charging, and network slicing can support offerings based on factors such as usage, applications, service requirements, and network slices. These capabilities can give operators additional ways to package and monetize 5G capabilities beyond traditional connectivity-based offerings.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core allows operators to connect enterprise service requirements with differentiated network capabilities. Policy control, charging, signaling, network slicing, and operational capabilities can support services tailored to application, connectivity, and performance requirements. These capabilities can help communications service providers create differentiated 5G offerings for enterprise and industry customers.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core uses analytics, AI, and machine learning to derive insights from historical and real-time network data. These technologies can help identify patterns, analyze network behavior, and investigate operational conditions. These insights can help network teams make more informed decisions based on network data rather than relying only on manual investigation.

AI-assisted analytics can help analyze network data for patterns and trends that may indicate changing conditions or potential issues. Analytics can support investigation, and automation can assist with appropriate operational processes. These capabilities can help operations teams move from primarily reacting to network events toward identifying and addressing conditions more proactively.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core uses a cloud native architecture that allows network functions and operational processes to adapt as requirements change. The architecture can help operators scale their 5G environment in response to subscriber demand, traffic patterns, and evolving service requirements. It can also help communications service providers adapt their 5G core as network demand and service portfolios grow or change.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core provides a flexible cloud native foundation that connects network capabilities with operational and commercial functions. Policy control, charging, automation, analytics, network capabilities, and ecosystem integration can be combined as service and business requirements evolve. These capabilities can give communications service providers greater flexibility to create, operate, and monetize new types of 5G services as customer requirements and business models change.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core brings together Oracle capabilities that provide a cloud native foundation for communications service providers deploying and operating 5G standalone (SA) networks. It brings together signaling and routing, policy control, charging, automation, analytics, and integration with operations support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS). Operators can use these capabilities to deploy and manage 5G core networks and support differentiated consumer, enterprise, and industry-focused services.

A 5G standalone core uses a core network architecture designed specifically for 5G rather than relying on an existing 4G core. The architecture supports capabilities such as service-based architecture, network slicing, and flexible policy and charging models. This architecture can provide operators with flexibility in how they create, manage, and monetize 5G services.

A cloud native 5G core uses technologies and practices such as microservices, containers, and automation to deploy and operate network functions. Network functions can be deployed, scaled, updated, and managed using repeatable cloud native processes. These capabilities can help communications service providers manage 5G network functions more efficiently and adapt their networks as demand and service requirements change.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core combines network functions and operational capabilities needed to support a 5G standalone environment. These capabilities include signaling and routing, policy control, charging, automation, analytics, and integration with OSS and BSS environments. Operators can connect network operations, service management, and commercial processes across their 5G environment.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core is designed for communications service providers building, modernizing, or operating 5G standalone networks. Its cloud native network and operational capabilities can support consumer, enterprise, and industry-oriented 5G services. Operators can use a common 5G core foundation to address changing network requirements and different service opportunities.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core is designed to interoperate within multivendor network environments. Operators can integrate Oracle capabilities with compatible network functions and supporting systems as their network architectures evolve. This approach can give communications service providers flexibility to evolve their 5G networks without requiring every component to come from a single vendor.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core can be deployed across public, private, hybrid, and operator cloud environments. Its cloud native architecture can give operators flexibility in where they deploy and operate 5G core capabilities. This flexibility can help CSPs align 5G core deployments with their infrastructure strategies and operational requirements.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core provides a cloud native foundation that can evolve as network and service requirements change. Automation, scalable network functions, analytics, and integration capabilities support ongoing deployment and lifecycle processes. These capabilities can help operators introduce new network capabilities and adapt their 5G infrastructure as network and service requirements evolve.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core is designed to integrate with compatible existing network infrastructure and operational and business systems. Integration with OSS and BSS environments connects 5G network functions with established service, operational, and business processes. This integration can help operators evolve toward a 5G standalone environment while continuing to use established processes for network operations and service management.

Oracle Communications Consulting can support operators with the implementation, configuration, integration, and operation of applications associated with their 5G core environment across on-premises and cloud deployments. Operators can choose to use Oracle Communications Consulting for this expertise or work with their own systems integrators, depending on their deployment strategy and requirements.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core uses product-aware intelligence, AI-assisted analytics, and intent-driven automation to support network operations. These approaches can combine network information and product context to support analysis and operational automation. These capabilities can help operations teams take more proactive approaches to monitoring, investigating, and managing 5G networks.

Analytics can use historical and real-time network data to identify patterns and provide insight into network behavior. Operations teams can analyze performance, network conditions, and operational trends using data collected across the environment. These insights can help teams investigate issues and make more informed network and operational decisions.

AI and machine learning can analyze network data to help identify patterns that may be difficult to detect through manual analysis alone. They can assist with resource optimization, issue investigation, network analysis, and operational decision-making. These capabilities can help CSPs gain insights from network data, better understand network conditions, and make informed service and operational decisions.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core applies repeatable workflows to common deployment and operational activities. These workflows can support configuration, testing, deployment, upgrades, and ongoing operation of 5G network functions. These workflows can help operators reduce repetitive manual effort, apply changes more consistently, and manage network changes more efficiently.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core combines cloud native processes with automation across the network function lifecycle. Repeatable processes can support installation, configuration, scaling, upgrades, and ongoing operation. These capabilities can help operators manage 5G network functions more consistently as their environments change.

Policy control translates subscriber, application, network, and business requirements into rules governing 5G services. Operators can apply policies based on factors such as subscriber needs, applications, network conditions, and business rules. These capabilities can help CSPs create and manage differentiated 5G service experiences based on specific service requirements.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core connects 5G service characteristics with flexible charging approaches. Charging models can reflect factors such as usage, applications, service quality, or network slices. These capabilities can help operators develop commercial service offerings based on differentiated 5G capabilities.

Network slicing enables differentiated services through logical network environments designed around different service requirements. Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core provides policy, charging, signaling, and operational capabilities that can support the delivery and management of slice-based services. These capabilities can help operators connect differentiated network behavior with specific consumer, enterprise, or business requirements.

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core connects network functions with operations support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS). This integration links network operations with broader service, operational, and commercial processes. This can help operators coordinate 5G network functions with the systems and processes used to operate services and support business requirements.