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Why Join LF Networking?

LF Networking membership gives organizations a direct role in shaping the future of open networking. Members collaborate with peers across the global ecosystem to accelerate innovation, reduce duplicated engineering effort, improve interoperability, and support commercially ready open source networking technologies.

Through LFN, members can engage across projects that address AI-native networking, automation, cloud-native infrastructure, Open RAN, edge, data plane performance, and network services. Participation helps organizations build upstream relationships, influence technical priorities, support developer communities, and bring open networking innovations to market faster.

Founded in January 2018, LF Networking is the center of gravity for collaboration—through a broad industry coalition—so the entire world can access networking innovations and achieve digital transformation. No single company could accomplish what is delivered through LF Networking. Companies of all sizes and types can rely on a breadth of commercially-ready ecosystem offerings that are based on LF Networking innovations.

Speed Your Time to Market

Open source has now become the de facto way to build software to speed up software development. Working within the LF Networking community, developers have access to the broadest set of open source networking capabilities and integration points and can leverage this community-driven work to develop and onboard networking software in simpler, more efficient ways. This streamlines development and speeds up time to market for network services and infrastructure, for both private and public networks alike. Businesses, service providers and government agencies have the confidence that they can rely on community-built, interoperable solutions to support their end user needs.

Create Business Value

Open source networking helps organizations reduce duplicated development, avoid costly private forks, accelerate integration, and build on a broader vendor and contributor ecosystem. By collaborating upstream, members can help shape shared components, reference architectures, testing frameworks, and best practices that support commercial products, services, and deployments.

Stay Cutting Edge

Innovation happens faster in an open, collaborative forum where ideas are crowdsourced, shared and quickly iterated upon. The LF Networking community is fostering a new wave of open source practitioners across the entire value chain and is an innovation competency that the industry can rely on. Open source software, by definition, also motivates leading edge development with vulnerability detection & code design best practices. With this open access to incredible networking innovations, retailers can find new ways to optimize inventory, manufacturers can improve defect detection and connect their factories for real-time decision making, and many other sectors can benefit.

Invest in Your Team

LF Networking Platinum and Gold members are eligible to receive up to 50 LF Education vouchers to support workforce development and technical excellence across their organization. Vouchers can be used by individuals within the member organization for either (1) a one-year subscription that includes unlimited e-learning, SkillCreds, and Microlearning content – and up to two certifications; OR (2) a 50% discount coupon off of a Guaranteed-to-run, instructor-led course.

Designated membership contact(s) for current Platinum and Gold members will receive an email with instructions on how to access and redeem these benefits within 15 days of membership invoice payment. Please note that education benefits may be redeemed once per organization or corporate group (entities under common control), even if multiple memberships are held.

LF Networking Membership Pricing

Level	Not Yet LF Member	Already LF Member
Platinum	$270,000	$250,000
Gold	$145,000	$125,000
Silver *	$95,000 (USD) 10,000 and above $70,000 (USD) 5,000 to 9,999 $45,000 (USD) 2,000 to 4,999 $30,000 (USD) 500 to 1,999 $25,000 (USD 100 to 499 $10,000 (USD) less than 100	$75,000 (USD) 10,000 and above $50,000 (USD) 5,000 to 9,999 $30,000 (USD) 2,000 to 4,999 $15,000 (USD) 500 to 1,999 $15,000 (USD 100 to 499 $5,000 (USD) less than 100
	Associate Membership is free for pre-approved open source projects, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, or government research institutions
	* Solely for purposes of calculating fees, Consolidated Employees include all employees of Related Companies (as defined in the Charter), which include any direct and indirect parent companies, and all sister and subsidiary entities. Employees do not include third party contractors.

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