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
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…
Case Study: LF Networking (LFN) Projects Power Next Generation Orange Networks
Orange is a leading telecommunications company with headquarters in France. It boasts 273M customers worldwide, 152,000 employees and a revenue of €41B (2017)...
