IBM’s Red Hat and Intel have announced plans to pool more R&D efforts and resources focused on 5G and networking, in a mutual bid to accelerate commercial uptake of automated, cloud-native infrastructure in telecoms. The two companies said they want to address challenges that operators and enterprises face in deploying 5G cost-effectively, and to help improve ROI with more flexible and automated platforms that will lower total cost of ownership. The aim is to focus their joint R&D on more complete and pre-integrated technology stacks that will enable operators to roll out 5G more quickly, and in a way that immediately supports a wide range of services in order to improve ROI. In particular, Intel says the platforms will help…