ADTRAN Expands Participation in prpl Foundation—Open-Source Consortium Enabling the Security & Interoperability of Devices ...
June 25 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
ADTRAN SS&E CTO La Cagnina to serve as
foundation board member
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of
next-generation open networking and subscriber experience
solutions, today announced it has joined the prpl Foundation—an
open-source, community-driven, collaborative non-profit foundation
that strives to enable the security and interoperability of
embedded devices.
ADTRAN Subscriber Solutions & Experience CTO, David La
Cagnina, will now serve on the prpl Foundation Board of Directors.
La Cagnina has been active in prpl through SmartRG, which ADTRAN
acquired late last year. ADTRAN increased support for the
foundation to further demonstrate commitment to driving the
industry toward open, programmable, software-defined access
infrastructures.
“We are thrilled to have David join us on the board of directors
to share his leadership and knowledge as a leading designer and
innovative technologist,” prpl Foundation President Art Swift said.
“ADTRAN’s support for the security and interoperability of embedded
devices through our standards-based approach will help us grow and
strengthen our community.”
Founded in 2015, the prpl Foundation’s work is a combination of
open-source projects and jointly-developed specifications. Whether
chipset integration or containerization, collaboration is at the
core of prpl’s mission. Internet service providers recognize prpl
as the place to enable the next wave of innovation around customer
premise equipment and value-added services. The foundation’s goal
is to enable multi-chip and multi-vendor sourcing strategies
throughout the industry.
Prior to ADTRAN’s acquisition, SmartRG had been working in this
space for years with the SmartOS platform. Based on the open-source
project OpenWrt™, SmartOS adds numerous carrier-grade improvements
and custom features and enables third-party applications. Several
of these features have already been contributed to the prpl
Foundation’s prplWRT project—an initiative to converge on an
open-source software framework and reference implementation for
carrier-grade Wi-Fi routers, extenders and home gateways. Through
close SmartRG participation at prpl, SmartOS is helping the
industry transition to open, programmable and scalable
networks.
“It’s an exciting time to be joining prpl’s board of directors
as more attention is being focused on the need for silicon-agnostic
solutions, broad interoperability and increased security standards
within the larger access ecosystem,” La Cagnina said. “SmartRG has
been a leader in driving the industry forward with this approach
and philosophy. We look forward to continued collaboration with our
peers and further advancing this important open-source mindset and
mission as a part of ADTRAN.”
About ADTRAN
At ADTRAN, Inc., we believe amazing things happen when people
connect. From the cloud edge to the subscriber edge, we help
communications service providers around the world manage and scale
services that connect people, places and things to advance human
progress. Whether rural or urban, domestic or international, telco
or cable, enterprise or residential—ADTRAN solutions optimize
existing technology infrastructures and create new, multi-gigabit
platforms that leverage cloud economics, data analytics, machine
learning and open ecosystems—the future of global networking. Find
more at ADTRAN, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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