WHAT IS OSM?

OSM is developing an open source Management and Orchestration (MANO) stack aligned with ETSI NFV Information Models. As a community-led project, OSM delivers a production-quality MANO stack that meets operators' requirements for commercial NFV deployments.

OSM Resources:

OSM White Papers

 

OSM Workshops

 

OSM Videos

 

OSM User Guide

ETSI NFV Alignment

OSM is closely aligned with the evolution of ETSI NFV and provides a regularly updated reference implementation of NFV MANO.

Open Source

ETSI OSM uses well-established tools and methods to develop code under the Apache Public License 2.0.

Open Community

Participation to OSM is open to members and non-members of ETSI, as well as individual developers and end users from all across the globe. Check how to join or learn more about OSM.

RECENT NEWS

Sophia Antipolis, 02 February 2026

ETSI Open Source MANO announces Release NINETEEN, extending it's capabilities for cloud-native native orchestration.

Sophia Antipolis, 09 September 2025

ETSI Open Source MANO announces Release SEVENTEEN, extending it's capabilities for cloud-native native orchestration.

Sophia Antipolis, 15 January 2025

ETSI Open Source MANO announces Release SEVENTEEN, extending it's capabilities for cloud-native native orchestration.

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

“Operational effectiveness at the edge is critical to a successful 5G strategy and emerging business models for edge-based compute. OSM Release SIX connects edge and core to provide repeatable and reusable services that span the full telco topology and enable both 5G infrastructure and third-party app ecosystems for the edge in VMs and containers.”

Mark Shuttleworth

CEO of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu

“Management and Orchestration (MANO) is, at the same time, one of the key components and most controversial concepts in network virtualization architecture. Telefónica has long been working from the point of view of innovation in its development. A first result and seed of OSM is OpenMANO, a highly functional framework pioneering the first open source NFV Orchestration and Management stack and, currently, a key component of Telefónica’s NFV Reference Lab. By joining this community, we aim to accelerate the development of MANO while recognizing the value of open-source implementations of NFV and a need to harmonize efforts there.”

Antonio Elizondo

Head of Network Virtualisation Strategy and Technology, Global CTO Unit, Telefónica

“OSM has evolved from an interesting PoC into the most promising architecture for orchestrating VNFs, under the multi-vendor, standardized approach that our Telco customers have been looking for. Increased robustness, as well as exciting features that pave the path towards 5G and the Edge, let us build with confidence the second release of our distribution, WhiteNFV Barcelona, in order to cover the increased demand for operator-led, automated NFV deployments.”

Joris Vleminckx

COO Whitestack

“The ETSI OSG Open Source MANO (OSM) initiative will facilitate the development of open source software for management and orchestration of future networks. Knowledge, capabilities and solutions within this area will be of critical importance to Telenor when virtualizing the network for increased flexibility, faster service delivery, rapid innovation and operational efficiency.”

Patrick Waldemar

Vice President, Telenor Research

“Proprietary management and automation approaches have impeded NFV deployments. Service providers recognize the need for a standardized MANO information model delivered in conjunction with an open source MANO platform to cultivate a robust commercial NFV supplier ecosystem. I’m thrilled with the progress OSM has made to meet these needs and its growing industry acceptance.”

Matt Harper

OSM Founding Member, CTO, RIFT.io

As a leading NFV customer experience and assurance vendor, RADCOM is engaged with the community to improve service assurance orchestration by embedding this functionality into OSM. This tight assimilation between MANO and service assurance opens a whole new level of automation and agility:  

  • On-demand probing so that a virtual probe will be automatically deployed and configured when a new service is launched or a new network element added 
  • Horizontal and vertical scaling so that when network traffic fluctuates, additional resources or virtual probes can be added or deducted as and when needed; all without human intervention. 

Tight integration of the service assurance stack under OSM, will also allow a Service Provider to monitor customer experience and service performance whatever the traffic load, while also maintaining efficient use of resources and delivering a more agile network.

RADCOM’s customer experience and assurance solution - MaveriQ - continuously monitors network performance and quality of services, to optimize user experience for CSPs’ subscribers. RADCOM specializes in solutions for next-generation mobile and fixed networks, including LTE, VoLTE, IMS, VoIP, WiFi, VoWiFi and mobile broadband while enabling CSPs to smoothly migrate their networks to NFV by assuring physical, NFV-based and hybrid networks. MaveriQ is a 100% software-based solution that can be deployed on COTS hardware or as a Virtual Network Function (VNF) in an NFV network.

RADCOM is excited to announce our first MaveriQ demo running on Open Source MANO. Join us at MWC 2017 where we will be showcasing our MaveriQ portfolio. During the demo, we will:

  • Create and instantiate a vProbe via OSM
  • Capture and monitor network traffic 
  • Verify vProbe’s packet reception

Come meet us at MWC 2017: Hall 2, Stand 2D60 from February 27 – March 2

To schedule a meeting please contact Dana Finkelstein at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

For more information about RADCOM, please visit www.radcom.com.