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ONF and Sprint Launch Open Evolved Mobile Core (OMEC) Open Source ProjectSANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- ONF, the recognized leader driving transformation of the networking industry through collaborative development of open source platforms, today announced the launch of Open Mobile Evolved Core (OMEC), an industry-first high performance scalable open source Mobile Core platform. ONF, in collaboration with Sprint, is launching OMEC under the CORD® project umbrella. The project is intended to become an open source production grade Evolved Packet Core (EPC). OMEC is built using an NFV (Network Function Virtualization) architecture that is optimized for Intel platforms and tested for scale. OMEC includes:
"Sprint is excited to be co-launching the OMEC project addressing the need for an open mobile core. Sprint's Clean CUPS Core for Packet Optimization (C3PO) project along with other elements are being contributed as seed code for the launch of OMEC. We plan to conduct field trials using OMEC for edge applications this year, and we're thrilled to be working with the ONF to build a broader community to leverage and build upon OMEC." OMEC, a robust mobile core implementation compliant with the 3GPP architecture, includes the following EPC and Charging components:
Relationship with COMAC OMEC is an 'upstream project' to the COMAC project. COMAC will be able to leverage and build upon the OMEC Mobile Core implementation in order to more rapidly achieve its goals of building a converged access and core for delivering unified services to fixed and mobile subscribers. MWC Demo Getting Involved A number of resources are available to help one get started navigating this new project: OMEC Project About the Open Networking Foundation:
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