Open Telecoms Projects

# Name URL Description

The vision of the NGMN Alliance is to expand the communications experience by
Next Generation providing a truly integrated and cohesively managed delivery platform that brings
Mobile Networks affordable mobile broadband services to the end user with a particular focus on 5G
1 (NGMN) https://www.ngmn.org/home.html while accelerating the development of LTE-Advanced and its ecosystem.
ONAP provides a comprehensive platform for real-time, policy-driven orchestration
and automation of physical and virtual network functions that will enable software,
network, IT and cloud providers and developers to rapidly automate new services and
support complete lifecycle management. By unifying member resources, ONAP is
accelerating the development of a vibrant ecosystem around a globally shared
Open Network https://www.onap.org/,
architecture and implementation for network automation–with an open standards
Automation https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmzybj
focus–faster than any one product could on its own.
2 Platform (ONAP) wmY1te0FHxLFY-Uog
https://www.opencompute.org/, The Open Compute Project (OCP) is a collaborative community focused on
Open Compute https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXtmeG redesigning hardware technology to efficiently support the growing demands on
3 Project (OCP) WbySLShhGV8ooyMzA compute infrastructure.
The collective aim of our community is to collaborate on building new technologies,
Telecom https://telecominfraproject.com/, examining new business approaches, and spurring investment in the telecom space.
Infrastructure https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGEQe Between our Project Groups, Labs, and TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Centers (TEACs),
4 Project (TIP) MOc7IxZvIxTl4x2KMg/videos we are driving change in each of these areas.
Our mission is to bring datacenter economies and cloud agility to service providers
for their residential, enterprise, and mobile customers using an open reference
Central Office implementation of CORD with an active participation of the community. The
Reimagined as a reference implementation of CORD will be built from commodity servers, white-box
https://opencord.org/,
Data Center switches, disaggregated access technologies (e.g., vOLT, vBBU, vDOCSIS), and open
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0DwY4
5 (CORD) VVL9l6e7a2yIcNnFg source software (e.g., OpenStack, ONOS, XOS).

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# Name URL Description

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is a non-profit operator led consortium
driving transformation of network infrastructure and carrier business models.

[ONF is] an open, collaborative, community of communities. The ONF serves as the
umbrella for a number of projects building solutions by leveraging network
https://www.opennetworking.org/,
disaggregation, white box economics, open source software and software defined
Open Networking https://www.youtube.com/user/OpenNetwor
standards to revolutionize the carrier industry.
6 Forum (ONF) kingFndn
O-RAN Alliance members and contributors have committed to evolving radio access
networks around the world. Future RANs will be built on a foundation of virtualized
network elements, white-box hardware and standardized interfaces that fully
embrace O-RAN’s core principles of intelligence and openness. An ecosystem of
innovative new products is already emerging that will form the underpinnings of the
multi-vendor, interoperable, autonomous, RAN, envisioned by many in the past, but
only now enabled by the global industry-wide vision, commitment and leadership of
O-RAN Alliance (O-
O-RAN Alliance members and contributors.
7 RAN) https://www.o-ran.org/
The OpenAirInterfaceTM Software Alliance (OSA) is a non-profit consortium fostering
a community of industrial as well as research contributors for open source software
and hardware development for the core network (EPC), access network and user
equipment (EUTRAN) of 3GPP cellular networks. The Alliance sponsors the initial
https://www.openairinterface.org/,
work of EURECOM to create OpenAirInterfaceTM towards development of 5G
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFeyVfC
8 Open Air Interface l1wcjICWR2Hopipg Cellular Stack on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware.
ONOS is the only SDN controller platform that supports the transition from legacy
Open Network https://onosproject.org/, “brown field” networks to SDN “green field” networks. This enables exciting new
Operating System https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTQaOp capabilities, and disruptive deployment and operational cost points for network
9 (ONOS) qno48GTimdwyfytFw operators.

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# Name URL Description

The Open ROADM Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) defines interoperability
specifications for Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADM). Included
are the ROADM switch as well as transponders and pluggable optics. Specifications
Open ROADM consist of both Optical interoperability as well as YANG data models.
10 MSA http://openroadm.org/home.html
OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking
https://www.openstack.org/,https://www.you resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the
tube.com/channel/UCQ74G2gKXdpwZkXEsclzc OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source
11 Openstack rA technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.
The aim of this project is to design and build a smart optical metro infrastructure
able to support traffic originating from heterogeneous 5G access networks,
addressing the anticipated capacity increase and its specific characteristics, e.g.,
mobility, low latency, low jitter etc. This infrastructure will also support a wide
https://metro-haul.eu/project/,
variety of services and use cases with special emphasis on services from various
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxS679
12 Metro Haul Project kyoHgtWNLv1_4eLA industries vertical to the ICT.
We aim to work with Telecom Infra Project (TIP) members to build an active open
https://code.fb.com/connectivity/introducing- source community around cellular access technology development and to select trial
opencellular-an-open-source-wireless-access- locations for further validation of technical, functional, and operational aspects of the
13 Open Cellular platform/ platform.
The website lacks a clear statement of purpose. My own is that FG NET-2030 is
https://extranet.itu.int/sites/itu- people thinking about what follows 5G.
14 FG NET-2030 t/focusgroups/net-2030/SitePages/Home.aspx
https://www.etsi.org/, We produce globally applicable standards for ICT-enabled systems, applications and
https://www.youtube.com/user/ETSIstandard services deployed across all sectors of industry and society
15 ETSI s
https://www.cbrsalliance.org/, Support the common interests of members, implementers and operators for the
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8N_hbl development, commercialization, and adoption of LTE solutions for the US 3.5 GHz
16 CBRS Alliance y3GBXT7_nE4TaBrg Citizens Broadband Radio Service.

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# Name URL Description

IEEE 802.11TM WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS
17 WiFi IEEE802.11 http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/ The Working Group for WLAN Standards
Open source software stack that supports high-availability cloud services optimized
for edge computing systems and applications. Part of Linux Foundation, so it has a
18 Akraino https://www.lfedge.org/projects/akraino/ very open source feel to it.
Cloud Central Office (CloudCO) is a recasting of the Central Office hosting
infrastructure that utilizes SDN, NFV and Cloud technologies to support network
functions. It radically redefines the architectures of the access and aggregation
networks that have developed incrementally in previous Broadband Forum
specifications such as TR-101 and TR-178.
19 Cloud Central Officehttps://www.broadband-forum.org/projects/cloud
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and
20 Kubernetes https://kubernetes.io/ management of containerized applications.
OpenNESS (Open Network Edge Services Software Platform) is an open source
reference toolkit that makes it easy to move applications from the Cloud to the
21 OpenNESS https://www.openness.org/ Network and On-Premise Edge.
StarlingX is a complete open source cloud infrastructure software stack for the
22 StarlingX https://www.starlingx.io/ edgeused for ultra-low latency use cases.
MEF is the driving force enabling assured services orchestrated across a global
ecosystem of automated networks. Dynamic MEF 3.0 services are optimized for the
23 MEF https://www.mef.net digital economy.
The vision of the NGMN Alliance is to expand the communications experience by
providing a truly integrated and cohesively managed delivery platform that brings
affordable mobile broadband services to the end user with a particular focus on 5G
24 NGMN https://www.ngmn.org/home.html while accelerating the development of LTE-Advanced and its ecosystem.
Cloud Native CNCF is an open source software foundation dedicated to making cloud native
Computing computing universal and sustainable.
25 Foundation https://www.cncf.io/

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# Name URL Description

LF Edge is an umbrella organization that aims to establish an open, interoperable
framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating
26 LF Edge https://www.lfedge.org system.
EdgeX Foundry™ is a vendor-neutral open source project hosted by The Linux
27 EdgeX Foundry™ https://www.edgexfoundry.org/ Foundation building a common open framework for IoT edge computing.
EVE leverages a type-1 hypervisor, so it deploys on bare metal device hardware. It
28 Project EVE https://www.lfedge.org/projects/eve/ also provides system and orchestration services, and a container runtime.
Open Glossary of The Open Glossary of Edge Computing project provides a concise collection of terms
29 Edge Computing https://www.lfedge.org/projects/openglossary/ related to the
field of edge computing.
The Home Edge Project will provide users with an interoperable, flexible, and
scalable edge computing services platform with a set of APIs that can also run with
30 Home Edge https://www.lfedge.org/projects/homeedge/ libraries and runtimes

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