Project Sylva

Discover Sylva's innovative approach to Telco and Edge use cases at the Mini Summit during Open Source Summit Europe on September 19th. Learn about Sylva's roadmap, driven by European Telecom ecosystem needs, and how it fosters collaboration across the industry. Register today! https://hubs.la/Q02wYygZ0

Delve into the future of telecom technology with Sylva at the Mini Summit during Open Source Summit Europe on September 19th. Tailored for Telco professionals and developers, explore Sylva's cloud software framework and its integration with open source components. Secure your spot now! https://hubs.la/Q02wYQkR0

🚀 Excited to share insights from our recent #Suse webinar on the future of telco at the edge! Discover how #Orange is powering innovation with #Sylva, delivering Orange Telco Cloud services to 20 affiliates. Thanks to #Suse's collaboration on RKE2 and Metal3 integration into Cluster API, our strategy is primed for success. #Suse's ATIP License Model fits perfectly with our Telco Edge deployment, ensuring top-notch support and leveraging a wide range of open-source components. #TelcoInnovation #SuseWebinar #OrangeSylva 💼🌐🔶

🚀Crafted as a financially prudent solution, Sylva project boasts swift deployment capabilities and a vendor-agnostic approach, ensuring adaptability and seamless integration into diverse business environment.   Congratulations👏 to our colleagues from the Cloud Infrastructure Solutions and Services department for their tremendous work within the project : Mihai Tociu, Bogdan Adrian Burciu, Bogdan Stefan Antohe, Cristian Alexandru Manda, Bogdan Nicolae, Daniel Lupescu, Marius Durbaca, Radu Toma, Vasilica Dobre, Daniel Gavrila, Daniel Anton, Cristina Postole, Mihai Zaharia, Bogdan A., Gratiela Baciu.   👨💻What was their direct involvement in the project? Our cloud developer team was responsible for the deployment of Sylva, Version 1.1, a pivotal stage in the product’s evolution. Our colleagues have ensured code integrity and rigorously testing functionalities, identifying potential errors or deployment challenges early on, whilst meeting deadlines that resulted in a seamless implementation of the innovative project on the market.   Curious to find out more about the project? Continue reading 👇 💡What is the Sylva Project about: It’s all about revolutionizing Telco infrastructure to meet the demands of the future. With the advent of 5G technology and the increasing importance of Edge computing, traditional Telco systems are facing unprecedented challenges. Sylva aims to address these challenges head-on by providing a cloud-native Telco stack that can seamlessly adapt to the evolving needs of the industry.   📢Bold Mission: To redefine Telco infrastructure for the 5G OpenRAN and Edge era with a cloud-native Telco stack that's as agile as the industry itself.   ✅Innovative Technologies: Cloud-native architecture, automation, developer onboarding, monitoring and security are the cornerstones of this project. By harnessing the power of the cloud, Sylva aims to deliver scalability, flexibility, and efficiency that traditional Telco infrastructure simply cannot match. Automation ensures that operations are streamlined and optimized, while a robust security framework safeguards against emerging threats in the digital realm. #ProjectSylva #CloudInfrastructure #TelcoStack #OpenSource #innovation #TeamEffort #lifeatorange 

🎯 Relevant article from #Lightreading that explain the role of #Sylva to deliver a telco Cloud to host multi Network Functions. Having a community (#LFEU) solution is easier to onboard major NF Vendors on a trusted #TelcoCloud. Iain Morris interviewed Laurent Leboucher that also detail in the opening that to adress other use cases such as #API for Devs, Data Analytics or #AI the hyperscaler offer a very services catalog. https://lnkd.in/e3CdrNEE

#EUCS is a relevant tool to get an homegenous regulation on cloud across Europe for Important and Essential Entities. A dedicated Workgroup of #Sylva is translating the EUCS rules into technical requirements. I will not comment the sovereignty requirements importance in EUCS as it is the essence of this 2 pager.

It is super opportunity to engage in a dynamic panel discussion, delving into the critical challenges posed by cutting-edge topics such as #DistributedCloud, #TelcoEdge, Open-Source in industrial Deployment, #DeclarativeInfra, and #Sylva 🌲

🚀 OpenBao takes off ! 🚀 Secret management, often hidden within architectural foundations, is undoubtedly the cornerstone of a secure system. The OpenBao community, committed to open governance principles is fully aligned with #Sylva core values as mentioned in this Press Release. Let’s raise our virtual glasses of champagne to this exciting news! 🥂 Alain Nochimowski , Carlo Cavazzoni, Mihai Tociu, Julien Boudani, Gilles Viton, Stéphane Demartis, Nicolas Homo, Alain Thioliere, Pierrick Seite, François-Régis Menguy, Luis Velarde, Kai Steuernagel, Mathieu Rohon, Arpit Joshipura, Jill Lovato, Philippe Ensarguet https://lnkd.in/eqk3DCjr

Thank you Annie Turner for having me today for Mobile Europe #Telco to #Techco conference. In our fireside chat "Plotting the return to growth", we had the opportunity to explore lots of paths where #technology was clear enabler, and I meant Tech outside the telco world. If #3GPP spec will rule how a specific network service have to work, it's all the wrapping and the life cycle around that is going to change, based on #intent-based and #automated #infrastructures, #deployment strategies and #operation opening doors for new #innovations and more #optimized #operating model. An opportunity, to put the spot on NGMN Alliance #CloudNative #Manifesto (https://lnkd.in/e-_YVbEU) and the The Linux Foundation Networking CNTi requirements #whitepaper (https://lnkd.in/eAZAvS-r) written between peers. Other technologies are also big factors for opportunities for growth, and we dig into #API, #CloudNative and #GenerativeAI. On the API side, leveraging value from underlay and overlay networks is crucial for differentiating services, especially when #owning the #network. The industry has focused on the CAMARA Project, an #opensource project at the The Linux Foundation, to define new network APIs for #retrieving information from and #configuring the network. Initially focused on mobile connectivity, given initial focus given by CAMARA with the support of #OpenGateway GSMA, the approach is expected to evolve to support both #fixed and #mobile networks. Orange supports a coherent #standardization approach for end-to-end connectivity capabilities and believes that enterprise contributions to the open-source project will help #prioritize impactful APIs for #dev communities. At MWC 2024, use cases were showcased for #identity leveraging Number Verification and Sim swap, #location verification with device location, and #geofencing for device notifications. These APIs are expected to be used in both public and private networks. On Cloud Native, we mainly talked about the shift to more horizontal models and the potential for better automation, like with TM Forum's autonomous network transformation. I recall our #industrial strategy with our Telco Cloud Factory, which delivers the Orange Telco Cloud based on the Linux Foundation Europe Project Sylva, our Network Integration Factory for standardised deployment, and our unified #operations under the transformation of #NRE. Finally, regarding #GenAI, we only scratched the surface as time was running out, just the opportunity to focus our interest on #Ops (RCA, Ticket Management, Close-Loop Reconciliation) and talk to the network via #prompts. Kudos to the team in background, and in particular Tiffany Amorós Spooner, a real fairy who works miracles in preparation. Bruno Zerbib Laurent Leboucher Otilia Anton Nicolas Freville Emmanuel Chautard Bernard Despres Stéphane Demartis Elisabeth Py

Thanks for having me at FutureNet World on this panel "Accelerating the journey to Cloud Native and 5G monetisation" hosted by Caroline Chappell with Suzana Grujev Pål Grønsund and Ignacio Gonzalez. I really appreciated this panel as it was held in the #Business track and covered #CloudNative, which has been my main topic for a few years now. It was the opportunity to remind how much the Cloud Native journey is both #strategic and #critical for us at Orange. As a multi-country telecom operator, we are in the process of transforming to a #horizontal #model to leverage operational #efficiency, #skills mobility and raise the bar in #automation and delivery of our network services. For us, at #infrastructure level, the horizontal model is a cloud native one. To fuel our strategy, we are a founding member of the Linux Foundation Europe's Project Sylva, which is the cornerstone of our Orange Telco Cloud #OTC strategy, offering multiple deployment options from a single industrialised platform. But infrastructure is only one piece of the puzzle, we won't be cloud native without covering the #deployment strategy with our Network Integration Factory #NIF and the appropriate operational model. And above all, we need true cloud native network capabilities from our partners. To accelerate this journey, we also decided to strongly support the pivot of our industry by participating in ecosystems like NGMN Alliance or The Linux Foundation #Networking (Anita Döhler and Arpit Joshipura were in the audience). On the #5G monetisation part, during our discussion we talked about slicing, the potential of API, MPN and connecting edge to BtoB or even BtoBtoX, which we see all these more as an incremental roll over transformation. It was the opportunity to bring 3 thoughts: 1. I truly believe that the 5G #killerApp or service is not yet here nor invented to cover the level of investment of our industry, 2. The network #APIs are an opportunity to leverage our telco assets to address direct or indirect through aggregators, but the size of the cake is uncertain, just remember that the connectivity leader of the market, Twillio, is a $4+ B revenue company. 3. Most importantly, our main challenge is to make the #invisible, #Connectivity, #visible and valuable again (we have a problem with "underlay" naming, not visible is not "valuable"). In all this story, Cloud Native is the right technical bearer, bringing 4 super powers (resilience, self-healing, closed loop reconciliation and drift management) if it's used in conjunction with the right operating model, #GitOps. I'm more concerned about how our industry will transform to have new business value pockets than our ability to go Cloud Native, even if we need to unite as telco peers to support the move of the whole ecosystem...and personally, it is what makes me wake up every morning 🚀 Bruno Zerbib Laurent Leboucher Stéphane Demartis Houmed IBRAHIM Bernard Despres Otilia Anton Gilles Bourdon Nicolas Freville Nicole Clarke