ETSI Releases Open Source Operator Platform

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has announced the ETSI Software Development Group OpenOP (OpenOP) – an open source operator platform for the telco cloud.

According to ETSI, OpenOP provides “a collaborative platform for network service providers and application developers to experiment with 5G-Advanced and future 6G technologies.”

Major features of OpenOP include:

• Open Exposure Gateway to expose telecom network capabilities through CAMARA APIs
• Service Resource Manager for deployment orchestration
• Federation Manager to enable industry standards-based federation and resource discovery
• Transformation Functions Software Development Kit to provide tools and runtime framework
• OpenOP Portal for managing applications
• AI Integration exposing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and AI agent

OpenOP is available now; however, ETSI notes that this first release is an early iteration “primarily intended for experimentation, integration testing, and community feedback.”

Learn more at ETSI.