Aarna.ml, AvidThink, and FalconX Accelerator were thrilled to host a "Who's Who" of Edge, Cloud, and Networking executives and investors at the inaugural "Edge Computing Forum: What’s really working, and where" event on February 9th at the FalconX facility in Milpitas, CA. A big "Thank You" to all of our speakers! See the event photos, slides, and video at the links below.

• BV Jagadeesh, Co-Founder & Board Member, FalconX
• Roy Chua, Founder & Analyst, AvidThink
• Jim Brisimitzis, Founder & General Partner, 5G Open Innovation Lab
• Shah Rahman, Director of Engineering Meta
• Ronnie Vasishta, SVP Telecom, NVidia
• Ravi Puvvala, VP Strategic Partnerships, Harman Automotive
• Puneet Sethi, SVP, Product Management and Operations, Ataya
• Sanyogita Shamsunder, Head of Global Network Edge, Google Cloud Platform
• Ashish Yadav, Sr. Director Engineering & Head of Technical Product Marketing, Software Frameworks, Capgemini
• Edge networking: Kaladhar Voruganti, Field CTO, Equinix
• Edge storage: Gregory Touretsky, Sr. Director of Product Management, Seagate Lyve
• Edge security: Prakash Mana, CEO, Cloudbrink‍
• Amar Kapadia, Co-Founder & CEO, Aarna.ml
  

Great insights were shared and lively discussions were held on the state of edge computing today.

• View event photos here
• View the event slides here
• View the event recording here

Please send any questions to bwick@aarna.ml

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It's that time of the year again!

Building upon a successful ONE Summit and Developer and Testing Forum last November in Seattle, the Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) community is once again hosting a Developer & Testing Forum (D&TF). This will be a virtual event, running February 13-16, 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST. These events, are a great opportunity for the technical open source communities to clear away other distractions and focus on addressing development challenges and plot project roadmaps.

Aarna.ml has been a long time contributors to ONAP and EMCO projects and the 5G Super Blueprint Initiative. But the D&TF's scope is broader than LFN projects. LF Networking I am indeed! Aarna.ml will be giving 3 talks in the Nephio Track and one in the 5G Super Blueprint Track about potential Nephio integration.

Listed below are the sessions, times, and links:

Feb 14, 9:00 AM ET: 5G SBP: Birds of Feather: Is there value in adding Nephio? (Amar Kapadia)

Feb 15, 11:30 AM ET: Nephio: Infrastructure Automation (Sandeep Sharma)

Feb 15, 12:00 PM ET: Nephio: Configuration Management (Sandeep Sharma, Vivek Muthukrishnan)

Feb 15, 12:30 PM EST: Nephio: Birds of Feather Session: Leveraging EMCO Code to Accelerate Nephio (Amar Kapadia)

There is no cost to attend. We hope to see you there! Be sure to check back on the wiki where slides, notes, and videos will be added.

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The O-RAN Alliance has enabled an ecosystem of disaggregated, multi-vendor RAN solutions, creating new opportunities for the industry. But in order to function as an effective marketplace, interoperability among various stakeholders is required. This includes specification compliance, RAN component integration with backhaul 4G/5G Core networks, and the ability to deploy NFs across distributed networks using different models. As a result, an automated, ready-made test suite that can comprehensively validate and benchmark functional, conformance, and performance use cases is a "must have."

Rebaca Technologies ABot integrated with the Aarna.ml AMCOP SMO (Service Management and Orchestration) offers a comprehensive environment to emulate any O-RAN and 4G/5G network functions. The solution can trigger and verify different use cases. Each use case can be represented in a Domain Specific Language, which can describe the different scenarios. The representation of these use cases in a Domain Specific Language helps to generate the resultant test cases according to the 3GPP and O-RAN specifications. The solution also includes ABot Analytics which analyzes the test execution results to provide report generation, log/pcap analysis, KPI correlation, release maturity reports, and bug tracking. This represents a "zero touch" model for deployment and commissioning.

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Comprehensive O-RAN StackValidation allows users to customize a validation stack by mixing and matching components and quickly enables interoperability testing. Specifically, the solution comprises the following components:

1.      DU,CU, RIC simulators

2.     Open source O-RAN SMO

3.     RU simulator from O-RAN-SC

4.     Open source Kubernetes O-Cloud

5.     Comprehensive test suite for all the 3GPP and O-RAN interfaces

6.     Automated analysis of test execution data and report generation

This integration replicates a multi-vendor O-Cloud environment and executes test cases as specified in the O-RAN specifications.

Get the Solution Brief Here

Webinar

Learn more in this upcoming webinar: Streamline and Validate O-RAN Interoperability Testing on Tuesday, December 20th, at 8:00 AM Pacific Time. Aarna and Rebaca will present a comprehensive O-RAN stack validation solution for the industry – a cloud-based O-RAN validation solution using ABot & AMCOP. Attendees will learn how to overcome common O-RAN challenges, customize a validation stack by mixing and matching components, and begin interoperability testing today. Register Here.

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Linux Foundation Networking presented the One Summit 2022, in Seattle, WA, from November 15-16. The focus of the event was wireless networking and network automation advancements leveraging best-of-breed 5G network edge, and cloud native solutions. Aarna.ml leverages multiple open source projects from LF Networking (LFN) including ONAP, EMCO, and more. 

Program Highlights: The Slicing Must Go On: Leveraging Open Source to Securely Implement E2E Infrastructure, Slicing and Orchestration. Amar Kapadia of Aarna.ml and Hitendra Sonny Soni of Kaloom. In this presentation, they discussed the advantages of open source network slicing for helping deploy 5G connectivity and service tailoring without suffering the prohibitive financial strain of 5G integration and operation. Get the slides.

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Keynote Highlights: Aarna/LFN Case Studies with Capgemini Engineering (5G Networking Orchestration), Equinix (Infrastructure as code), and Tigo Guatemala (E2E Network Services Orchestration) were featured in the opening keynote. Get the case studies. Aarna’s participation and leadership around orchestration was highlighted in the keynote 5G Super Blueprint: E2E Architecture for the Future of Network Services. Get the presentation slides. Learn more in this Case Study with Capgemini Engineering: https://lnkd.in/dmrwNzwg.

Nephio Developer Summit: Amar and Brandon enjoyed spending an afternoon with this exciting and growing community. Learn more about the Summit. Get the Nephio Executive Brief. 

LFN Developer & Testing Summit: Amar gave two presentations in the ONAP track: ONAP in Production: Observability using EFK & Prometheus. Get the Slides and Video. ONAP In Production: Performance and HA considerations. Get the Slides and Video.

5G Open Operability Lab: A visit to the 5G Open Operability Lab in Bellevue was the perfect way to end the week. We look forward to future collaborations.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF’s) flagship event brings together adopters and technologists from both open source and cloud native communities to exchange insights around Kubernetes and other CNCF projects along with developer-centric methodologies like DevOps, CI/CD, and much more.

Aarna.ml, who joined the CNCF earlier this year, was well represented at the event, Oct 24-28 in Detroit, Michigan, with six speaking engagements. 

• Cloud Native Telco Day: Automated Policy-Based Service Assurance in Cloud-Native Environments. Speakers: Sandeep Sharma, Aarna.ml and Sundar Nadathur, Intel. Application orchestration across multiple Kubernetes clusters is becoming increasingly important, but policy-based service assurance and closed loop automation for applications continue to be gaps in the industry. The talk covered an open source solution to address the gap using OPA, the popular policy engine, with EMCO, the multi-cluster orchestrator from Linux Foundation. Get the slides. 

• Kubernetes on Edge Day: Nephio at the Edge. Speaker, Amar Kapadia, Aarna.ml. The talk covered how Nephio is fundamentally different from existing open source approaches, the possible integration points with other open source projects, how developers can think past the workloads to provisioning of underlying cloud infrastructure, and potential project impacts to the Kubernetes and edge ecosystems. Get the slides.

• Kubernetes on Edge Day: PCEI at the EDGE. Speaker: Amar Kapadia, Aarna.ml. Abstract: The Akraino Public Cloud Edge Interface (PCEI) Blueprint is advancing its maturity and is poised to become a key tool in the developer’s toolbox for deploying K8s in a diversity of environments, including bare metal. In fact, an integration based on PCEI was just named the winner of the ETSI and LF Edge Hackathon at Edge Computing World. Get the slides. 

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon: "Implementing Private 5G Networks for Enterprises with Kubernetes" Speakers: Amar Kapadia, Aarna .ml, and Christian Huebner, Mirantis. Large-scale telecommunication wireless networks built using big iron boxes are things of the past. Amar and Christian introduced a type of private network built using 5G technology that converges numerous benefits of existing wired and wireless networks commonly in enterprise environments and orchestrating Private 5G networks. Get the slides.

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon: "Edge-Native Application Principles - Taking Your App Beyond the Cloud " from 11:55am - 12:30pm. Speakers: Amar Kapadia, Aarna.ml, and Kate Goldenring, Fermyon Technologies. The CNCF IoT Edge working group has developed a white paper that aims to define these principles. In this session we will present our progress so far and give a call to action to join the effort. Review the draft paper. Get the Slides. Watch the video.

• Google Booth Lightning Talk: Project Nephio. Speakers: Amar Kapadia, Aarna.ml, and John Belarmic, Google. Amar and John teamed up to give a brief overview of Nephio. The Linux Foundation's Nephio Project represents an innovative and disruptive approach to open source networking and the cloud native ecosystem with Kubernetes-based cloud native intent automation. Nephio enables faster onboarding of network functions to production including provisioning of underlying cloud infrastructure with a true cloud native approach, and reduces costs of adoption of cloud and network infrastructure. 

The next event for Aarna will be the Open Networking and Edge Summit, Nephio Developer Summit, and LFN Developer & Testing Forum, Nov 15-18, Seattle, WA. Meet us there! 

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The inaugural Fyuz event in Madrid was a unique industry experience that comprised the Open RAN Summit, Telecom Infra Project Summit, Metaverse Connectivity Summit, and expo floor.

Aarna.ml announced a collaboration with Red Hat to demonstrate Multicloud O-RAN orchestration and management for CSPs and enterprise network operators to leverage the benefits of creating multicloud O-RAN implementations. The demo featured Aarna’s AMCOP 3.1 running on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) to orchestrate O-RAN cloud native network functions on-prem and provide a variety of managed cloud options. AMCOP 3.1 now includes an SMO Call Home feature for all NF alerts, a fully Secure HTTPS SMO UI, and full support for the ELK stack. Learn more about AMCOP.

During the Open RAN Summit, Pavan Samudrala, Senior Member Technical Staff, Aarna.ml, presented the breakout session: Accelerating O-RAN adoption through Open Source. The talk revolved around work towards containerization of the O-RAN SMO and the open source efforts to facilitate the testing and integration of network functions. An example is an interop test solution for private/public 5G networks wherein the gNodeB is a CNF and RU is a PNF and by enabling Non-RT RIC machine critical apps in private 5G networks. Learn more about O-RAN SMO.