Self-hosted / open sourceNetwork & Firewall ManagementHeadquarters: FR

Atoll (Forsk): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Forsk's Atoll is software for designing and optimising wireless networks, aimed at mobile operators, equipment vendors, regulators and organisations with private networks. It supports radio access networks from 2G to 5G, including massive MIMO and mmWave, predictions refined with measurements and network data, automatic frequency and cell planning, indoor and outdoor modelling, and microwave and backhaul planning. Atoll is installed on your own systems, from a single workstation to a server-based set-up across the organisation. Forsk also offers training and the cloud-native Naos platform.

Forsk describes itself as an independent software company with offices and support centres in France, the United States and China. In July 2025 the French investment company IDI took a majority stake alongside the founders, so there is no foreign parent company. The software is not open source. Because Atoll is installed on your own systems, you keep planning and network data under your own control. For European operators this is relevant, since such data reveals the structure of their network.

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Sovereignty score

80 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-680
Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked September 21, 2026

Headquarters	FR (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	OVH - OVH SAS, FR (FR)Technically measured
Category	Network & Firewall Management
Type	Product
Website	forsk.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Atoll (Forsk)

The European alternatives to Atoll (Forsk) come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Atoll (Forsk)

Atoll (Forsk) is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Atoll (Forsk) runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Atoll (Forsk) is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Atoll (Forsk) together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Atoll (Forsk)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Atoll (Forsk) include Accelleran, ADTRAN Networks (ADVA) and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Atoll (Forsk)?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Atoll (Forsk) include BIRD Internet Routing Daemon. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Atoll (Forsk) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Atoll (Forsk) is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Atoll (Forsk) an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

Report a vulnerability: forsk.com/vulnerability-disclosure-policy

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 9, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

Digital sovereignty in Network & Firewall Management

Network & Firewall Management: Central management of firewalls, switches and Wi-Fi, network access control (NAC), load balancing and DNS/DHCP/IPAM. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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