State of the Open Source Networking Industry

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We started LF Networking (LFN) in 2018 with an audacious mission to build a sustainable open source networking ecosystem to create value and solutions that are the basis of modern communications.
We built LFN by bringing together several open source projects under a common umbrella to increase operational excellence and foster the communities innovating across the open source networking stack—in dataplane, SDN, NFV, orchestration, analytics, and more.
These projects provide platforms and building blocks for network infrastructure and services across service providers, cloud providers, enterprises, vendors, and system integrators that enable rapid interoperability, deployment, and adoption.
LFN is able to achieve success because it brings together the top network vendors as well as a number of the world’s leading service providers to work side-by-side and collaborate across common industry challenges and opportunities.
In fact, LFN membership includes the 10 largest networking vendors and 20 leading communications service providers (CSPs) that represent more than 70 percent of the world’s mobile subscribers.
Standards have long been important in the telecommunications industry to enable wide scale multi-vendor interoperability and high performance, and LFN is harmonizing the worlds of standards and open source with formal collaborations that ensure alignment, consistent APIs, and models.
CNTT also enhances the OPNFV lfnetworking.org/ovp/”>Verification Program (OVP) which combines open source-based automated compliance and verification testing for NFV stack specifications established by ONAP, multiple SDOs such as ETSI and GSMA, and the LF Networking End User Advisory Group (EUAG).
A great example of industry collaboration was seen at KubeCon with 5G cloud native network live demonstration built on open source infrastructure with contributions from six open source projects and standards groups, 14 companies, and more than 80 volunteers.

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