
ONF Announces Aether™ 5G Connected Edge Cloud Platform Used as Foundation for Pronto Project
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- Pronto funded by $30M DARPA grant
- Pursuing secure 5G infrastructure
- Leading universities researching network verification & closed-loop control
- Beta production Aether network now live
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ONF Open Source Platforms and Solutions Adopted by Leading Tier 1 Operators
ONF Curated Open Source Model
Operator
Partnership
Partnership
Operator Prioritized
Use Cases
Use Cases
- Operators agree on common use cases to jointly pursue
- Operators commit to deployment
- Reference designs lead to RFPs and procurement
ONF Lab and
Engineering Staff
Engineering Staff
- ONF is the only open source organization with a dedicated team of engineers
- ONF engineers create first implementations, enabling pursuit of disruptive agenda
- ONF then leads community efforts, forming virtual teams that can scale under ONF leadership to build deployable solutions
Ecosystem
Develops
Develops
- Curated supply chain engages to embrace opportunity
- Well aligned vendors contribute value to overall solution
- Operator commitment to deployment ensures ROI for supply chain
ONF Is Led by the Most Advanced Operators from across the Globe in Collaboration with a Set of Aligned Supply Chain Partners
OPERATOR PARTNERS






SUPPLY CHAIN PARTNERS






Over 200 Collaborating Organizations Work Together under the ONF Umbrella
Benefits for ONF Ecosystem

Operators
- Accelerate innovation
- Reduce CAPEX/OPEX
- Lead industry in creation of next-generation open source solutions
Supply Chain
- Gain early visibility into operator requirements
- Create products in partnership with operators
- Capture a share of the $490B market transformation resulting from ONF-based open source
System Integrators
- Help operators plan, build and operate their networks
- New business opportunity helping operators as they transform their networks
Forecasted Market Share Impact of ONF’s
Open Source Platforms$490 billion dollars of market share are being directly impacted by ONF’s projects.

$73B in revenue expected to shift to vendors delivering ONF-based solutions to operators

Operators Cite Compelling Rationale for ONF Platforms
40%CAPEX savings
25%OPEX savings
11%top line revenue growth

In Parallel with Mobile and Broadband Platform Development, ONF Is Reinventing the SDN Layer to Deliver on the Full Promise of “Software-Defined”

NG-SDN Delivers
Leap forward in capabilities
- Top-Down Programmability
- Hardware Independence
- Cloud-like Development Lifecycle
- Verifiability
Enabling
- Top-Down Control for Operators and Application Developers
- Rapid Network Innovation
- Zero Touch Operation
- Robust Hardware Ecosystem
