Ella Core is a mobile core designed for private networks. It consolidates the complexity of traditional mobile 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 a production-geared solution that simplifies the deployment and operation of private mobile networks.
Use Ella Core where you need mobile connectivity: in a factory, a warehouse, a farm, a stadium, a ship, a military base, or a remote location.
- 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 mobile core network is a Linux system with a network interface.
- Highly Available: Deploy Ella Core as a high-availability cluster to ensure continuous operation with failover capabilities.
- Subscriber Traffic Control: Define permitted network flows per subscriber, enforce them in the user plane. Track subscriber traffic and usage in real time.
- AI-Native API: Complete RESTful API and Go client for automation and integration. Manage every aspect of your network programmatically — or let AI agents do it securely using the OpenAPI specification and ready-to-use AI agent skill.
- BGP Support: Advertise subscriber routes to your enterprise network and receive routes from BGP peers.
- Intuitive User Experience: Manage subscribers, radios, data networks, policies, and operator information through a user-friendly embedded web interface.
- 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.
- 4G and 5G Compliant: Ella Core implements 3GPP-standard interfaces and has been validated with multiple 4G and 5G radios, including integrated and software-defined RANs, commercial phones and devices. It is 5G RedCap compliant for IoT deployments.
- Audit Logs: At any moment, keep track of who did what and when on your network.
- Source Available: Ella Core is available under the Business Source License 1.1 (BUSL-1.1); each release converts to the Apache 2.0 license four years after publication.
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.
Ella Core is licensed under Business Source (BUSL-1.1).
You need a Production License to run Ella Core in production. For more information, view our License FAQ.
Ella Core could not have been built without the following open-source projects: