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March 12, 2025 in Press Release

Aether, Rakuten Mobile, and Rakuten Symphony Collaborate to Address Key Energy Savings and Traffic Steering Challenges for Heterogeneous Mobile Networks

Research and Development focused on rApps that optimize performance and lower energy costs in heterogeneous 4G/5G radio access networks (RAN) Palo Alto, California - March 12, 2025 – Aether, a Linux…
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March 11, 2025 in Press Release

Aether’s SD-RAN Open RAN RIC Delivers Superior Developer Experience in Third-Party Testing

Palo Alto, California - March 11, 2025 – Aether’s SD-RAN initiative announced it has emerged as a leading open source platform for implementing an O-RAN-compliant Near-Real-Time RAN Intelligent Controller (Near-RT RIC)…
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March 4, 2025 in Press Release

Monogoto Announces Adoption of Aether Open Source to Power Next-Generation Private 4G and 5G Networks at MWC Barcelona

Monogoto, a leading provider of cloud-based cellular connectivity, is excited to announce at MWC Barcelona (Booth 5I51) its adoption of the open-source Aether project, a leading-edge cloud platform for 4G and 5G…
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February 18, 2025 in Blog

Aether Releases SD-RAN v1.5 Adding Major Enhancements to the RIC and 5G RAN

The Aether SD-RAN v1.5 release is the sixth release of the Aether SD-RAN project and adds three major enhancements to the RIC and 5G RAN: xApps updates enabling O-RAN E2SM-RC …
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January 14, 2025 in Press Release

Aether SMaRT-5G and Rutgers WINLAB Join Forces with the EchoStar-led ORCID Lab on 5G Energy Efficiency Measurements, Modeling and Tests

PALO ALTO, California - January 14, 2025 -- Aether SMaRT-5G is pleased to announce that along with Rutgers University WINLAB, it is joining forces with the ORCID Lab to further…
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January 7, 2025 in Blog

2025 Aether TST Election Results

We are pleased to announce the results of the recent 2025 Aether Technical Steering Team (TST) elections. Each of these individuals has been elected by the community to a 2-year…
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December 9, 2024 in Blog

Open-Source for Open RAN: Fostering Collaboration and Innovation

Check out this article by Ajay Lotan Thakur, Aether TST Member and Software Director, Intel Canada published in The Fast Mode, as he discusses the role of open source-software in…
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December 4, 2024 in Blog

Impact of Open Source 5G Projects

Check out this article by Ajay Lotan Thakur, Aether TST Member and Software Director, Intel published in the Canadian IEEE Toronto Section. He discusses the benefits and community value of…
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November 12, 2024 in Blog

Bringing Automation to Open Source 5G Software at Ubuntu Summit 2024

Excerpts from Blog by Canonical End-to-end Private 5G demo at the Ubuntu Summit "At this year’s Ubuntu Summit at The Hague, Netherlands, Canonical gave a live demonstration of how open…
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November 6, 2024 in Blog

Initial observations on SMaRT-5G project energy efficiency measurements

In this article featured in RCR Wireless News by Sarat Puthenpura, Chief Architect, Aether SMaRT-5G, he shares some of the exciting research findings to date from the Aether SMaRT-5G project.…
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October 23, 2024 in Blog

Aether Nets Canonical Endorsement, Post ONF ‘graduation’

Excerpt Published Courtesy of ReTHINK Wireless Watch "Back in June, Canonical (the firm behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution), released Charmed Aether SD-Core, its implementation of Aether's SD-Core as a beta…
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October 8, 2024 in Blog

Build your private 5G network with Charmed Aether SD-Core

- Contributed by Canonical - You might recall that we recently announced the beta release of Charmed Aether SD-Core, bringing automation to the Linux Foundation’s open source 5G software-defined core (SD-Core) networking software.…
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September 19, 2024 in Blog

Rimedo Labs working with the Linux Foundation to help harmonize open source for Open RAN

- Contributed by Rimedo Labs - Rimedo Labs is working with The Linux Foundation (LF) to help harmonize open source for Open RAN. SMO, Non-RT RIC, and Near-RT RIC are…
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August 28, 2024 in Blog

5G Energy Efficiency Metrics, Models and System Tests

Check out this article published in RCR Wireless News to for an overview about the Aether SMaRT-5G initiative. This project has been building a series of PoCs that demonstrate progressively…
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June 12, 2024 in Blog

Canonical Announces Charmed Aether SD-Core: Automated Open Source 5G Mobile Core Network

Check out the new blog by Canonical announcing the beta release of Charmed Aether SD-Core, an automation solution for Aether. Charmed Aether SD-Core leverages Juju charms to run an open…
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May 14, 2024 in Blog

Aether v2.2.0 Released

Aether, which includes the latest version of SD-Core (v1.4), is now tested and deployed using OnRamp. Blueprints include support for multiple RAN options: emulated gNBs, physical eNB/gNB, SD-RAN. Aether OnRamp is…
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May 1, 2024 in Blog

Aether Presented at 2024 LF ONE Summit

Aether Governing Board member and Technical Steering Team (TST) Chair Larry Peterson recently spoke at the Linux Foundation's 2024 ONE Summit. Larry presented on Aether: Private 5G for Industry 4.0,…
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April 2, 2024 in Blog

SD-Core v1.4.0 Released Adding Integration Testing Using OnRamp

SD-Core supports 4G & 5G network functions and includes APIs for configuration, telemetry, policy management. Access networks can connect to Access & Mobility Management Function (AMF) or Mobility Management Entity…
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December 14, 2023 in Press Release

Aether Projects Move from ONF to LF

The move creates independent, community-led governance for Aether and sets the projects up for broader collaboration and adoption. The new Aether Directed Fund supports the portfolio of 5G mobile networking…
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