 All right. Good. Good morning. It's interesting that or like the state of open networking and edge In one word, it's still travel freeze there are 400 people registered online and A few of us in the room so you can see I think the first statement I can make is companies are tight on travel budget, but let's at least I take advantage of everyone who is here and Let's go ahead and get started. You know, there's a fantastic lineup of content the Webinar slash regional day will be up on YouTube under the LF channel for the rest of the forever, I think I should say and You you can take advantage of that Okay I'm gonna cover Three things very very quickly in a rare situation where some of you don't know what we do It's worth noting because we keep changing and Expanding our role in the ecosystems. I'll talk about the Lenox foundation We've seen a tremendous amount of The term I use is open source diversification In vertical industries, we had published a white paper called software defined industries sometime back That included industries like telecommunications energy Finance automotives right hundred year old industry So we'll talk about those and then bulk of the presentation is is on networking and edge I won't need the entire time so we can take questions both from the chat and from the room All right We are over 850 projects in about 60 sub foundations and we are well beyond Lenox now Either a sub foundation is organized as a technology area So security or blockchain or Edge and IOT etc Or it's organized as a market Whether it's networking or telecommunications or cloud or or film or energy and In those Sub foundations We have projects that we host for which contribution happens and we We get code and we get community participation and everybody benefits The the big ones Have have a broader community support Things like open SSF right open SSF networking cloud They're kind of the big one risk five you can see from a hardware perspective is is large LFA I and data is is quite large both in terms of community projects and The size of the foundation or sub foundation And then of course we started this endeavor on doing standards and specifications several years ago and It has grown significantly to a point where we can't keep up So if you have specifications or standards that you need to do It's a one-stop shop in the Lenox foundation That includes licenses For the data and data governance like so you can see CDLA In this world of AI that I'll talk about in just a bit Licensing and sharing of data is very important. So CDLA is the equivalent of Apache 2 on the software side So, you know, take a look at that as well Okay, so with that said today, it's focused on networking and then edge and IOT and That's kind of where bulk of the presentation will be. All right, so Let's talk about the open source application of vertical industries We've seen this before Markets are huge Edges four times the size of of cloud and it is growing with the help of 5g not just 5g But there are alternative technologies that I'll talk about that Effect all verticals including manufacturing healthcare energy, etc, etc However, you slice it right whether you slice it in market size or the impact or Applications or use cases doesn't matter. It's But very very critical. So people who miss the cloud computing revolution, right? Like Kubernetes took over the world and cloud took over the world Don't feel afraid or don't feel shy Edges next in the next and this is by the way 2030 numbers. So really really good to know All right, so how do we see the Ecosystem evolving so we host all these projects in Networking and Edge, which is a few of these are listed down below I'll go through this in detail and then these projects come together in Some version of a blueprint either. It's a blueprint or a super blueprint now blueprints Are not just a marketing term. They're actually declarative configurations with CI CD with Documentations with open scripts open Test results that you can actually Reproduce if you want and and it just helps speed up the deployment very very quickly It does not replace vendor support, but it does accelerate Kind of the boring part of the journey of putting open-source projects together with hardware and software And they could be proprietary hardware proprietary software, but blueprints include everything And so when these blueprints come together, then they are either funnel based on use cases Into an enterprise market into a service provider market, which could be both cloud service providers and enterprise service provider Oh, sorry telecommunications service providers and then And users like the US government. We're looking very closely on a lot of you things going on here and then There is very specific Verticalization happening in each of these markets right industrial energy oil now one thing that our community has come back and realized is Each of these verticals from an edge and IoT perspective Are done in this particular order. So if you look at kind of You know industrials is the hottest most important market for edge and IoT right now And the reason for that is they have the highest need for the use cases in in edge computing Then energy then Retail home, etc. This doesn't mean that these things on the right are not important But they're taking a lot longer because of you know regulations and processes and compliances and things like that Okay, but we are seeing the first five at least go very very fast and Adoption has has gone up significantly. You will hear from one of our premium members, you know Zedeta and Arm also talk about some of these Deployments and some of these innovations that happen at the edge on some of these verticals so At the high level We're seeing vertical adoption Significantly increased, but it's all fundamentally being built on on open source projects Okay How does that work in a global setting? We are not operating in a silo. So five years ago, maybe even seven there was a There was a statement made by someone in some keynote saying open source is the de facto standard and That kind of upset quite a bit of people in the telecommunications world where standards are like there for the last hundred years Or whatever right since telephone was invented And so we actually went out and proactively worked extremely closely with our standards partners GSMA Etsy 3GPP, you know more recently Oran Alliance NGMF NGMN TM forum mef, etc and We also worked with our open source counterparts which play a different role in the different areas of the stack Whether it's part of the Lenox foundation whether it's Outside the Lenox foundation like open infrastructure open infrastructure foundation or OII or Eclipse and Any alliances that were particularly important to the vertical right ACC or to automotive edge computing IIC or digital twin consortium and and we also work with them not only to Define the scope of what needs to be done, but also announce and partner public so that Standards and specifications and code are harmonized Okay, for those of you are not familiar with this. There's a white paper on harmonization It's a little bit old, but it's still valid because there's you know in its in its simplicity The the message is very simple if there's a standard code to it If there's no standard code to it and upstream to a standard and how you do it is part of the The puzzle that our community now has figured out how to do and so we're really excited that This has continued and this has led to the tremendous adoption of edge IoT and networking Software open-source software Into deployments and we're not even tracking any deployments these days because there's just a lot of those right Across all geographies whether it's China US Europe, right? Whether it's you know, Deutsche telecom or Ronge or that's AT&T Verizon China mobile China telecom They all have put open-source software in production and they've been running it for quite some time And it is aligned to the standards very very closely Okay, so The big thing is this was a problem three years ago. It's no longer a problem. In fact, it's an asset these days Okay, we're going to significantly expand our partnership with Etsy Coming very soon. So, you know, stay tuned on that as Etsy goes out and and looks at some of the other Areas as well. The other thing I want to point out is on the LF energy energy sub foundation so a lot of So I also run the LF energy sub foundation for the for the LF and one of the things we have found is LF energy or the energy distribution globally is Following telecommunications exactly, but they are three years behind three to five years behind They have the same concept of a core edge and access. They have the same concept of regulations They have the same concept of how data resides how how the Traffic in their in in their terminology, you know electricity Changes because if you remember, you know when YouTube and user generated content came The entire traffic management on the network had to change because the traffic was flowing up rather than down Similarly, a lot of creation of power is being done in solars and alternatives And it's causing a lot of challenges of orchestration and automation Familiar. Yeah, so there's a lot of cross-pollination between our edge IoT projects and the energy projects That that lead to a lot more sustained Commonality across these these systems and by the way a lot of these utility operators They have purchased a 5g private network for a lot of their own Deployments, which by the way is built on the telecommunications network So you can see industries are blurring lines, right? Just like we have seen the cloud and the telco industry kind of blur lines These verticals are blurring lines thanks to the standards and and alliances here Okay, so with that, let me go into the networking and edge So this is my like for those of you who have heard me for the last decade or two I always have this slide, right? So it's one of the oldest slide, but it keeps getting better and better and better, right? And the reason for that is it gives you a bird's eye view of where we play There are and these are just sample projects, right? So after years of kind of what I call Collaboration with a lot of companies globally We finally managed to get in everything end to end In an open source way So if you want to build a network today end to end Including access alternative access edge and core Slash cloud you can do it And let me show you how the last thing we had launched was what is called LF connectivity So it includes everything other than the 3G PPO ran access And you can see LF connectivity right here in the horizontal part So it includes the last mile enhanced access for rural and highly dense urban areas Right so 60 gigahertz project like terra graph very popular There's a project called Maverick right which is a AI based Rick intelligent Rick algorithm Right they use digital twin technology to to to plan out the network before they deploy the ran So extremely interesting projects there are five more coming LF connectivity was announced and it is an integral part of the overall solution Because if you see most of the most of the telcos focus on the ran And we host the Oran Alliance software project here at the Linux foundation And then you move to the edge obviously some of the large projects like Eve, Fledge, Edge X Foundry, Acrono They all reside here coming in from the enterprise side of things across any vertical And we'll talk about edge in more detail in just a bit And then obviously through the clouds you move up the stack Any cloud you have the noses we have some very powerful projects Sonic and Dent Sonic is kind of a data center nos dent is the distributed edge campus retail nos right So then source code or lead was Amazon retail Sonic was Microsoft So you can see two of them coming from different perspectives They're all in deployment today And then you go up the stack with Kubernetes, FTIO, DPDK sort of the data plane And there's really two ways to build the stack up Okay you can go the traditional route through FTIO, DPDK, VPP For those of you who are familiar with that open stack open daylight on app etc up the stack And then in a hybrid manner you would do it with Kubernetes and open stack together In some of the green field you can start off with straight cloud native in either way And so that is kind of the stack up whether it's a telecom core or a cloud And the most recent addition is Nefio which I'll talk about in a bit Which just issued its first release very powerful project And then you have all the EBPF which is kind of the I don't know how many of you are familiar with EBPF but it's on top of kernel And it's an alternative way of building the entire stack with applications like LEAF as part of LF Networking And then you go up the stack and you have two very important projects here in the EU Kamara and Silva So tomorrow's keynote I'll make I have a couple of announcements on that I didn't realize this was before the keynote so I can't leak out any information on the two But just join the keynote tomorrow I'll be there on the stage and we'll have some good announcements on both of those And then on top you have all the applications or CNFs So this is a very important diagram we just keep on adding to it It has not changed for the last 10 years other than getting rich Which means when PowerPoint slides get used again and again they must be right That's what I believe So then double click on edge And for those of you who have not heard my monologue on edge Please listen carefully In the last three years we have completely butchered the definition of edge Thin edge, thick edge, far edge, near edge, cloud edge, this and that And they are all relative terms And we are done with them So our LF edge community went in through both state of the edge as well as white paper And they defined the terms And they defined it in a Wikipedia style definition So for those of you who are participating in edge computing Please use these terms because people will understand what you mean So there's only two types of edges There's a user edge and there's a service provider edge User edge is dedicated and operated by a user Service providers is shared and as a service It's not a hard cut as you can see from the bottom line But typically the last mile separates the two When you go to user edge It has three implementation options From all the way at the end is constraint device edge Microcontrollers, embedded compute There are constraints And this could be in any industries Turbines, windmills, industrial doesn't matter From there if you have a little bit of space And you have your wiring closet data center You have an IoT gateway You have a smart device edge And then you can also have a broader larger on-prem data center edge But in all three implementations The user is the controller of the edge And I think I'm not defying People know why edge compute is relevant 20 milliseconds or less of latency and all that good stuff So I'm not even going to go there Then when we get to the access edge This is either below the base station's RAM Or in a smart central office And that's it After that it is not edge compute So if a sensor wakes up every week and dumps data in a cloud That's an IoT application It's not an edge application And so we at the LF edge sub foundations Have, you know, over 10 projects Very, very important projects That range from infrastructure to applications in various stages And they solve very particular use cases For these vertical markets Okay And the big ones obviously I pointed out EdgeX Foundry It's an IoT framework That runs on an IoT gateway It's the same framework But for constrained IoT implementations Eve, which we'll talk about today Has an implementation on the edge virtualization engine side And then you have a Crano Which is a very interesting integration project But it also has a lot of blueprints That have been, you know, deployed Now we are at really six So I don't need to talk about it But some of the latest blueprints Are fully integrated Declarative configurations You can go to the Wiki today Download it based on Set of hardware, set of software And by the way Based on use cases Most importantly So whether it's vehicular topology prediction Whether it's Another good one is Cloud edge interface right there You know, which is an equinex Contribution, etc There are smart connected vehicles There's a lot of good blueprints And remember They're all in different Implementation areas of the edge Okay So I just want to make sure that As you participate and build blueprints You understand if it's there You know, expand it Okay So with that said What are the three most important things this year And maybe halfway through next year The first is NAS A lot of work has gone on To network as a service And We at LF Networking Have been focusing on that There's a white paper that has come out And it includes everything from the OSS stack All the way to the management framework And a lot of Projects need to be put together So there's something called LF and 5G super blueprints Where you can participate And know a lot more about it So NAS is very important this year The other thing that is important Is AI And I have not put Any AI on My LinkedIn yet I want all the marketing people to finish Explaining what they read on chat GPT first And then we'll get to the real stuff Because we've got real data on what AI is And what needs to happen And this chart actually captures that Very crisply And We've done surveys Of our Linux foundation networking board LF edge board LF energy board What's the most important thing on this So let me take a little bit more time To explain How We are approaching the AI problem For those of you who are not familiar With The whole LFAI initiative About five years ago I think Jim and myself And a couple of others We launched LFAI and data in China And it's grown there significantly Now Ibrahim runs it It's a very, very important entity But it's a horizontal construct It's a generic horizontal construct It does not include Any domain specific Requirement Let me make sure that We heard this clearly No domain specific AI work Or data work will happen in LFAI and data All the domain specific work Will happen in either LF networking LF edge LF energy You name it And what does that mean At the bottom The network infrastructure So you saw the projects And the whole blueprint stuff Use all of that There's a lot of vendor solutions in there But let's say open source projects Plus vendor solutions And then you on top of that You have domain specific datasets So network is rich in data But that data Cannot be shared outside An AT&T or a China mobile And all that Our board is working very cleverly on that And we'll have some answers to that On how do you bring out data To solve the domain specific problem That's one big challenge The next two Are the AI models Which are generic So there will be a lot of announcements On these generic LLMs And things like that this week But stay tuned on that And then there's the data Do I separate AI infrastructure Because there's a lot of computing elements GPUs that are outside The normal network And that requires Sharing governance and processing All of it And it is important on how data is Shored and shared So a lot of this Is new And it is being implemented by Generic cloud providers Generic enterprises And then when we get to our own Which is either an edge or networking You have domain specific models For those of you who remember A project called ACUMOS Four years ago It was a telecommunications Visual AI recognition Project Which was under LFAI and data And what it did was It took pictures of the base station And Through clever AI algorithms Figured out that Some damage Beautiful concept Exactly what happens these days But way ahead of its time Okay There are much more interesting tools now There are much more better algorithms now And so we're going to utilize All the visualization techniques In the domains itself So there's an AI domain specific model That You know And it just doesn't have to be LLMs People just confuse LLMs And there's a lot of other things That are happening And we will give out all the results Of the survey in just Over a month or so As we finalize all the solutions And then you have On top Which is the most important thing Which is AI use cases And We have narrowed down We as in the LF networking Governing board and our members And The top eight Or 80% Of the top 10 Are part of the LF networking ecosystem Right so you're now talking about 80% of the money that is being spent That has Given us the feedback And on which Use cases are important And we'll publish them And that's why I said I'm trying to wait for the hype To die down because We Will Then the real stuff starts And the real stuff is not going to Show up in the network this year It's probably next year It takes some time on the network side So that's on the AI Very important Same thing I didn't put up on the edge We're doing something similar In terms of use cases Domain specific There we have a little bit of a wrinkle Because the domains are also Vertical industries And then the third most important Thing is 6G is right around the horizon New requirements come in 6G has an AI element Embedded in it And the community is looking at this From a very forward looking perspective I won't go into this here All right With that said A little bit of just momentum Because you always want To the right and growth So we're seeing pretty good growth On almost all the projects The oldest one obviously DPDK This is like in the 10 years Of its history And some of the new projects Are also seeing a lot of growth The big one this year We'll see is ORAM A lot of work is happening In the software community that we host Another focus area for us is security And we were just recently At the White House I don't know how many of you Saw the host Of the seminar OpenSSF hosted a seminar On critical infrastructure Unfortunately I could not go But we were represented by Jim And Omkar are up here on OpenSSF And the discussion was How to secure open source And how to secure critical infrastructure Of open source This is on the US government side DARPA, DOD and all the 17 agencies There's similar effort happening With EU And we'll talk about that With CELVA and other projects Where security requirements Are being put right into the open Source projects like CELVA But the thing on security is If you can't see it And you can't measure it You can't solve it And so we have a dashboard Under LFX.security And you can go into any project Under the LF And see where There are the best practices So for example, ONAP is silver Silver is to a point where It's probably 180, 190 checklists And processes and documents And do you do this? Do you have a CI CD? Do you do this? Tremendous work that gets done All the way to SBOMPS Okay, automatic generation for SBOMPS SBOMPS are going to be extremely critical In the world of CRA here in Europe as well And so project like ONAP Are there Other projects are on their way But you can see that Not only CVEs are being solved But also a lot of Security processes And implementations are happening And then there is a white paper Obviously to Read a lot more on that Alright, so then What is a practical use case To put it all together And that's called 5G Super Blueprint Now who's the user In DARPA, DOD, Ops 5G And a whole bunch of other projects Okay What they are doing Is they are taking So first of all US government basically made a statement After years of theoretical analysis That open source is more secure Than closed source And open source is the way We're going to build everything after 5G Everything from defense systems To you know ground surveillance To private And they made that statement And they are following through With this There's a presentation by The head of DARPA Tejas Patel On YouTube Under the LF Networking Channel That you can see on how they were planning to use So I borrowed a slide from him Where he's basically taken A whole bunch of projects And he's looking at How to utilize these projects For their use cases Now what are the 5 use cases No kidding, right Ultra low latency Mobile broadband IMS, network slicing Things like that So the ones that we all know of And that's what they want to use Everything from user edge All the way to the core And then all the research That gets done in the universities Like USC for example On slicing and things like that So that there's a loop And everybody benefits on that So this is very important And a lot of these blueprint work Is being Done in the open community So feel free to join And participate in that community Another very interesting project Is Nefio And now it is part of LF Networking We've not publicly launched that yet Nefio was launched a year ago Where it was Seed coded by Google It is essentially Sitting on top of Kubernetes And it's for cloud native Network automation So CNFs and things like that How do you automate it very quickly And it's that orange line On top of the Public cloud and on-prem infrastructure Everything else Like the VMs The physical infrastructure The service orchestration So if you look at The end to end solutions Nefio and ONAP complement each other And it builds On the concepts of CRDs CRDs Like Kubernetes resource models And configuration as a data It is extremely Hot And in fact they just release The R1 I think the QR code still works If you want to download Every information on the R1 But R1 Basically had three things It had a framework to orchestrate CNFs Infrastructure And cross domain life cycle management That's what the main code was about It also had Sample CRDs And custom resource Sorry, definitions like CRDs And Kubernetes integration And as an example The community did a Sandbox For 5GC Or 5G core That was orchestrated And implemented and integrated In Nefio Release 2 Is being worked So if you have not You can actually contribute to this Join Nefio community And kind of move it forward But this is a very important project Because essentially When they move to cloud native And going flat line On the cloud native path Right, there's a lot of hybrid There's a lot of brown boxes There's a lot of, I would say Old stuff that's sitting here Which will always be there But as you get to pure cloud native You can go straight down Into Kubernetes and go very, very quickly Okay So with that I am going to say Get on the community If you're not already there I know Participating is relatively Easy and mostly free If you're not a member And want to influence the community Do join Those of you who are just listening For the first time Get your LFID and get going And Do see us in person At Open Networking In Silicon Valley next year This is a very important event We're bringing it back To Silicon Valley after years It started in Stanford As you know as ONS And we took it over And then it has moved its way around This is one of the regional days today As part of one summit Or Open Networking and Edge Summit As we expanded But the CFPs Are just going to be launching Very soon So stay tuned on that But I expect All of you 400 people Who are registered virtually And can travel to be there Okay People in the room Great, thank you for coming But with that Here's a summary We're at the tipping point 5G Edge and IoT deployments Are happening Verticals are pumping up So geopolitical And macroeconomic headwinds Let's not underestimate How much those two Cause concerns to the other part Of the world We are Let's not jinx it But our community is Relatively moving forward Let's keep this going So with that I am almost done