Deutsche Telekom has joined The Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) as a Platinum member to support its efforts in accelerating the development and adoption of open source networking technologies.
With its collaboration and extensive global footprint, Deutsche Telekom will help accelerate LFN globally, contributing to emerging network technologies critical to enabling 5G services, says LFN.
LFN supports the momentum of open source networking, integrating governance of participating projects in order to enhance operational excellence, simplify member engagement, and increase collaboration. Deutsche Telekom is also an active participant in the ONAP project and plans to contribute to the next platform release, Casablanca.
Arpit Joshipura, GM of Networking and Orchestration, The Linux Foundation
With Deutsche Telekom on board, we look forward to witnessing their work in connectivity and service, integrated gigabit networks, secure ICT solutions and big IoT while collaborating with them on major industry challenges to transform all aspects of the network and accelerate open-source deployments.
Arash Ashouriha, SVP Technology Architecture & Annovayion, Deutsche Telekom
The work in ONAP will complement our activities in ETSI-ZSM to lead the industry towards a fully automated network and service management. This will be a critical success factor for our companies to leverage the full benefits of 5G.