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Traditionally, that was the case. However, telcos are now moving toward Open RAN as an alternative to building their RAN networks on purpose-built hardware such
by beams_of_light 4y ago
Traditionally, that was the case. However, telcos are now moving toward Open RAN as an alternative to building their RAN networks on purpose-built hardware such as baseband units for 5G, and instead moving to a disaggregated, open radio access network. These ORAN networks are built on containerized platforms, primarily. So, we're moving away from traditional, dedicated NEP hardware to x86 machines running Kubernetes - something a lot more people than 4G/5G phreakers are familiar with.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoYeah, sure, but they don't set up those services themselves, but they buy the whole solution from a vendor, usualy together with hardware provided by the vendor. So they still get a all-in-one solution from eg. NSN or huawei, and the vendor sets up and does the initial configuration for the operator. (what I wanted to say is, that they don't take an empty server, install some linux on it, install kubernetes, and deploy each service one by one, but they buy it "all-in-one" from the vendor, so if there are security issues, they're usually because the vendor fucked something up)