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From AI-RAN to Military Hardware: Hands-On Demos at the OCUDU Developer Summit

On October 20, the inaugural OCUDU Ecosystem Developer Summit lands at Virginia Tech in Alexandria, bringing together open source pioneers, wireless communications leaders, and researchers to shape the future of 5G and 6G. Beyond network building, attendees will dive into hands-on code contributions and real-world deployments of this field-proven, carrier-grade stack. Below, we preview the…

Inside the first OCUDU Developer Summit 2026: What to Expect

Open RAN just keeps moving faster - and nowhere is that more obvious than in the agenda for the first OCUDU Ecosystem Developer Summit. Over three days at the Boeing Auditorium, developers, operators, defense integrators, and academic researchers from around the world will gather to share how they're pushing OCUDU - the carrier-grade, open source…

What we’ve learned from the first three OCUDU Developer webinars

If you've been meaning to catch up on the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation's webinar series but haven't found the time, this post is for you. Over three sessions, some of OCUDU’s echnical architects walked through an overview of the project, how to contribute to it, and how the codebase is structured. Here's the recap. First, what…

Blog: Introducing the Initial OCUDU Technical Project Release, 26.04

The OCUDU technical project community, now part of the new OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, is proud to announce "OCUDU 26.04," the initial OCUDU technical project release. This is an important milestone that brings together a strong foundation for open, cloud-native CU/DU innovation and continued progress toward production-ready Open source RAN deployments. This release builds on a…

Blog: OCUDU on Telco Clouds – #2 Sylva Workload Cluster

This post was initially published here by Nils Fuerste and is reposted here with permission. In this post, I focus on setting up the Sylva workload cluster on the bare-metal node as the next step in the lab setup. My goal is to understand how the management cluster provisions and operates a downstream cluster in a Sylva setup. In…

OCUDU on Telco Clouds – #1 Sylva Management Cluster

This post was initially published here by Nils Fuerste and is reposted here with permission. In this post, I focus on setting up the Sylva management cluster as the foundation for the rest of the series. The goal is not just to deploy the cluster, but to understand how the bootstrap process works and how the different components come…

Blog: OCUDU On Telco Clouds – #0 Introduction to Sylva

This post was initially published here by Nils Fuerste and is reposted here with permission. This post starts a series on deploying and operating a RAN on top of a telco cloud. The focus is on a practical setup using Sylva and OCUDU, following the process from initial deployment to running a complete network. Why…