Occasionally, it is both educational and rewarding to fall down a rabbit-hole of technology and TLAs. A recent announcement from the Aether Project shone a light on progress made in the open source private 5G realm, suggesting that momentum persists for the project, post-migration. The operator-driven Open Networking Foundation (ONF) ‘graduated’ Aether in February, launching the project as an independent directed fund and project inside the Linux Foundation. This move also saw the ONF’s Broadband and P4 programmable networks efforts move inside the open source organization. The ONF is still working on other projects. In mobile, these comprise the Sustainable Mobile and RAN Transformation 5G (SMaRT-5G) project (which is also listed inside the Aether portal, as a project), and the…