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LFN Community publishes white paper highlighting cybersecurity efforts. Telecom, Cloud and Enterprise align with 5G Super Blue Print across ONAP, Anuket, EMCO, Magma, ORAN-SC and more projects as Enterprise eBFP project, L3AF, is inducted into LF Networking. ATOS, GenXComm, Keysight Technologies and Telaverge Communications join LFN as Silver members<\/strong><\/p>\n

LF Networking, which facilitates collaboration and operational excellence across open source networking projects, announced continued momentum focused on re-aggregation, with updates to security, 5G blueprints, and the addition of four new Silver members: ATOS, GenXComm, Keysight Technologies, and Telaverge Communications.
\n\u201cAs the LF Networking community rolls into its fourth year as an umbrella project organization, we are pleased to see robust efforts focused on securing 5G across multiple project & foundations as we welcome even more industry-leading organizations to the project,\u201d said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge and IoT, the Linux Foundation. \u201cIt\u2019s the robust and diverse set of member companies that enable LFN\u2019s collaborative innovation into the future of 5G and networking.\u201d<\/p>\n

5G Super Blue Print Ecosystem Expands<\/strong>
\nThe community is making progress with the 5G Super Blueprint, a community-driven integration\/illustration of multiple open source initiatives, projects, and vendors coming together to show use cases demonstrating implementation architectures for end users. The 5G Super Blueprint is now integrated across even more projects\u2013\u2013including Magma (1.6), EMCO, and Anuket\u2013\u2013building open source components applicable to a variety of industry use cases. Preliminary scoping for future integrations with the O-RAN Software Community have begun, setting the stage for end-to-end open source interoperability from the core through the RAN and future compliance activities.
\nMeanwhile, the L3AF project has been inducted into the LF Networking umbrella, as membership expands further across the ecosystem with new Silver members.
\nL3AF is an open source project, developed by Walmart, housing cutting-edge solutions in the realm of eBPF (a revolutionary technology that allows us to run sandboxed programs in an operating system kernel) that provides complete life-cycle management of eBPF programs with the help of an advanced control plane that has been written in Golang. The control plane orchestrates and composes independent eBPF programs across the network infrastructure to solve crucial business problems. L3AF\u2019s eBPF programs include load-balancing, rate limiting, traffic mirroring, flow exporter, packet manipulation, performance tuning, and many more. L3AF joined the Linux Foundation in fall of 2021 and has now been inducted into the LF Networking project umbrella.<\/p>\n

New LFN Silver members include<\/strong>:
\n\u2022 ATOS, a multi-vendor end-to-end system integrator in both IT and telecom network space; specialized in multi-cloud solutions, edge and MEC, 5G-enabled applications with an AI\/ML focus, cybersecurity, and decarbonization.
\n\u2022 GenXComm Inc.\u2019s mission is to deliver limitless computing power, fast connectivity, and on-demand intelligence to every location on Earth
\n\u2022 Keysight Technologies, Inc. is a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world
\n\u2022 Telaverge Communications is the leader in complete Network Test Automation Orchestration and Digital Transformation products (Regal for Containers and Cloud) designed for enterprises, operators and OEM\u2019s. Telaverge\u2019s open source based private LTE and 5G cores are pre-integrated with Regal for zero touch testing and deployment.<\/p>\n

LFN Security White Paper<\/strong>
\nHighlighting its security efforts to help secure open source networking against cybersecurity attacks, the community published a white paper titled \u201cSecuring Open Source 5G from End to End\u201d that is now available for download.
\n\u201cA unique advantage of developing software in the open is more eyes on the code; when it comes to security, that translates to large groups of experts who can propose improvements and enhancements in a faster, more scalable fashion\u2013 and that is true for LFN,\u201d said Amy Zwarico, vice chair of the ONAP Security subcommittee. \u201cCommunity collaboration via security working groups and sub-committees to address secure software development practices, SBOMs, DDoS mitigation and other threats are just some of the steps LFN is taking to create code that can be trusted to run our networks.\u201d
\nAt a time when the United States White House has issued multiple Executive Orders to address cybersecurity and supply chain attacks, the LFN community continues to take steps to ensure open source networking is secure. The group is publishing a white paper to outline its security strategies, including the formation of security-focused committees and subcommittees; development and adoption of security Software Bill of Materials (SBOM); OpenSSF badging; and use of the LFX Platform\u2019s Security Dashboard to enable developers to identify and resolve vulnerabilities quickly and easily; and more. Download the white paper for more information.<\/p>\n

Upcoming Events<\/strong>
\nThe LF Networking developer community will host the LFN Developer & Testing Forum this Spring, taking place June 13-16, in Porto, Portugal. Registration for that event is open, with more details to come.
\nOpen Networking & Edge (ONE) Summit North America will take place November 15-16 in Seattle, Wash. The event will be followed by a two-day LFN Developer & Testing Forum (Nov 17-18) in the same venue. The Open Networking & Edge Summit is the industry\u2019s premier open networking and edge computing event focused on end to end solutions powered by open source in the Telco, Cloud, and Enterprise verticals. Attendees will learn how to leverage open source ecosystems and gain new insights for digital transformation. More information will be available soon.<\/p>\n

Support from new members<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe mission of Atos is to support our customers throughout a multitude of industry sectors on their edge-to-cloud journey. We help telecom customers leverage cloud synergies between their IT and their network, and introduce new edge computing and 5G MEC services. We are excited about ONAP and other programs of the LFN, as they facilitate exactly these synergies in a growing market.\u201d
\n\u201cKeysight is pleased to join LF Networking as a silver member and contribute to an ecosystem with the common goal of advancing technology and innovation built on open source software and standards,\u201d said Kalyan Sundhar, vice president of Edge-to-Core Networks at Keysight Technologies. \u201cKeysight leverages open source standards for end-to-end network harmonization produced by the LF Networking community to enable this ecosystem to cost-effectively accelerate protocol and performance design validation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Above, Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge and IoT, the Linux Foundation \/ Image credited to the Linux Foundation<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LFN Community publishes white paper highlighting cybersecurity efforts. Telecom, Cloud and Enterprise align with 5G Super Blue Print across ONAP, Anuket, EMCO, Magma, ORAN-SC and more projects as Enterprise eBFP project, L3AF, is inducted into LF Networking. ATOS, GenXComm, Keysight Technologies and Telaverge Communications join LFN as Silver members LF Networking, which facilitates collaboration and … <\/p>\n

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