LF Broadband is delighted to announce the results of the recent 2024 VOLTHA Technical Steering Team (TST) Elections. Mahir Gunyel (Netsia) and Praneeth Nalmas (Radisys) have been elected to 2-year terms on the VOLTHA TST.
Additionally, Mahir and Abhilash Satish Laxmeshwar (Radisys) have been appointed by the LF Broadband Governing Board to serve as co-chairs of the TST for a 1-year term.
We also would like to extend a warm thank you to outgoing TST member Amit Ghosh (Radisys). Your hard work and dedication is greatly appreciated!
VOLTHA is an open source project for PON broadband access equipment, supporting the principle of multi-vendor, disaggregated, “any broadband access as a service” for the Central Office. VOLTHA is deployed in production networks at Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Türk Telekom (TT) and several other operators. Deployment, trial and test feedback, strong collaboration and ongoing development with operators and ecosystem members provides a strong feedback loop that ensures ongoing software quality and feature richness. VOLTHA is part of the LF Broadband Directed Fund, an initiative formed in early 2024 to support a collection of projects that transformed broadband networks and the PON industry. Learn more about LF Broadband.
The VOLTHA TST meets weekly on Tuesdays at 8am PT – the meetings are public and open for anyone to attend and participate.
About Our New VOLTHA TST Members + Co-Chairs
Abhilash Satish Laxmeshwar – Technical Specialist, Radisys
With 20+ years of industry experience, Abhilash has been working on the VOLTHA project for more than 6 years. He has contributed to developing openolt-adapter, rw-core, and openonu-adapter. Abhilash was nominated by the VOLTHA community to serve on the TST in 2023, and is currently working on new features and stability for VOLTHA. He has been appointed by the LF Broadband Governing Board to serve as Co-Chair of the TST for 2024-2025.
Mahir Gunyel – Senior Technology Architect, Netsia
Mahir has been working in the telecommunications software business for over 20 years, holding positions in software engineering, software architecting, and management. He has worked with software development, testing, and deployment teams to deploy large-scale, distributed, high capacity telco products, especially in mobile operator networks. He also has significant experience in mobile network protocols and procedures. He has been working on the VOLTHA project since 2018. Mahir has been re-elected by the VOLTHA community in 2024 to serve on the TST for another term, and been appointed by the LF Broadband Governing Board to serve as Co-Chair of the TST for 2024-2025.
Praneeth Nalmas – Technical Specialist, Radisys
With nearly 14 years of experience in the IT and Telecom industry, Praneeth has worked extensively on networking products, including TDM switches, enterprise-grade WiFi access points, service aggregation routers, and ONTs.
In the past two years, Praneeth has focused on VOLTHA, contributing to the stabilization and reliability of key components like the openonu adapter, rwcore, and openolt adapter.
Interested in getting involved in VOLTHA? Below are a few resources to check out:
