MENLO PARK, Calif.,
Nov. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- ON.Lab today announced that Alcatel-Lucent has joined the
ONOS project, the Open source SDN Network Operating System (ONOS)
for service providers and mission critical networks and a Linux
Foundation Collaborative Project. ONOS is a carrier-grade SDN
network operating system architected to provide high availability,
scalability, performance, and rich northbound and southbound
abstractions. Alcatel-Lucent will join leading service providers,
vendors, collaborators and individual contributors to accelerate
SDN/NFV adoption and drive open innovation.
Alcatel-Lucent brings to ONOS a wealth of experience in building
and managing some of the world's largest service networks based on
integrated IP and optical network infrastructure. The company also
brings knowledge from leading edge innovation in SDN control and
management of IP/optical networks in both the datacenter and
carrier network.
"Open source object models are becoming the new baseline for
multi-vendor interoperability. ONOS provides a carrier-centric
forum where these models can be defined and implemented at an
accelerated pace to stay ahead of the monumental shift towards SDN
and virtualization," said 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."
The ONOS project recently joined the Linux Foundation as a
Collaborative Project and its community works to provide best in
class open source SDN platforms and NFV tools to accelerate
production deployments and use cases. It does this by listening
closely to service providers, rapidly developing the apps and use
cases they want, producing solutions and taking them through proof
of concepts, lab trials and market trials to full production
deployments using feedback and input from the community.
"We look forward to Alcatel-Lucent's contributions to the
project and community, especially in the areas of virtualized
multi-layer IP and optical solutions," said 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."
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.
To download, contribute to and build upon ONOS, or to find out
more about partnerships, features and use cases visit this link
www.onosproject.org. For further information on ON.Lab or to learn
more about becoming a partner, collaborator or member of the open
source community visit http://onlab.us/ or email us at
info@onlab.us.
About the ONOS project
ONOS is the open source SDN networking operating system for
Service Provider networks architected for high performance, scale
and availability. ONOS' ecosystem comprises ON.Lab and
organizations that are funding and contributing to the ONOS
initiative. These include AT&T, NTT Communications, SK Telecom,
China Unicom, Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu,
Huawei, Intel and NEC; members who are collaborating and
contributing to ONOS include ONF, Infoblox, SRI, Internet2,
Happiest Minds, KISTI, KAIST, Kreonet, NAIM, CNIT, Black Duck,
Create-Net, Criterion Networks, ETRI and the broader ONOS
community. Learn how you can get involved with ONOS at
onosproject.org.
ONOS is a Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation. Linux
Foundation Collaborative Projects are independently funded software
projects that harness the power of collaborative development to
fuel innovation across industries and
ecosystems. www.linuxfoundation.org
ABOUT ALCATEL-LUCENT (EURONEXT PARIS AND NYSE: ALU)
Alcatel-Lucent is the leading IP networking, ultra-broadband
access and cloud technology specialist. We are dedicated to making
global communications more innovative, sustainable and accessible
for people, businesses and governments worldwide. Our mission is to
invent and deliver trusted networks to help our customers unleash
their value. Every success has its network.
For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent
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Press Contacts
Bob
Eastwood, Engage PR for ON.Lab, 510-748-8200 x215,
beastwood@engagepr.com
Alcatel-Lucent
Sarah
Miller, Alcatel-Lucent Media Relations, 613-720-9716,
Sarah.miller@alcatel-lucent.com
ON.Lab & ONOS Contact
Bill
Snow, Vice President of Engineering at ON.Lab,
bill@onlab.us
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