The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has been targeting the 5G/edge combination for enterprises with its Aether 5G Connected Edge Cloud platform for connectivity-as-a-service, which combines several of its open source projects. Aether is based on Kubernetes container management and combines edge cloud infrastructure, mobile edge computing, and the 4G or 5G RAN in a single platform. Timon Sloane, head of marketing at the ONF, says the goal is “to support the APIs so that applications that are written to run in those public clouds can also run natively at the edge cloud”. Aether supports licensed and unlicensed spectrum and all the main public clouds, and its foundations are the ONF’s CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter), ONOS (Open Network…