The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced that its recently-launched Aether 5G connected edge cloud ecosystem is being used as the software platform for the USD 30 million Pronto project conducted by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The agency is funding ONF to build, deploy and operate the network to support research by Cornell, Princeton and Stanford universities in the areas of network verification and closed-loop control.
ONF said it intends to enhance and deploy its open source Aether software platform as the foundation for the Pronto research work, and to open source the research results back into Aether to help advance it as a platform for future secure 5G network infrastructure. Launched earlier this year, Aether is the first open source 5G platform for delivering enterprise mobile edge computing as a cloud service.,simultaneously supporting wireless connectivity over licensed, unlicensed and lightly-licensed (CBRS) spectrum.
Aether’s end-to-end programmable architecture coupled with its 5G and edge cloud capabilities make it well suited for supporting the Pronto research agenda, said ONF, which is also running a beta production deployment of the platform. The deployment is a single unified cloud managed network interconnecting the project’s commercial partners AT&T, Ciena, Intel, Google, NTT, ONF and Telefonica, which is cloud managed from a shared core running in the Google public cloud.
The university campuses are being added to the Aether deployment in support of Pronto, with campus sites serving as both a development platform and a testbed for use case experimentation.
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