Publications
LF Networking 2022 Year in Review
Now in its fifth year as an umbrella organization LF Networking software and projects provide the foundations for network infrastructure and services across service providers, cloud providers, enterprises, vendors, and…
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Ebook: Network-as-a-Service – A Practical Approach for CSPs to Implement Cloud-Native Multi-Cloud Networks for Enterprises
“If an Enterprise wants to open a new branch office or retail location today, they are faced with a myriad of manual and time-consuming tasks: ordering network transport, provisioning cloud…
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2021 LFN Year In Review Report
LFN is dedicated to creating opportunities and new ways to innovate across the networking industry. 2021 continued to be a challenging year around the globe, but three Cs (Code, Collaboration,…
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Vision 2022: Open Networking & Edge Predictions
By: Arpit Joshipura, GM, Networking, Edge & IOT As we wrap up the second year of living through a global pandemic, I wanted to take a moment to both look…
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1-Pager: OpenDaylight is Verizon’s Directional SDN Controller
After initial work exploring OpenDaylight (ODL), Verizon decided to pull the testing, packaging, support in-house and create their own optimized ODL distribution. ODL is Verizon’s foundational and directional SDN controller…
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1-Pager: DT Deploys ONAP In Production in O-RAN Town
In their O-RAN Town project, the carrier deployed in the city of Neubrandenburg a multi-vendor Open RAN trial network for 4G and 5G services with massive MIMO integrated into the…
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1-Pager: Orange Deploys ONAP In Production
Realizing a long-pursued goal of using the Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP), Orange has deployed and trialed an automation framework powered by ONAP. The current use case, in production in…
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White Paper: Intelligent Networking, AI and Machine Learning
The LF Networking (LFN) End User Advisor Group (EUAG) is publishing this document to identify and highlight the latest thinking and recommendations for building and supporting intelligent networking and the…
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MEF Network Service Automation using OpenDaylight UniMgr
By: Charles Eckel (Cisco); Santanu De, Shrinivas Joshi, Kiran Ambardekar (Xoriant Corporation); Mahesh Jethanandani (Kloud Services) A team from Xoriant, Cisco, Kloud Services, and Amartus has been working with Ethernet…
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White Paper: NFV Testing and Automation Research and Methodologies
The End User Advisory Group (EUAG) was created by LF Networking to share views, challenges, and best practices between user organizations; highlighting new areas of opportunity for the developer community.…
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White Paper: NFV Testing and Automation
The End User Advisory Group (EUAG) was created by LF Networking to share views, challenges, and best practices between user organizations; highlighting new areas of opportunity for the developer community.…
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LFN Member Onboarding Guide
The LFN Member Onboarding Guide was written to provide members with a complete onramp to the LF Networking community. You will learn how to engage with your communities of interest,…
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2020 LFN Year In Review Report
2020 was certainly a challenging year around the globe. But challenges also bring opportunities. Working together, the LFN Community found new ways to innovate, collaborate, and advance the state of…
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OSN Days Taiwan Dec 2020
National Chiao Tung University (NCTU交通大學) hosted an Open Source Networking Day (OSN Day) in Taiwan on December 18th 2020 in one of the few countries where physical events are possible…
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FD.io Infographic: Digital Transformation is Everywhere
See an illustration that explains how FD.io, the fast data project, enables digital transformation across5G, Cloud Native, and Edge Networking:
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LFN + LF Edge Demo Pavilion from ONES 2020
Proof of Concept (PoC) demos are one of the very best ways to experience the innovation happening our technical communities. For the Open Networking & Edge Summit 2020 (ONES), we…
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ONES 2020 a Success
Distributed But Always Connected. The Open Networking & Edge Summit 2020 Virtual Experience gathered 1,322 live attendees from 523 organizations in 71 countries around the globe. 54% hailed from the…
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Software-defined vertical industries: transformation through open source
A recent McKinsey & Co. report described, the “biggest differentiator” for top-quartile companies in an industry vertical was “open source adoption,” where they shifted from users to contributors. The report’s data shows…
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Virtual LFN Developer & Testing Forum: June 2020 Report
Highlights from the Virtual LFN Developer & Testing Forum, June 22-25, 2020. Please direct any questions to info@lfnetworking.org. LF Networking (LFN) held its biannual Developer & Testing Forum from June…
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5G Networking: An Introduction
Open source software plays an important role in accelerating 5G deployments. With a global developer community addressing technical challenges and expanding access to technical capabilities, the open source development model…
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Cloud Native Networking for Telecom: An Introduction
The recent business disruptions worldwide resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the importance of sustaining the operation of global communications infrastructure despite unprecedented surges in traffic. AT&T, for example,…
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ONAP MDONS Blueprint Overview
In order to offer service to customers with geographically diver se locations, CSPs often lease resources in networks where they do not have a presence (“off ne t”). This allows…
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E2E Network Slicing Technical Overview
Network Slicing is one of the key features of 5G. The essence of Network Slicing is to be able to effectively cater to of a diverse set o f use…
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ONAP Consumption Models Whitepaper
The End User Advisory Group (EUAG) was created by LF Networking (LFN) to share views, challenges, and best practices between user organizations; highlighting new areas of opportunity for the developer…
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Bell Canada Case Study
Since 2017, the use of ONAP at Bell Canada has expanded to automating numerous key network services across all business units. Moving forward, ONAP is playing a major role in…
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CNTT Whitepaper
The objective of the Cloud iNfrastructure Telco Taskforce (CNTT) is to develop a framework for standardizing Cloud Infrastructure to increase interoperability between the virtualized workloads and the underlying infrastructure, and…
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Case Study: Army Cyber School Leverages FD.io to Achieve Superior Network Performance and Scale
The US Army Cyber Center of Excellence is one of the key defense domains along with land, sea and air, and has the important task of training army soldiers in…
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Edge Networking: An Introduction
LFN Projects are deeply integrated with the edge computing landscape and lead the telecom industry move into open source edge. LF Networking and LF Edge collaborate on the end-to-end edge…
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LF Networking Whitepaper
This whitepaper, prepared by a Working Group of the LFN Technical Advisory Council (TAC), is intended for anyone who is interested in the intersection of modern network design and the…
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Harmonizing Open Source and Standards: A Case for 5G Slicing
As an operator-led open source community for a next generation network automation platform, ONAP has been committed to the convergence of standards and open source since inception, and has promoted…
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LFN Developer & Testing Forum Report (January 2020)
LF Networking (LFN) hosted a record breaking cross-community technical gathering, the LFN Developer & Testing Forum at the Prague Congress Center in Prague, Czech Republic, from January 13-16, 2020, attracting…
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Solution Brief: Open Source Communities Demonstrate End-to-End 5G Cloud Native Network
5G brings with it a tremendous promise but also new requirements. Cloud native technologies can be used to meet several of these demands by providing benefits in the areas of…
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UNH-IOL Hosts Lab as a Service: A Community Resource from the Linux Foundation
In the short video, Parker Berberian, UNH-IOL staffer, OPNFV TSC Member, and OPNFV Lab as a Service (LaaS) project lead, gives an overview of of LaaS and how developers can…
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LF Networking 2019 Year in Review
2019 was a successful year for LF Networking! This 28-page, detailed report recaps the highlights and achievements of 2019 while offering insights from LFN and community leaders on where the…
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Solution Brief: Optimizing Wholesale Intercarrier Settlement with Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain
Telecom network operators worldwide open their networks to each other to enable their mutual customers to communicate across network boundaries. This practice, known as “Interconnect,” is being used among national…
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Video Highlights: ONS Europe 2019
Check out highlights from Open Networking Summit 2019, which took place September 23-25 in Antwerp, Belgium. The second time in Europe, ONS drew hundreds of attendees from over 200…
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Yahoo! JAPAN Solutions Brief
Yahoo! JAPAN addresses infrastructure scalability challenges through the adoption of commodity x86 servers combined with the LF Networking's Fast Data Project (FD.io). This solution brief outlines key design choices and…
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LFN DDF and Plugfest Report (June 2019)
The LFN DDF + Plugfest was held at the Kista Convention Center (Kistamässan) in Stockholm, Sweden, from June 11-14 and was built on the success of four prior ONAP DDF…
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Slides & Videos: Cloud Native Network Services Day
On May 20th, 2019, LFN Networking held a mini-summit called "Cloud Native Network Services Day" at KuneCon + CloudNativeCon EU. Get the slides here. Watch the videos here. AGENDA: 9:00…
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Slides & Video: Big5G Open Source Workshop: OCP/LFN/ONF
On May 6th, LF Networking joined up with OCP and ONF on a workshop at the Big 5G Event in Denver, Colorado. Listed below are the topics, speakers and slides.…
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OVP: OPNFV Verification Program
A community-led compliance and verification program to improve quality and interoperability in the NFV ecosystem. Network functions virtualization (NFV) and software- defined networking (SDN) offer service providers increased service agility,…
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Harmonizing Open Source and Open Standards: The Progress of ONAP
As part of the broader evolution of open networking, the Linux Foundation networking projects have been working closely with a range of networking standards groups to align complementary efforts. This…
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Harmonization 2.0: How Open Source and Standards Are Driving Collaboration Across IT
The networking industry is at a significant turning point as network operators spanning telecommunications, cable, enterprise, cloud, and the research community work to redefine the network architecture. Widespread new technology…
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Open Source Community Extends Virtual Central Office to Mobile Use Case
Multiple open source communities and organizations collaborate to bring mobile services to the edge At Open Networking Summit Europe, Oct 25-27 2018 in Amsterdam, a team made up of 30 volunteers…
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ONAP Dublin DDF and OPNFV Gambia Plugfest Joint Report
The fourth ONAP DDF and sixth OPNFV Plugfest were co-located at the Nokia facility in Nozay, France. The event spanned four days from January 8-11, 2019. The focus of this…
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Benchmarking Software Data Planes Intel® Xeon® Skylake vs. Broadwell1
Software data plane performance and efficiency are foundational properties of any NFV and cloud networking system design. They do not only impact network service economics by dictating feasible service density…
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The 1st Orange ONAP OpenLab platform
As a founding and Platinum member of the Linux Foundation Networking, Orange committed to provide resources for the community both with human resources and technical platform. Orange deployed a first…
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Heavy Reading: Open Source Networking Survey Report
Light Reading/Heavy Reading and Linux Foundation Networking are very excited to present the results of a study we executed in collaboration with our sponsors. We joined forces to deliver a…
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ETSI NFV Plugtests™ and OPNFV Plugfest Joint Report
The third ETSI NFV Plugtests and fifth OPNFV Plugfest were colocated at the ETSI campus in Sophia Antipolis, France. The ETSI Plugtests spanned over two weeks from May 29-June 8,…
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The Future of Networking Podcast
On August 1st, 2018, Arpit Joshipura, GM for Networking & Orchestration at The Linux Foundation, participated in a podcast with Packet Pushers: Show 400: The Future Of Networking With Arpit…
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Blog: Embracing Openness to Power Future Network Services
This post first published on Telekom.com The exponential Internet traffic growth is still one of the main challenges for the Telco industry. In the past, Moore’s Law has helped us to…
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Solution Brief: A Virtual Central Office Results in Reduced Total Cost of Ownership
Central offices (COs) provide critical access/aggregation networking services (e.g. for cable, fiber, DSL, wireless customers) and there are more than 10,000 COs in the United States alone. Network services in…
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Solution Brief: The Open Compute Project and OPNFV are at the Forefront of Open Source Networking Integration
Network functions virtualization, or NFV, is a once-in-a-generation disruption that will completely transform how networks are built and operated. Open source has revamped how enterprises build out their IT systems…
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