The ETSI Software Development Group for OpenSlice (SDG OSL) is developing an open source service based Operations Support System (OSS) to deliver Network Slice as a Service (NSaaS).
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OpenSlice source code is developed under Apache License 2.0. Check it out!
OpenSlice allows for rapid prototyping and experimentation in research and standardization activities.
Participation is open to ETSI members and non members as well as invidual developers and users. Join us!
OSL will present its work in a Special Session at the 2024 EuCNC & 6G Summit, 3 – 6 June, Antwerp, Belgium, where you will learn about the OSL project scope and how OSL leverages research and collaborates with standardisation.
The Release 0 Demonstration is now available on the OpenSlice YouTube channel
Interested to learn more about the OpenSlice Release 0?
Participation to OpenSlice is open to ETSI members and non members.
See current list of OSL Members and Participants
ETSI Members and non-member organizations join ETSI OpenSlice by signing the
OSL Member & Participant Agreement.
Participation is free for ETSI members, SMEs, Universities, Public Research and User and Trade Associations.
Individual Contributors and Users can create their own individual account. Individual Contributors shall accept the ICLA. Participation is free for individual contributors and users.
The launch of SDG OpenSlice marks a significant milestone for ETSI and the wider telecommunications industry. Collaboration among software development and standardization groups will foster the early validation of latest technologies and accelerate the time to market of next-generation networks.
In a world where 5G is maturing and industries crave innovative solutions, network slicing emerges as a key mechanism, enabling flexible and cost-efficient services for diverse verticals. Openslice, an open-source OSS, delivers Network Slice as a Service (NSaaS), empowering customers to shape and offer slices as desired. Together with ETSI initiatives like OSM and TeraFlowSDN, Openslice paves the way for modern telco-cloud requirements, seamless integration, reference implementations for 6G, fruitful collaboration, and invaluable feedback to standardization groups.
OpenSlice is key to deliver Network Slice as a Service in testbeds such as GAIA, in order to facilitate the provisioning of slices for experimentation to third parties and allow testing of different use cases.
SDG OSL strengthens the Management and Orchestration software components portfolio at ETSI. The OpenSlice community will be joining forces with TeraFlowSDN and Open Source MANO to deliver open source for smart networks and services.
With OpenSlice we take another step in the Network Transformation journey we started some time ago, complementing our open-source toolset with powerful, cloud-native service orchestration capabilities, and allowing us to bridge gaps in the application of standards to network automation.
OpenSlice fills an important gap as a standards aligned open Source Operation Support System (OSS). With OpenSlice you are able to experiment with slicing today, through an intuitive web based interface, that can orchestrate complex slicing use-cases.
