The Brazilian Telecommunications Research and Development Center (CPQD in Portuguese) has joined the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit consortium that brings together operators and companies from various countries that operate in the telecommunications sector.
The consortium’s goal is the collaborative construction of the next generations of mobile and broadband networks, using network disaggregation capabilities, open-source software, cloud and virtualization technologies.
Membership in ONF is in line with CPQD’s strategy of investing in the development of open-source technologies and solutions, and also participating in open innovation projects conducted by international initiatives.
Gustavo Correa Lima, Wireless Solutions Manager, CPQD, said: “Global open innovation communities have the role of facilitating and stimulating the development of infrastructure for next generation networks.”
Along these lines, Lima highlights one of the projects currently developed at CPQD with a focus on 5G technology. Called the 5G BR Platform, the project has resources from the Fund for Technological Development of Telecommunications (FUNTTEL in Portuguese), from the Ministry of Communications, and aims to develop technologies that make up a 5G network, with an open, virtualized and disaggregated architecture – aligned, therefore, with the proposal of the ONF.
