LF Networking (LFN) provides the largest set of open source networking projects via a broad industry coalition that comprise the open networking stack. The projects within LF Networking consolidate under a single umbrella with common governance to simplify engagement for members, enhance operational excellence, integrate components and increase interoperability across the stack, and foster a commercially-ready ecosystem.
LF Networking Projects
Our Projects
Anuket
Anuket delivers a common model, standardized reference infrastructure specifications, and conformance and performance frameworks for virtualized and cloud native network functions, enabling faster, more robust onboarding into production, reducing costs and accelerating communications digital transformations.
Cloud Native Telecom Initiative (CNTI)
Cloud Native Telecom Initiative (CNTI) brings telco networking and cloud native thought leaders together to advance cloud native networking confidence and adoption.
FD.io
An Open Source Terabit Software Dataplane
The world moves at light speed. Make sure your packet traffic keeps up.
The world moves at light speed. Make sure your packet traffic keeps up. Fast Data Project’s VPP enriches data plane leadership and deployment efficiency.
L3AF
At L3AF, our vision is to create a marketplace for eBPF programs (Kernel Functions), where users and developers can share their own signed kernel functions and download kernel functions from others.
Nephio
Nephio delivers carrier-grade, simple, open, Kubernetes-based cloud native intent automation and common automation templates that materially simplify the deployment and management of multi-vendor cloud infrastructure and network functions across large-scale edge deployments.
ONAP
ONAP is a comprehensive platform for orchestration, management, and automation of network and edge computing services for network operators, cloud providers, and enterprises.
OpenDaylight
OpenDaylight (ODL) is a modular open platform for customizing and automating networks of any size and scale.
Paraglider
Paraglider is a control plane for cloud networking resources designed to simplify the tenant networking experience. The Paraglider Controller exposes the Paraglider API to tenants and uses public cloud APIs to manage the tenant’s cloud network.
XGVela
An open source cloud native PaaS for applications and telco network functions, which is to enable new services and help mobile operators to seize the business opportunity from vertical industries in the 5G era.
Essedum
An LF Networking candidate project dedicated to accelerating AI integration in networking by providing a complete framework for data sharing, domain-specific AI tools, and AI-driven application development.
