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SAN FRANCISCO– February 28, 2022 – Today, the Magma project, an open-source software platform that gives network operators an open, flexible and extendable mobile core network solution, announced continued community growth as Red Hat joins Arm, Meta, and Qualcomm as Magma’s newest premier member, while sixteen other organizations join as General or Associate members: AMD, AQSACOM, Althea, Canonical, ecrio, free5GC, GenXcomm Inc., Lekha Wireless Solutions, Platform 9 Systems, Radtonics, Ramanujan College, Sempre.ai, Telaverge, WaveLabs, Whitestack, and ZEDEDA. Additionally, Emily Yousling, Product Manager, joins the Magma Governing Board as the Meta representative.

“I am excited to join the Magma community as part of the Governing Board,” said Emily Yousling, Product Manager, Meta. “The collaborative nature of the project and the diversity of membership is a powerful tool in creating innovative core networking solutions in the open.”

“We are pleased to see the Magma community continue to evolve at the Linux Foundation as a leader in network innovation,” said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge, and IoT, the Linux Foundation. “The addition of Red Hat and other leading industry organizations are a welcome addition to our growing community. We are creating a venue for enabling change in the packet core space and integration across the stack.”

Since moving to the Linux Foundation in early 2021, Magma has grown considerably as a community with robust set of new members; the adoption of a master architecture roadmap (that’s 3GPP generation and access network agnostic); formation of a neutral governance structure; the hosting of its first Linux Foundation-managed event, Magma Day, (which was co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 202); availability of the Magma 1.6 release; and demonstration of “Zero Touch Magma Automation with LFN EMCO” at the Linux Foundation Demo Pavilion at the 2021 Open Networking and Edge (ONE) Summit.

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.

“Open source is at the core of everything we do at Red Hat,” said Azhar Sayeed, Senior Director, Global Telco Technical Development, Red Hat. “The Magma Core Foundation has grown as an open source community and a leader in network innovation by providing operators with the flexibility and adaptability they need in a mobile core network solution. Joining the Magma Core Foundation as a premier member is a natural fit for Red Hat because we feel that together, we can continue to support and advance the adoption of open source technologies and the communities of developers that drive them.”

Additional new member support

free5GC

“The ultimate goal of free5GC is to implement a full commercially operational core network including Operation, Administration and Management (OAM), orchestrator, and network slicing,” said Jyh-Cheng Chen, leader of the free5GC project. “We are pleased to join the Magma community to co-develop a complete ecosystem and facilitate innovations in 5G and beyond.”

Wavelabs

“5G and Magma Core is the center of our strategy, and we believe Magma Core will enable a plethora of innovative 5G use cases at the Network Edge,” said Mansoor Khan, CEO of Wavelabs. At ‘Wavelabs.ai,’ we are committed to contributing to the Magma Core Opensource from architecture to development and testing. As a trusted partner to our customers, we advance Magma Core adoption and its use cases leveraging our deep expertise by offering Magma distro, support, and integration services. We serve equipment vendors, service providers, hyperscales, and enterprises and help them in accelerating their Journey to Future Connectivity.

Whitestack

“We joined Magma as part of our strategy to help accelerate the adoption of key open source technologies that will play a key architectural role in the networks of the future.Over the past three years, we have seen Magma evolve into a production grade component, which we are happy to have helped to deploy in Telcos,” said José Miguel Guzmán, Co-founder and Senior Solutions Architect at Whitestack.

For a full list of Magam Core membership, visit: https://www.magmacore.org/members

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American Tower Joins LF Edge as Premiere Member, Community Adds EdgeGallery to Project Roster

The Linux Foundation - Mon, 02/28/2022 - 22:00

LF Edge furthers innovation at the open source edge across a unified ecosystem, with induction of Edge Gallery —an open-source MEC edge computing project —and adds leading innovator American Tower as Premiere member and Ritsumeikan University as new Associate member

SAN FRANCISCO — February 28, 2022 – LF Edge, an umbrella organization within the Linux Foundation that aims to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system, today announced American Tower has joined the project as a Premier member. Additionally, the project announced Edge Gallery has joined the umbrella as a Stage 1 project, RITSUMEIKAN University has joined as an Associate member, and the community issued its 2021 Annual Report.

American Tower, a global leading infrastructure provider of wireless, data center, and interconnect solutions to enable a connected world, joins other existing LF Edge Premiere members: Altran, Arm, AT&T, AVEVA, Baidu, Charter Communications, Dell Technologies, Dianomic, Equinix, Ericsson, F5, Fujitsu, Futurewei, HP, Huawei, Intel, IBM, NTT, Radisys, RedHat, Samsung, Tencent, VMware, Western Digital, ZEDEDA.

“We are pleased to see even more leading technology innovators joining as LF Edge members,” said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge and IOT, the Linux Foundation. “The proliferation of new technologies joining collaborative innovation at the open source edge means scalability, interoperability, and market innovation is happening across the ecosystem.”

About America Tower

American Tower, one of the largest global REITs, is a leading independent owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real estate with a portfolio of approximately 219,000 communications sites. For more information about American Tower, please visit americantower.com.

”We are excited to join LF Edge and their members to accelerate innovation, enabled by edge network architecture. A distributed model, positioning critical data closer to the user, provides the low-latency infrastructure to deliver the automation, performance, and cognitive insight required by manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, and more.” – Eric Watko, Vice President, Product Line Management, American Tower.

American Tower is joined by new Associate member, RITSUMEIKAN University, a private university in Kyoto, Japan, that traces its origin to 1869. With the Kinugasa Campus in Kyoto, and Kyoto Prefecture, the university also has a satellite called Biwako-Kusatsu Campus and Osaka-Ibaraki Campus. Ritsumeikan university is known as one of western Japan’s four leading private universities.

EdgeGallery Joins LF Edge Umbrella

Celebrating it’s two-year mark as an umbrella project, LF Edge welcomes its tenth project, Edge Gallery. Edge Gallery is an open-source MEC edge computing project initiated by Huawei, carriers, and vertical industry partners that joined the Linux Foundation in late 2021. Its purpose is to build a common edge computing platform that meets the “connection + computing” characteristics of the telecom industry, standardize the openness of network capabilities (especially 5G network capabilities), and simplify lifecycle processes such as MEC application development, test,migration, and running.

EdgeGallery joins the nine existing projects – Akraino, Baetyl, Fledge, EdgeX Foundry, Home Edge, Open Horizon, Project EVE, Secure Device Onboard (SDO) and State of the Edge – that support emerging edge applications across areas such as non-traditional video and connected things that require lower latency, and faster processing and mobility. LF Edge helps unify a fragmented edge market around a common, open vision for the future of the industry.

LF Edge 2021 Annual Report

The LF Edge community also issued a report of its progress and results from the past year. “LF Edge “ summarizes key highlights (including blueprints, deployments and momentum) Governing Board, Technical Advisory Board, Outreach Committee and General Manager. To download the report, visit: https://www.lfedge.org/resources/publications/.

More details on LF Edge, including how to join as a member, details on specific projects and other resources, are available here: www.lfedge.org.

About The Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more. The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

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D-Bus 1.14 Released With Various Changes Built Up Over Four Years

Phoronix - Mon, 02/28/2022 - 21:55

It's been four years since the release of Dbus 1.12 (and even 20 months since the last point release [v1.12.20] up until this week when v1.12.22 was tagged) while today Dbus 1.14.0 is being introduced for this user-space IPC solution for Linux systems...

Benchmarking The AMD EPYC Speed Boost Coming To Linux 5.18, Thanks To Scheduler/NUMA Improvement Review - Phoronix

Google News - Mon, 02/28/2022 - 21:41

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Benchmarking The AMD EPYC Speed Boost Coming To Linux 5.18, Thanks To Scheduler/NUMA Improvement

Phoronix - Mon, 02/28/2022 - 21:38

Earlier this month I noted a Linux scheduler change queued into sched/core ahead of the Linux 5.18 cycle that is expected to help AMD EPYC processors and other select Zen processors in various workloads. The change has been in the works for several months and is about adjusting the allowed NUMA imbalance when spanning multiple LLCs. I've now carried out some of my own benchmarks on EPYC hardware and indeed is further ratcheting up the Linux kernel performance.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing Drivers Now Support Linux Mint 20.3 and elementary OS 6.1 - 9to5Linux

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