Infinera, a leading provider of intelligent transport network, and KEMP Technologies, a leading provider of load balancer software have joined the OpenDaylight Project, bringing its total membership to 41 companies to date. Opendaylight, a community-led and industry-supported open source platform, and a collaborative project at the linux foundation, touts itself as the largest open platform group for network programmability.
According to OpenDaylight, its community's second software release Helium is due to be out this fall and OpenDaylight is hosting several events to provide forums for industry debate, project updates and contribution to the code base. In addition, OpenDaylight is organizing a few events this year to promote the community further namely the OpenDaylight HackFest at CloudOpen Europe on Oct. 13 and an OpenDaylight Mini-Summit at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress on Oct. 14, both in Dusseldorf, Germany.
"We are seeing a major shift in networking away from fully proprietary SDN approaches to those that are more open and interoperable. It's happening right now, and the OpenDaylight community is a major driver of this shift. Our community is very interested in supporting innovation in cloud-based and optical networking solutions, which is a perfect fit for our newest members, and we welcome their contributions and support."
- Neela Jacques, executive director, OpenDaylight
"The industry will benefit from an SDN framework that includes an open approach to integrating best-in-class optical transport systems and allows network operators to avoid vendor lock-in. We are excited to join the OpenDaylight Project and lend our expertise in enabling abstraction and programmability of packet/optical transport technologies to advance SDN for the next generation of networking solutions."
- Dr. Stuart Elby, senior vice president of cloud network strategy and technology at Infinera
"As a software-driven company with expertise in virtual environments, we understand the demands of today's enterprise customer and the untapped opportunities that exist with bringing emerging technologies to market. We believe that industry collaboration is the best way to advance SDN and NFV to enable powerful and truly dynamic application deployments. We look forward to working with the OpenDaylight community."
- Kenney, director, product management, KEMP Technologies
