One of the question marks over cloud-based core and RAN systems is how far they will be dominated, on the cloud infrastructure level, by established players like IBM Red Hat and VMware, and how far they will move to new platforms run by webscalers or new entrants. Among the cloud majors, Google Cloud has lagged behind Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure in market share, but in the past year has made a very targeted bid for the high growth that is expected in the telco cloud sector, on the back of 5G and edge computing. Its killer weapon is Anthos for Telecom, which brings its Kubernetes-based Anthos cloud application management platform to the network edge, and optimizes it to support…