Samsung has joined the Linux Foundation Networking Fund (LFN) as a Platinum Member. What this means is that Samsung will now be contributing its resources toward the advancement of a new open source networking community. The LFN is an organization that proactively governs projects with hopes to enhance and accelerate the process of commercializing open source virtualized network platforms.
Samsung helps grow the open source community
As we've seen recently, Samsung possesses a key role in the advancement of communications technology and this latest move continues to display that effort. Woojune Kim, Samsung's Senior Vice President of North American Networks Business believes that this project will be crucial in taking the next step toward next-generation networks, including 5G. “As a member of the project, Samsung will work with the open source community to ensure that new carrier-grade solutions based on new technologies such as cloud data centers are available,” he said.
With 4G communications technology having been around for close to ten years, the next generation technology is under development. This is calling for a software-based network platform as opposed to hardware-based. Open source will allow for greater flexibility in terms of network management by optimized resource allocation and network slicing.
Samsung is no stranger to supporting open source advancement, as they have been active participants in a multitude of open source communities, including the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV), Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), Open Network Operating System (ONOS) and OpenStack.
