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ONF Evolution and Collaboration

Marc Cohn, Market Area Director

March 14, 2016

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Agenda

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• SDN trends

• ONF Evolution

• ONF and Open Source

• ONF and the Community

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SDN Momentum?

Source:

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SDN Momentum!

Carriers/Cable Data Center/Enterprise

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2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

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40

60

80

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120

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ONFMembership

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

• Not just about OpenFlow

• Driving Carrier SDN

• Catalyst for Software

• Committed to Collaboration

ONF is evolving

Industry Perception: Relative Importance

In general, how important are telecom industry trade associations and

groups to your company?Source: Heavy Reading Survey Q2 2014 n=426-448

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

ETSI (European Telecommunications StandardsInstitute)

ONF (Open Networking Foundation)

OpenDaylight

OPNFV (Open Platform for NFV)

51.7%

28.2%

19.6%

22.7%

35.3%

41.5%

37.7%

41.2%

13.0%

30.3%

42.7%

36.1%

Very important % Somewhat important % Not important at all %

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• Technology

– Architecture 1.1

– Common Information Model

– Transport SDN

– Intent-based NBI

• People/Organization

– ONF Certified SDN Associate

(OCSA)

– ONF Certified SDN Engineer

(OCSE)

• Implementations

– OpenFlow1.6 complete

– TTPs for interoperability

– OpenFlow Certification

– Multiple Labs (Global)

– First Certifications (China)

ONF Highlights in 2015

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Un)conventional wisdom about open source

# of Projects Thousands Millions

Influence Vendors Operators

Contributors‘The

Shorts’‘The Suits’

The Goal Members Community

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• Objectives

– Encourage ‘Python vs. PDF’

– Fill gaps not addressed by

existing open source projects

– Enable validation of key SDN

concepts and use cases

– Defer/encourage upstream

projects for implementation

• ONF Open Source projects

– Atrium: Open Source SDN Distribution

– Aspen: Real Time Media Interface

– PIF: Protocol Independent Forwarding

– Boulder: Intent-Based NBI

– Telluride: E2E WAN as a Service

– Florence: SDN Security Tools

– Durango: OF-Config Support for OVS

– LIBFLUID OVS- OpenFlow Driver

– Spring Open- Segment Routing

– OFTest- OF switch test framework

– OpenFlow Sample Tappingapplication for enhanced monitoring

ONF Open Source

www.opensourcesdn.org

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How ONF fits in the SDN community

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Infrastructure Layer

Control Layer

Application Layer

SDN Applications

AP

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Network Services

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AP

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Network Services

Industry Groups

Standards Bodies

Open Source Projects

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SDN/NFV Adoption Lifecycle

Use Cases

ArchitectureStandards

Implementations

Use Cases

OSS Components

OSS Reference Platforms

Architecture

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• Relevance

• Participation

• Collaboration

• Critical Mass

• Funding

• Openness

Building a Community

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• NFV

• Common Information Model

• Transport SDN

• Intent-based NBI

ONF Collaboration

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Closing Thoughts

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• No turning back

• Open Source is maturing (rapidly)

• ONF is evolving with the industry

• Open Source is about the

Community

• We are early in the journey

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Thank youwww.opennetworking.org

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