Speaking at FutureNet World, a bustling network automation event, Swisscom’s EVP of Mobile Networks and Services described how the operator is building its 5G Standalone (SA) network, with plenty of patience and a fair bit of DIY software design. Swisscom has now completed its 5G SA network and plans to migrate to standalone at the end of the year. “Looking at our 5G SA, our first large-scale deployment of cloud-native functions, we couldn’t find any software on the market that suited our needs at the time, so we started to develop on our own, based on open-source tools,” Mark Duesener said at the event. “In other cases, we have embraced tools from the hyperscalers and others.” 5G SA promises to…