Linux Foundation to oversee DoW & FutureG Open Sourcing 6G radio next month on GitHub

The office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, in conjunction with the National Spectrum Consortium announced that the first version of the Open Centralized Unit Distributed Unit (OCUDU) radio access network project will be published to GitHub next month, welcoming the participation and contribution of talent from the general public, academia, and industry.

Chief program officer at the National Spectrum Consortium, Mari Silbey, stated that this will provide, "a software stack so that developers don’t have to start from scratch, but they can instead focus on building new things on top of those basic radio functions,” and further, creating an environment where developers can deploy novel wireless technology of their own envisioning.

#FutureG director Tom Rondeau states that what they're hoping to foster, "is a marketplace of competitive ideas,” in an environment where individuals can, "really break that open to this friendly, open development ecosystem".

The Linux Foundation, working closely with the Pentagon, will provide oversight and control of the software repo on GitHub, and as of the beginning of this month announced that 47 organizations have come together as founders of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, including SoftBank, AMD, UC San Diego, AT&T, Ericsson, Redhat, Verizon, Cisco, Nokia, and Nvidia.

Those interested in getting involved now can join or visit the project HERE

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