LFN project releases, artifacts, and tooling are key ingredients to the open networking stack. Businesses, government agencies, education institutions, service providers—and the OEMs, ISVs and system integrators that support them all— leverage open components when building their platforms, frameworks, products, and services. This collection of user stories illuminate how the industry is embracing open source projects for digital transformation.
LFN User Stories
Lessons Learned from Using Nephio to Manage a Real-World 5G Core
Understanding the practical challenges and opportunities of new tech is crucial to evolving network automation. István Kispál, a Nokia Bell Labs Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, shared his experience using LFN’s Nephio to manage a real-world Nokia 5G core during ONE Summit 2024. Why This Matters Kispál outlines how Nokia…
LFN User Story: Netgate uses FD.io VPP to Turbocharge University Hybrid Learning Experience
Helping Higher Education Higher education institutions are looking for ways to reinvent themselves as tuition and enrollment continue to decline. One key objective is to provide real-world computing infrastructure, real-time access to data, the Internet, and other resources to students via their device of choice - be it a laptop,…
Spark Embarks on Telco Cloud Automation Journey with ONAP
As Spark New Zealand Limited (Spark) approached 5G deployment, they started analyzing the status of automation across network and infrastructure and realized they needed an automation suite that would support future use cases 5G could enable, such as network slicing, and closed loop automation.
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 with 2 use cases in production across the network. Future integration will include different types of data modeling technology, Open APIs,…
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 live network — the first in Europe. To automate services on all network domains, Deutsche Telekom introduced a vendor-independent Service…
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 Orange Egypt, includes automating network services, network connectivity and resource management inside IP/MPLS, and configuration changes such as provisioning virtual…
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 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC) rollouts. The key metric Bell uses to measure the success of ONAP is the…
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 cyber technologies. The school takes the standards provided by the U.S. Cyber Command and the U.S. Army as key inputs…
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 and international operators for fixed, mobile, and Internet services. Network operators cross-charge each other for the interconnect services they offer…
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 required functionality in the move from a traditional Enterprise load balancing implementation to an open software-based, Cloud-native scalable, load balancing…
