Ultra Ethernet Consortium targets networks for AI and HPC
A new Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) has been established with the goal of bringing together leading companies for industry-wide cooperation ...
In Focus: Linux Foundation
🏛️ Linux Foundation Open Source Collaboration Across Cloud, Networking, AI and Infrastructure | |
| The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports open source projects across Linux, cloud computing, networking, security, AI, edge computing and digital infrastructure. Its project ecosystem includes many of the software platforms and governance models used by service providers, cloud operators and enterprise technology vendors. | |
| Why It Matters | Open source software underpins cloud platforms, telecom networks, AI infrastructure and enterprise systems. Converge Digest tracks the Linux Foundation because its projects shape software-defined networking, cloud-native infrastructure, edge computing, security and AI platform development. |
| Category | Nonprofit Organization |
| Mission | Support open source collaboration, project governance and ecosystem development for critical software and infrastructure technologies. |
| Focus Areas | Linux • Cloud native infrastructure • Networking • Edge computing • Cybersecurity • AI and data • Telecom software • Open source governance |
| Key Members | Amazon Web Services • Cisco • Google • IBM • Intel • Meta • Microsoft • Red Hat |
| Related Technologies | Cloud Native • SDN • NFV • Edge Computing • Security |
| Related Organizations | Cloud Native Computing Foundation • Open Compute Project • TM Forum |
Meta contributes Terragraph, Open M-Plane and Maveric to LF Connectivity
The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with Meta, announced LF Connectivity, a new open source project focused on advancing technologies to ...
OCP Switch Abstraction Interface moves under Linux Foundation’s DENT network OS Project
The Linux Foundation (LF) announced the incorporation of the Open Compute Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) into the open source DENT ...
Better Services from the Network
The question of 5G monetization is on everyone’s lips at Mobile World Congress 2023. But how to request and ensure ...
Project Sylva aims for open source telco cloud software
Linux Foundation Europe announced the formation of Project Sylva, which aims to create a new, open source production-grade Telco Cloud ...
Linux Foundation kicks off Open Programmable Infrastructure Project
The Linux Foundation has launched a new Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project aimed at establishing an open ecosystem for next-generation ...
Disaggregation across the Network Stack is Here to Stay
https://youtu.be/I5icF2AYv6IIn this video, Arpit Joshipura, GM/SVP Networking + Edge/IOT at The Linux Foundation, looks at the role disaggregation plays across ...
Project Nephio leverages Kubernetes to scale 5G across edge locations
A new open source project called Nephio has been launched by the Linux Foundation and Google Cloud aimed at simplifying ...
Open19 Foundation moves under Linux Foundation umbrella
The Linux Foundation will host the Open19 Foundation, an open hardware platform for data center and edge hardware innovation. It ...
DARPA teams with Linux Foundation to create secure open source
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) reached an agreement with The Linux Foundation to create open source software that ...
Linux Foundation targets cellular core network stack with Magma
The Linux Foundation is launching an open source industry collaboration focused on enabling a converged cellular core network stack, starting ...
Linux Foundation marks first release of DENT Network OS
The Linux Foundation announced the first code release of DENT, a Network Operating System (NOS) for Disaggregated Network Switches in ...
Debunking the Top 10 Myths of DPDK
The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) software is a set of Linux user-space libraries and drivers that accelerate packet-processing workloads ...
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