Open network APIs are changing the way innovation happens — turning networks into programmable platforms that applications can build on. The fall 2025 meta-release of CAMARA APIs represents a major milestone in open-source network innovation, and CableLabs is proud to be a key contributor.

From Quality on Demand to Simple Edge Discovery to the upcoming Session Insights and Network Access Management APIs, CableLabs continues to shape the foundation for the next generation of programmable networks.

CAMARA APIs in the Fall '25 Meta-Release

The CAMARA Project — supported by GSMA’s Open Gateway initiative — issued its latest meta-release on Oct. 7, 2025, marking another step toward API standardization and global interoperability. Read the press release to learn more.

Highlights include:

• 60 total APIs, including:
  • 10 production-ready/stable APIs
  • 27 updated since the spring ’25 release
  • 23 brand-new initial APIs
• Expanded alignment with GSMA Open Gateway and TM Forum frameworks, helping developers “build once, deploy everywhere”
• New stable APIs such as Quality on Demand with Quality of Service (QoS) Profiles and Simple Edge Discovery

This CAMARA API release brings the network operator and developer communities closer to a world where network capabilities are as accessible as cloud services.

CableLabs’ Contributions to CAMARA APIs

Quality on Demand (QoD): Through our work on Quality on Demand, CableLabs helped further the efforts for application Quality of Experience for latency-sensitive use cases like AR/VR, gaming, telemedicine and industrial Internet of Things (IoT) — where predictable performance is essential.

Simple Edge Discovery: Route workloads to the nearest edge zone for improved response time and lower latency with Simple Edge Discovery.

Connectivity Insights: CableLabs contributed directly to Connectivity Insights, enabling application developers to get insights into the network connection quality.

Session Insights: While not part of the official meta-release, CableLabs’ Session Insights API has been published to CAMARA’s GitHub and will be available soon in an alpha release. It allows an application to provide real-time session-level analytics and telemetry to the network operator, giving applications real-time feedback on performance and network behavior — an important step toward data-driven service optimization.

Network Access Management: Similarly, Network Access Management is working to provide standardized methods to manage network access for both devices and users. It’s another foundational piece in making networks more programmable, secure and interoperable.

Why This Matters for CableLabs Members

Reducing Integration Complexity: By contributing to CAMARA’s open-source community, CableLabs helps member operators access solutions that scale across the broader connectivity ecosystem. This standardization of APIs reduces integration complexity and eliminates one-off builds, cutting both development time and cost.

Accelerating innovation: With open network APIs, members can prototype and deploy new services faster.

Ensuring global interoperability: CAMARA’s collaboration with GSMA Open Gateway ensures that implementations work across operators and borders.

Enhancing user experiences: Applications can now leverage network context to deliver smarter, more responsive and reliable services.

Differentiated Services: Members can leverage these APIs to create unique context-aware services through API-driven, interoperable architectures that enable seamless user experiences and introduce new revenue opportunities for operators.

Looking Ahead

CableLabs will continue advancing open API standards through our work in CAMARA and related initiatives. Upcoming milestones include:

• Preparing Session Insights and Network Access Management for alpha releases.
• Engaging with member operators and vendors to pilot CAMARA APIs in real-world environments.
• Contributing to future meta-releases that expand network capabilities for developers globally.

Join the Conversation

If you’re a CableLabs member or ecosystem partner, now is the time to explore these new APIs and their potential in your networks and services.

Read more about the CAMARA open-source project on its website and join the project on GitHub. If you are a CableLabs member or part of our vendor community, you can join the Network as a Service working group. Member operators can also learn more by visiting our Member Portal, which requires a CableLabs account to log in. Employees of member companies can register for an account here.

Together, we’re building the foundation for the next generation of programmable networks.

Last year, we shared how CableLabs is transforming networks through open-source API solutions as part of our work in the CAMARA project. Today, we’re excited to highlight the progress made in CAMARA’s newly published spring 2025 meta-release. The new release includes significant updates across CAMARA’s expanding suite of open network APIs — and spotlights CableLabs’ continued contributions to this global effort.

We actively contribute to the open-source project, which is hosted by Linux Foundation, to drive the development of new APIs and help advance industry alignment. These contributions are all part of CableLabs’ work on Network as a Service (NaaS), which allows network operators to expose previously unavailable features to application developers via open-source APIs. Other contributors to CAMARA include network operators — both wired and mobile — as well as application developers and hardware vendors.

Through this open-source approach, CAMARA aims to ultimately improve the performance of applications across all types of networks — a win for the entire industry.

What's New in CAMARA's Spring 2025 Meta-Release?

CAMARA’s spring 2025 meta-release marks a major milestone for the project, boasting 38 APIs — 9 stable APIs, plus 13 new and 16 updated APIs. The project continues to grow in momentum and industry adoption, bridging the gap between network operators and application developers through a common set of open APIs.

Here are some of the highlights from the Spring25 release that multiple service operators (MSOs) should have on their radar:

• Quality on Demand (QoD) with advanced quality of service (QoS) profile support, including Low Latency Low Loss Scalable Throughput (L4S)
• Continued enhancements to Edge Cloud, Connectivity Insights and Network Access Management APIs
• Creation of Session Insights sandbox API repository, which will enable real-time visibility into device behavior and network sessions from application to network operator. This was previously called Quality by Design and is now called Session Insights at CAMARA.

You can explore the full scope of the spring 2025 meta-release on the CAMARA wiki or read the Linux Foundation’s summary.

This spring release is the first of two planned for this year. After being released by CAMARA, APIs are available for anyone to download and use. The fall 2025 meta-release is currently in the planning phase.

Here’s a look at the timeline for the upcoming fall release:

• End of April: Scope finalized
• June: Code ready for testing
• July/August: Testing and defect fixing
• September: Official release targeted

Get Involved

Read more about the CAMARA open-source project on its website and join the project on GitHub. If you are a CableLabs member or part of our vendor community, you can join the Network as a Service working group. Member operators can also learn more by visiting our recently updated Member Portal, which requires a CableLabs account for log-in.

Let's help drive the industry forward together!

CableLabs is at the forefront of innovation for the broadband industry. One new area where this is especially true is in our work developing Network as a Service (NaaS) APIs. As part of this initiative, CableLabs actively contributes to CAMARA, an open source project hosted by Linux Foundation.

All of CableLabs’ contributions to CAMARA are part of our NaaS initiative. NaaS allows network operators to expose previously unavailable features to application developers via open source APIs. Alignment with the industry means CableLabs can not only utilize open source APIs, but we can help drive new APIs and adoption from multiple network operators.

The end goal is straightforward: Creating happier end users by making applications perform better across all types of networks.

What Is CAMARA, and Who Contributes to It?

CAMARA focuses on defining, developing and testing APIs that allow interaction with a service provider's network. The project is closely aligned with the GSMA Open Gateway Initiative for the development, publishing and testing of these open source APIs.

Contributors to the CAMARA community include network operators, mobile carriers and application developers. CAMARA aims to simplify APIs that interact with a service provider by abstracting the complexity of the network away. This allows developers to create applications that interact with a service provider's network without needing to understand which access network is being used or the inner workings and complexities of a mobile, PON or DOCSIS®️ networks.

Rather than develop solutions for our members in a silo, by contributing to CAMARA, CableLabs helps provide a path to adoption across a broader ecosystem. CAMARA’s open source approach enables rapid development of network-based APIs for companies within the industry.

CableLabs’ Contributions to CAMARA APIs

The CAMARA APIs align with the work that CableLabs is doing to help improve networks and make APIs more accessible to a broader range of developers, both within and outside a network operator. 

Quality on Demand APIs: CableLabs contributes to multiple CAMARA projects, starting with expanding the CAMARA Quality on Demand (QoD) APIs to include the QoS profile. This allows an application to set target minimum thresholds for network performance including throughput, latency, packet loss and jitter. You can read more about this in our QoD blog post.

Network Access Management APIs: The CAMARA Network Access Management APIs are also something that CableLabs contributes to. These APIs allow for an application to interact with network operator-provided equipment in the home. The initial scope of the Network Access Management APIs is to allow actions such as rebooting a device or managing a Wi-Fi network.

Edge Cloud: CableLabs also contributes to CAMARA’s Edge Cloud project. This project allows for customers to discover the closest edge cloud zone to a given device for improved application performance.

Quality by Design: Working closely with the Connectivity Insights group at CAMARA, CableLabs is developing a new API that takes Quality on Demand a step further. Quality by Design (QbD) defines network requirements and enables an application to communicate its network KPIs — throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss — to a network operator. The network operator can then determine the cause of the network performance issues and suggest corrective action.

How Do CAMARA APIs Become Available?

Twice a year, CAMARA rolls up all of these API projects into what it calls a meta-release. The fall 2024 meta-release — the first from CAMARA — is now available.

Although the next meta-release isn’t planned until spring 2025, contributions to CAMARA are ongoing. In fact, APIs are even released between meta-releases. CableLabs’ QbD API, which didn’t make the fall release, is expected in the coming months. At that point, it will be tagged at a certain version to also be included in the spring 2025 meta-release.

Once released, APIs are available for anyone to download and use immediately.

Engage With Us on CAMARA Projects

Read more about the CAMARA open source project on their website and join the project on GitHub. If you are a CableLabs member or vendor, you can also join the Network as a Service (NaaS) working group. The more who contribute, the better the industry gets as a whole.