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Next-gen Ethernet standards set to move forward in 2025

Network World

2024 was a banner year for Ethernet , which has been a foundational element of networking for more than 50 years and is poised for more advancements as 2025 kicks off. Much of that work occurred under the direction of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium , which is an open-source effort under the governance of the Linux Foundation.

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5 reasons why 2025 will be the year of OpenTelemetry

Network World

Some open-source projects are spectacularly successful and become standard components of the IT infrastructure. OpenTelemetry, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is building momentum and is on track to become another open-source success story. Take Linux or Kubernetes, for example.

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Linux Foundation Networking shares new AI projects, milestone releases

Network World

The Linux Foundations networking division (LF Networking) is continuing to grow both its mandate and project roster in 2025. As part of the roadmap, a pair of open-source networking projects were announced that will bring new AI capabilities. AI in networking : 74% see open source as foundational to AI success in networks.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Weve also seen the emergence of agentic AI, multi-modal AI, reasoning AI, and open-source AI projects that rival those of the biggest commercial vendors. Im not suggesting that all of this will happen in 2025, but its the long-term direction. There are also regulations about the use of deep fakes, facial recognition, and more.

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WordPress.org statement threatens possible shutdown for all of 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on Friday announced a shutdown of almost all services on WordPress.org, the open source project site thats the home of the software, plugins, and the WordPress community, but was unclear on when the shutdown would end.

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Astera Labs debuts Scorpio fabric switch to accelerate PCIe for AI, cloud

Network World

Astera Labs is already shipping pre-production quantities of Scorpio chips to customers, with full production slated for 2025. Tb/s of switching capacity with support for open-source network operating systems including SONiC. Read more from this author Ciena and Arelion achieve 1.6 Wireshark 4.4 Wireshark 4.4

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At long last, OpenStack (now known as OpenInfra Foundation) joins Linux Foundation

Network World

After more than a decade as an independent open-source foundation, the OpenStack project is joining theLinux Foundation in a move aimed at accelerating collaboration across the open infrastructure ecosystem. Fifteen years ago, Rackspace got together with NASA and created the open-source OpenStack project.

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