Open Source Networks in Action: How leading telcos are harnessing the power of LF Networking
Now in its fifth year as an umbrella organization, LF Networking (LFN) and its projects enable organizations across the globe to more quickly and effectively achieve digital transformation via the…
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Linux Foundation Announces Top Global Executive Speakers for Open Networking & Edge Executive Forum, April 12-14, and New CTO Appointment
Global technology leaders, change makers and visionaries will gather virtually for Open Networking & Edge Executive Forum (ONEEF), a unique executive event focusing on deployments, priorities, challenges, and more Ranny…
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LFN User Story: Spark Embarks on Telco Cloud Automation Journey with ONAP
As Spark New Zealand Limited (Spark) approached 5G deployment, they started analyzing the status of automation across network and infrastructure and realized they needed an automation suite that would support…
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Open Networking & Edge Executive Forum (ONEEF) Returns Virtually, April 12-14, 2022
Global Industry Executives across telco, cloud and enterprise to share thought-leading visions with global open source networking and edge communities - in across alternating time zones SAN FRANCISCO, February 22,…
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Key Takeaways from the January LFN Developer & Testing Forum
By Ranny Haiby, LFN Technical Advisory Council, vice-chair The LF Networking (LFN) community held its Developer and Testing Forum (DTF) January 10-13th. DTF provides an opportunity to take a break…
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2021 LFN Year in Review Report: Creating Opportunity from Adversity
By: Arpit Joshipura, GM, Networking, Edge & IOT Download the 2021 LFN Year In Review Report. In 2021, the world began emerging from the COVID-19 global pandemic. The recovery has…
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2021 LFN Year In Review Report
LFN is dedicated to creating opportunities and new ways to innovate across the networking industry. 2021 continued to be a challenging year around the globe, but three Cs (Code, Collaboration,…
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Anuket on track for a big 2022: Lakelse release, Anuket Assured, and More
By: Walter Kozlowski, Anuket TSC Co-Chair (Former) Lakelse, the latest version of Anuket was released to the public on January 4, 2022! Anuket Overview Anuket is an LF Networking project…
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Vision 2022: Open Networking & Edge Predictions
By: Arpit Joshipura, GM, Networking, Edge & IOT As we wrap up the second year of living through a global pandemic, I wanted to take a moment to both look…
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POV: What it’s Like to be an LFN Mentee
By Nicholas Karimi Summary: My Linux Foundation Mentorship The Linux Foundation Networking Mentorship program is designed to help enthusiastic beginner open-source contributors by pairing them with more experienced open-source contributors…
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OpenDaylight is Verizon’s Directional SDN Controller
Interview with: Todd Turney, Senior Manager, SDN Technology & Planning, Verizon See also this one page overview. How is Verizon using OpenDaylight in its networks? OpenDaylight (ODL) is used as…
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1-Pager: OpenDaylight is Verizon’s Directional SDN Controller
After initial work exploring OpenDaylight (ODL), Verizon decided to pull the testing, packaging, support in-house and create their own optimized ODL distribution. ODL is Verizon’s foundational and directional SDN controller…
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ONAP Istanbul is Here
The ninth release of ONAP, Istanbul, broadens and deepens ONAP’s position in the industry as the comprehensive platform for orchestration, management, and automation of network and edge computing services for…
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1-Pager: DT Deploys ONAP In Production in O-RAN Town
In their O-RAN Town project, the carrier deployed in the city of Neubrandenburg a multi-vendor Open RAN trial network for 4G and 5G services with massive MIMO integrated into the…
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1-Pager: Orange Deploys ONAP In Production
Realizing a long-pursued goal of using the Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP), Orange has deployed and trialed an automation framework powered by ONAP. The current use case, in production in…
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White Paper: Intelligent Networking, AI and Machine Learning
The LF Networking (LFN) End User Advisor Group (EUAG) is publishing this document to identify and highlight the latest thinking and recommendations for building and supporting intelligent networking and the…
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MEF Network Service Automation using OpenDaylight UniMgr
By: Charles Eckel (Cisco); Santanu De, Shrinivas Joshi, Kiran Ambardekar (Xoriant Corporation); Mahesh Jethanandani (Kloud Services) A team from Xoriant, Cisco, Kloud Services, and Amartus has been working with Ethernet…
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Transforming the Ecosystem Together: Highlights from ONE Summit and Beyond
By Heather Kirksey, VP, Community & Ecosystem Transform. Innovate. Collaborate. That’s the theme of the day here at LFN, and we’re super excited to be sharing some community updates based…
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Linux Foundation to Integrate L3AF, Walmart’s Production-Grade Project to Support eBPF programs
News announced via LFN governing board member, Koby Atival, during ONE Summit keynoteFully open-sourced, L3AF enables Kernel Function as a Service by providing complete lifecycle management of eBPF networking application…
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LF Networking Adds New EMCO Project to Deploy Workloads Across Cloud and Edge
New ‘Edge Multi-Cluster Orchestrator’ project will create universal control plane to help organizations securely connect and deploy workloads across public and private cloud and edge locations SAN FRANCISCO, October 11,…
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Open Source 5G Ecosystem Solutions on Display at ONE Summit, as US Government Hosts Security Mini Summit
5G Super Blueprint comes to life at ONE Summit with live a keynote demonstration of network slicing in 5G, and 6 pavilion demonstrations of new blueprints, use cases, and ecosystem…
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LF Networking Community Collaborates To Counter Growing Cybersecurity Threats
By: Brandon Wick, Sr. Integrated Marketing Manager at the Linux Foundation Cybersecurity has been in headlines a lot lately and with good reason. In 2020, the average time to identify…
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The Linux Foundation’s Open Networking and Edge (ONE) Summit Expands Programming with Keynote and Mini Summit by the US Government, Enabling Secure, Open, and Programmable 5G Networks
The US DoD, DARPA, and NWIC Pacific host mini summit on accelerating innovation and deployments at scale based on open source 5G architecture & use cases SAN FRANCISCO, September 22,…
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LFN Community Operations: 2021 Report Card
Beginning in 2020, the LFN began holding an annual, anonymous Community Operations survey to gauge the impact of our work, increase transparency, engagement, and collaboration of our governance and operations.…
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Expanded Keynote Line-Up for Open Networking and Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day Includes Industry Luminaries
Four additional keynotes speakers will grace the main stage at Open Networking and Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day to share expertise across Automation and AI, 5G, and the…
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New Tungsten Fabric TSC and New Release R21.05
By: Szymon Golebiewski (TSC Chair) I’m pleased to announce that earlier this year, I was elected to be the new TSC Chair for Tungsten Fabric. First, I’d like to thank…
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Anuket Issues Kali Release, Fully Merges Work of CNTT + OPNFV
By Al Morton, Anuket Technical Steering Committee Co-Chair It is my great honor to announce and describe the Kali Release of the Anuket Project in the Linux Foundation Networking (LFN)…
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LF Networking Adds New Members Across Enterprise and Government ecosystems to Support 5G Super Blueprint Open Initiative
New members AQSACOM, RADTONICS, Turnium, SEMPRE, and Wavelabs.ai bring expertise across cyber intelligence, digital, industrial, and network solutions to LF Networking, while telco branches of Oman and Costa Rica governments…
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Linux Foundation and World Bank Team Up for Open Source 5G Learning
By Clyde Seepersad, SVP and General Manager, Training & Certification, the Linux Foundation and Sheila Jagannathan, Head of the Open Learning Campus, the World Bank In many ways, today’s world…
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Super Blueprints Integrate the 5G Open Source Stack from Core to Door
Originally Posted on the Linux Foundation Website By Arpit Joshipura There is an exciting convergence in the networking industry around open source, and the energy is palpable. At LF Networking,…
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ONAP, The De Facto Open Network Automation Platform, Goes Cloud-Native in Honolulu
ONAP’s Honolulu release adds even more cloud native and modular capabilities, and robust integration with O-RAN ONAP is an Instrumental component of Linux Foundation Networking’s 5G Super Blueprint, enabling orchestration,…
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The Linux Foundation and NGMN Collaborate on End-to-End 5G and Beyond
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and FRANKFURT, GERMANY – May date, 2021 – The Linux Foundation and the Next Generation Mobile Network Alliance (NGMN), today announce the signing of a Memorandum of…
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LF Networking Announces New Member Walmart, Bolsters a New Era of Enterprise Open Source Networking
Participation by the fortune 1 enterprise brings technical leadership and unprecedented scale to LFN projects across Network Management & Automation Koby Avital, EVP of Technology Platforms, Walmart Global Tech, joins…
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White Paper: NFV Testing and Automation Research and Methodologies
The End User Advisory Group (EUAG) was created by LF Networking to share views, challenges, and best practices between user organizations; highlighting new areas of opportunity for the developer community.…
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White Paper: NFV Testing and Automation
The End User Advisory Group (EUAG) was created by LF Networking to share views, challenges, and best practices between user organizations; highlighting new areas of opportunity for the developer community.…
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LFN Member Spotlight: Turnium Technology Group, Inc.
The LFN community is comprised of a diverse set of member organizations that work collaboratively across software and projects to provide platforms and building blocks for Network Infrastructure and Services…
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How open source communities are driving 5G’s future, even within a large government like the US
In mid-February, the Linux Foundation announced it had signed a collaboration agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), enabling US Government suppliers to collaborate on a common open…
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Anuket’s Elbrus Release is Here
By: Walter Kozlowski, Principal Architect, Cloud Infrastructure Services, Telstra; Anuket TSC Co-Chair Elbrus, the latest version of the LFN Anuket reference model, specifications, implementations and conformance tests for network cloud…
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LFN Member Onboarding Guide
The LFN Member Onboarding Guide was written to provide members with a complete onramp to the LF Networking community. You will learn how to engage with your communities of interest,…
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LF Networking Launches Anuket, an Open Source Project to Accelerate Infrastructure Compliance, Interoperability and 5G Deployments
OPNFV and CNTT merge to form Anuket, enable rapid deployment of cloud native and virtual network functions (CNFs & VNFs), infrastructure, and services Anuket unifies global ecosystem of telecom…
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Anuket Rising — an Update on the CNTT + OPNFV Merger
By Beth Cohen, Cloud Technology Strategist, Verizon It seems like it was only a blink of an eye, since the LFN board announced the upcoming merger of the CNTT Infrastructure…
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A Year Like No Other: Open Source Networking Now Stronger Than Ever
By: Arpit Joshipura, General Manager, Networking, Edge & IOT, Linux Foundation Download the full report here. The COVID-19 global pandemic has certainly challenged us all — and throughout all the…
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2020 LFN Year In Review Report
2020 was certainly a challenging year around the globe. But challenges also bring opportunities. Working together, the LFN Community found new ways to innovate, collaborate, and advance the state of…
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LFN Tees-Up February Virtual LFN Technical Meetings to Bring Community Collaboration to the Forefront
By Jason Hunt, LFN Technical Steering Committee Chair (With contributions from Abhijit Kumbhare, Al Morton, Catherine Lefevre, Gergely Csatari, and Prabhjot Sethi) The LF Networking community is gearing up for…
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OSN Days Taiwan Dec 2020
National Chiao Tung University (NCTU交通大學) hosted an Open Source Networking Day (OSN Day) in Taiwan on December 18th 2020 in one of the few countries where physical events are possible…
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FD.io Infographic: Digital Transformation is Everywhere
See an illustration that explains how FD.io, the fast data project, enables digital transformation across5G, Cloud Native, and Edge Networking:
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LFN Member Spotlight: Amantya Technologies, Inc.
The LFN community is comprised of a diverse set of member organizations that work collaboratively across software and projects to provide platforms and building blocks for Network Infrastructure and Services…
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Predictions 2021: Networking & Edge
As we wrap up 2020, I wanted to take a moment to look at where the industry is headed and what we’ve learned this year. Telecom & Cloud ‘Plumbing’ based…
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Bringing it home with Jerma: The 10th and final OPNFV Release
By: Al Morton, OPNFV TSC Chair The parade of once-in-a-lifetime events during 2020 made it a year that many would prefer to forget, world-wide! OPNFV participants and their LFN staff…
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ONAP Guilin brings 5G open source automation for network slicing and O-RAN integration paving the way for cloud native architectures for telecom
By Ranny Haiby, Samsung The ONAP community is excited to announce reaching a significant milestone – the general availability of Guilin, the 7th ONAP release. Named after the Chinese city…
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Evolved Cloud Infrastructure Model eases Telecom Operators migration to Cloud Native – Part 2 RM Concepts and Architecture
By: Tomas Fredberg, Cloud Infrastructure Reference Model developer (LFN/CNTT) Note : Part 1 of this two-part blog series is available here. Reference Model Basic Concepts The First concept is the…
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Evolved Cloud Infrastructure Model eases Telecom Operators migration to Cloud Native – Part 1 The need of a Reference Model
By: Tomas Fredberg, Cloud Infrastructure Reference Model developer (LFN/CNTT) Why do we need a Reference Model? Today, for Telco Operators, Cloud Infrastructure often means a few racks of servers on…
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Open Cloud Infrastructure for Telecom Operators – Myth or reality?
By: Walter Kozlowski, Telstra, Cloud Infrastructure Reference Model Lead (LFN/CNTT) Fact: Virtualization/containerization of network functions have moved from science experiments to mainstream technology in the telco industry. Result: That means…
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LFN’s 2020 Internship Results and Insights Program
By Jim Baker, technical program manager, LF Networking We find our 2020 year filled with chaos! However, a shining beacon of hope for us at LFN comes from our newest…
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How LFN Sister Project, O-RAN ALLIANCE, is Transforming the Radio Access Networks Industry
(Portions of this post originally appeared on the O-RAN Alliance website and has been reprinted with permission.) The O-RAN Software Community (OSC), is a collaboration between the O-RAN Alliance and…
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LFN + LF Edge Demo Pavilion from ONES 2020
Proof of Concept (PoC) demos are one of the very best ways to experience the innovation happening our technical communities. For the Open Networking & Edge Summit 2020 (ONES), we…
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ONES 2020 a Success
Distributed But Always Connected. The Open Networking & Edge Summit 2020 Virtual Experience gathered 1,322 live attendees from 523 organizations in 71 countries around the globe. 54% hailed from the…
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Software-defined vertical industries: transformation through open source
A recent McKinsey & Co. report described, the “biggest differentiator” for top-quartile companies in an industry vertical was “open source adoption,” where they shifted from users to contributors. The report’s data shows…
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CNTT’s Baraque Release out now!
By Beth Cohen, CNTT Technical Editor, SDN Product Manager at Verizon You know what they say -- the third time is the charm -- and with that said, CNTT (Cloud…
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Predictably Releasing Down the Periodic Table with OpenDaylight Aluminum
From: Abhijit Kumbhare, OpenDaylight TSC Chair The OpenDaylight community is pleased to announce the availability of the 13th release of the most widely deployed open source SDN controller platform, OpenDaylight…
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Google Cloud Joins Linux Foundation Networking at Platinum Level
Demonstrates collaborative commitment to open source networking across telecom, 5G, cloud native, network automation – enabled by critical projects like ONAP, Anthos, Kubernetes Move signals growing importance of open networking…
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OPNFV + CNTT Join: When the River and the Mountain Meet
By Heather Kirksey, VP, Community & Ecosystem Development, the Linux Foundation I am profoundly excited to announce that OPNFV and CNTT have chosen to come together as one organization. We…
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Quantifying the Value of Open Source Software
By Arpit Joshipura, General Manager, Networking, Edge & IoT It’s abundantly clear at this point that software created in a shared, open, collaborative environment is transforming entire industries, including telecommunications.…
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Vibrant Networking, Edge Open Source Development On Full Display at Open Networking & Edge Summit
Deep Dive demonstrations on 5G, Edge, IOT, O-RAN, AI, Cloud Native & CNFs covering most important enterprise, cloud and telecom use cases Expert live sessions on “Why Open Source for…
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LFN Member Spotlight: Aarna Networks
Name: Amar Kapadia Position: Co-founder Company: Aarna Networks Please tell us a little about your organization? Aarna Networks creates a platform for orchestration, lifecycle management, and automation of cloud native…
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Virtual LFN Developer & Testing Forum: June 2020 Report
Highlights from the Virtual LFN Developer & Testing Forum, June 22-25, 2020. Please direct any questions to info@lfnetworking.org. LF Networking (LFN) held its biannual Developer & Testing Forum from June…
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FD.io Introduces VPP Release 20.05
The FD.io Vector Packet Processing (VPP) release 20.05 is now available at https://packagecloud.io/fdio/release. Full release notes can be found at https://docs.fd.io/vpp/20.05/d7/d84/release_notes_2005.html But for those looking for the “reader’s digest”…
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LFN Member Spotlight: Tech Mahindra
The LFN community is comprised of a diverse set of member organizations that work collaboratively across software and projects to provide platforms and building blocks for Network Infrastructure and Services…
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How Affirmed Networks Partnered With Aarna to Obtain an OVP Badge
By Amar Kapadia. This post first appeared on the Aarna Networks blog Creating xNFs (i.e. VNF, CNF, or PNF) is complex. Not only do xNF vendors have to meet functional…
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5G Networking: An Introduction
Open source software plays an important role in accelerating 5G deployments. With a global developer community addressing technical challenges and expanding access to technical capabilities, the open source development model…
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Cloud Native Networking for Telecom: An Introduction
The recent business disruptions worldwide resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the importance of sustaining the operation of global communications infrastructure despite unprecedented surges in traffic. AT&T, for example,…
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ONAP Frankfurt – What Have We Accomplished since ONAP’s Inception?
By Catherine Lefevre, ONAP TSC Chair Congratulations to the entire ONAP community and extended ecosystem on the availability of ONAP Frankfurt. Thanks to your incredible contribution that you put forth…
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ONAP’s 6th Release, ‘Frankfurt,’ Available Now – Most Comprehensive, Secure and Collaborative Software to Accelerate 5G Deployments
Rich feature set including End-to-end 5G network slicing, security and deployment-ready automation anchored in Frankfurt Collaborative and diverse contributions for 27 sub-projects, across 34 organizations and 400+ developers, and accelerated…
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ONAP MDONS Blueprint Overview
In order to offer service to customers with geographically diver se locations, CSPs often lease resources in networks where they do not have a presence (“off ne t”). This allows…
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E2E Network Slicing Technical Overview
Network Slicing is one of the key features of 5G. The essence of Network Slicing is to be able to effectively cater to of a diverse set o f use…
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ONAP Consumption Models Whitepaper
The End User Advisory Group (EUAG) was created by LF Networking (LFN) to share views, challenges, and best practices between user organizations; highlighting new areas of opportunity for the developer…
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Bell Canada Case Study
Since 2017, the use of ONAP at Bell Canada has expanded to automating numerous key network services across all business units. Moving forward, ONAP is playing a major role in…
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LFN Member Spotlight: ULAK Communications
The LFN community is comprised of a diverse set of member organizations that work collaboratively across software and projects to provide platforms and building blocks for Network Infrastructure and Services…
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Are we still having fun? CNTT celebrates its first anniversary with Baldy, its second release!
By: Beth Cohen, Verizon; Nick Chase, Mirantis So what is CNTT and why is it so important for the telecom industry? When I was first invited to join in the…
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CNTT Whitepaper
The objective of the Cloud iNfrastructure Telco Taskforce (CNTT) is to develop a framework for standardizing Cloud Infrastructure to increase interoperability between the virtualized workloads and the underlying infrastructure, and…
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Tungsten Fabric Migration from Gerrit to GitHub, Part 1
By: VM Brasseur One of the benefits of open source communities is the ability to collaborate across organizations and choose the platforms and tooling best suited to the goals of…
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Case Study: Army Cyber School Leverages FD.io to Achieve Superior Network Performance and Scale
The US Army Cyber Center of Excellence is one of the key defense domains along with land, sea and air, and has the important task of training army soldiers in…
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The LFN Technical Meetings Go Virtual
By Catherine Lefèvre – ONAP TSC Chair The LF Networking communities from CNTT/OPNFV, and ONAP participated in the first ever LFN joint “virtual” conference as a result of the COVID-19…
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Telcos Increase Focus on Cloud Native as LF Networking and Ecosystem Groups Solve Interoperability Challenges
Initiatives across the Common NFVI Telco Taskforce (CNTT), LF Networking’s Compliance and Verification program (OVP), ONAP Cloud Native, and OPNFV holistically address cloud native architecture, deployment challenges, and Cloud…
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LF Networking Accelerates 5G, Cloud Native, and Edge Readiness with Expanded Projects and Growing Community Ecosystem
China Mobile brings XGVela to the Linux Foundation, focusing on open telco PaaS platform for 5G network functions and related applications Accelerating LFN collaboration across open source projects within…
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Edge Networking: An Introduction
LFN Projects are deeply integrated with the edge computing landscape and lead the telecom industry move into open source edge. LF Networking and LF Edge collaborate on the end-to-end edge…
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LF Networking Whitepaper
This whitepaper, prepared by a Working Group of the LFN Technical Advisory Council (TAC), is intended for anyone who is interested in the intersection of modern network design and the…
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ODL Magnesium: New Projects, New Service Provider Features, and Loads of Performance Improvements
By Abhijit Kumbhare, OpenDaylight TSC Chair The OpenDaylight community is pleased to announce the availability of the 12th release of the most widely deployed open source SDN controller platform, OpenDaylight Magnesium! …
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LFN Member Spotlight: PANTHEON.tech
The LFN community is comprised of a diverse set of member organizations that work collaboratively across software and projects to provide platforms and building blocks for Network Infrastructure and Services…
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LF Networking Resumes & Expands Mentorship Program
The LF Networking Mentorship (formerly Internship) program, which began as an internship program with OpenDaylight several years ago and has evolved into a cross-project initiative, has become an invaluable on-ramp…
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How FD.io 20.01 Release Improves Multicore IPSec
By Neal Hartsell, CMO at Netgate and FD.io community member The most established (and only standards-based) VPN protocol is Internet Protocol Security (IPSec). IPsec encrypts data packets for confidentiality -…
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Harmonizing Open Source and Standards: A Case for 5G Slicing
As an operator-led open source community for a next generation network automation platform, ONAP has been committed to the convergence of standards and open source since inception, and has promoted…
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EasyCLA is an Automated, Efficient, and Flexible Tool for Managing Contributor Agreements and Repository Access
By David McBride, Release Manager, Linux Foundation Networking Last year, at the Open Networking Summit (ONS) North America, the Linux Foundation announced Community Bridge, “... a new platform created to…
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LFN Developer & Testing Forum Report (January 2020)
LF Networking (LFN) hosted a record breaking cross-community technical gathering, the LFN Developer & Testing Forum at the Prague Congress Center in Prague, Czech Republic, from January 13-16, 2020, attracting…
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Solution Brief: Open Source Communities Demonstrate End-to-End 5G Cloud Native Network
5G brings with it a tremendous promise but also new requirements. Cloud native technologies can be used to meet several of these demands by providing benefits in the areas of…
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Linux Foundation, LF Networking, and LF Edge Announce Keynote Speakers for Open Networking & Edge Summit North America 2020
Industry’s Premier Open Networking & Edge Conference Features Keynote Speakers from AT&T, CNCF, Deutsche Telekom AG, Edgeworx, Equinix, Ericsson, Google, Huawei, IBM, Rakuten Mobile and more The full conference…
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LF Networking Expands Ecosystem — Adds Members, Leads Initiatives to Automate 5G Deployments and Accelerate Automation
LFN’s ONAP, OPNFV, ODL, and FD.io projects further automated 5G deployments with code releases in 1H as well as hybrid support for VNF/CNF/NFVI compliance A10 Networks, AMD, Codilime, Mirantis,…
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UNH-IOL Hosts Lab as a Service: A Community Resource from the Linux Foundation
In the short video, Parker Berberian, UNH-IOL staffer, OPNFV TSC Member, and OPNFV Lab as a Service (LaaS) project lead, gives an overview of of LaaS and how developers can…
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Accelerating Software Defined Network Deployments
Originally posted on the AT&T Technology Blog by Ryan van, Wyk, February 6th. See the original post. It’s a Monday afternoon in the middle of January, and a few members…
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OPNFV Iruya: Paving the Way for 5G via Testing Tools, Scripts, and Automation
By Heather Kirksey Today, the OPNFV community is pleased to announce the availability of OPNFV Iruya, the platform’s 9th release. After more than 5 years, the community continues to rally…
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State of the Open Source Networking Industry
2019 has been a fantastic year for LF Networking! As we move into 2020, see my state of the industry article below and be sure to download the new LF…
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LF Networking 2019 Year in Review
2019 was a successful year for LF Networking! This 28-page, detailed report recaps the highlights and achievements of 2019 while offering insights from LFN and community leaders on where the…
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Solution Brief: Optimizing Wholesale Intercarrier Settlement with Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain
Telecom network operators worldwide open their networks to each other to enable their mutual customers to communicate across network boundaries. This practice, known as “Interconnect,” is being used among national…
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Decentralization in Telecom: How Hyperledger Fabric Can Optimize and Simplify The Inter-carrier Settlement Process
Telecom network operators worldwide open their networks to each other to enable their mutual customers to communicate across network boundaries. This practice, known as “Interconnect,” is being used among national…
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LFN Member Spotlight: iconnectiv
The LFN community is comprised of a diverse set of member organizations that work collaboratively across software and projects to provide platforms and building blocks for Network Infrastructure and Services…
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Keynote: E2E 5G Cloud Native Network
It’s no secret that Kubernetes has gained significant traction in the cloud and enterprise software ecosystem, but less widely known is how this momentum is now moving into global telco…
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Open Source Community Connects Global 5G Cloud Native Network
Collaborative effort between LF Networking and global networking ecosystem shows open source approach to building cloud native 5G on top of Kubernetes First Proof-of-Concept of live, end-to-end, open source…
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Video Highlights: ONS Europe 2019
Check out highlights from Open Networking Summit 2019, which took place September 23-25 in Antwerp, Belgium. The second time in Europe, ONS drew hundreds of attendees from over 200…
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Scaling the Heights with the ONAP El Alto Release
I'm pleased to report that the ONAP Technical Steering Committee signed-off on the 5th ONAP Release, El Alto, last week on October 24th, 2019. El Alto, meaning "The Heights" in…
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Webinar: How the OPNFV Verification Program (OVP) Can Boost VNF Interoperability
With the rise of SDN and NFV technologies and the network transformation underway on the path toward 5G, network operators are increasingly turning to the virtual network functions (VNF) ecosystem to provide virtualization solutions for their networks.…
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TelecomTV: ONS Europe extends its reach to edge computing
Earlier this year, the Linux Foundation signed a legal cooperation agreement with ETSI. At the close of the ONS Europe event in Antwerp, Arpit Joshipura discusses the progress made to…
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TelecomTV: Supporting CSPs Across the Networking Stack
The Linux Foundation’s OPNFV project continues to provide support to CSPs through its verification work and its key role with the Common NFVi Telco Taskforce (CNTT) group. Heather Kirksey reports…
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TelecomTV: The Role of Open Source in 5G Netwworks
Lumina Networks sees virtualized and composable infrastructure as being critical to successful 5G networks, which is where open source can help assist with both the orchestration and the management of…
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IT Pro: View from the airport: Linux Open Networking Summit 2019
Networking enthusiasts descended onto the Belgian city of Antwerp last week to attend the Open Networking Summit 2019, where we were treated to talks from key figures in all avenues…
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The Mobile Network: Move Slowly and Fix Things
A new "taskforce" seeks to crack the NFVi nut. Telcos want to move fast but they also need to move together, which slows them down. Vendors want to move fast and compete…
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SDxCentral: CNTT’s Initial NFVi Release Targets OpenStack
The Linux Foundation’s LF Networking group and industry trade association GSMA unveiled the first data release for their Common NFVi Telco Taskforce (CNTT). This initial tranche includes a common reference…
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Fierce Telecom: Common NFVi Telco Task Force publishes reference model and reference architecture for unified framework
After taking flight early this year, Common NFVi Telco Taskforce (CNTT) announced on Monday that it has published its first specifications to align the industry on a unified NFV framework.…
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Operator-Led Effort Hosted by Linux Foundation and GSMA Publishes Initial Specifications for Common NFV Infrastructure, Empowered by LFN’s OVP Framework
Open industry taskforce developing common NFVI as industry moves toward 5G Common model and related first architecture enables the building of operationally efficient open source SDN and NFV infrastructures Supports…
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Open Source LF Networking Projects Enter the Commercialization Phase, Supported by a Growing Global Ecosystem
LFN’s OVP compliance and verification program gains momentum with GSMA and CNTT Solutions, Blueprints, Use cases – on display in LF Networking booth at Open Networking Summit Europe –…
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LF Networking Welcomes OpenSwitch (OPX) Project
We are happy to welcome OpenSwitch (OPX) Networking Operating System in the LFN project portfolio. OPX isan open source Linux-based network operating system (NOS) solution based on disaggregated design for…
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Fast Data Project’s Release 19.08 Enriches Data Plane Leadership and Deployment Efficacy
Release marks significant progression in network stack, host stack, and management capabilities which further speed packet processing and improve operational visibility SAN FRANCISCO – September 18, 2019 – FD.io (“Fido”)…
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LFN Member Spotlight: Samsung Electronics (Samsung)
The LFN community is comprised of a diverse set of member organizations that work collaboratively across software and projects to provide platforms and building blocks for Network Infrastructure and Services…
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Twelve Community-Driven Demos Highlight Innovation and Integration Across the Networking Stack
LF Networking (LFN) represents the largest set of networking projects with the broadest community in the industry that collaborate on the many challenges and opportunities in the open source networking…
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E2E 5G Network Services Are Going Cloud Native
By: Heather Kirksey, VP of Community & Ecosytem Development, Linux Foundation It was nearly one year ago that the OPNFV community unveiled the second iteration of the Virtual Central Office…
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5 Takeaways from the June 2019 LFN DDF/Plugfest
By Amar Kapadia (This post originally appeared on the Aarna Networks blog) There was an LFN Developer Design Forum (DDF) and Plugfest held in Stockholm in early June. These is…
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Yahoo! JAPAN Solutions Brief
Yahoo! JAPAN addresses infrastructure scalability challenges through the adoption of commodity x86 servers combined with the LF Networking's Fast Data Project (FD.io). This solution brief outlines key design choices and…
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LFN DDF and Plugfest Report (June 2019)
The LFN DDF + Plugfest was held at the Kista Convention Center (Kistamässan) in Stockholm, Sweden, from June 11-14 and was built on the success of four prior ONAP DDF…
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ONAP reaches to the sky with satellite deployment by SES Networks
ONAP is reaching for the skies via a satellite deployment by SES Networks in partnership with Microsoft Azure and Amdocs. The partnership is significant given SES's satellite footprint and Amdoc's…
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[Comparison] OpenDaylight Neon SR1 vs. SR2
A version of this post was initially published by PANTHEON.tech. The development of OpenDaylight Sodium is already producing significant improvements, some of which are finding their way to the upcoming Service Release of…
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Tungsten Fabric Heads to China
By Edward Ting Along with other significant open source projects, Tungsten Fabric participated in the 2019 Network & Compute Developer’s Conference (NCDC), in Beijing, to rally community developers in the…
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The Linux Foundation and LF Networking Announce Full Agenda for Open Networking Summit Europe
Industry’s Premier Open Networking Event to Feature Talks from AT&T, Charter Communications, China Mobile, Dell Technologies, Ericsson, ETSI, Huawei, Orange, Verizon and more 100+ sessions featuring 150+ expert community…
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ONAP Doubles-Down on Deployments, Drives Commercial Activity Across Open Source Networking Stack with ‘Dublin’ Release
Continued community expansion and alignment make ONAP center of gravity among Members, End Users, SIs, Vendors, OSS groups, and SDO organizations Major blueprints and 5G features focused on global deployments…
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Introducing Tungsten Fabric 5.1: Security, Feature, and Performance Enhancements for Network Operators & Developers
The Tungsten Fabric (TF) community is excited and proud to announce our latest release, 5.1. The TF community has been hard at work on both community and technical challenges to…
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Slides & Videos: Cloud Native Network Services Day
On May 20th, 2019, LFN Networking held a mini-summit called "Cloud Native Network Services Day" at KuneCon + CloudNativeCon EU. Get the slides here. Watch the videos here. AGENDA: 9:00…
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Slides & Video: Big5G Open Source Workshop: OCP/LFN/ONF
On May 6th, LF Networking joined up with OCP and ONF on a workshop at the Big 5G Event in Denver, Colorado. Listed below are the topics, speakers and slides.…
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LF Networking Welcomes New Member Loodse
An Interview with Loodse CEO and Co-Founder Sebastian Scheele Linux Foundation Networking is pleased to have Loodse as its newest member. Loodse is focused on cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes. We…
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OVP: OPNFV Verification Program
A community-led compliance and verification program to improve quality and interoperability in the NFV ecosystem. Network functions virtualization (NFV) and software- defined networking (SDN) offer service providers increased service agility,…
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Harmonizing Open Source and Open Standards: The Progress of ONAP
As part of the broader evolution of open networking, the Linux Foundation networking projects have been working closely with a range of networking standards groups to align complementary efforts. This…
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Harmonization 2.0: How Open Source and Standards Are Driving Collaboration Across IT
The networking industry is at a significant turning point as network operators spanning telecommunications, cable, enterprise, cloud, and the research community work to redefine the network architecture. Widespread new technology…
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Open Source Community Extends Virtual Central Office to Mobile Use Case
Multiple open source communities and organizations collaborate to bring mobile services to the edge At Open Networking Summit Europe, Oct 25-27 2018 in Amsterdam, a team made up of 30 volunteers…
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ONAP Dublin DDF and OPNFV Gambia Plugfest Joint Report
The fourth ONAP DDF and sixth OPNFV Plugfest were co-located at the Nokia facility in Nozay, France. The event spanned four days from January 8-11, 2019. The focus of this…
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Benchmarking Software Data Planes Intel® Xeon® Skylake vs. Broadwell1
Software data plane performance and efficiency are foundational properties of any NFV and cloud networking system design. They do not only impact network service economics by dictating feasible service density…
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The 1st Orange ONAP OpenLab platform
As a founding and Platinum member of the Linux Foundation Networking, Orange committed to provide resources for the community both with human resources and technical platform. Orange deployed a first…
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Heavy Reading: Open Source Networking Survey Report
Light Reading/Heavy Reading and Linux Foundation Networking are very excited to present the results of a study we executed in collaboration with our sponsors. We joined forces to deliver a…
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ETSI NFV Plugtests™ and OPNFV Plugfest Joint Report
The third ETSI NFV Plugtests and fifth OPNFV Plugfest were colocated at the ETSI campus in Sophia Antipolis, France. The ETSI Plugtests spanned over two weeks from May 29-June 8,…
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The Future of Networking Podcast
On August 1st, 2018, Arpit Joshipura, GM for Networking & Orchestration at The Linux Foundation, participated in a podcast with Packet Pushers: Show 400: The Future Of Networking With Arpit…
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Blog: Embracing Openness to Power Future Network Services
This post first published on Telekom.com The exponential Internet traffic growth is still one of the main challenges for the Telco industry. In the past, Moore’s Law has helped us to…
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Solution Brief: A Virtual Central Office Results in Reduced Total Cost of Ownership
Central offices (COs) provide critical access/aggregation networking services (e.g. for cable, fiber, DSL, wireless customers) and there are more than 10,000 COs in the United States alone. Network services in…
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Network Harmonization 2.0: Evolving Linux Foundation Networking
The Linux Foundation currently hosts 9 of the 10 largest open source networking projects — a set of thriving global communities, such as ONAP, OPNFV, OpenDaylight, FD.io and others which…
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Solution Brief: The Open Compute Project and OPNFV are at the Forefront of Open Source Networking Integration
Network functions virtualization, or NFV, is a once-in-a-generation disruption that will completely transform how networks are built and operated. Open source has revamped how enterprises build out their IT systems…
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Solution Brief: Harmonizing Open Source and Standards: An ONAP Case Study
As part of the broader evolution of open networking, LF Networking projects have been working closely with a range of networking standards groups to align complementary efforts...
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ACG report: The Impact of Open Source Technologies on the Communication Service Provider Vendor Ecosystem
There is a massive shift underway in carrier sourcing and design strategies, with open source-first philosophies unequivocally at their core...
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Harmonization 2.0: How Open Source and Standards Are Driving Collaboration Across IT
The networking industry is at a significant turning point as network operators spanning telecommunications, cable, enterprise, cloud, and the research community work to redefine the network architecture. Widespread new technology…
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Case Study: LF Networking (LFN) Projects Power Next Generation Orange Networks
Orange is a leading telecommunications company with headquarters in France. It boasts 273M customers worldwide, 152,000 employees and a revenue of €41B (2017)...
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Solution Brief: Cross Community Continuous Integration (XCI) Empowers Innovation by Increasing Collaboration Between OPNFV and Upstream Communities
A survey of Communications Service Providers (CSPs) in 2017 indicates that 80% of those surveyed feel that the DevOps software development model (DevOps) is essential or important to NFV success...
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