The zero touch future: Enabling Telstra’s path to a fully autonomous, self-healing network

At MWC 2026, Telstra announced a major step forward in its journey towards building one of the world’s most advanced autonomous networks in collaboration with Red Hat and other industry partners. Telstra executed a proof-of-concept within a live telecommunication (telco) cloud environment to autonomously detect and resolve an unplanned infrastructure outage by shifting critical network applications to healthy infrastructure in just minutes. The result shows how a multivendor, AI-native architecture can enable self-healing operations at scale. Central to this exciting new capability are the o