{"id":218627,"date":"2026-03-01T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/linux-foundation-announces-ocudu-ecosystem-foundation-to-accelerate-open-source-ai-ran-innovation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T04:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:25:08","slug":"linux-foundation-announces-ocudu-ecosystem-foundation-to-accelerate-open-source-ai-ran-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/linux-foundation-announces-ocudu-ecosystem-foundation-to-accelerate-open-source-ai-ran-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Foundation Announces OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation to Accelerate Open Source AI-RAN Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/linux-foundation-announces-ocudu-ecosystem-foundation-to-accelerate-open-source-ai-ran-innovation-302700303.html\">Linux Foundation Announces OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation to Accelerate Open Source AI-RAN Innovation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/linux-foundation-announces-ocudu-ecosystem-foundation-to-accelerate-open-source-ai-ran-innovation-302700303.html\">https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/linux-foundation-announces-ocudu-ecosystem-foundation-to-accelerate-open-source-ai-ran-innovation-302700303.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-01 02:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.prnewswire.com\">www.prnewswire.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>The OCUDU Project is the home to CU and DU open source RAN software; the Ecosystem Foundation and associated assets for CI\/CD\/CT to establish foundational code base for 5G and early 6G <\/li>\n<li>Global industry leaders AMD, AT&#038;T, DeepSig, Ericsson, Nokia, NVIDIA, Softbank Corp., SRS and Verizon along with 21 general members and 17 research institutions join as founding members to spearhead this private-public partnership enabling direct access to the AI Native OCUDU software-defined RAN solution upon which to build and innovate 5G and early 6G networks solutions and applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">BARCELONA, Spain<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">March 1, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Mobile World Congress 2026 &#8212;\u00a0The Linux Foundation (LF), the world&#8217;s leading home for open collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data, today announced the formation of the Open Centralized Unit Distributed Unit (OCUDU) Ecosystem Foundation, an open collaboration hub dedicated to building, scaling, and sustaining the OCUDU technical project assets and leveraging them to establish a foundational reference platform for RAN including AI based algorithms and solutions. The OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation provides a critical mechanism for industry vendors to optimally guide OCUDU development to support 5G and early AI Native 6G services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OCUDU started with an investment from the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC) and the FutureG Office, which awarded funds to AI Native wireless company DeepSig and Software Radio Systems (SRS) to build the initial software for OCUDU.<\/p>\n<p>The OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation brings together an ecosystem across enterprise, telecom operators, cloud providers, equipment vendors, and research institutions to co-develop and integrate critical components required for 5G and early 6G deployments. This community-driven model complements global standards from 3GPP and O-RAN alliance and industry alliances like AI-RAN alliance. 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