The Challenge
Sovereignty has moved beyond policy statements and contractual clauses; it is now a property of telcos cloud architecture. For telecom operators, control over data location, operational access, and supply chains must be enforced by design across core, regional, and edge environments… often under strict latency, availability, and regulatory constraints. This is complicated further by lawful intercept requirements, multi-vendor network functions, and long-lived infrastructure that cannot depend on a single provider’s roadmap.
What We’ll Cover
This webinar examines sovereignty from a telco engineering perspective, using concrete platform building blocks such as OpenStack for central telco clouds, MicroCloud at the edge, Kubernetes for cloud-native functions, and air-gapped or locally managed operations where required. We will discuss how architectural choices in compute, networking, orchestration, and operations determine who ultimately controls data, workloads, and lifecycle decisions.
Join us on March 31st, 2026
What You’ll Learn
Attendees will learn how to design sovereign telco clouds that span core and edge, support both virtualized and cloud-native network functions, integrate with existing OSS/BSS, and remain compliant without sacrificing portability or performance. The focus is practical: what to control, where to enforce it, and how to avoid long-term lock-in while enabling future monetization.
To move from principle to practice, it is important to ground sovereignty in the day-to-day decisions telco architects are already making. The challenge is not whether sovereignty matters, but where it must be enforced in real systems: across control planes, operational processes, and lifecycle tooling that span core and edge.
The following takeaways summarize the practical outcomes attendees can expect, based on patterns observed in live telco deployments rather than theoretical models:
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Identify which sovereignty requirements must be enforced in the platform architecture (compute, network, storage, control plane) rather than delegated to contracts, policies, or cloud provider assurances.
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Define a reference architecture for sovereign telco clouds across core, regional, and edge, balancing latency, availability zones, lawful intercept, and operational autonomy.
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Evaluate where vendor lock-in actually occurs in telco stacks (orchestration, lifecycle management, observability, upgrades) and how to design escape paths up front.
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Integrate virtualized and cloud-native network functions under a single operational model, without fragmenting tooling, processes, or compliance controls.
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Translate sovereignty-driven architectural choices into business outcomes, including regulated enterprise offers, edge services, and differentiated SLAs that can be monetized rather than treated as cost-only compliance.
Why Attend?
Don’t treat sovereignty as a constraint you discover too late. Join us to learn how to treat sovereignty as an architectural capability you can design, operate, and evolve.