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
VPP on FreeBSD
This post was initially published at FreeBSDPorting the Vector Packet Processing (VPP) framework to FreeBSD to enhance network performance capabilities By Tom Jones, FreeBSD FoundationThe Vector Packet Processing (VPP) project on FreeBSD aimed to port VPP, an open-source, high-performance user space networking stack, to FreeBSD. VPP optimizes packet processing through…
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…
How Walmart Leverages Open Source for Operational Excellence at Scale
How does the world’s largest retail giant, Walmart, use open source technologies to efficiently manage its massive network infrastructure? Dave Temkin, vice president of Platform Infrastructure at Walmart, offered a comprehensive look into the retailer’s open source journey, emphasizing the importance of scale, efficiency, and community collaboration, during a keynote…
How Huawei Enables Operators to Monetize APIs via LFN & CAMARA
This blog post is a guest piece written by Shuting Qing of Huawei about their contributions and involvement in The Linux Foundation CAMARA project and The Linux Foundation Networking. Huawei joined CAMARA at the end of 2022 and aim to help telecoms explore new business models to monetize their networks…
How DARPA Leverages Open Source to Secure 5G
This post is based on a presentation by Tejas Patel, program manager in the information innovation office at DARPA, given during ONE Summit North America 2022. When DARPA set out to explore what the future of 5G looked like, we asked ourselves a simple question, “how can DARPA have an…
PANTHEON.tech helps improve cloud native networking with FD.io VPP
CNFs require high performance data and control planes – open source networking software underpins solution As Telecommunications companies continue their journey of network transformation, network functions virtualization (NFV) based on white box cloud computing infrastructure has started to make way for cloud native network functions (CNFs) based on container infrastructure…
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…
