Press Releases

Linux Foundation, ETSI to drive harmonisation across open source, open standards

The Linux Foundation and ETSI have announced expanded collaboration. While the two organisations have been working together for years, the 2019 formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) recently has been updated and expanded. (more…)

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September 26, 2023

Posted by: Shriya Raban

ARM joins Linux Foundation’s Open Programmable Infrastructure project

ARM has joined the Linux Foundation’s Open Programmable Infrastructure project, a community-driven initiative focused on creating a standards-based open ecosystem for next-generation architectures and frameworks based on DPUs (data processing units) and IPUs (infrastructure processing units). (more…)

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June 19, 2023

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

Linux Foundation, IOWN Global Forum to collaborate for future smart connected world

The Linux Foundation and Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN Global Forum) have announced a new partnership to collaborate on integrating Linux Foundation software into the IOWN Global Forum platform. The common goal is to develop a collaborative infrastructure that enables higher performance, low latency, and energy efficiency to meet growing data delivery demands. (more…)

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June 16, 2023

Posted by: Shriya Raban

Linux Foundation, Meta launch LF Connectivity project to improve access to networks

San Francisco, United States – The Linux Foundation, a non-profit technology organisation, announced LF Connectivity, a new open source project focused on advancing technologies to accelerate emerging network and connectivity applications. (more…)

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May 26, 2023

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

Linux Foundation releases DentOS 3.0 network operating system

The DENT project, an open source network operating system utilising the Linux Kernel, Switchdev, and other Linux based projects, has announced the launch of DentOS 3.0, code-named “Cynthia,” a network operating system (NOS) that’s now moved to a more rapid release cycle. This operating system provides a flexible and customizable platform for network administrators to manage their networks, while also leveraging the power of open source technologies. (more…)

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May 5, 2023

Posted by: Shriya Raban

AWS contributes edge gateway to Open Compute Project Foundation

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has contributed a specification for an edge gateway to the Open Compute Project. Through additional AWS contributions, this edge gateway will also support OCP’s Switch Abstraction Layer (SAI) and thus end users will have a choice of network OS including SONiC or DENT from the Linux Foundation. (more…)

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April 20, 2023

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

Linux Foundation welcomes new open source projects from Peraton Labs to scale 5G security

The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organisation focused on fostering innovation through open source, has announced an open sourcing of two new 5G projects, ProD3 and SEDIMENT, from Peraton Labs. Peraton Labs is a provider of applied research unit of Peraton a mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider. Both projects will now be hosted at the Linux Foundation as part of its broad portfolio of networking projects. (more…)

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March 1, 2023

Posted by: Shriya Raban

LF Energy announces new events, projects, initiatives to accelerate energy transition in 2023

San Francisco, United States – Linux Foundation Energy, an open source foundation focused on harnessing the power of collaborative software and hardware technologies to decarbonise our global economies, has announced recent momentum and plans for 2023 including a new member, several new projects, updates to existing projects, and four events to bring together stakeholders building important technologies to drive the energy transition. (more…)

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February 12, 2023

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

OCP expands collaboration with Linux Foundation to establish a framework for creation of joint efforts

San Jose, United States – Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), the nonprofit organisation, announced an expanded collaboration with the Linux Foundation (LF), leveraging hardware-software co-design strategy by establishing a framework for creation of joint-effort shared communities and coordinated deliverables. Adding to the collaboration announced in April 2022 for data centre switching efforts on switch abstraction interface (SAI) at OCP and SONiC at LF, the OCP and LF have established a new effort supported by Microsoft and Google called Caliptra, standardising implementation of silicon embedded hardware root of trust security.
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October 29, 2022

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

LF Networking welcomes TELUS as platinum member; TELUS CTO, Ibrahim Gedeon, to join LFN governing board

San Francisco, United States – LF Networking (LFN), the de-facto collaboration ecosystem for open source networking projects, announced that it welcomes TELUS as a platinum member. The communications technology company joins 18 other global organisations as platinum members, all working to accelerate open source networking, collaboration and innovation that will ultimately transform the way we live and work -enabling a new era of smarter, sustainable technologies in key verticals such as agriculture, healthcare and manufacturing.   (more…)

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October 17, 2022

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar