Supporting Documents
Attendees
Brandon Wick Jill Lovato Heather Kirksey Ranny Haiby Bob Monkman Neal Hartsell Sandeep Panesar Lindsey Sech
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This was the initial kick off meeting for the LFN Strategy Working Group.
Brandon prepared and presented the a Strategy Overview Deck to set the context for the discussion.
The open discussion centered around the following points:
- Central Ideas
- How to make this exciting? Enterprise, etc.
- Enterprise Sizing (very large accounts vs. smaller ones)
- What are we actually trying to accomplish? (ties back to biz dev convos)
- “Enterprise” a vague term, need to specify focus.
- Determine the sandbox is we’re playing, what we’re going to do (and NOT do)
- Smaller orgs move faster, very innovative
- CNCF marketing example: Enterprise Vendors (target), enterprise end users. Ecosystem message vs technology message.
- Magma Core Example “Bringing connectivey to 3rd world”
- Alignment with the SPC (Both should align to board priorities) Synch with Jonne
- 5G SBP → Are we focusing on Telecom (ONAP/Magma/Anuket)?
- 5G SBP Targeting “Private 5G (LTE, eventually IoT)”
- Evolution to xSP: Traditional, Regional, Cloud Services
- Deployments: Enterprise: “Show how this works in my environment” Can we solicit members to build these PoCs? Version streaming
Group members are asked to add any additional comments, questions, and ideas to this wiki page.
The group agreed to meet bi-weekly for the near future (and can be updated to weekly when/if needed).
Additional MAC members are encouraged to join the group at anytime, please email bwick@linucfoundation.org.
1 Comment
Ranny Haiby
Continuing the dialog I started with Heather Kirksey during the meeting - What is the target market we are trying to address?
I agree with Heather Kirksey's observation that the LFN was more focused directly on end users, compared to the CNCF for example. Such Telco end users as AT&T, Vz, China Mobile, DT, and Vodafone are active members of our communities. But my question is whether we are not excluding other market players? Taking ONAP for example, AT&T and China Mobile are among the founding fathers of the project and continue to lead contribution and adoption. But what about T-Mobile? US-Cellular? They never warmed up to the idea of ONAP.
I believe that by addressing system integrators and re-sellers, we can cultivate an ecosystem that will eventually drive wider adoption of LFN projects, by Telco and Enterprise customers who lack the depth of R&D resource.