Networking Priorities  ## Metadata - Author: [[YouTube]] - Full Title: Networking Priorities - Category: #articles - Document Note: --- tags: [open-source, networking, lf-networking] author: LF Networking source: YouTube reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg date created: 2024-12-19 00:00 --- # 🏷️ Title: Networking Priorities ## 🧰 Action Inbox - [H1] Explore LF Networking projects for re-aggregation solutions — core overview/00:00 #open-source - [H2] Review security dashboards on LFX platform — security discussion/27:45 #security - [H3] Investigate 5G Super Blueprint participation — DARPA example/15:30 #5g ## 🧭 Table of Contents - [📝 Summary](#-summary) - [📖 Main Content](#-main-content) - [🗒️ Notes](#️-notes) - [📚 References](#-references) - [🗣️ Paraphrase](#️-paraphrase) - [📰 Newsletter](#-newsletter) - [✅ Action Items](#-action-items) - [🧪 Hypotheses](#-hypotheses) - [📊 Methodology](#-methodology) - [❓ Questions](#-questions) - [🔮 Future Research](#-future-research) - [💡 Implications](#-implications) - [🧠 Learning Styles Assessment](#-learning-styles-assessment) - [📊 Accessibility Assessment](#-accessibility-assessment) - [🌍 DEIB Assessment](#-deib-assessment) - [✅ Logical Validity](#-logical-validity) - [🛡️ DARVO Analysis](#-darvo-analysis) - [🎯 Conclusion](#-conclusion) ### 🔗 References - [LF Networking](https://lfnetworking.org) - [Linux Foundation](https://linuxfoundation.org) ## 📝 Summary - Comprehensive overview of Linux Foundation Networking priorities and trends - Key focus on re-aggregation after SDN disaggregation phase - Enterprise, cloud, and telecom convergence through open source collaboration - Security-first approach with structured lifecycle management - Vertical industry adoption accelerating digital transformation ## 📖 Main Content The Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) presentation outlines five major trends reshaping open source networking. The primary trend is re-aggregation following the extensive disaggregation that characterized SDN development. After years of separating hardware from software and control planes from data planes, the industry now faces the challenge of integrating these components into comprehensive solutions. The second trend involves vertical industries increasingly adopting open source networking solutions, with manufacturing leading in edge computing deployments for predictive maintenance use cases. The collaboration between standards organizations and open source communities has matured significantly, moving from competition to structured cooperation. Security emerges as a critical priority, with LFN implementing comprehensive security frameworks beyond traditional CVE management. The approach encompasses secure packaging, integration, and lifecycle management using tools like LFX Security dashboards. ## 🗒️ Notes #### ⏱️ [00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=0) — [H1] Introduction and LF Networking Overview - Key idea: Linux Foundation hosts sub-foundations solving technology and market-specific problems - Evidence: "We are beyond Linux... sub foundations that solve problems within either a technology area or a market" #### ⏱️ [03:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=195) — [H1] Trend 1: Re-aggregation Following Disaggregation - Key idea: Industry moving from SDN disaggregation to solution integration - Evidence: "Re-aggregation is following disaggregation... someone's got to put it all together" #### ⏱️ [06:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=390) — [H2] End-to-End Solution Architecture - Key idea: Complete stack from edge to cloud using integrated open source projects - Evidence: "Everything from Oran to Edge compute projects all the way into Enterprise" #### ⏱️ [09:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=585) — [H2] Standards and Open Source Collaboration - Key idea: Standards organizations now work cooperatively with open source communities - Evidence: "If a standard exists code it, if it doesn't exist code it and then upstream it to the standards" #### ⏱️ [12:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=740) — [H2] 5G Super Blueprint Platform - Key idea: Horizontal interoperability platform supporting five key use cases - Evidence: "Ultra low latency, enhanced mobile broadband, voice network slicing, private networks" #### ⏱️ [15:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=930) — [H3] DARPA Project Example - Key idea: US government proves open source is more secure through Project Collapse 5G - Evidence: "US government through their research has already shown that open source is the only way to build secure software" #### ⏱️ [18:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=1125) — [H3] Contributing Back to Community - Key idea: Open source consumption requires community contribution - Evidence: "USC... pushed that work into ONAP... now the whole community benefits" #### ⏱️ [21:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=1260) — [H1] Trend 2: Vertical Industry Open Sourcification - Key idea: Specific industries adopting open source through targeted blueprints - Evidence: "Manufacturing is the hottest market for open source right now for edge computing" #### ⏱️ [24:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=1455) — [H2] Digital Transformation Acceleration - Key idea: Industries with more digital assets transform faster using open source - Evidence: Industries chart showing ICT and media leading transformation adoption #### ⏱️ [27:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=1665) — [H1] Trend 3: Security as Top Priority - Key idea: Structured security approach beyond CVEs using lifecycle management - Evidence: "Everybody uses open source but only half use S-BOMs" #### ⏱️ [30:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=1830) — [H3] LFX Security Dashboard Implementation - Key idea: Measurable security through automated tooling and checklists - Evidence: "150 things you need to do... each project will go in and say yes I do this" #### ⏱️ [33:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=1980) — [H1] Trend 4: Market Convergence - Key idea: Enterprise, cloud, and telecom no longer working in isolation - Evidence: "Telcos heavily working with Googles... AWS or Microsoft" #### ⏱️ [36:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=2175) — [H2] Kubernetes as Common Layer - Key idea: Container orchestration enables cross-market collaboration - Evidence: "Common horizontal layer of kubernetes that runs across these layers" #### ⏱️ [39:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=2340) — [H1] Trend 5: Emerging Technologies - Key idea: Metaverse and 6G early research within infrastructure focus - Evidence: "Intent based AI based security privacy... infrastructure work" #### ⏱️ [41:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg?t=2490) — [H2] Community Statistics and Growth - Key idea: Massive scale of development activity across 250 companies - Evidence: "182,000 lines of code added weekly... 2.1 million email messages" ## 📚 References - [LF Networking Website](https://lfnetworking.org) - [LFX Security Platform](https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org) - [OpenSSF Security Framework](https://openssf.org) ## 🗣️ Paraphrase - The networking industry has moved from breaking apart monolithic systems (disaggregation) to reassembling them with open source components (re-aggregation) - Vertical industries like manufacturing are rapidly adopting open source networking solutions for specific use cases like predictive maintenance - Security in open source requires comprehensive lifecycle management, not just vulnerability tracking, using structured frameworks and automated tooling ## 📰 Newsletter The Linux Foundation Networking is leading a major shift in how we approach open source networking infrastructure. After years of breaking apart monolithic networking systems, the industry is now focused on intelligent re-aggregation using open source components. Key developments include the 5G Super Blueprint platform that provides horizontal interoperability across ultra-low latency, mobile broadband, and private network use cases. The security approach has evolved beyond traditional CVE management to comprehensive lifecycle security using tools like LFX Security dashboards. Most significantly, enterprise, cloud, and telecom markets are converging around common Kubernetes-based platforms, enabling new network-as-a-service models that span from core to edge deployments. Resources: [LF Networking](https://lfnetworking.org), [LFX Platform](https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org), [Security Framework](https://openssf.org) ## ✅ Action Items #### DevRel - Developer advocacy: Present re-aggregation patterns at networking conferences, demonstrate 5G Super Blueprint integrations - Education: Create workshops on security lifecycle management, develop SBOM implementation guides - Developer experience: Improve LFX Security dashboard UX, simplify project onboarding flows - Developer marketing: Campaign highlighting vertical industry success stories, content on kubernetes networking convergence - Community management: Moderate 2.1M email discussions efficiently, survey contributor security training needs #### OSPO - Policy & Governance: Establish cross-project security policies, create contribution guidelines for government projects - License Compliance: Scan 182K weekly code additions, review DARPA contribution requirements - Security Management: Implement OpenSSF framework across all projects, automate vulnerability attestations - Software Inventory: Mandate SBOM generation for critical networking components, track dependency ownership - Developer Support: Train contributors on security checklists, provide project graduation tooling - Community Engagement: Fund upstream contributions to standards bodies, negotiate collaboration agreements - Strategic Alignment: Align networking KPIs with foundation-wide security metrics, report board progress #### Community - Maintainers: Support TSC autonomy while enabling cross-project collaboration, provide governance templates for re-aggregation - Contributors: Onboard vertical industry developers, create first-issue programs for security improvements - Sponsors: Transparent budgets for 5G Super Blueprint development, impact reports on government deployments - Ecosystem: Coordinate between LFN, CNCF, and standards organizations on common objectives ## 🧪 Hypotheses - Re-aggregation complexity will drive demand for standardized integration patterns and reference architectures - Vertical industry adoption will accelerate as manufacturing success stories demonstrate ROI in other sectors - Security-first development practices will become competitive advantages for open source networking projects - Kubernetes convergence will eliminate traditional telco/cloud technology boundaries within three years ### 📊 Methodology - Study design: Survey LFN project maintainers on re-aggregation challenges and solution patterns - Data sources: Analyze LFX insights for cross-project dependency growth and security score improvements - Experiments: A/B test security onboarding flows to validate contribution barrier reduction ### ❓ Questions - How will 6G requirements influence current re-aggregation architecture decisions? - What governance models best support autonomous projects while enabling integrated solutions? - How can vertical industry feedback loops improve core networking project roadmaps? ### 🔮 Future Research - Cross-industry security pattern analysis comparing networking, automotive, and energy open source adoption - Quantitative study of standards organization collaboration effectiveness since the competitive-to-cooperative shift - Investigation of optimal contribution models for government-sponsored open source networking research ### 💡 Implications - Practice: Networking engineers need cross-stack integration skills beyond traditional domain expertise - Policy: Government procurement increasingly requires open source security frameworks and SBOM compliance - Security: Critical infrastructure protection depends on community-wide security lifecycle adoption - Education: Curriculum must cover vertical industry use cases alongside traditional networking concepts - Funding: Investment priorities shift toward integration tooling and cross-project collaboration infrastructure ### 🧠 Learning Styles Assessment Reading level estimate: 12th Grade (technical presentation with industry jargon) #### 👀 Visual learners - Present: Architecture diagrams showing re-aggregation stack, market convergence illustrations - Improve: Interactive project dependency maps, security dashboard screenshots, timeline visualizations #### 🔊 Aural learners - Present: Live presentation format with speaker explanations and Q&A - Improve: 5-minute audio summary highlighting key trends, podcast-style industry expert interviews #### 🗣️ Verbal learners - Present: Clear definitions of SDN, CNF, SBOM terminology, concrete industry examples - Improve: Glossary of networking acronyms, comparison tables between traditional and open source approaches #### 🧩 Kinesthetic learners - Present: References to hands-on project participation and contribution processes - Improve: Step-by-step guides for LFX Security dashboard usage, project onboarding checklists #### 🧠 Logical learners - Present: Five-trend framework, statistical project growth data, causal relationships - Improve: Decision trees for project selection, KPI dashboards, dependency analysis charts #### 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Social learners - Present: Community collaboration emphasis, cross-organization partnerships, forum discussions - Improve: Working group participation guides, mentorship matching, collaborative roadmap sessions #### 🧘‍♀️ Solitary learners - Present: Individual project contribution paths, self-service security assessment tools - Improve: Self-paced learning modules, personal security skill assessments, individual contribution tracking #### 🌿 Naturalistic learners - Present: Industry ecosystem analogies, organic collaboration growth patterns - Improve: Network topology metaphors, ecosystem health metrics, sustainability impact analysis ### 📊 Accessibility Assessment #### Screen reader semantics - Present: Clear heading structure, descriptive slide content - Improve: Alt text for architecture diagrams, detailed chart descriptions, landmark navigation #### Keyboard navigation - Present: Standard presentation controls available - Improve: Skip links for slide sections, keyboard shortcuts documentation, focus indicators #### Contrast and readability - Present: Standard presentation slides meet basic contrast requirements - Improve: High contrast mode for technical diagrams, larger text options for code examples #### Text resizing and reflow - Present: Presentation scales appropriately - Improve: Mobile-optimized slide layouts, responsive diagram scaling #### Media and captions - Present: Audio presentation available - Improve: Detailed transcript with speaker identification, downloadable slide deck with notes #### Forms and interactions - Present: Basic Q&A interaction model - Improve: Accessible feedback forms, structured question submission interface #### Standards reference - Map accessibility gaps to WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria for presentation content ### 🌍 DEIB Assessment #### Cultural breadth - Present: Global telecom examples including China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, Orange - Improve: Develop market examples from underrepresented regions, include local language resources #### Inclusive language - Present: Technical terminology consistently defined, gender-neutral examples - Improve: Plain language summaries for non-technical stakeholders, avoid military metaphors #### Neurodiversity support - Present: Structured five-trend framework, consistent slide formatting - Improve: Executive summaries for each section, visual progress indicators, reduced information density #### Representation - Present: Multiple company and geographic perspectives - Improve: Highlight diverse contributor stories, showcase varied career paths in open source networking #### Psychological safety - Present: Respectful tone toward different technology approaches - Improve: Community guidelines references, clear escalation paths for technical disagreements ### ✅ Logical Validity #### Strong reasoning - Deductive strength: Clear trend identification from industry evidence and statistics - Inductive strength: Generalization from specific DARPA and manufacturing examples to broader market patterns - Causal reasoning: Logical connection between disaggregation history and current re-aggregation needs - Analogical strength: Effective comparison between historical telecom transformation and current energy sector adoption #### - Document Tags: [[5g]] [[open]] [[security]] - Summary: Networking Priorities - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spdAvWM8WMg good afternoon especially the ones who have managed to sort of take the challenge of staying online for four hours versus mingling with us here so first of all thank you all for joining it is I know there's over five six hundred registered so online so I know travel is still an issue but for those of you here we have a stellar cast of speakers if there's any questions on the web obviously you can't ask but feel free to you know email us all of us our emails are on the web and I think Pano can work that through the registration but just to get started for those of you who are not familiar with LF networking I'm arpa Josh para I head up open source networking and Edge at the Linux foundation and what I was going to do is give you an overview of what the next big things are in the world of Open Source networking and before we get started for those of you who are new to Linux Foundation I'm sure there is a lot more some of you might already know this but we are Beyond Linux we have uh we have sub foundations that solve problems within either a technology area or a market right so in the worlds of security like openss app or networking or cloud or Automotive webs energy Etc and we have sub foundations with projects that we host to create this open source community and it has been very active and very well received over the last you know 20 years of of existence so with that said this mini Summit or webinar or whatever you want to call it is part of the open source Summit here in lovely Vancouver and thanks to Telus for keeping the weather good I also appreciate that um what I'm what I was going to cover is LF networking which is one of the top three sub foundations largest sub foundations inside the Linux foundation and what its mission is what we're trying to do there and in general what we are seeing globally from the trends perspective so the number one feedback and the number one Trend that we see is re-aggregation is following disaggregation Okay so everybody who is in networking will know what sdn is Right disaggregating Hardware from software disaggregating control plane from data plane um and then we kept on disaggregating all the way up the stack out to the edge and access now the run is going through the same disaggregation well guess what someone's got to put it all together so uh you know so you sprinkle it open you put it all together it's now back to re-aggregation so what does that mean that means that if you need to build an end-to-end solution across the Telecom service providers cloud service providers or Enterprises here's a potential way to do it right with a subset of projects that I'm showing here on the screen everything from Oran to Edge compute projects all the way into Enterprise into Enterprise Edge so user Edge and service brighter Edge through some version of cloud up the stack through a NOS whether it's Sonic or dent into a data plane dpdk fdio these are again projects kubernetes up through the stack control plane uh you know open daylight tungsten fabric nephew own app and then all the way up through the applications whether it's cnfs or bgp uh ebpf lifecycle management projects like Leaf right which runs most of Walmart's livestock ebpf lifecycle Management Programs right at scale so there's and then there's projects every every project in the middle the key message here is these projects they all work in their own TSC and they work together in what is called a solution right so it's not just you know projects get developed on their own with software and and uh and testing and then we bring it together in something called you know 5G super blueprints the other thing I want to emphasize on LF networking is five years ago there was a fight between standards and open source maybe seven years ago I don't know is standards the right way to do it or is it open source the right way right and it was a competing alternative we have solved that you know I'm pleased to report we have solved it completely with lelev's leadership where we have collaborations with pretty much all the standards organization very specific mousse and the philosophy is very simple if a standard exists code it if it doesn't exist code it and then Upstream it to the standards and people are doing it okay and everything from gsma to Etsy to 3gpp or an NGM and TMF like every layer every standard organization is working with the LF community and lfn particularly to that not only that we have other open source communities like cncf magma Edge Oran right that have come together to provide Solutions and interoperability through working groups and and things like that and then when we move from the core to the edge of the network there are alliances and and and consortiums consort items that focus on specific Industries like Automotive or digital twin and things like that so they they work closely also with the open source community so the good news collaboration has increased if you see if you see that this is a hundred year old industry right telecommunications and it was heavily regulated heavily proprietary heavy standard based and we have come a long way in the last five years I should say okay and a lot of other Industries are learning from us right like the energy industry okay so formal collaborations standard bodies right consistent apis models things like that and there's a whole list of you know the Etsy salts that have been coded or the TMF apis that have been coded Etc ok so with that said what is the re-aggregation looking like the re-aggregation is looking not just at the org and the open source level but it also at the solutions level right so if you think of this kind of very simple diagram where you have the horizontal interoperability of platform which is what we are calling 5G super blueprint and the five use cases are very simple right like on top ultra low latency enhanced mobile broadband Voice network slicing private networks industry 4 data right these level of use cases macro they run on that black platform interrupt pipe like this this color here and then on top you can have vendor workloads etc etc and consumed by the various Industries right so one of the focus areas for lfn this year is not just the blueprints in the the middle blue but also focus on network as a service right as as the is trying to figure out what it means there's a white paper that came out there was a demo showed at open networking and AD Summit etc etc so 5G super blueprint if you're not already participating it's an open way to bring things together right very important and I think we'll have we'll have a talk at the end of the session on that as well now who uses lfn super blueprint well here's one example I'm not giving you examples of the telcos that are dependent on it but this is U.S government DARPA is a project they started project collapse 5G Ops stands for open programmable and secure 5G the US government through their research has already shown that open source is the only way to build secure software so everybody says why is open source more secure oh more eyes look at it and all that fine right by that but how do you theoretically prove it well they're proven it so what that means is every future deployment in Navy or in in army or anywhere in the Warfare or civilian right is all going to be based on open source and what open source elephant so here's an here's a here's an example that this slide was presented at the at the I think uh keynote by Tejas at the one Summit he's the head of DARPA and here's an example they want to utilize all these projects and on top of that they will put their secret sauce that is for these use cases okay now the one thing I want to emphasize and this is actually a very good learning for people who are new to open source you can't just consume open source okay I mean you can but that's not what people like so you have to contribute back because that is how open source works now how do you contribute back you either make the changes and put it back in upstream or you participate in these tscs and in this forums and you know documentation or anything so one example is USC which is one of U.S government's research arm University of Southern California Dr Eric Klein has done research on how do you make the slices in network secure extremely amazing algorithms right because they want to make sure that a slice on a 5G Network cannot be period okay so they did all this research and then they realized that everybody can benefit on that so they actually Upstream that work into onap okay so now the whole Community benefits this is an example of contributing back pushing things in upstream and everybody benefiting okay so and of course there's there's more okay so that's Trend number one okay re-aggregation of Open Source components the second trend is uh and I use this word open sourcification of vertical industry okay uh what that means is if you have a set of projects and doesn't matter where they are right core Edge access like at the bottom right and this okay by the way they don't have to be lfn projects they don't have to be LF projects it's just open source projects right they could be Apache they could be open infra they could be Eclipse doesn't matter but let's say these projects bring together some version of an open source uh pipe how do you consume it you consume it through either you're an Enterprise or you are a service provider and I'm calling service providers as both cloud and Telecom or you are an end user like a government right very custom specific so what we do is we focus on these use cases that are important to each of these markets and then each industry on the top is getting utility and utilizing some of these blueprints for their use case and by the way on the top industrial energy commerce retail that's a linear order of Industry on how they're consuming open source so manufacturing for example is the hottest market for open source right now for Edge Computing you know what the use cases predictive maintenance that's it right and private lines or sorry private networks which is the lfn use case right energy etc etc so again keep in mind these vertical markets are going after uh are are dependent on a lot of the work that is being done in open source you know there used to be time when they would just call or tell us or a bell or or or or anyone and say hey I need I need an mpls line and then that's it right and they would be paid on the pipe and then that's it but these days the the the the service providers partnering with the cloud service providers so Telecom plus cloud working very very closely with these industries so that they can add value-added uh work and charge for them okay and why is this happening because digital transformation which is in the Enterprise uh which is again I know it's hard to read but uh on the on the top is like assets usage and labor right so this is attributes of digital transformation and on the y-axis is really the industries okay ICT media Finance etc etc oil and gas Etc so you can see that Industries which have a lot more digital assets and that are relying a lot more on open source can do digital transformation faster than the others that don't and in fact for the very first time we are starting to see agriculture which is at the very bottom coming up the pipe right so this slide will look different next time okay so that's number two right which is vertical Industries are important number three security is a top priority now everybody will say that but how do you do open source security in a very structured manner right and his cve is just enough and that answer is no right so what we have is we have some research studies done by Harvard and some of the other uh foundations including our own research organization and openssf where everybody uses open source in some form but only half of them use s-bombs so s-bombs is software build of materials right so it's knowing where packages come from okay and so basically the findings from all these research right everybody tries to do research I like I I love it but then I just like to take what the research says and then push it into the community so that we can actually do something about it right because otherwise it just becomes a marketing tool so what has happened is research is saying it's not just the CVS it's the entire life cycle it's packaging it's integration and the top projects within each Community better understand how to do security properly okay so what does that mean that means that you have to do six things okay you have to secure and this is at the LF level but we have taken it down to the LF networking level and we have said you have to secure the most important critical components right a GUI getting hacked with a very solid API that can't be penetrated is not as much of a risk as you know a bgp going down and the network getting taken out right so difference so the secure most critical components are are important automated tooling is important um you have to train people to get to that level and then of course that's bombs so how do we do that in lfn right so if you go today to the the so first of all there's if you can't measure you don't know how secure you are so there is a tool called LFX security LFX is our platform open source platform that's the LFX is the only tool that is available only to LF uh projects right no other open source foundations have it but it is a tool to give you insights into the developer community same way it's an ins it's a tool to give you insights into the security so you can go to each of these projects look at the dashboard and how secure they are and where they are in their life cycle so openssf says in order to be secure here's a checklist of 150 things you need to do and then each of these projects will go in and say yes I do this I don't do this I do this here's a plan to do this right it's a lot of process work you need to clean up so that you eventually get to a hundred percent I think this one's showing open daylight for example one of the projects at 90 right so we're almost there Etc so take a look at the dashboard participate if you're a security focused individual you know please participate in the security subcommittees and things like that but security is taken very seriously now if you look at the Linux Foundation we have the open ssf foundation sub Foundation which gives you the framework of security all the other sub foundations have to implement those Frameworks and LF networking is leading the way and the reason LF networking is leading the way is if there is no connectivity Nothing Else Matters and that's what we focus on so that's kind of why the community takes this very seriously okay so that's number three security the next one is um the merging of the markets okay Enterprise cloud and Telecom are no longer working in isolation I mean we have tell us here they're heavily working with the Googles of the world for example right or AWS or Microsoft and these goals are working with the Deutsche Telecom or telcos and and telecoms are no longer competing they're competing on a different set of things but they're collaborating heavily on open source they're collaborating heavily on the new use cases right and so this is what gets you the nas right this is what gets you network as a service right this is what gets you all these news things that cut across the core and the edge of the network and I think it's very important that this collaboration happens now the advantage of okay so now if you take a quick detour on why the collaboration accelerated uh apart from the business reasons which which we are not here to discuss there's a technology reasons the technology reason is telcos were built very proprietary in the past with open source you can modularize it and then they will build an open stack with VMS okay but now and then the clouds got built on the new clouds were built on containers and kubernetes with telcos then moving to Cloud native and Cloud native Network functions specifically now there is a common horizontal layer of kubernetes that runs across these layers right so it is very easy to get and this is just a very simple explanation I'm sure there is a lot of details behind this but it's a very that's one of the reasons why these markets have come together then there are kubernetes based Edge deployments that can also push containers all the way down and package them correctly so there's a lot of synergies between our sister Foundation cncf which hosts kubernetes nlfn which kind of holds the networking subsystems okay all right and then finally the networking community and the board is also focusing on some of the new technologies and there's about two for now there's the metowers which mostly is about you know just our piece of the puzzle which is the intersection of infrastructure and intersection you know we're not focusing on the on the uh on the cool stuff for whatever so if it is at all cool these days but independent of that you know we just want to make sure that the things on the right intent based AI based you know security privacy all that stuff is taken care of in our infrastructure work okay and then the other one is 6G very early but the community starts looking at it probably over the next three years okay so high level then from a trend perspective right 2022 was the Tipping Point we have seen more deployments of Open Source last year I'm not going to present all the use cases you can go to the LF networking website you know there are case studies from Verizon and bell and and sort of uh Deutsche Telecom and orange and everybody is like who has deployed and then open source is the basis of these verticals right and so collaboration has increased tremendously on that okay so two two three slides on networking and then I'll hand it over to Telus to talk about more details LF networking we host some of the largest projects it was formed by the industry collaboration seven years six years ago right China mobile at T came together with orange and and DT and bell and others uh Verizon um tell us joined last year so it's the combination of the largest of the large who actually want to change where the Market's heading okay and output of that is almost a commercial ready ecosystem right it's not going to be you can't just deploy open source right but you can get it to enough of an integration where vendors can take it through the last mile ok so it is across data plane control plane analytics orchestration the full set across all three domains right and we we are the house as I said top three foundations inside lfn and where it's being where it's evolving is it's kind of housing projects and integration for multiple other umbrellas as well some stats I think this is were pulled probably three three months ago so these must have changed but it's not trivial to do this in a single vendor system 182 000 lines of code added weekly it's a lot of code okay I like the deleting part also because you know if you add and if you don't delete then it's a mess so this is good um almost 250 companies contributing you know uh the one that bothers me is the 2.1 million email messages but that's okay people we still use email and then of course multiple projects and and domains and things like that container downloads anyway this these these stats are available on LFX insights and things like that but very active Community um good growth so you can see this in commits you can see this in code contributors these are all the lfn projects right uh that that that have been put and then I want to sort of talk about one new project that's a year old which is very interesting and that's called nephew which was seeded by Google and it's kind of uh sitting on top of kubernetes right and then on top of is is onap right and it is doing like crds and things like that right on top of cnfs okay so what is what is happening is the community is coming out with a release first release this month I think and it is looking very interesting in terms of simplifying simplifying the uh the solutions for an all kubernetes based solution right remember five years ago or 10 years ago it was all proprietary five years ago it was all openstack VM based now it's all kubernetes cnfs there will always be hybrid but you don't want to pollute the hybrid and the new stuff with the hybrid so if there are projects and and other things that can take care of the vnfs then you put that and then you take the new one and then over time phase it out right that's kind of the model most people use Okay so on the board you got pretty much all the top carriers um ATT was the chair um few years then China mobile was the chair I believe we have Deutsche Telecom as the chair this time all the vendors are on on the board Telus is on the board Ibrahim sits on the board Verizon etc etc and then you have a whole bunch of civil members so that's it and then all the associate members so I'm going to wrap up here and say do get involved for those of you who are not participating in elephant uh panel what is the email since there are two 2.1 million emails we can add one more is it info at Network sorry Linux foundation.org okay so info at lfnetworking.org or Ajo shipper at linuxfoundation.org send me an email but get involved get involved is and this is for the people on on the the five six hundred people that registered and didn't want to travel to lovely Vancouver here um and and so that's kind of my my slide deck we can take questions from here we can take questions from the web correct okay see that's the penalty for being online all right questions yes good good okay so I'm going to repeat the question because folks won't hear so what is the vision of bringing everything together because there is a lot of projects so historically projects can get incubated anywhere in LF right that's the fastest path out because every sub Foundation has an has an induction cycle right uh you know if you do these things then you are an incubation project if you do this thing you've graduated if you do these things then you know blah blah so when a community wants to get started they just typically put projects directly under the LF instead of moving it under a foundation unless they know that they are incubating within a project itself okay so that's what has happened right where projects have been incubated in under the LF directly after the first release typically the project TSC and the governance whatever the governance is looks at uh finding a proper home based on the interoperability based on the community most important thing is where is the community if the community is here then they would probably work to get here if the community is somewhere else then they'll go there right because you can park anywhere if there's no Community it doesn't matter so what we do is that whole process of kind of aligning LF works on that after about a year work with all the stakeholders right so projects like nephew or Oran software Community or or Kamara or Silva or you know the ones that are relevant to LF networking they will work with their governance and their setup and then see what the best options are right so that they can they can move or they can be inducted and all that right that that's the general process um but keep in mind the projects still operate autonomously right because tscs cannot be influenced by the governing board right by Design that's how it is set up questions other questions I mean you are all elephant so it's not like uh something that you don't know so sorry for the reputation if you have not heard if you've heard me speak about this but it's always something new comes out all the time but all right that's it okay thanks all right, Networking Priorities, YouTube, 01ka7kjs3kw2nhb1w7yvyeeetz.