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Magma’s New Technical Steering Committee for 2023
We are pleased to announce the formation of a new Technical Steering Committee (TSC) team, with Jordan Vrtanoski from Connect 5G taking the role of TSC chair and Lucas Gonze…
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Magma: Taking a Systems Approach to Mobile Networking
By Bruce Davie My day job for the last couple of years has been to write, edit, update and publish a series of books that take a “Systems Approach”…
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Key Use Cases For Magma
By Bruce Davie As discussed in a previous post, Magma differs from other implementations of a mobile packet core (both proprietary and open source) in some significant aspects. Notably,…
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Magma v1.8 (Newberry) Release
Magma v1.8 (Newberry) has shipped! Magma v1.8 has arrived! This is a significant release that centers on the enablement of multi-architecture containerized AGW to the market. The addition of new…
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Sharing: the MOCN way
By: Alexander zur Bonsen, TNG Technology Consulting GmbH The community is interested in expansion-friendly devices. That is why we invest in MOCN. - Amar Padmanabhan, Magma Project Technical Lead Since…
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Implications of the Magma Architecture: Interoperability, Scale and Resilience
By Bruce Davie Introduction There are numerous open source implementations of mobile packet cores, e.g. Open5GS Free5GC and OMEC, and Magma is yet another such implementation. However, Magma differs…
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Decentralizing Cellular Networks
By Bruce Davie and Amar Padmanabhan Decentralization is unquestionably a hot topic in networking, with the much-hyped development of “Web3” promising a return to the internet’s decentralized roots. This…
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Magma Release 1.7
Magma v1.7 (Mayon) has shipped! We are excited to announce the release of Magma v1.7! This release was the first release with major contributions from multiple organizations within the community.…
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Magma Installation on Ubuntu 20.04
Follow along this post to see how to install Magma in a virtual environment on Ubuntu 20.04 and set up a basic LTE connection. Note 1: The Magma gateway cannot be…
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Applying Cloud Native Principles to Wireless Networks
By Bruce Davie and Amar Padmanabhan There’s been a lot of discussion lately about adopting a “cloud native” approach to mobile and wireless networking, especially with the transition to 5G. The…
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Control Planes Are More Than Signaling
By Bruce Davie and Amar Padmanabhan From the beginning of the Magma project, it was clear to those of us on the Technical Advisory Committee that to easily and efficiently connect new user…
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Magma Release 1.6
Magma v1.6 (Glacier Peak) has shipped! It's with great pleasure that we announce the latest version of Magma, Glacier Peak, has shipped. It has been a great team effort and…
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The Future of the Network Edge
By Bruce Davie and Amar Padmanabhan As the internet continues to scale and evolve to connect billions of people and tens of billions of devices, it’s impressive to recall that…
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Magma Release 1.5.1
We are pleased to announce the v1.5.1 release for Magma. This release contains fixes for some known issues reported for the v1.5 release. See the release page for more information.
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Software is Eating the Edge
By Bruce Davie and Amar Padmanabhan It is hard to believe that Marc Andreessen’s famous “Software is eating the world” essay is not yet ten years old. (It’s also hard to imagine someone…
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Magma v1.6 Release Outlook
Following a successful v1.5 release, the stage has been set for further work to continue to grow the platform, add to the feature set and expand support to new use-cases.…
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Magma Release 1.5
We are pleased to announce the v1.5 release for Magma. This release contains support for new features and fixes for several known issues. See the release page for more information.
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Establishment of Magma Core Foundation and New Members Under Open Governance
Project embraces open governance model, creates new neutral, cross-community Technical Steering Committee open for collaboration Community welcomes 11 new member organizations fostering innovation for 5G mobile packet core Magma Core…
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MagmaML: Towards Automated Management for Low-resource 5G Cellular Network Deployments
Troubleshooting of cellular networks is contributing billions of dollars to the operational expenditure (OPEX) of mobile network operators (MNOs) every year. This process involves monitoring KPIs throughout the network and…
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