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ONOS Delivers Astounding Adoption and Momentum among its Community of Service Providers and InnovatorsMENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- ONOS' community is pleased to announce its one-year anniversary and remarkable growth and momentum among its community of service providers, vendors and innovators; all have delivered significant contributions to the open source SDN Network Operating System (ONOS). The growth and success of ONOS is a testament to the ONOS project's virtuous-cycle framework to deliver platforms that enable solutions and use cases, enriching the platform through feedback from the community. In one year, ONOS added five partners that are funding and contributing to the project bringing the total to 13 including three new service providers with China Unicom, SK Telecom and Verizon and two new vendors with Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco joining. The ONOS project partners now include: AT&T, China Unicom, NTT Communications, SK Telecom, Verizon, Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, Fujitsu, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, and NEC. ONOS continues to see significant contributions from its members including Emu contributions from Huawei, Fujitsu and SK Telecom. ONOS has welcomed 20+ new collaborating organizations outside the ONOS and ON.Lab communities that actively contribute to ONOS' mission - many of them research and education network (REN) operators who are deploying ONOS in their production networks - and has another 10+ collaborators in the pipeline. In addition, the software registered 12,000 downloads, with more than 100 organizations using ONOS globally. ONOS' growing list of collaborators that joined and contributed in the Emu release alone include ECI, ClearPath Networks and FNLab from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT FNL) and the community's contributions and expected contributions continue to increase. ONOS rapidly evolved from a skeleton platform with a solid architectural foundation to a platform with a rich set of features and functions that is ready for commercial production deployment. Examples of ONOS rapid evolution and adoption during 2015 include Ciena's plan to support ONOS commercially in the first calendar quarter of 2016; Huawei is building POCs, products and solutions using ONOS and doing trials; and NEC has been working together with a telecom carrier on a Transport SDN proof of concept (POC) using ONOS as an SDN controller that was recently demonstrated successfully with future plans for trials. Other vendors also have ONOS-related plans that will become public in 2016. "The ONOS project continues to bring value to its community of service providers, vendors and innovator partners," said ONOS' Executive Director and Board Member Guru Parulkar. "We made excellent progress in 2015 and look forward to a 2016 where we continue to add features and functions to ONOS to deliver real production use cases. With these strong partnerships and a thriving innovative collaborative community, ONOS is in a strong position to realize its vision and achieve its mission of making carrier-grade SDN and NFV deployments a reality." Use Cases ONOS' enabled several new service provider solutions and they are gaining traction across various service provider markets including access, metro and core networks for wired, wireless, and mobile customers. Initial use cases for ONOS focused on new, innovative services and applications for service provider and WAN networks. These include examples such as: the Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD), Packet-Optical Convergence, SDN-IP Peering, and IP Multicast content distribution. Additionally, many other use cases are being pursued by ONOS partners and collaborators. This uptake drives the virtuous cycle whereby ONOS enables service provider solutions and these solutions help ONOS become a better platform using feedback from the community. CORD has emerged as a significant use case as it is specifically designed for service providers to reinvent the CO to bring data center economies of scale and cloud-style agility to their networks. As such, almost all service providers find CORD to be an extremely compelling solution. Initially created as a residential subscriber POC (R-CORD) that was demonstrated on a live network at 2015's Open Networking Summit (ONS2015), CORD will be in field trials with AT&T in the first half of 2016 and production deployments this year. CORD continues to evolve with new potential uses including a mobile use case (M-CORD) that is currently driven by SK Telecom and an enterprise use case (E-CORD) in development with new POC's planned for ONS2016 in March. Similarly, to support multicast use cases and applications the project created the ONOS Multicast Forwarding Application (MFWD) and DirecTV continues to contribute to the project's IP multicast infrastructure. SDN-IP is both an ONOS application and use case that allows Software-Defined Networks to connect to external networks, legacy or software-defined, using the standard Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). As such it marks a significant accomplishment and has been among the first ONOS apps deployed, including several deployments connecting RENs around the world. In 2015, ONOS announced several REN deployments for its SDN-IP app connecting North American institutions with the rest of the world including Internet2 in North America, CSIRO/AARNet to Australia, FIU/AmLight to South America and GEANT/GARR to Europe and there will be more to come including the following updates. FIU/AmLight is now the first to deploy ONOS live in a production network creating a virtual slice of its production network where it is moving real traffic prior to implementation on the legacy network as it connects various RENs from South America to the United States. Europe's GEANT has committed to building a production-ready ONOS-based SDX system by the first quarter of 2016. AARNET in Australia extended its previous SDN-IP deployment to connect three more facilities and that grew to 10 by the end of the 2015. Rapid ONOS Platform Evolution The anniversary of ONOS has also brought significant momentum in platform features. The community produced five iterations - Avocet, Blackbird, Cardinal, Drake and Emu - of open source SDN software releases at quarterly intervals, which included new applications, use cases, global deployments in Research and Education Networks (RENs), and POCs with live demonstrations that have led to lab and field trials and successes integrating with other open source distributions and standards. Northbound From beginning to end 2015, ONOS delivered several improvements on the northbound that enabled expanded capabilities and interactions to simplify service creation, especially with other open source projects and protocols, as well as delivering measurably improved performance. Individual platform highlights, to include:
During the year, ONOS built on its solid core architecture to support new applications, solutions, POCs and use cases desired by service providers, to include:
Southbound Southbound momentum included command and protocol interface capabilities supporting other open source distributions, protocols, standards and applications including security, OPNFV, OpenStack and the ability to model external traffic and new services, to include:
GUI Momentum ONOS' Web UI is designed to provide a visualization of network and device state as well as traffic flows and other useful information. Momentum through the year included:
Looking to the Future In 2016, the ONOS project expects to accelerate momentum and with growth in the community as well as the functionality and capabilities of the platform, leading ONOS to become the SDN OS of choice for service provider solutions and deployments. The community anticipates other ONOS-based solutions such as CORD to become their own platforms, enabling many new services with large and startup companies alike inventing new business models around ONOS and its solutions for service providers. The project expects ONOS-based solutions to quickly move from lab trial to field trial to production deployments especially R-CORD, E-CORD and SDN-IP peering with M-CORD particularly generating interest among mobile providers. Additionally, the ONOS and CORD communities expect to be completely functioning and self-sustaining open source communities. Partnering with Linux ONOS joined the Linux Foundation in 2016 as a Collaborative Project. ONOS anticipates an extended reach to the community and accelerated innovation and growth on an even larger scale by joining the Linux project. The Linux Foundation provides the global reach, experience and infrastructure for open source community development to enhance and further grow ONOS' thriving community. The Collaborative Project will advance and bring together the community for ONOS to build open source platforms, solutions and ecosystem for service providers to monetize SDN/NFV, while helping vendors and service providers invent new business models. To find out more about ONOS use cases, partners or how to contribute as a collaborator please visit, www.onosproject.org. For further information on ON.Lab or to learn more about becoming a partner, collaborator or member of the open source community visit http://onlab.us/ or email us at [email protected]. About the ONOS project ONOS is the open source SDN networking operating system for Service Provider networks architected for high performance, scale and availability. ONOS' ecosystem comprises ON.Lab and organizations that are funding and contributing to the ONOS initiative. These include AT&T, NTT Communications, SK Telecom, China Unicom, Verizon, Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel and NEC; members who are collaborating and contributing to ONOS include ONF, Infoblox, SRI, Internet2, Happiest Minds, KISTI, KAIST, KREONET, NAIM, CNIT, Black Duck, Create-Net, Criterion Networks, ETRI, ClearPath Networks, ECI, BUPT FNL and the broader ONOS community. Learn how you can get involved with ONOS at onosproject.org. ONOS is a Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems. www.linuxfoundation.org Press Contact ON.Lab & ONOS Contact Bill Snow, Vice President of Engineering at ON.Lab, [email protected] Partner Quotes "In its first year, ONOS has gone from an interesting concept to a critical tool in developing applications like Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter, or CORD," said Senior Vice President of Domain 2.0 architecture and design at AT&T Andre Fuetsch. "We at AT&T are big believers in collaborating with the open source developer community as we build out our SDN and NFV capabilities and move into emerging fields like the Internet of Things. A collaborative approach has worked great with ONOS. Now we're looking for developers and other carriers to help us push ONOS forward, particularly using tools like the development and test pod for CORD to create new applications." "China Unicom looks to open source SDN and NFV to facilitate network transformation to meet the dynamic needs of its large subscriber base," said Dr. Shao Guanglu, Senior Vice President at China Unicom's Network Technology Research Institute. "ONOS as a scalable, highly available and high performance SDN OS is a critical platform of our open source SDN/NFV infrastructure. We have developed ONOS-based Layer 3 VPN services POC for our enterprise customers that enables them to get bandwidth and networks on demand cost-effectively while significantly reducing provisioning times. We look forward to jointly developing more SDN and NFV innovations in the future." "Ciena is proud to be a contributor and key supporter of ONOS," said Mike Hatfield, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Ciena's Blue Planet Division. "Our customers continue to demand open, multi-vendor solutions that not only simplify networks, but also help them transform to a more agile, on-demand business model. This is greatly accelerated by organizations like ON.Lab and the ONOS project." "Huawei commends all partners and contributors to the ONOS community on open source achievements in the past year including five code releases. We expect the ONOS project to continue leading the community in enhancing the network operating system to enable service providers to solve their SDN requirements," said Ayush Sharma, CTO and Senior Vice President of Networks at Huawei. "Huawei is committed to the ONOS project, by continuing to prioritize the use case requirements of our customers and provide ONOS open source solutions in our products. Congratulations to the entire ONOS community in reaching the one-year milestone!" "NTT Communications has been a leader in SDN deployments within its datacenter and in its transport network and looks forward to deploying ONOS and ONOS based solutions in its transport SDN infrastructure for scalability, high availability and performance," said Tatsuya Yamashita, Senior Vice President at NTT Communications. "We are committed to contributing to the ONOS community and look forward to reaching a second-year milestone." "We have been very pleased with our collaboration with the ONOS Project," said Alex Jinsung Choi, CTO and Executive Vice President at SK Telecom. "Our team has been working with the ONOS project and our team is able to contribute features and functions to ONOS and we are also actively developing Mobile-CORD together as a solution for our central offices to support mobile subscribers and services. We expect to deploy ONOS based solutions in our data centers sometime soon."
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