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The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) said it will create an independent, venture-backed company around Aether, the group’s flagship project launched last year to create private 5G networks for enterprises. The new company – called Ananki – will be staffed by many of the ONF’s top management. For example, ONF’s executive director, Guru Parulkar, will be […]

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) today revealed Ananki, a new corporate entity to push its Aether project as a commercialized private 5G service. Aether, which late last year received $30 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), includes ONF’s SD-Core, SD-Fabric, and SD-RAN projects. The trio of Kubernetes-based, open source projects form the primary layers of ONF’s […]

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) today announced that it’s spinning out a new business, called Ananki, to commercialize ONF’s Aether platform for private 5G. It will be focused on the enterprise market, targeting the needs of Industry 4.0. “This is quite a big step and a big endeavor,” said Timon Sloane, vice president of marketing […]