One of the areas where the Open RAN community hopes to steal a march on more established RAN architectures is in cloud-native, containerized networks. While the incumbent vendors and platforms can boast their many years of expertise in high performance radios, on the long road to cloud-native RAN, there is a far more level playing field. For the RAN vendors, it has therefore become highly strategic to find strong partners in network cloud management and operations, focused on container management. Rakuten and Parallel Wireless have worked with Robin.io in this area, while Mavenir has just announced a partnership with Platform9 for its Managed Kubernetes (PMK) system. Mavenir has integrated its own Webscale Platform, which is based on Kubernetes, on top…