ON.Lab today announced that ONOS, the open source carrier-grade SDN Network Operating System for service providers and mission critical networks, has announced the expansion of its partnership with the addition of new members – Cisco and SK Telecom. Both Cisco and SK Telecom will join founding members who are funding and contributing to the ONOS initiative including: AT&T, NTT Communications, Ciena, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, NEC; as well as members who are collaborating and contributing to ONOS including ONF, Infoblox, SRI, Black Duck, Internet2, GARR, CNIT and Create-Net.
ON.Lab also announced that ONOS has rapidly gained momentum with more than 1,000 software downloads in less than two months after its successful release in December last year. In addition to the number of downloads, ON.Lab saw impressive attendance at its pre- and post-launch events including a total of more than 1000 attendees at its two ONOS webinars and 100+ business leaders from leading service providers and vendors at its partner summit in Palo Alto, Calif, added ON.Lab.
Guru Parulkar, Executive Director of ON.Lab
The successful launch of ONOS marks an important milestone in the ongoing transformation of the network infrastructure with SDN. Adding Cisco and SK Telecom as contributing partners significantly strengthens the ONOS community and drives our ongoing mission to bring openness and innovation to the Internet and Cloud for the public good.
David Ward, CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect at Cisco
We encourage the increased adoption of open source SDN solutions with developers and end-customers, and are supportive of industry initiatives that promote an open environment. We are focused on collaborating with the ONOS community, to foster more innovation and advances in networking application platforms to grow the developer community for networking.
Alex Jinsung Choi, CTO and Executive Vice President at SK Telecom
SDN and network virtualization hold great promise for mobile carriers. As mobile subscribers tend to be younger and have always-on access to their devices, we often see the demand for new use cases and services come from mobile markets first, creating vast business opportunities. The promise of open source SDN to deliver true cloud-like benefits to the network such as scale, automation, programmability, flexibility and service agility will enable us to meet the rapidly evolving demands of this sector.
