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Ella Core
Ella Core is a 5G core designed for private networks. It consolidates the complexity of traditional 5G networks into a single application, offering simplicity, reliability, and security.
Typical mobile networks are expensive, complex, and inadequate for private deployments. They require a team of experts to deploy, maintain, and operate. Open source alternatives are often incomplete, difficult to use, and geared towards research and development. Ella Core is an open-source, production-geared solution that simplifies the deployment and operation of private mobile networks.
Use Ella Core where you need 5G connectivity: in a factory, a warehouse, a farm, a stadium, a ship, a military base, or a remote location.
Key features
- 5G Compliant: Ella Core implements 3GPP-standard interfaces and has been validated with multiple 5G radios, including integrated and software-defined RANs, commercial phones and devices. It is 5G RedCap compliant for IoT deployments.
- Performant Data Plane: Achieve high throughput and low latency with an eBPF-based data plane. Ella Core delivers over 10 Gbps of throughput and less than 1 ms of latency.
- Lightweight: Ella Core is a single binary with an embedded database, making it easy and quick to stand up. It requires as little as 1 CPU core, 1GB of RAM, and 10GB of disk space. Forget specialized hardware; all you need to operate your 5G core network is a Linux system with a network interface.
- Intuitive User Experience: Manage subscribers, radios, data networks, policies, and operator information through a user-friendly web interface. Automate network operations with a complete REST API.
- Real-Time Observability: Access logs, metrics, traces, profiles, and dashboards to monitor network health through the UI, the Prometheus-compliant API, or an OpenTelemetry collector.
- Backup and Restore: Backup and restore your data in 1 click.
- Audit Logs: At any moment, keep track of who did what and when on your network.
- Open Source: Ella Core is open source and available under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Tenets
Building Ella Core, we make engineering decisions based on the following tenets:
- Simplicity: We are committed to developing the simplest possible mobile core network user experience. We thrive on having a very short Getting Started tutorial, a simple configuration file, a single binary, an embedded database, and a simple UI.
- Reliability: We are commited to developing a reliable mobile network you can trust to work 24/7. We are committed to delivering high-quality code, tests, and documentation. We are committed to exposing dashboards, metrics, and logs to help users monitor their networks.
- Security: We are committed to minimizing the private network's attack surface, using secure encryption protocols to protect our users' data, to provide audit mechanisms, to identify and fix vulnerabilities, and to provide a secure-by-default configuration.
Acknowledgements
Ella Core could not have been built without the following open-source projects:
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db
Package db provides a simplistic ORM to communicate with an SQL database for storage
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Package db provides a simplistic ORM to communicate with an SQL database for storage |
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util/idgenerator
idgenerator is used for generating ID from minValue to maxValue.
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idgenerator is used for generating ID from minValue to maxValue. |
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nas
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ngap
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nrppa
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