In today’s massive private mobile network (PMN) market, one of the most common approaches to PMN software and infrastructure are proprietary private business solutions. However, as our recent demonstrations at the October 2024 Ubuntu Summit in the Hague showed, open source software with enterprise-grade support is a cost-effective alternative to these proprietary, closed-source business solutions. Today, open source PMN software is rapidly advancing to the quality and sophistication of private solutions, mostly thanks to the work of two prominent organizations that distribute open source software for 5G mobile networking, 5G radio access networks (RAN) and 5G mobile core networks: OpenAirInterface (OAI) Software Alliance and the Linux Foundation’s Aether SD-Core project.
End-to-end Private 5G demo at the Ubuntu Summit
At this year’s Ubuntu Summit at The Hague, Netherlands, Canonical gave a live demonstration of how open source with automation can help enterprises in…
