LF Broadband

LF Broadband is a Linux Foundation Directed Fund established in late 2023 that supports open source broadband networking projects, including reference designs and virtualization tools for broadband access networks. Its flagship projects, SEBA and VOLTHA, virtualize multi-vendor Passive Optical Network (PON) systems and are deployed by major operators such as Deutsche Telekom and Turk Telekom.

LF Broadband publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Broadband, Linux Foundation, Networking, Telecom, and PON.

LF Broadband’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, and 4 more developer resources.

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19.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemium

2 APIs

BroadbandLinux FoundationNetworkingTelecomPONOpen SourceSDN

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Composite quality — 19.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Lf Broadband Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lf-broadband
name: LF Broadband
description: LF Broadband is a Linux Foundation Directed Fund established in late 2023 that supports open source broadband
  networking projects, including reference designs and virtualization tools for broadband access networks. Its flagship projects,
  SEBA and VOLTHA, virtualize multi-vendor Passive Optical Network (PON) systems and are deployed by major operators such
  as Deutsche Telekom and Turk Telekom.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lf-broadband.png
tags:
- Broadband
- Linux Foundation
- Networking
- Telecom
- PON
- Open Source
- SDN
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-04-28'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lf-broadband/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: lf-broadband:voltha
  name: VOLTHA
  description: VOLTHA (Virtual Optical Line Termination Hardware Abstraction) is an open source platform that virtualizes
    multi-vendor Passive Optical Network (PON) hardware, exposing a vendor-agnostic gRPC API for network operators to manage
    PON access networks programmatically.
  humanURL: https://docs.voltha.org/
  tags:
  - PON
  - Network Virtualization
  - Access Networks
  - gRPC
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.voltha.org/
  - type: GitHubRepo
    url: https://github.com/opencord/voltha
- aid: lf-broadband:seba
  name: SEBA
  description: SEBA (SDN-Enabled Broadband Access) is a reference design for constructing open broadband networks, providing
    a thin platform for access-network workloads and integrating VOLTHA, ONOS, and other open source components.
  humanURL: https://opennetworking.org/seba/
  tags:
  - SDN
  - Broadband Access
  - Reference Design
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.opennetworking.org/seba/
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/opencord
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lf-broadband-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lf-broadband
- type: Documentation
  name: LF Broadband Documentation
  description: Official documentation for LF Broadband.
  url: https://lfbroadband.org/
- type: GitHubOrg
  name: LF Broadband GitHub
  description: Source code and repositories for LF Broadband (OpenCORD).
  url: https://github.com/opencord
- type: Website
  name: LF Broadband Website
  description: Official LF Broadband website.
  url: https://lfbroadband.org/
- type: Support
  name: LF Broadband Support
  description: LF Broadband support contact.
  url: mailto:support@lfbroadband.org
- type: Blog
  url: https://lfbroadband.org/feed/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com

LF Broadband

Kin Score

APIs 2

VOLTHA

SEBA

Pricing Plans 1

Lf Broadband Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Lf Broadband Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Lf Broadband Finops

Security Posture 1

Lf Broadband Domain Security

Resources