June 2, 2013
As mobility becomes part of the mainstream digital lifestyle more cloud services start to evolve. Ericsson Cloud System is a comprehensive solution for the distribution and orchestration of cloud capabilities horizontally across the network, enabling new vertical exposure services. It builds on the concepts of Network-enabled Cloud and Service Provider SDN. The Ericsson Cloud System includes the Ericsson Cloud Execution Environment, which is based on OpenStack Cloud Management and KVM hypervisor (Ericsson defines the cloud evolution, 2013).
The solution is an addition to the existing OSS system, the Ericsson Cloud Manager. It offers a smooth migration as it builds on the Ericsson Blade System and Ericsson SSR and it allows virtualized and non-virtualized applications to execute side-by-side with maintained carrier-grade performance. The system provides an execution environment for applications irrespective of the source - whether it 's Ericsson, the operator, a partner or other innovators. This makes it possible to introduce new services and consolidate existing ones onto the same virtualized platform (Ericsson defines the cloud evolution, 2013)
Ericsson uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and RightScale for provisioning and auto-scale functionality. They host in multiple AWS locations with failover between installations, partly based on RightScale features. Ericsson explains that its solution was built primarily using JavaSE, and hosted on Tomcat and MySQL, using HAProxy for load balancing (AWS Case Study: Ericsson, 2013 & Ericsson defines the cloud evolution, 2013)
The company chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) because they felt AWS was the most integrated public cloud provider in the Rightscale Cloud Management Platform (Rightscale). The Ericsson team states that
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