HPE, Intel and Linux Foundation Team Up For Open Source Software for 5G Core

HPE announced on Tuesday it's working with Intel and the Linux Foundation on a new open source software project to help automate the roll out of 5G across multiple sites. From a report: The new partnership, which will be under the Linux Foundation umbrella, is called the Open Distributed Infrastructure Management Framework. The partnership represents HPE's move into the 5G core network space as it branches out from its enterprise roots. Other partners for the open source project include AMI, Apstra, IBM's Red Hat, Tech Mahindra and World Wide Technology. HPE will also introduce an enterprise offering, the HPE Open Distributed Infrastructure Management Resource Aggregator.

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[Kitkoan]

I've already heard of Covid-19 in concepts of marriage as causing either a baby boomer or a marriage doomer....

Not 5G platform

[rodentman]

I hate that vendors use the 5G buzzword when they can to get market. This is not a 5G product, that is open source. It's a deployment tool for closed crap that is open (the deployment tool) Projects such as Fraunhofer FOKUS' open5gcore and nextepc (https://github.com/nextepc/nextepc) actually provides OpenSource LTE cores that can be containerized and deployed using regular technologies, whilst actually supplying an open 4G/5G stack. This is pure PR hogwash.

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[Kitkoan]

Its not the benefit for you (in the concepts of 5G for home internet). It's the fact that it's cheaper to install towers instead of wire lines (maintenance on lines already laid down as well as setting up), and wireless means more easily enforced data caps (with a public that is more sympathetic towards those caps). In short, it could be great for huge companies, but not for you and they are just hyping it to better sell it towards you accepting it

No branching out, HPE has always been in this area

[williamyf]

TFS says: " represents HPE's move into the 5G core network space as it branches out from its enterprise roots". but that is false.

This system is a management framework, and HPE (and before it, HP's proper) has always played in this space.

Who among us working at telecom can forget the HP Openview suite of programs? Or the Intelligent Network Servers? Or the SS7/CS7 connectors? Or the OSI software Stack (damned you CMISE and ROSE)? All of them assembled, configured and tested in Grenoble, France?

And then with

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[williamyf]

One thing I'd like to see on servers is an end to proprietary nonsense. Why should there be a mysterious management port on them that has super powers and ultimate access? The things should basically be COTS computers, from an architecture viewpoint. If you want a port to manage the system, add another ethernet port. Xen/ESXI/etc can do the rest. I just don't trust these proprietary blobs of hardware, and I wouldn't trust HPs efforts to open source anything.

Let's start from the begining, that "misterious management port" is a well documented standard called IPMI. The different names that the different server manufacturers give it are just marketing.

Try to install ESXi or XEN on bare metal from a PCI-x card... very hard.
Try to do a firmware update on the server over a PCI-x card... not gonna happen.

Those iLO/IPMI/BMC/DRAC/RSA/MegaRAC ports are there for a reason, and used very much in large server deployments, in particular in telco (my area of expertise).

If yo

Re: OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IS EVIL!!!

[aRTeeNLCH]

Dude, shouldn't you be out there, mingling with your own kind...? We don't like such nonsense anti FLOSS talk here on Slashdot.