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Open-Source 101: Starting off Right – how to RFP an Open Source Project?
Last week we highlighted some lessons learned on starting open source projects in your organization. In support of providing a springboard for your dive into open source, we need to address another area where the industry often stumbles – the RFP process. Yes, you’re...
Open-Source 101: Where Should You Start?
So, you’ve decided to embrace open-source in your organization. You’re sold on the big-picture benefits of open software: Eliminating vendor lock-in. Tapping the innovation and problem-solving capacity of a broader community. Giving yourself the flexibility to adapt...
GSMA Taps Lumina as “GSMA 100” Global Innovator
Here at Lumina, we’ve been preaching the gospel of open-source, end-to-end network control for years. We believed that, as more service providers geared up for their 5G rollouts, they’d eventually reach the same conclusion: that 5G makes it essential to embrace a more...
Open Source 101: Tapping into the Value of Open Source?
In last week’s blog, we highlighted why the service provider community is looking to open source to solve some of their network challenges. This week, we’ll continue that conversation by addressing the value open source brings and how to approach open source projects....
Open Source 101: Why bother?
Not long ago, if you walked into a service provider organization and asked what people thought about open-source, you’d get a lot of blank stares. You might run across engineers playing around with open-source software in their spare time. But on the list of strategic...
Mastering Agile Development: Debunking the Field of Dreams
Over my decades of a career as developer and software architect, I have seen many projects, products, and companies come and go. I have always been struck by a repeated mistake that seems to be both widespread and pernicious. Not only have I suffered this in the past,...
Mastering Agile Development: Hercules in the Age of Agility
I have been in the software development business for well over twenty-five years and have seen many successful and unsuccessful projects. The past ten years have been on teams following Agile principles to varying degrees. The teams have always been composed of...
Investing in Open Source Business Models
Interest in evaluating and investing in open source startups is on the rise again after a dip in the past couple of years. There is a huge shift toward using open source platforms, particularly in the networking space. New open source initiatives such as ONAP (Open...
Neglected Factors in 5G: SDN-R & Wireless Transport SDN
Software Defined Networking (SDN) concepts are alive and well in the indomitable march to 5G. Control plane to data plane separation, network programmability and closed-loop automation techniques are being defined, developed and tested in numerous PoCs and early...
Neglected Factors in 5G: Network Slicing
It may seem odd to long-time networkers that “slicing” is discussed extensively in relation to 5G deployment. After all haven’t we been using VLAN, VPNs, VRFs and a whole host of ways to slice and dice networks for many years? Keep in mind that for established 4G...
