FOSS in building Telecom Networks
summary
Built a set of Rust tools for telecom infrastructure: humpy ASN.1 compiler that emits Rust structs and codecs and measures 15–20% faster than C and about an order of magnitude faster than Go, an ergonomic wrapper over the Linux SCTP stack (Allora) to avoid unsafe kernel fiddling, and an Exa Rust SDK for ORAN rRTI used in ORAN software community. Argues Rust gives memory safety and no GC tail latencies but faces bootstrapping, ASN.1 quirks and sparse Rust OpenAPI tooling.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00FOSS in telecom networks
- 1:105G network architecture evolution
- 5:23Open source in RAN and core
- 9:18Building telecom in Rust
- 13:56Author's Rust projects
- 14:19Q&A
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