ONOS' community and The Linux Foundation announced a strategic partnership with the aim to build open source platforms, solutions and ecosystem for service providers to monetize SDN/NFV. The partnership will focus on creating disruptive SDN solutions featuring open source software platforms, white boxes, a range of network control and management applications and the ability to rapidly create and deploy innovative services.
By becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, ONOS said that it will leverage the Foundation's depth of expertise in open source software project governance and community participation, significantly enhancing the project's capabilities in the crucial strategic area of open source processes and practices. The company believes that together, they can significantly accelerate the virtuous cycle of developing platforms and use cases (e.g. ONOS, CORD) by enabling solutions that are enriched by community contributions and fed back to further improve and harden the platform.
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation recognizes the impact the ONOS project can have on service provider networks and will help advance ONOS to achieve its potential. The partnership combines the best of the two organizations' capabilities in support of a strategic vision to transform service provider infrastructure with open source SDN and NFV.
Guru Parulkar, Executive Director and Board Member at ON.Lab/ONOS project
Now is the perfect time to partner with the Linux Foundation. They bring a number of resources and also provide a measure of trust and sustainability through a well-built brand that delivers extended reach to our collaborative community and accelerates innovation on an even larger scale.
