5G promises to change the industry every bit as much—if not more—than 4G did. But with that change comes a host of new challenges.

Perhaps the biggest change of all is IT infrastructure. It’s now distributed everywhere, instead of being confined to a static data center. The fundamental technology making that happen is containers. Without containers, there’s no 5G.

That revolution has also led to the rise of Kubernetes, which orchestrates this vast collection of containers. If all this sounds mind-bogglingly complex, you’ve got the right idea. That’s why many companies are looking for a managed service—a partner that tackles that complexity, leaving your IT team free to do what it does best.

In this episode, Platform9 speaks with ActualTech Media about the staggering potential of 5G, along with similarly daunting challenges.

Key Highlights:

• 02:37 — Introduction to Platform9, and what it offers
• 07:57 — The new capabilities 5G can deliver
• 09:48 — Top 5G use cases, including telco
• 17:50 — Typical components of a modern 5G infrastructure
• 21:35 — How Kubernetes enables this new type of distributed architecture
• 27:35 — Challenges that come with implementing containers and Kubernetes
• 31:35 — The advantages inherent in Platform9’s managed Kubernetes solution, for both developers and operations
• 34:56 — Specific benefits for Platform9’s solutions when it comes to 5G infrastructure

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Guest: Roopak Parikh

Roopak Parikh, co-founder/CTO. Before co-founding Platform9, Roopak was a technical lead at VMware, where he helped architect and ship major vSphere products: Update Manager and vCloud Director. Before VMware, Roopak was an early engineer at an early stage Mobile computing startup.

About Platform9

Platform9 delivers the leading open source cloud frameworks—Kubernetes, Fission Serverless, and OpenStack—as a SaaS-managed service. Simply plug in your different environments to the Platform9 technology, and automatically bring your diverse infrastructure under centralized management.

About ActualTech Media

James Green, host of Inside the Guide, is Partner and VP for Content at ActualTech Media where he is responsible for developing unique content offerings that help enterprise IT vendors accomplish their most critical content marketing objectives.

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