The Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD) initiative by Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) and The Linux Foundation takes a turn as a new independent open source project. The initiative has since been joined by new members Google, Radisys and Samsung Electronics who are coming in as initial CORD members along with Verizon and AT&T.
CORD provides service providers with a framework to re-architect their traditional central offices into next-generation data centers, using new technologies like SDN, NFV and cloud technologies that are going mainstream. Designed to support connectivity and cloud-based services for residential, enterprise and mobile subscribers, CORD delivers an open source integrated solutions platform for service providers leveraging merchant silicon, white boxes, and open source platforms such as ONOS, OpenStack, Docker, and XOS.
Initially developed as a use case for the open source SDN operating system ONOS, CORD has experienced major momentum and adoption among service providers and vendors during the past year. Now as a separate project with its own governance, partners, collaborators, and contributors, the community is actively collaborating and accelerating CORD development and use in production networks.
Google will host the first CORD Summit on 29th of July at Google Sunnyvale Tech Corner Campus in California, which will unite industry leaders, network architects and administrators, developers and engineers interested in building and using CORD to reinvent network access. The summit will feature keynotes from other CORD community partners and collaborators including AT&T and China Unicom. Topics for discussion include the CORD architecture, use cases, building with and using CORD and the technical roadmap.
Guru Parulkar, executive director at ON.Lab
Given Google's track record as a provider of cloud and access services, we anticipate it will play an important role in strengthening the CORD architecture, implementation, and deployments.
Ankur Jain, principal engineer at Google
We are excited to join CORD, host its inaugural summit and work closely with leading ecosystem players to bring greater scalability and rapid innovation to access networks.
