 Hello everyone. I'm Shahraman from Facebook connectivity team and I'm here to talk to you about magma and how it unleashes the open source 5G and the telco movement. I want to thank you all for joining us today. I'm excited to be here. Thanks to Linux Foundation and KubeCon organizers for arranging such an amazing outstanding event. It feels great to be speaking after you heard on this magma day from Amar about why we built magma the way we did. From Tina, Arpit and Brian about how magma fits into the end-to-end telecom solution along with other open source projects, from the panel of magma users, both end users as well as the product developers who are embedding magma into their products and solutions and finally from our amazing advocates who are delivering the lightning talks for us. Following the magma dev conference back in February, we announced the project's move to Linux Foundation as an independent foundation called Magma Core Foundation. This is the first major event covering the magma community as well as the ecosystem sprouting around it. I'd like to wrap up this magma day to a few points that should illustrate to you how magma can become a major catalyst to bring open source telco and 5G movement to reality with every important player in the industry, the operators and service providers, vendors and system integrators, startups and investors, and finally academia and the public domains. So let's see how magma unleashes open source telco and 5G evolution. Let's start off with defining these terms. What is open source 5G and what is open source telco? Open source is not new to telco. However, it had limited success from an open source product and commercial model perspective in the telco industry. Let's build this a little bit further. Most products in whichever industry we look in today has a good percentage of open source software. Think about Linux, OpenStack and Kubernetes that are in almost every product or platform you can think of. This is an open source community, so I'm sure you can totally understand that. However, most products in the telco industry include proprietary and open source code that are blended together and then hardened rigorously for production and commercial readiness. The key question we want to answer is how can we have purely open source software-based products be commercially ready, carry a grid, and be deployed in production networks by the operators or the enterprises? And so that is about the open source telco movement. When we think about open source 5G, we often tend to equate telco equals 5G. While 5G originated in the telco industry, by no means it should be limited to the industry alone. Our view is that 5G movement will be much bigger than just the telco industry. Most parents and researchers agree with us. Therefore, open source 5G would include telecom, enterprise, industrial, as well as consumer use cases. We want to see how we can get open source 5G to proliferate across all these different markets. If you know about the telecom info project or TIP for short, a project that Facebook helped launch a few years back, Magma Story begins with a chapter out of TIP's playbook, and it's called Open and Disaggregated Networks. Jio and Rakuten, the two disruptive telecom players in the APAC, India and Japan, are the poster children of this movement, and they have proven to the industry that the clock is ticking against the big vendors, closed and proprietary systems. Dishwaterless places open source right in their home page, including a direct reference to O-RAN, which is an open-run proponent group in the industry. We know that there has been limited success of open telco or open source software in the telecom industry at large. However, that is not an indicator of the future by any means. It's quite the opposite, and this is precisely why we're investing and working on projects like Magma. We remain committed to Magma from Facebook connectivity, alongside our amazing industry group partners, namely Linux Foundation, Open Source Software Alliance, Open Infrastructure Foundation, and the Telecom Infrastructure Foundation. So if we think about the global telco networks, we start to see a bit of a problem. While access to the internet and 4G speeds continue to improve, the speed of those networks is forecast to decline in developing and emerging markets, roughly about three quarters of the world's population. This is effectively going to create a new kind of digital divide, where some parts of the population will enjoy rich contents like real-time video and augmented reality, where others will not. This also has massive economic implications for people living in developing, emerging, as well as the developed countries. If we dive deeper into why the network performance is going down, it's pretty simple to see that network economics. We have three forces at work that are limiting the operating profit of our operators to be below 5% in aggregate globally. First, data consumption is skyrocketing. In some emerging markets, we are seeing a usage of over one gigabyte per day, which is a huge consumption. The internet is the main source of entertainment and information in these markets. Second, our view average revenue per user is declining. So while networks are getting loaded, people are consuming more bandwidth. Mobile operators are making less money per user. And finally, unless operators change the way networks are managed, optics will stay relatively flat, operational expenses, that is. It's not hard to understand why these factors combine. Mobile operators are going to struggle to invest into the network capacity that is sufficient to keep up the demand. This is where Magma Mission kicks in to figure out how to dramatically reduce the network TCO, specifically from the operational expense standpoint for the mobile operators and service providers. And we believe we can do that by enabling the open source telco movement, where the operators are no longer afraid to deploy open source software stacks in their production networks and by catalyzing an open source 5G movement across all types of cellular and mobile networks. For example, the operator networks, public networks, private networks, decentralized networks, as well as non-terrestrial or the satellite networks. Before we go into the details, we draw an important parallel between the adoption of open source in the enterprise versus in the telco space that we have seen over the past decade or so. On the left-hand side column, we see the evolution of open source in the enterprise space over the past 10 years or so. It's been triggered by Linux that is now in every part of the software industry. And this community should be proud that we're in the part of this Linux foundation. And probably in the prolific in the industry, the enterprises that we heard the phrase that software is hitting the wall. And this is probably more appropriate to say from this perspective that open source is hitting software. The window of opportunity to disrupt the telco industry, especially with open source project, as we see on the right-hand column, is the next three to five years. If you think why, there are early indicators that show the most disruptive operators over the last few years have been the prolific users of open source software across the entire telco stack from RAM to core to the operational and business support systems. As the traditional operators start embracing open and disaggregated technologies in RAM and front-end part of the network, we would like to see them adopt open source stacks like Magma in the core and increasingly on the operational and business support system on the back-end part of the network. So let's look at this a little bit deeper between RAM and the core. And we want to draw that distinction with the two core part of the telco networks today. A core network is naturally disaggregated and acts as the back-end of the network. We've seen strong open-run movement on the RAM side, and many large operators are starting to run trials with various open-run vendors as we speak. The core itself lends to a single stack implementation as it's distributed over different parts of the network, running at a very highly distributed system. Therefore, it's a natural open-source fit that can become the base implementation to be leveraged in many commercial use cases. Network core follows the mantra of build wants enhanced many times and thereby support all the use cases you can. This is the same mantra that we are asking all developers out there to look at where they're, you know, where and how they can leverage Magma stack to build different network applications for the telcos, as well as the emerging 5G use cases. So I'll give you some examples. Private networks like LTE and 5G, agent IoT networks, network or service convergence, network or connectivity as a service, enterprise networks in the post-COVID world, which we know the world is fast changing and there is a lot more need for higher bandwidth, lower latency, better connectivity, improved networks and so on. And last but not the least, consumer applications with rich and multimedia experiences such as augmented and virtual reality. So the evolution of the network core has been through the physical, to virtual, to cloudified, all in a very vendor and infrastructure locked way. 2008 to 14 was the time of the physical packet course. So basically prior to 2014, between 2014 and 2019, the virtual packet score are known as the VEPC. So a lot of deployments and rollouts. 2020 plus as of last year, most of the cloud native course for both 4G and 5G networks are starting to show up in different parts of the world. When 3GPP release 15 was ratified in 2018, it was during the virtualization era and missed several important characteristics from the future several networks. Therefore, a clear path for the network course stack that is developed and deployed in a fully vendor access and infrastructure agnostic manner was one of the characteristics that release 16 onwards are working to catch up. Going forward, we see a need for 100% API driven cloud native and multi-tenant core stack that converges all kinds of access networks, not just a cellular, but Wi-Fi, satellite, private networks, CBRS and shared spectrum networks as well. And we shall see our journey to date. Basically, you have seen how we have arrived there with Magma. We see the future of network right with an open architecture and an open source software stack. And we would like to call that Magma. Moving along, as we carry forward on the path of Magma evolution, we follow a model of commercialization that is based on a model from Peter Living of Anderson Horowitz. The model covers how a single open source project can turn into a single commercial product. We have modified the model for a single project supporting multiple commercial offerings, thereby building an ecosystem and a boutique industry around the project. This industry is precisely the open source telco and 5G opportunity space, where you, the developers, can develop products, services and applications for your users tomorrow and finally obtain customers the day after. This is Magma's evolution path and based on the huge traction of 1500 active members in the community over the matter of a few months and 250 plus active contributors, we already have achieved the project community fit. We have far exceeded the critical community mass across LF, OIF, OSA and TIP industry groups. Over the next 12 to 18 months, we expect to see many telco and 5G use cases addressed by the users of Magma and not just the developers. Build products and services that are commercially viable and start moving into initial trials and pilots, depending on the target market and segment. This is how Magma achieves the essential product market fit over the time period. Over the next two to three years, we expect to see tens of customers running production workloads based on Magma-based products and services, which is beginning of the commercial journey where users are able to build viable businesses with their customers. This is a Magma that achieved the value market fit in the industry for years to come and match precisely the predicted open source adoption in the telco industry and 5G that we showed earlier. We want to see a little bit deeper into what those opportunities in the open source telco and 5G would look like and how Magma really underpins some of these opportunities. First and foremost, Magma Stack has three distinct value props that we see as a substrate offered to different commercialization and monetization models. By no means these are the only models that exist and there may be others. These are the illustrative ones that we'd like to highlight for our audience who can think of how to take advantage of these opportunities. The first model is more traditional that focuses on enhancing Magma and offering support and services around Magma for the operators and the enterprises. The model is called the Rehab model. This model is leveraged by a few startups each targeting different market segments today. The second model is more like the pivot model where Magma is leveraged as a stack, however, is used in a very different network connectivity use case. This model is also used by a few startups developing radio, backhaul, and IoT use cases, for example. The third one is around the service model where Magma is offered as a service taking advantage of multi-tenancy. This model is most suitable for cloud and edge platforms that already have hosting tooling and commercials in place for their customers and the prospective customers as well. This model is in pursuit with major cloud and edge platforms as we speak. The fourth one, the final and the fourth one, is the breakout model where Magma stack is leveraged for a non-network use case mostly for consumer or enterprise applications. This model is most conducive for open source 5G to bring the power and advances of 5G technology outside of the telco industry. There are several startups that are working on developing this application based on this model. Before we look into the specific audience segment, I want to wrap up by reiterating and sharing that 5G is such a hard space now and there are so many opportunities for grabs. Speedy execution will likely determine your startup or company's ultimate fate in this space. So avoid the speed bumps, bypass the bottlenecks, bring your speed bias to us, and build your business, whether it is connectivity focused or the latest or greatest SaaS application in the network and telecom industry, or the seamless enterprise networks for the post-COVID world, or the emerging consumer experiences, you can build any of these on top of Magma stack. We have a fantastic community and we are very glad to be here with the broader Linux community here and we're fortunate to have the support from all of our key advocates from Linux Foundation to YF and OSA. In many ways we're actually unique to have been able to bring multiple industry groups together with a shared and common goal. The opportunity space is very large and it will only be over the years. There is no, excuse me, reason to think about competition which will be a non-issue when you find your perfect niche. Magma reduces complexity of the space, reduces the high entry barrier that is commonly known for working with telco applications and so on, and unleashes different opportunities for entrepreneurs of all sizes, all types from all parts of the world. Next few slides, I'm just going to share some specific information tailored for audiences with this vision. Vendors and system integrators are one of the most important stakeholders for Magma as they bring both developers and users to the equation. However, they usually don't run their own networks. If we think about just 5G technology market, the size is approaching a trillion-dollar market in a matter of few years and growing over 100% year over year. These estimates are conservative as several new opportunities are not yet factored in. For example, decentralized or non-trend trail market that are enabled by 3GPP-18 and onwards. The key thing for vendors and system integrators is to focus on building the development teams with skilled developers who can leverage Magma's tech, develop products and services following one of the models I described earlier. Once you have built the critical in-house expertise, align with your open source and business strategies, then lean on the thriving Magma community. It is likely going to be a winning formula in the post-COVID world when connectivity challenges are simply on the rise. Next is operators and service providers and the most significant players in the telecom industry who ultimately run the networks based on Magma stack and components. It goes without saying how the open source telco and 5G movement wouldn't be possible without them fully engaged in. The biggest reason for operators and service providers to consider open source 5G is to avoid vendor locking. That's much easier said than done. This requires busting several meets that have severely impacted open source adoption at large in this industry. This also requires embracing the true benefits of open source 5G in action in their own hands whenever possible. The skyrocketing data demands from the hungry applications will slowly but surely in a way operate the revenues and profits. Therefore, multiple opportunities for the emerging use cases that service providers can unlock based on Magma. The next is startups and investors. One of the most interesting segments. I'm excited about 15 startups that are already building their products based on Magma stack. They're diverse and come from all different value market opportunities we talked about. They're networking, consumer, enterprise and SaaS adoption that we see across this amazing cohort of startups. You can see some of the testimonies from three of our key startups here and you've heard from them earlier today as well. The key for the startups is the TTM advantage, the time to market which is everything. You can focus building on your secret sauce and not the table stacks that often cripple startups with a small and lean team and that is often designed by the large companies so that startups are not able to succeed in the space. For the investors, the simple ask is to consider investing in these startups and crack the myth around the space complexity, limited exit opportunities or capital intensive nature of telecom startups. I like to stress that 5G is not all about telco and open source 5G is the opportunity space that is a big proof point for that. Consider reviewing these startups and investing in them and I'm speaking to the investors out there. Temi and public domains are the R&D arm of Magma movement where we are working with several universities to both fund it and collaborative projects that are leveraging Magma and advancing open source technologies. These are, there are new network models, new operational models, emerging technologies like AI and ML, blockchain, data science, hyper convergence, analytics and insights that are being developed in order to improve the future networks. Open source stacks like Magma enables advanced research in newer and easier ways that simply wasn't possible before. Last but not the least, there are multiple public domain and government projects that can leverage your Magma stack as part of an open source telecom stack you saw earlier today. It has been a pleasure to present Magma stack as the key enabler of open source telco and 5G today and I look forward to seeing you at github.com Magma. Connect with us on Slack, check us out on magmakor.org, the foundation that's just been established and here we are just the initial set of PR that we are very lucky to have received and people went as far as calling the open source Magma to be the 5G selenix. How well can I connect the dots here and say this is a stack that will help unleash those powerful open source 5G and telco opportunities. With that, I'd like to conclude thank you so much for joining the session today and as well as the Magma day. Look forward to Q&A and hopefully I'll see you at Magma, Slack or github. Bye-bye.