Building telco clouds with open source At MWC Barcelona 2026, Canonical is demonstrating how telecommunications operators and enterprises can design and operate a cloud on their own terms: sovereign, cost-effective, and built on open platforms that span from core data centers to the intelligent edge. One of the demos is the result of Cano […]

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Canonical and Ecrio demonstrated an open-source telco cloud platform at MWC Barcelona 2026, combining Ubuntu, Canonical Kubernetes, and Ecrio's Edge AI Communication Platform. The solution enables telecommunications operators to build sovereign, cost-effective cloud infrastructure spanning core data centers to intelligent edge deployments. The demo showcased real-world edge AI use cases including worker safety monitoring, crowd management, and AI-driven operational intelligence, all running on cloud-native, open-source infrastructure that avoids vendor lock-in while supporting mission-critical communications and private 5G networks.

Open platforms, edge AI, and sovereign telco clouds: Ecrio & Canonical at MWC Barcelona