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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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[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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