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The OpenLAN Project Group is developing an open-source, converged connectivity solution that integrates Wi-Fi, Small Cells, and PoE switching. The effort spans definition, design, development, and testing of a comprehensive system, including white-box hardware, embedded software with enterprise and carrier-grade features, and a cloud-native controller.
Defining and contributing requirements, design artifacts, architectures, APIs, data models, and workflows
Source code to support the design, development and testing
Reusing of existing industry standards and available components as appropriate to support the requirements
Developing, prototyping, building, and testing software and hardware systems
Validating systems through direct engagement, lab and field trials hosted in TIP Community Labs and TIP approved labs (Service Provider, OEMs, ODMs, etc.)
Supporting a TIP developed software / hardware platform ecosystem
Project Group Activities
Collaboration
The OpenLAN Project Group engages and collaborates with any other TIP Project Group as appropriate. A key driver of this collaboration will be the public availability of the software, test automation and system validation code, and documentation artifacts contributed to OpenLAN.
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The software and test automation development is performed on deployable hardware, managed and delivered in accordance with industry standard, open source practices including defined roadmap, feature backlog, and defined delivery sprints. The project is fully tooled up for productive collaboration and code quality using industry leading tools and applications: a GitHub repository, Atlassian Jira, WiKi, Build automation, Slack communication and other tools.
Members of the group gain access to a suite of community collaboration tools, providing complete visibility and opportunity to engage early with the community as the system evolves (product development, roadmap backlog, sprint planning, chat, CI/CD pipeline artifacts & automated E2E nightly test reports).
The group hosts weekly development standup meetings, bi-weekly program status meetings and work on a monthly sprint release cycle.
Project Group Leadership Team
Howard Buzick
AmeriBand
Mohsin Maqsood
WorldVue
Steve Martin
Shasta Cloud
Sachin Mehra
Inventum
Gidi Navon
Marvell
OpenLAN's Project Steering Committee
The OpenLAN Project Steering Committee (PSC) is an elected committee of industry leaders that provides strategic direction to ensure the project’s open-source networking solutions remain collaborative, high-quality, and aligned with a unified technical roadmap.
Howard Buzick
AmeriBand
Marcel Chenier
NetExperience, a Pavlov Media company
Andy Davidson
ASK4
Rishi Ghare
Indio Networks
Mohsin Maqsood
WorldVue
Steve Martin
Shasta Cloud
Karl May
Join Digital
Sachin Mehra
Inventum
Gidi Navon
Marvell
Blaz Vavpetic
OPTiFi Technologies
OpenLAN Subgroups
TIP OpenWiFi is the first project developed and contributed by the OpenLAN community. OpenWiFi is a community-developed, disaggregated Wi-Fi software system, offered as free open-source software, that includes both a cloud controller SDK and an Enterprise-grade Access Point (AP) firmware, designed and validated to work seamlessly together.
Subgroup Leadership
Jaspreet Sachdev (Kinara Systems)
Marcel Chenier (NetExperience,
a Pavlov Media company)
Sachin Mehra
(Inventum)
OpenLAN Switching (OLS)
OpenLAN Switching is building on the foundation of OpenWiFi, to expand the project to provide a unified solution for LAN switches that has all the same attributes as OpenWiFi (open-source, multi-vendor, interoperable whitebox, hardened and validated E2E systems).
Subgroup Leadership
Binny Jeshan
(Truminds Software Systems)
Teng Tai Hsu
(Edgecore)
OpenLAN Gateway (OLG)
OpenLAN Gateway (OLG) completes the OpenLAN mission of building a unified solution for in-building networks (WLAN, LAN, WAN), OLG focuses on the on-prem routing, security & compute capabilities. This is an open-source project, supporting multi-vendor (SoC/ODM), with an interoperable Cloud Management protocol and validated E2E systems.
Subgroup Leadership
Doron Givoni
(Shasta Cloud)
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