This community member profile features Ajay Lotan Thakur, a Cloud Software Architect at Intel Corporation. He is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and contributes actively to the Aether community. Ajay is a Technical Steering Team (TST) member of the ONF’s SD-Core, SD-RAN, and Aether projects. He is an early contributor and maintainer of the SD-Core (Private 4G, 5G) project. His primary contributions to the ONF project include the implementation of the Cloud Native SD-Core, the creation of a single configuration interface for SD-Core, and the development of the 5G test tool (gNBSim), which is ..read more

We are delighted to announce the results of the recent 2024 P4 Technical Steering Team (TST) Elections. Nate Foster (Cornell), Steffen Smolka (Google) and Hari Thantry (Google) have been elected to 2-year terms on the P4 TST.  We also would like to extend a warm thank you to outgoing TST members JK Lee and Noa Zilberman. We greatly appreciate all of your hard work and dedication to P4! Recently, ONF announced that it will be merging its portfolio of projects with the Linux Foundation (LF), and that P4 will graduate to become an independent project under LF. The P4 TST will continue to lea ..read more

We are delighted to announce the results of the recent 2024 P4 Technical Steering Team (TST) Elections. Nate Foster (Cornell), Steffen Smolka (Google) and Hari Thantry (Google) have been elected to 2-year terms on the P4 TST.  We also would like to extend a warm thank you to outgoing TST members JK Lee and Noa Zilberman. We greatly appreciate all of your hard work and dedication to P4! Recently, ONF announced that it will be merging its portfolio of projects with the Linux Foundation (LF), and that P4 will graduate to become an independent project under LF. The P4 TST will continue to lea ..read more

ONF’s portfolio of projects is merging into the Linux Foundation, and as a result a new LF-hosted Aether project has been formed to bring together various component projects under the leadership of a new Aether Governing Board paired with the existing Aether Technical Steering Team (TST). This new LF Aether Project now encompasses all the Private 5G, Open RAN and Edge-X Mobility work of the ONF. Aether is a Kubernetes-based edge cloud, augmented with a 5G-based connectivity service, and targeted at private (enterprise) deployments that want to take advantage of 5G connectivity in support of mi ..read more

From its humble academic origins, P4 has grown into a vibrant open-source project, with a dedicated community of researchers and practitioners united by a shared mission: to create a deeply programmable platform that puts network owners, not equipment vendors and standards bodies, in control of their networks. The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) recently announced that its portfolio of projects will merge into the Linux Foundation (LF). As part of this merger, P4 will become an independent project hosted by LF. It will adopt LF’s industry-standard governance model and be supported by a direct ..read more

Organizations Seek to Broaden Adoption, Bolster Collaboration and Expedite Innovation of Broadband, Mobile and P4 Programmable Open Networking SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Dec. 14, 2023 – The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) today announced that its portfolio of leading open source networking projects, encompassing access, edge and cloud solutions, are set to graduate to become independent projects under the Linux Foundation (LF). The move creates independent, community-led governance for the three major project areas: Broadband, Aether and P4, and sets the projects up for broader collaboration and a ..read more

Broadband Forum | October 23, 2023 | Read More The post The Power of a Standards-based Operator Cloud Demonstrated at Network X appeared first on Open Networking Foundation ..read more

TelcoTitans | October 9, 2023 | Read More The post ONF using smarts to solve 5G power problems appeared first on Open Networking Foundation ..read more

In this community member profile we are pleased to welcome two new contributors to the VOLTHA community from BISDN GmbH: Cristina de Francisco (DevOps Engineer) and Jan Klare (Senior Solutions Architect). About Cristina Cristina is based in Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain. Most recently she has been investigating, debugging and fixing some of the pipelines for the Berlin VOLTHA community pods. Her primary focus has been resolving issues related to the test infrastructure. Cristina holds a BS and a Master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of the Basque Country. During her ba ..read more

rApp and xApp Provide Integrated Cell on/off Capabilities with Proactive Traffic Steering Palo Alto, California – Oct 4, 2023 – ONF is pleased to announce that it has achieved its first milestone in the SMaRT-5G project with the successful demonstration of an intelligent cell on/off RAN energy savings application (rApp) that works hand-in-hand with a traffic steering application (xApp), ensuring quality of service while optimizing RAN energy consumption. These Integrated xApp and rApp applications, implemented entirely in open source, will first be demonstrated at Fyuz (October 9-11 in Madrid ..read more