ON.Lab Delivers Software for New Open Source SDN Network Operating System - ONOS™

MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open Networking Lab, ON.Lab, and a partnership comprised of leading service providers, including AT&T, NTT Communications and key vendors, announced that the Open Network Operating System (ONOS) software will be available for download on Friday evening, Dec. 5. ON.Lab will also host an ONOS Technical Deep Dive Webinar at 9 a.m. PST on the same day, prior to releasing the software (see event details below).

ONOS is a new SDN network operating system for service provider networks. It is architected to provide high availability, scalability, performance and rich northbound and southbound abstractions. ONOS has been developed by ON.Lab in partnership with a community of leading service providers, vendors and researchers. Founding members who are funding and contributing to the ONOS initiative include AT&T, NTT Communications, Ciena, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, NEC; and members who are collaborating and contributing to ONOS include ONF, Infoblox, SRI, Black Duck Software, Internet2, GARR, CNIT and Create-Net.

"The ONOS project partnership was formed with a unique blend of service providers, vendors and ON.Lab to accelerate the adoption of SDN by providers," said Bill Snow, vice president of Engineering at ON.Lab. "A highly available and scalable open source SDN OS platform will help transform service provider networks by delivering significant CapEx and OpEx savings and enabling new revenue-generating services. The first release of ONOS is the start of the journey towards service provider network transformation."

Key features of the first ONOS release include:

• A clean-slate, clustered, modular architecture with distributed core for high availability, performance and scale-out
• Application Intent Framework providing a high-level policy driven, network-agnostic programmatic abstraction and interface
• Pluggable southbound for supporting a diversity of devices and protocols.
• OpenFlow 1.3 and 1.0 support
• GUI for visualization, visibility and configuration
• Apache Karaf for modularity, customization and extensibility
• Service provider use cases to demonstrate capabilities such as—
  • Multilayer SDN control for packet-optical networks
  • SDN-IP for seamless peering of SDN islands within legacy networks
  • Proof of concept Network Functions as a Service (NFaaS)
  • SDN-based WAN control with segment routing (developed with ONF) 
• Developer and end-user on-boarding resources
• QA infrastructure and processes
• Black Duck audit certifying usability and cleanliness of open source ONOS codebase

"2015 will be a pivotal year for the open source ONOS project," said Guru Parulkar, executive director of ON.Lab. "We will grow the ONOS community, harden and enhance the current architecture and code, and focus all of our efforts on accelerating SDN adoption in service provider and mission critical networks."

ON.Lab will also host an ONOS Technical deep-dive webinar at 9 a.m. on Dec. 5. The webinar will provide an in-depth view of ONOS' architecture, building blocks, and developer resources. Key topics of discussion will include: ONOS architecture; ONOS distributed core for performance, high-availability and scale-out; ONOS Application Intent Framework; how developers can get started with ONOS; ONOS use cases and demos; and it will be followed by a live question and answer session. The webinar will be led by ONOS' chief architect, Thomas Vachuska; distributed systems architect, Madan Jampani; and lead developers, Ali Al-Shabibi and Brian O'Connor.

Information about downloading and getting started with ONOS will be available the evening of Dec. 5 at onosproject.org.

For additional ecosystem partner quotes, visit this link 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 ON.LAB

The Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) is a non-profit organization founded by SDN inventors and leaders from Stanford University and UC Berkeley to foster an open source community for developing tools and platforms to realize the full potential of SDN. ON.Lab brings innovative ideas from leading edge research and delivers high quality open source platforms on which members of its ecosystem and the industry can build real products and solutions. ON.Lab has a team of highly motivated and talented individuals, with expertise and a stellar track record in industry and research institutions. ON.Lab's team is focused on creating high quality open source tools and platforms that benefit and bring true SDN value to the community.

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Bob Eastwood, Engage PR for ON.Lab, 510-748-8200 x215, [email protected]

ON.Lab & ONOS Contact

Ram Appalaraju, Strategic Advisor for ON.Lab, [email protected]

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