White Papers
Intelligent Networking, AI and Machine Learning for Telecommunications Operators
The future of Intelligent Networking and AI is in the hands of the individuals and organizations who are willing and able to contribute to new and existing projects and initiatives.…
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Defining The 5G Super Blueprint: Integration, the Open Way
The 5G Super Blueprint has evolved from the early days of the Virtual Central Office to become a cross-project and cross-industry collaboration that shows how open source networking software can…
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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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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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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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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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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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White Paper: ONAP Consumption Models
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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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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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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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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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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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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