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take extremely seriously.

And to achieve that, openness is non-negotiable. Open source and strong collaboration, with a rich
partner ecosystem, are essential to deliver trust, consistency, and seamless integration across the
entire network.

From an industry standpoint, how is Red Hat working with carriers and partners to accelerate
5G deployments while ensuring long-term flexibility for 6G and future innovation cycles?

As a platform and enabling company, collaboration sits at the heart of everything we do at Red Hat.
We work across a broad ecosystem of infrastructure and application partners to create open, scalable,
and adaptable solutions for the telecom industry.

Our role sits at the center of this ecosystem. On one side, we engage closely with infrastructure
suppliers—server manufacturers, chipset vendors, and hardware providers—to ensure Red Hat
platforms support the widest range of environments as different workloads demand different hardware
choices. For example, core networks with low-latency, high-throughput needs differ significantly from
storage-intensive, lower-bandwidth workloads. Our goal is to ensure that our platforms are optimized
for all these scenarios.

On the application side, we maintain strong relationships with telecom solution providers, ensuring
their applications are certified and fully supported across diverse hardware environments. Given the
multi-vendor nature of telecom networks, no two solutions are exactly alike. That’s why we focus on
delivering consistency and commonality across infrastructure and applications while respecting the
need for flexibility.

It’s important to recognize that a “common cloud” doesn’t mean a single, uniform deployment. Rather,
it’s about a common infrastructure framework that adapts to the distributed nature of telecom
networks. Red Hat plays a key role in bringing that consistency across all layers, ensuring operators
can manage, scale, and secure their environments, regardless of location or workload type.

Looking ahead to 6G, our focus is on building for future innovation cycles. We anticipate a rise in edge
computing as 5G-Advanced finally unlocks device-rich networks; not just smartphones, but intelligent
machines, drones, smart sensors, and IoT devices. These will require highly distributed networks with
a much higher number but smaller (in scale) points of presence (PoPs) for application deployment.

The future of telecom will revolve around intelligent workload placement, such as determining where to
best run a given workload based on latency, capacity, and efficiency requirements.

Networks must be flexible and adaptable to accommodate this, and Red Hat
ensures that operators have the right tools, footprints, and form factors to deliver that
flexibility.

AI will be a major factor in shaping next-generation networks. Red Hat’s platforms are designed to
support diverse AI solutions from multiple vendors across different infrastructure types. Our mission is
to enable efficient, consistent AI workload deployment throughout the network.

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