BROWSING: Open Source

What does an IoT platform do? An IoT system consists of the individual field devices — temperature sensors, door cameras, refrigerators or what have you; the cloud, where the data is stored, and much of the analysis is done; and the platform, the set of...

Alibaba Cloud joins Cloud Foundry as gold member Alibaba Cloud announced it is deploying Cloud Foundry on its infrastructure alongside joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a gold member. Cloud Foundry is an open source, multi-cloud application platform-as-a-service governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. According to...

NetScout Systems becomes member of LFN The Linux Foundation Networking Fund (LFN) continues to grow with NetScout Systems Inc. jumping on board as its newest member. LFN was founded at the beginning of the year as a way to house the Linux Foundation's open source projects...

The Linux Foundation and OCP tag team open source hardware/software initiative The virtualization of network functions has resulted in a disaggregation of hardware and software, increasing interest in open source projects for both layers in return. To feed this interest, the Linux Foundation and Open...

AT&T brings dNOS project to open source community AT&T announced it is open sourcing its Disaggregated Network Operating System (dNOS) project, which will be hosted by The Linux Foundation. The purpose of the project is to provide a software framework to accelerate the adoption and use...

New ETSI group focuses on end-to-end network slicing As networks become increasingly complex, operators are tapping into network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) solutions to automate network operations. As the industry looks to the commercialize of 5G networks in the coming years, the...

Alibaba Cloud and Baidu become CNCF members Austin, Texas -- The two major cloud companies, Alibaba Cloud and Baidu, have announced their support of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) by becoming members of the organization, as noted this week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017. The...

Synopsys announces intent to acquire Black Duck Software Synopsys has announced it intends to acquire Black Duck Software for approximately $565 million, or $548 million net cash. According to a company press release, the transaction will be funded by U.S. cash, is subject to Hart...

Using CORD to turn central offices into edge data centers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--In order to support the evolving demands placed on telecommunications networks, a number of complex things need to happen. Increasing capacity demands require more fiber, more fixed sites and more mobility sites; support...

AT&T sees open source software and hardware as fundamental to 5G Working with industry consortia Open Network Foundation and Open Compute Project on sharing open source software and hardware technology, respectively, with the broader telecom ecosystem, AT&T is focused on bringing software control to passive...

The connection between cloud native infrastructure and DevOps Austin, Texas -- The shift from classic non-virtualized hardware to cloud native space has played a major role in shaping DevOps driven environments, according to Robert Starmer, a founder at Kumulus Technologies. Companies need a platform for...

Imad Sousou, vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation, delivered a keynote presentation titled “How Open Source Powers the Cloud to the Edge” at this year’s Open Source Summit North America. As vice president, Sousou oversees Intel’s open source software efforts, from virtualization to...

Developed with Intel Labs, Sprint says C3PO combines open source software with off-the-shelf hardware to drive network efficiencies The ever-increasing complexity of evolving telecommunications networks is forcing operators to quickly virtualize and automate network management and operational processes to keep up with the flexibility and...

SVP of AT&T Labs Chris Rice named chair of ONAP Project just weeks after its formation out of The Linux Foundation; releases code in bid for collaboration. Mere weeks after its formation, the Open Network Automation Platform Project released its code and documentation...

How Open Standards Are Driving Smart City Innovation Sean Tippett, Director of Smart Cities,  Silver Spring Networks https://youtu.be/MRh5V91vKbs More than 50 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas—and by 2050, the United Nations expects an additional 2.5 billion people to live in cities. In this...

Panel: The role of open source, standards and DevOps in connected Industries Moderator Sean Kinney, Managing Editor at RCR Wireless News, is joined by Kate Stewart, Director of Strategic Accounts at The Linux Foundation and David Brenner, Wireless Marketing and Business Development at Intel Corporation to discuss...

Napatech discusses the role of NFV in moving telecom into the cloud As carriers gradually work out how to automate increasingly complex networks, NFV is the clear solution, but deployment has been slow. Management and orchestration have been stumbling blocks, but major progress has been...

SAN FRANCISCO – In a keynote presentation at the IEEE's Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Chih Lin-I, chief scientist of the China Mobile Research Institute, highlighted the need for the telecom industry to embrace the agility associated with software-centric operations. Chih-Lin I showed slides quantifying...

The Mobile World Congress question: Is it better to go visit people on their stands and filter their undiluted marketing, or to sit in your meeting room like the Sybil and hear truth in the distillations of others? Being hopelessly overbooked the whole week, mine...

ETSI Open Source MANO initiative swells to 60 organizations with arrival of Verizon, Atos and CableLabs as new members. Verizon Communications is one of the latest telecommunication operators to join the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s Open Source MANO project, which is focused...

Unlimited data is back, with Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile all going ape over the new marketing opportunity, to the benefit of consumers. Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes...

ONF and ON.Lab claim the OIP initiative to bolster open source SDN, NFV and cloud efforts being hampered by open source-based proprietary work. Tapping into an ongoing merger arrangement with Open Networking Lab, the Open Networking Foundation recently unveiled its Open Innovation Pipeline...

Has the rash of new open source-focused organizations hindered the deployment of open source solutions or is it just a lack of cohesion? One issue facing the telecommunication industry’s move towards greater use of open source software platforms is the dizzying array of...

AT&T made good on its plans to release its ECOMP SDN and NFV platform into the open source community through The Linux Foundation. AT&T officially moved on its plans to migrate its enhanced control, orchestration, management and policy platform into the open...