SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- LF Networking
(LFN), which facilitates collaboration and operational excellence
across open source networking projects, announces Google Cloud has
joined as a Platinum member. Since its beginnings, Google's mission
has been to organize the world's information and make it
universally accessible and useful, and Google Cloud's vision is to
be the most trusted, simple, innovative cloud for customers around
the world. Through its membership, Google will further the
acceleration of open source technologies across cloud native
networking, telecoms, network automation, 5G, and more.
"We look forward to working with all members and the larger
community to continue to find ways to bring further value to
consumers and communications services providers alike,
demonstrating how public cloud can help fundamentally transform
networking in new and exciting ways," said Amol Phadke, Managing Director: Global Telecom
Industry Solutions, Google Cloud. "Google's excellence in creating
and sponsoring components like Kuberntes, Istio and Knative—and
successfully integrating them into products like Anthos—will be a
key pillar within the Linux Foundation Networking."
"We look forward to Google's collaboration in powering the
future of open networking," said Arpit
Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge and IOT, the
Linux Foundation. "As technology evolves, cross-vertical
integration is increasingly important. Google's expertise and
leadership is a welcome addition to the LFN community."
Google's Amol Phadke, managing
director, Global Telecom Industry Solutions, joins the LFN Board of
Directors.
Google Cloud joins additional LFN Platinum members: Amdocs,
AT&T, Bell, China Mobile, China Telecom, Cisco, Deutsche
Telekom, Ericsson, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Juniper Networks, Nokia,
Orange, RedHat, Samsung, Tech Mahindra, Turk Telekom, Verizon,
VMWare, Vodafone, and ZTE. To learn more about LFN, its projects,
and the global community it represents, visit here.
This week, LFN co-hosts the Open Networking & Edge Summit
(ONES), the industry's premier open networking event now expanded
to comprehensively cover Edge Computing, Edge Cloud & IoT. ONES
enables collaborative development and innovation across
enterprises, service providers/telcos and cloud providers to shape
the future of networking and edge computing. To register and join
the virtual event through September
30, visit:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-networking-edge-summit-north-america/register/
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is
the organization of choice for the world's top developers and
companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology
development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open
source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by
creating the largest shared technology investment in history.
Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools,
training and events to scale any open source project, which
together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one
company. More information can be found at
www.linuxfoundation.org.
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Lovato
The Linux Foundation
jlovato@linuxfoundaiton.org
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