Source: The Fast Mode The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), Wednesday introduced two intent-based Northbound Interface (NBI) open source projects, Aspen and Boulder. The two intent-based projects are part of ONF’s ongoing mission to create an ecosystem and architecture that bring open SDN to network operators around the world. Aspen was developed by ONF in collaboration with the International Multimedia Telecommunications […]
Source: SDxCentral The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced today the availability of Aspen and Boulder, two intent-basedopen source projects for northbound interfaces. Both were community-developed at OpenSourceSDN.org, the ONF says. In intent-based networking, applications convey only the intent of how they want the network to behave. They don’t tell the network infrastructure how this is […]
Source: SDxCentral I have written previously about Intent-Based Networking (IBN) (“Intent: Don’t Tell Me What to Do! (Tell Me What You Want)“, “The Most Important Work in SDN: Have We Got It Backward?“) and the potential it offers to change the way we operate and employ networking infrastructure. Part of my day job is working […]
Source: CIO Review Inocybe Technologies, a network virtualization solutions provider, announces the latest OpenDaylight distributions with its Lithium-based release. Inocybe enables vendors, partners and end-users to build their OpenDaylight commercially supported distributions to resolve networking challenges. This approach will help users to leverage OpenDaylight projects while providing managed database distribution focused on usage, documentation and […]
Source: SDxCentral The Cisco Extensible Network Controller (XNC) continues to be one of the most frequently viewed products in the SDxCentral directory. But you might have noticed that for some time, Cisco has been talking about its Open SDN Controller instead. So, where did XNC go? It’s been retired — and so have other controllers […]
Source: SDxCentral The OpenDaylight Project is getting bold. Having faced long lists of questions and doubts at inception, the open source group is now on its third code release and is proving that the networking industry really can operate under a collaborative model, OpenDaylight Executive Director Neela Jacques said. The strength of open source was […]
Source: Ottawa Business Journal The Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN) highlighted its successes in its annual report released Monday. The Ottawa-based centre’s CEO, Ritch Dusome, said those successes include growing the consortium to include 12 members and a “multitude of partners.” “We have engaged with over 350 SME (small-, medium-sized enterprises) nationally, […]
Source: eWEEK The vendor-led consortium offers features for enterprises, but expands what the technology can do for telcos and NFV. The OpenDaylight Project has grown rapidly since it launched in 2013, both in scale and scope. The industry consortium, created by the likes of Cisco Systems, Microsoft and IBM and about two dozen other tech […]
Source: Light Reading The OpenDaylight Project today introduced Lithium, the latest version of its SDN controller, positioning the software as the “path from the network you have to the network you want.” The software focuses on improved performance and changes to reflect the changing needs of the ODL community, Neela Jacques, OpenDaylight Project executive director, […]
Source: Fierce Wireless The OpenDaylight Project, a community-led and industry-supported open source platform to advance Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), announced that OpenDaylight Lithium, its third open SDN software release, is now available to those seeking to build and deploy SDN solutions. “End users have already deployed OpenDaylight for a wide variety of use […]
