ONOS Project Partners with Linux FoundationDriving Innovation by Global Developer Community

Guru ParulkarExecutive Director ON.Lab and Chairman of the ONOS Board

Jim ZemlinExecutive Director, Linux Foundation

Embargoed until October 13th 2015

ONOS Project Mission

Transform service provider infrastructure with open source SDN/NFV Platforms and Solutions

Bring economies of a datacenter and agility of a cloud to service provider infrastructure

ONOS Project Approach• Build open source SDN OS for Service Providers

– Address the most challenging scale, performance, and HA requirements

– Leverage white boxes for servers, switches, and other infrastructure building blocks

• Build open source SDN/NFV solutions – That can be rapidly deployed in service provider networks – That bring economies of a datacenter and the agility of a cloud

• Help vendors to create value with open source and white boxes• Create a vibrant and sustainable community

ONOS Project Status and MomentumMaking Open Source SDN/NFV Real for Service Providers

1. In less than a year, ONOS has established itself as a premier open source SDN project for service providers for their mission critical use cases

2. Strong engagement of service provider and vendor partners to create and deploy ONOS based solutions

3. ONOS Platform based solutions heading towards market trials and deployments

4. ON.Lab has demonstrated technical leadership in shepherding the ONOS community with focus and purpose

5. The ONOS developer community is growing rapidly around the globe and has been contributing features & capabilities

Linux Foundation: Best Open Source Community PlatformGlobal Reach, Infrastructure, Processes

Linux Foundation • The best name for shepherding open source projects• One foundation for reaching developer community

across compute, storage, and networking• Proven track record for building and nurturing the

developer community• Global reach to developers in various IT segments around

the globe • Open source infrastructure and processes leveraged

across many open source projects – Drive toward consistency across open source communities

ONOS Project and Linux Foundation Partnership ONOS Project

• Continue the open source SDN/NFV innovation along with partners

• Shepherd ONOS and solutions with focus and purpose

• Manage and deliver timely releases to the ONOS community

• Manage and deliver use cases and solutions to service providers

• Lead ONOS promotion and outreach to the global community

• Help administer the open source project as a part of the overall portfolio

• Provide guidance and counseling to ONOS project on open source structure & processes

• Drive curriculum for community training

ONOS and Linux Foundation PartnershipA Win-Win for the Developer Community

Structured Technology Innovation

+Structured Open Source Innovation

= Best-in-Class Developer Experience & Community

Platform and Solutions: The Virtuous Cycle

Platform Solutions

Enable

EnrichSDN OS: ONOS CORDPacket-Optical ConvergenceSDN-IP PeeringAnchor StackCOTS Router

The best in class open source developer community will accelerate this virtuous cycle!

Platform & Solutions: Moving to Deployment

Platform Solutions

Enable

Enrich

POC LabTrial

Market Trial

Production Deployment

Net Result: ONOS Project and Linux Foundation together have an opportunity to transform service providers’ infrastructure

The best in class open source developer community will accelerate production deployments!

Thank You