LFN 5G Demo Designed To Excite Kubernetes Community

The Linux Foundation’s LF Networking group conducted a live demo of a Kubernetes-powered end-to-end 5G cloud native network at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America event that showed significant progress toward what future open source telecom deployments could look like. And it also showed that progress is going to need a lot of cooperation.The complex demo included a trio of locations, racks of hardware, numerous open source software platforms, and a Faraday cage. Heather Kirksey, VP of community and ecosystem development at the Linux Foundation, was tasked with corralling the demo that did indeed show – if just briefly – a successful video call placed from the event stage in San Diego. For the demo, LF Networking set up a prototype network to connect a live video call between points-of-presence (PoP) at the KubeCon event in San Diego, a Kaloom lab in Montreal, and at Eurecom in Sophia Antipolis, France. The call itself used a 5G network on stage that tapped into public and private clouds to connect a packet core network in Montreal, an IP-multimedia subsystem (IMS) core in the public cloud, and a 4G LTE lab in France.