AT&T is building its next generation cloud-native core on top of open infrastructure devised by the open source Airship project. Airship release 2.0, which is under the auspices of the OpenStack Foundation, is scheduled to be ready by the end of the year and AT&T’s deployment will be a significant proof point. As with other open platforms such as ONAP (Open Network Automation Protocol), Airship was seeded and heavily promoted by AT&T, though it also has support from a significant line-up of other operators. Ryan van Wyk, VP of network cloud at AT&T, told SDxCentral that the telco’s 5G network is “all running on our network cloud deployments that are all running on top of Airship”, which is delivering benefits…