Elisa and Ericsson claim 5G SA milestone

Finnish telco Elisa and kit vendor Ericsson have deployed what they say is the first In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) capability on a live production 5G Standalone network in Europe.
The ISSU is being touted as a milestone in automating and creating self-driving networks by the firms. Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core is designed to be fully cloud-native and is deployed using containers with Kubernetes orchestration, we’re told.
The benefit of such a thing is apparently ‘the abili