The Lab-to-Live white paper, produced in partnership with Appledore Research, explores the critical shift required for modern networks to adopt a seamless testing and deployment approach. As cloud-native networks become central to enabling scalable, resilient, and agile infrastructure, traditional testing methods can no longer keep up. Lab-to-Live is a holistic strategy that integrates lab testing, network deployment, and operational monitoring into a unified lifecycle, fostering continuous improvement and stronger collaboration across development and operations. __Key takeaways__ from this research emphasize the importance of agile testing environments and proactive monitoring for cloud-native network resilience. With networks increasingly defined by software-driven applications, ensuring reliability involves rapid fault recovery and a shift from hardware-based resilience to software-based fault tolerance. This approach leverages continuous testing and visibility across all network components to proactively address failures, optimize resource usage, and support multi-vendor environments.

As 5G technology continues to evolve, the challenge of ensuring that cloud-native network functions (CNFs) operate reliably in distributed environments becomes increasingly critical. With the complex architecture of 5G standalone networks, it’s essential to anticipate failures before they occur—and recover automatically without disrupting service. Kubernetes auto-healing capabilities provide a path forward, but CNFs themselves are designed to fail, making the resiliency of your network more important than ever. In our whitepaper, __How 5G CNFs Are Designed to Fail__, we explore the core concepts behind building resilient 5G CNFs within Kubernetes environments. Learn how to prepare for inevitable system failures and maintain service continuity even in the most challenging real-world scenarios.

Cloud-native networks offer tremendous benefits – greater agility, faster release time, shorter time-to-market, lower costs, and the potential for telcos to avoid vendor lock-in. As network providers race to take advantage of clouds, how can they ensure that their services operate as promised and their customers enjoy the superior experience they expect? Hybrid clouds require enhanced collaboration with vendors and heightened vigilance against cyberattacks. In this paper, we look at the trends that are driving these challenges, particularly the move to hybrid clouds, and examine how test and assurance needs to evolve to support the agile new services running on cloud-native networks.

Emerging realities in cloud environment now require lab-to-live testing approach, powered by automation. Insights into this new test approach are discussed.

本次网络研讨会将专门探索电信行业中服务保障领域的尖端技术所产生的变革性影响。在我们深入探讨该主题时，我们将揭示5G基础设施、网络边缘处的云计算，以及人工智能（AI）方面的进展正在如何重塑网络运营和服务交付的整体格局。 5G基础设施方面的大规模投资，尤其是在RAN（无线电接入网络）侧的投资，已经为前所未有的网络能力增长奠定了基础。这种扩展关乎的不仅仅是速度和连接能力，还在根本上不断改变着网络运营的方式和服务交付的方式。随着大量运营商扩大中频段频谱的推广，并不断提高其性能，服务保障的意义将变得极其深远。