On Jan. 23, the Linux Foundation announced a broad restructuring effort for its networking projects that will see a new grouping known as the LF Networking Fund (LFN) emerge as the top-level organization.
Read more at Enterprise Networking Planet.
The Linux Foundation has launched a new effort to promote collaboration between open source networking projects.
The foundation this week unveiled the LF Networking Fund, which Arpit Joshipura described as a “platform for cross-project collaboration”.
Read more at Computer World.
Open source is transforming networking. Ever since OpenFlow appeared in 2011 and showed that we could use software to improve networking, open-source software, and not hardware, has blazed the future of networking. There was only one problem. There are far, far too many open-source networking projects.
Read more at ZDNet.
Contributions Will Accelerate Network Innovation and Transformation
NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO – January 16, 2018 – Verizon and The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced today that Verizon has joined the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) project as a Platinum member. ONAP brings together the majority of global carriers and vendors to build an automation and orchestration platform to transform the service delivery lifecycle for network, cable and cloud providers. ONAP enables nearly 60 percent of the world’s mobile subscribers.
Participating in ONAP demonstrates Verizon’s commitment to open platforms and open source to drive innovation and transformation, especially in the areas of SDN and NFV. By working closely with the ONAP community, Verizon expects to:
- Simplify and accelerate onboarding of network functions while expanding interoperability with other SDN ecosystems
- Gain greater agility in network management, service creation and provisioning to best meet customer needs
- Drive reference standards to vendors and partners for consistent deployment of their network services in the Verizon network
As an early leader in virtualization and cloud technologies, Verizon has driven the adoption of SDN and NFV across its network with a focus on transformation. With its scale and experience, Verizon is well-positioned to help drive the ONAP initiative across the industry with global partners and suppliers. The collaboration with ONAP underscores Verizon’s leadership in delivering new network services, while simplifying onboarding and operational functions.
“Future experiences powered by intelligent and automated networks is one of the biggest opportunity areas for carrier networks,” said Ed Chan, senior vice president and Chief Technology Architect at Verizon. “Verizon is working together with partners to accelerate virtualization and automation across the industry through ONAP.”
“We are thrilled Verizon is joining ONAP,” said Arpit Joshipura, General Manager of Networking and Orchestration, The Linux Foundation. “By participating in ONAP development, the world’s most influential carriers will greatly accelerate SDN/NFV services, virtual functions, and edge computing and 5G applications. Open standards and technologies like ONAP are advancing data networking faster and more economically than ever before.”
About Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New York City, has a diverse workforce of 163,400 and generated nearly $126 billion in 2016 revenues. Verizon operates America’s most reliable wireless network and the nation’s premier all-fiber network, and delivers integrated solutions to businesses worldwide. Its Oath subsidiary houses more than 50 media and technology brands that engage about 1 billion people around the world.
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.
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With its Amsterdam release behind them, ONAP is focused on preparing for the Beijing platform—the second release in its ongoing series of specifications.
Set to be released next summer, Beijing will include what ONAP calls “S3P” (scale, stability, security and performance) enhancements.
Read more at FierceTelecom.
The next release of ONAP software will focus on making the overall platform more mature and developing functional requirements that can support multiple end-to-end use cases, says one individual involved in developing Beijing, due out next spring.
Read more at Light Reading.
Canadian telecommunications company Bell announced it has become the first company to launch an open source version of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) in production.
The announcement was noted by Arpit Joshipura, general manager of networking and orchestration at the Linux Foundation, in a company blog post. According to Joshipura, the news marks a first step toward using ONAP as a common platform across Bell’s network as the company re-aligns itself to follow a multi-partner DevOps model.
Canadian communications provider Bell is the first organization to deploy an open source version of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) in a production environment.
The milestone was noted in a blog post by Arpit Joshipura, general manager of networking and orchestration with the Linux Foundation.
Bell Canada’s move to be the first company bringing open-source ONAP code into production is the result of a year-long challenge the company set for itself to make its dev-ops process pay off. But it is also intended as a signal to the broader industry that the massive open-source software platform can be practically deployed, in hopes of attracting more participation and contributions, a BCE executive says.
Bell Canada has become one of the first service providers to deploy Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), focusing its initial attention on automating its data center tenant network provisioning process.
By making this transition in its network, the service provider said it will provide its operations teams with a new tool to improve efficiency and time to market.