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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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