The Open Networking Foundation on Thursday announced the release of the COMAC (Converged Multi-Access and Core) Reference Design (RD) specification.
In parallel, the COMAC exemplar platform (open source software) was released and deployed by T-Mobile Poland. This specification was authored by network operators – AT&T, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Google, Turk Telecom/Netsia.
COMAC is a platform for converging 5G and LTE mobile networks together with broadband access networks, and this RD joins ONF’s portfolio of RD specifications for broadband (SEBA), optical (ODTN), SDN fabric (Trellis) and Next-Generation SDN. COMAC, like all ONF RDs, is authored by operators who have committed to deploying open source solutions based on the specification.
The exemplar platform open source software release of COMAC v1.0 was released in late 2019, and went into deployment by T-Mobile Poland in early 2020.
Oguz Sunay, VP R&D, Mobility, ONF
With COMAC, ONF’s operator partners are beginning to drive a sea of change and substantial advancement towards combining and converging what were once wholly separate networks: the network edge, RAN and operator core.
