Developers, Open Source Software Changing the Face of Networking

SANTA CLARA, Calf.—It's been five years since Marc Andreessen wrote an essay published in the Wall Street Journal that proclaimed "software is eating the world." By now, we can consider networking just about chewed and swallowed.

We are beginning to realize how much software-defined networking is changing everything. As ON.Lab Executive Director Guru Parulkar puts it, the "softwarization" of networking is not only changing how users manage networks, but everything the network touches.

More precisely, it is open-source software that is leading this movement. Open-source projects like the OpenDaylight and #ONOS (Open Network Operating System) controllers and #OPNFV (Open Platform for Platform for NFV) are driving new business, service and technology models, especially for telecommunications vendors.

http://mobile.eweek.com/networking/developers-open-source-software-changing-the-face-of-networking.html

Verizon Becomes Newest Telecom to Join ONOS Open Source SDN Project

#Verizon Becomes Newest Telecom to Join #ONOS Open Source #SDN Project

Verizon has joined ONOS, an open source #Linux Foundation collaborative project for building an SDN-based networking platform for telecommunications service providers.

Verizon has become the newest member of ONOS, a Linux Foundationcollaborative project that aims to build a carrier-grade, SDN-enabled operating system for service providers.

ONOS brands itself as an "SDN network operating system." It's a set of communications tools and applications that allow organizations to build clustered network infrastructure that takes full advantage of software-defined networking, or SDN. The idea is to make communications more scalable, more reliable and faster by abstracting infrastructure from physical devices.

http://m.thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/verizon-becomes-newest-telecom-join-onos-open-source-sdn-