F5 and Telenor Partner to Build the AI Service Plane for Sovereign AI on NVIDIA-powered AI Factory Infrastructure
Business Wire•21/10/2026•00:00 ET
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Key Highlights
- ➤Telenor AI Factory selected F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes for sovereign AI infrastructure
- ➤F5 will provide AI traffic control, tenant isolation, telemetry, and policy enforcement
- ➤Telenor plans token-aware governance and inference-aware traffic optimization as services scale
- ➤F5’s data plane will run on NVIDIA BlueField-3 to accelerate networking and security functions
Expert Statements
Kaaren Hilsen, CEO of Telenor AI Factory
“At Telenor AI Factory, our purpose is to give Norwegian and European enterprises access to trusted, secure, and high-performance AI services. Sovereignty has to extend beyond where infrastructure sits to how AI services are operated and governed. F5 gives us a policy and traffic-control layer we can build on as we scale services for customers.”
Kunal Anand, Chief Product Officer at F5
“As AI factories move from infrastructure projects to commercial service platforms, service providers need a way to govern AI traffic, tenants, telemetry, and policy in real time. With BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, Telenor is establishing an AI service plane that can grow with its sovereign AI services, including a path to deeper token-aware governance and DPU acceleration as requirements evolve.”
Ash Bhalgat, Sr. Director, AI Ecosystem and Marketing, at NVIDIA
“Together, NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure and F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes on BlueField-3 help service providers such as Telenor deliver high-performance AI services while maintaining the governance, control, and security required for sovereign AI.”
F5 and Telenor Partner to Build the AI Service Plane for Sovereign AI on NVIDIA-powered AI Factory Infrastructure
F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes on NVIDIA BlueField DPU provides a Kubernetes-native control point for AI traffic, tenant isolation, telemetry, and policy
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