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Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Completes Metamorphosis to Focus on Open Source SolutionsSAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), an operator-led consortium with the mission of transforming networks into agile platforms for service delivery, today announced the culmination of its restructuring into an open source centric organization. ONF has completed the assumption of all ON.Lab operations, realigned all work as interrelated open source projects, and combined the communities of the organizations. This strategy is already yielding results, with new operators joining the ONF and with industry analysts predicting broad impact of the ONF's projects – particularly CORD™ (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter). "CORD, unlike many other projects that only address parts of the puzzle, offers a holistically-designed, fully-integrated, end-to-end solution ready for deployment," said Roz Roseboro, senior analyst of data center infrastructure and MANO for Heavy Reading. "It's a way for service providers to prove that this whole new architecture and process can work. Heavy Reading forecasts that the majority of communications service providers (CSPs) will use CORD by 2020 to at least some degree, and nearly 40% of all end-customers (residential, wireless and enterprise, collectively) will have service provided by COs or their equivalents using CORD by mid-2021. We expect CORD will enable service providers to more effectively compete with web-scale operators while speeding network automation and innovation." Today the ONF is announcing a number of recent milestones that now complete its recent transformation, including:
AT&T to Take Additional Leadership Role Turk Telekom joins ONF as a Partner Member New Projects Open Disaggregated Transport Network (ODTN) - Leveraging the economics of whitebox disaggregated optical networking components and SDN control to build open source solutions for carrier backbone networks. For more details, click here. Open Information Model and Tooling (OIM&T) - Building next generation standardized network control interfaces entirely as software defined standards. First defined in the UML modeling language, tools automatically generate Yang and Netconf code intended to update legacy SNMP management standards for the modern era. For more details, click here. Open Transport Configuration & Control (OTC&C) - Using the work of the OIM&T project to build common configuration and control interfaces for transport networks, defining these interfaces with open source software and software-defined standards. For more details, click here. Updated Membership Model to support a global and diverse member base "We are at the forefront of a massive transformation of the networking ecosystem," said Guru Parulkar, executive director of ONF. "Recognizing that open source is transforming our industry at an unprecedented pace, we set out to optimize the ONF to embrace and further drive this revolution. We're very pleased to have now completed our metamorphosis. We are also humbled by the success and impact our projects are having worldwide, and excited to embrace the work ahead." About ONF Media Contact:
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