Alcatel-Lucent has joined the ONOS project, the Open source SDN Network Operating System (ONOS) for service providers. ONOS is a carrier-grade SDN network operating system architected to provide high availability, scalability, performance, and rich northbound and southbound abstractions. Alcatel-Lucent joins founding members who are funding and contributing to the ONOS initiative including AT&T, NTT Communications, SK Telecom, China Unicom, Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel and NEC.
Alcatel-Lucent aims to bring to ONOS its experience in building and managing some of the world's largest service networks based on integrated IP and optical network infrastructure.
The ONOS project recently joined the Linux Foundation as a Collaborative Project, and the ONOS community works to provide best-in-class open source SDN platforms and NFV tools to accelerate production deployments and use cases.
Steve Vogelsang, CTO for Alcatel-Lucent's IP Routing and Transport Business
By committing engineering resources and becoming an active participant of ONOS, we will be in a much better position to contribute our carrier SDN knowledge and experience to open source initiatives, and will benefit from collaboration across the broader network vendor and service provider communities.
Guru Parulkar, Executive Director and Board Member at ON.Lab/ONOS project
The company's extensive service provider networking experience will work well within our virtuous-cycle framework to deliver platforms that enable solutions and use cases that are then enriched and hardened by feedback from the community.
