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F5 and Telenor Partner to Build the AI Service Plane for Sovereign AI on NVIDIA-powered AI Factory Infrastructure

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F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes on NVIDIA BlueField DPU provides a Kubernetes-native control point for AI traffic, tenant isolation, telemetry, and policy

SEATTLE, October 21, 2026--F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, today announced that Telenor AI Factory has selected F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes as an intelligent AI service plane for its NVIDIA-powered sovereign AI infrastructure. Telenor AI Factory is designed to help Norwegian and European organizations access secure, high-performance AI services while maintaining control over where data is processed, stored, and accessed.

Sovereign AI requires more than national GPU capacity. It requires an operational AI service plane that can govern where data flows, how tenants are isolated, and how policy is enforced in real time.

Telenor AI Factory addresses growing European sovereignty requirements by combining Telenor's national infrastructure and connectivity with NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure and F5's intelligent traffic management, security, and governance capabilities.

With F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, Telenor can apply policy, visibility, tenant isolation, and traffic control directly in the AI service path. In the future, Telenor also plans to leverage F5 technology to expand the service plane with token-aware governance and more advanced inference traffic optimization as commercial AI services scale.

F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes on NVIDIA BlueField DPU provides the following capabilities for Telenor AI Factory:

  • Secure multi-tenancy and network isolation enable customers to share sovereign GPU infrastructure while mitigating the challenge of tenant interference, policy drift, and data exposure.

  • Policy-based traffic control aligns ingress, egress, API interactions, and operational telemetry with sovereignty and compliance requirements.

  • Real-time observability and telemetry provide visibility for operations, auditability, and compliance reporting.

  • Planned token-aware governance and circuit breaking help manage AI consumption, enforce usage policies, and support entitlement, reporting, and billing workflows.

  • Planned inference-aware traffic optimization improves utilization and maintains consistent performance across dynamic AI inference workloads.

Building digital sovereignty into AI Factory infrastructure

Sovereign AI is defined not only by where infrastructure is located, but also by how AI traffic, customer data, telemetry, and policy are controlled. Telenor AI Factory is designed to help Norwegian and European organizations meet these requirements while supporting the needs of highly regulated industries.

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