Google Cloud Joins Linux Foundation Networking at Platinum Level

• Demonstrates collaborative commitment to open source networking across telecom, 5G, cloud native, network automation - enabled by critical projects like ONAP, Anthos, Kubernetes

• Move signals growing importance of open networking community in Cloud, Telecom and Enterprise markets

• Amol Phadke joins the LFN Governing Board that comprises global executives operators, vendors, system integrators across ecosystem

LF Networking (LFN), which facilitates collaboration and operational excellence across open source networking projects, announces Google Cloud has joined as a Platinum member. Since its beginnings, Google's mission has been to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, and Google Cloud's vision is to be the most trusted, simple, innovative cloud for customers around the world. Through its membership, Google will further the acceleration of open source technologies across cloud native networking, telecoms, network automation, 5G, and more.

"We look forward to working with all members and the larger community to continue to find ways to bring further value to consumers and communications services providers alike, demonstrating how public cloud can help fundamentally transform networking in new and exciting ways," said Amol Phadke, Managing Director: Global Telecom Industry Solutions, Google Cloud. "Google's excellence in creating and sponsoring components like Kuberntes, Istio and Knative—and successfully integrating them into products like Anthos—will be a key pillar within the Linux Foundation Networking."

"We look forward to Google's collaboration in powering the future of open networking," said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge and IOT, the Linux Foundation. "As technology evolves, cross-vertical integration is increasingly important. Google's expertise and leadership is a welcome addition to the LFN community."

Google's Amol Phadke, managing director, Global Telecom Industry Solutions, joins the LFN Board of Directors.

Google Cloud joins additional LFN Platinum members: Amdocs, AT&T, Bell, China Mobile, China Telecom, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Juniper Networks, Nokia, Orange, RedHat, Samsung, Tech Mahindra, Turk Telekom, Verizon, VMWare, Vodafone, and ZTE. To learn more about LFN, its projects, and the global community it represents, visit here.

This week, LFN co-hosts the Open Networking & Edge Summit (ONES), the industry's premier open networking event now expanded to comprehensively cover Edge Computing, Edge Cloud & IoT. ONES enables collaborative development and innovation across enterprises, service providers/telcos and cloud providers to shape the future of networking and edge computing.

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The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company.

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SOURCE: LF Networking