Initiative announces vendors, telecom
providers, and researchers as members; plus new software releases
and deployments; as well as election of leaders from Deutsche
Telekom and Türk Telekom as new governing board co-chairs
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FRANCISCO, July 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux
Foundation is excited to announce the formation of LF
Broadband, an open and collaborative initiative driving innovation
in open source broadband access. LF Broadband supports a collection
of projects that are transforming broadband networks and the
Passive Optical Network (PON) industry, including the SEBA
reference design for building open broadband networks, and the
VOLTHA open source project for virtualizing multi-vendor PON
systems. These projects previously were hosted by the Open
Networking Foundation, and now with the Linux Foundation.
Initiative announces vendors, telecom
providers, and researchers as members, plus new software releases
and deployments.
Formation of the LF Broadband Directed Fund
The LF
Broadband Directed Fund was established recently as an independent
fund under the Linux Foundation, with the goal of supporting
broadband related open source projects in deployment with Deutsche
Telekom, Türk Telekom, and more. LF Broadband was born out of the
Open Networking Foundation (ONF), which transitioned into the Linux
Foundation in late 2023. Former ONF projects were split into three
directed funds following the merger: LF Broadband, Aether, and P4.
Supported by leading telecom, networking and broadband providers,
LF Broadband projects are open source, with open interfaces, and
future-proof designs based on cloud native architecture. Initial
members supporting the formation of LF Broadband include Adtran,
Deutsche Telekom, Digital Platforms, Excelacom, Iowa State University, Netsia, Radisys, Türk
Telekom, Universidad de Burgos, and ZTE.
New Executive Director
Arpit Joshipura has been appointed Executive
Director of LF Broadband. Joshipura serves as General Manager of
Networking and Orchestration at the Linux Foundation, and oversees
other subfoundations such as LF Networking and LF Edge.
"Just as open source drove the 5G transition in
telecommunications core and edge stacks, it is also driving the
next generation of broadband network technologies," said Joshipura.
"LF Broadband provides a neutral forum for vendors, end users, and
researchers to collaborate on the solutions necessary to drive
transformed broadband networks and the Passive Optical Network
industry."
New Governing Board Co-Chairs
Ahmet Fethi Ayhan of Türk Telekom and
Manuel Paul of Deutsche Telekom have
been elected as co-chairs of the LF Broadband Governing Board.
Other governing board members are Bora Eliacik of Netsia and
Robert Soukup of Radisys. The
governing board oversees the strategic direction of LF Broadband,
and approves all spending on behalf of the organization.
Current LF Broadband Initiatives
LF Broadband's open
source broadband projects and initiatives provide:
- Proven solutions in production (Türk Telekom, Deutsche
Telekom)
- Multi-vendor platform which supports a broad portfolio of
ecosystem vendors, and prevents vendor lock-in
- Multi-protocol, centralized network management and SDN control
plane supporting existing and new OLTs and ONUs
- The only open and disaggregated solution in production
- Significant TCO savings (CAPEX 20-40% lower, OPEX 10-20%
lower)
Initial projects under LF Broadband include VOLTHA and SEBA.
VOLTHA provides common control & management for PON networks
(OLTs and ONUs) and supports open-hardware based as well as
traditional (chassis-based) OLTs with different OLT adapters.
VOLTHA has a highly scalable microservice architecture, using
VOLTHA stacks, tested for tens of thousands of ONUs.
VOLTHA has been deployed live in production environments by
Deutsche Telekom and Türk Telekom. Multiple other operators have
VOLTHA-based solutions in various stages of lab trials and field
trials. VOLTHA v.2.12 was recently released, offering robustness,
device management enhancements and support for additional
subscriber profiles driven by operator requirements. Enhancements
in this version include support for voice service profiles;
improved error handling and recovery; management interface
improvements for logging, alarms and attributes received from OLTs;
observability infrastructure enhancements related to OLT metrics;
and test infrastructure stabilization.
SEBA (SDN-Enabled Broadband Access) is a reference design
for supporting broadband access with minimal prescription of
technology choices, intended to support network and feature needs
of multiple operators with a common architecture. Supporting both
residential access and wireless backhaul, SEBA serves as
foundational architecture for VOLTHA. SEBA is deployed in
production by Türk Telekom.
LF Broadband is committed to supporting the development and
adoption of open source broadband. To learn more about LF
Broadband, including how to contribute to the community and become
a member, please visit https://lfbroadband.org/.
View the full press release with supporting quotes.
How to Get Involved:
- Join the LF Broadband VOLTHA Mailing List
- Subscribe to the LF Broadband Newsletter
- Follow LF Broadband on X
- Follow LF Broadband on LinkedIn
- Follow LF Broadband on YouTube
- Become a Member
About Linux Foundation
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hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are
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SPDX, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best
practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and
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www.linuxfoundation.org.
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Lehman
The Linux Foundation
nlehman@linuxfoundation.org
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