LF Networking, a one of the Linux Foundation’s umbrella groups of projects, is claiming the first open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for 5G virtual network functions (VNFs). However, it will not go down well with advocates for excluding Chinese companies from the emerging cloud-based 5G ecosystem – the seed code for XGVela was donated by China Mobile, and of the other seven founding supporters, three are also Chinese (the other two operators, China Telecom and Unicom, plus ZTE). The project has also gained public interest from two stalwarts of the cloud-based networks migration, Intel and IBM’s Red Hat, as well as Ericsson and Nokia, which are less often associated with open source initiatives when they touch on 5G. The aim of…