Comcast Open Source

Comcast is committed to open source software. We use it to build products, attract talent, and evolve the technology we use to improve the customer experience.

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The Comcast Innovation Fund provides grants for both open source and educational research. The Open Source Development Grants fund development of open source software in areas benefiting cable, internet and broadband industries.

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Comcast is committed to open source software. We use it to build products, attract talent, and evolve the technology we use to improve the customer experience.

Beyond using open-source technologies to build our products, we contribute actively to a wide range of open-source and open-standards groups including the Linux Foundation, OpenStack Foundation, Apache Foundation, Cloud Foundry Foundation and Internet Engineering Task Force, to name just a few. We also encourage and support our software engineers in open-sourcing the projects they develop at Comcast. We know the collective development ethos behind robust open source projects makes our products better and more powerful and we’re committed to being part of the global open source community now and into the future.

Comcast Open Source Site Details

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Featured Projects

Infrastructure

Traffic Control

Traffic Control

Traffic Control is an Open Source implementation of a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Originally developed by Comcast, it was released as a Comcast Open Source software in April 2015. In late 2016, Comcast was honored to have Traffic Control accepted by the Apache Software Foundation and renamed to Apache Traffic Control. It is now a Top-Level Project with the Apache Software Foundation.

Find out more at the Traffic Control code repository

Infrastructure

Bynar

Bynar

Bynar is an open source system for automating server maintenance across the datacenter. Bynar builds upon many years of experience automating the drudgery of server repair. The goal is to have the datacenter maintain itself.

Find out more at the Bynar code repository

Back-end

Capsule

Capsule

Capsule is a framework for network function development. Written in Rust, inspired by NetBricks and built on Intel's Data Plane Development Kit.

Find out more at the Capsule code repository

Front-end

SpeedtestJS

SpeedtestJS

SpeedtestJS is a JavaScript based speed test providing users with an enriched view of their Internet speed. We developed and open sourced SpeedTestJS to create a benchmark solution that would be transparent, independent and used and contributed by many.

Find out more at the SpeedtestJS code repository

Infrastructure

Trickster

Trickster

A dashboard accelerator for Prometheus. Trickster is a reverse proxy cache for the Prometheus HTTP APIv1 that dramatically accelerates dashboard rendering times for any series queried from Prometheus.

Find out more at the Trickster code repository

Testing

Kuberhealthy

Kuberhealthy

Easy synthetic testing for Kubernetes clusters. Supplements other solutions like Prometheus nicely. Kuberhealthy performs synthetic tests from within Kubernetes clusters in order to catch issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Find out more at the Kuberhealthy code repository

Infrastructure

Vinyl DNS

Vinyl DNS

Making DNS self-service safe, secure, and convenient. VinylDNS is a vendor-agnostic frontend for enabling self-service and enhancing administration across all of your DNS servers.

Find out more at the Vinyl DNS code repository

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Our people who speak on the subject of Open Source and Open Source technologies. Experts, mentors, and community leaders. Come see their latest talks in our quarterly virtual conference digest.

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Catch up with us — at events, online, and on social media — to ask us about what we’re doing to support the Open Source community. Or, get involved on one of our Open Source projects.

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Comcast is proud to support a variety of organizations in the Open Source community.

Upcoming Events

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