ONF Unveils New Open Innovation Pipeline and Restructuring of BOD to Align the Missions of ONF and ON.Lab

[ONOS Announce]

Hi ONOS Project community, 

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) today announced its new Open Innovation Pipeline made possible through the aligned operations of ONF and Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) as these two organizations finalize their pending merger. Building on the success of ONOS and CORD, the ONF is industrializing and opening the unique process that enabled the creation of these platforms. 

“The ONF’s Open Innovation Pipeline lowers the barrier to entry by providing a broadly applicable framework built on open source building blocks to deliver complete solutions for network operators,” said Guru Parulkar, executive director of ONF, ON.Lab and Stanford Platform Lab. “Perhaps more importantly, this pipeline allows members of all types to bring their unique innovation and value into the solution. Operators, vendors and integrators all have a role to play, and the pipeline helps integrate these contributions into consumable solutions for operators.”

ONF also announced the restructuring of the board of directors to complete the merger of ONF and ON.Lab and to chart a course for the future of SDN. The new board includes:

• Andre Fuetsch – President, AT&T Labs and Chief Technology Officer
  
• Chairman/President: Dr. Urs Hölzle – Senior Vice President, Technical Infrastructure & Google Fellow, Google
  
• Fabian Schneider – Senior Researcher, NEC
  
• Dai Kashiwa – Director of Technology Development, NTT Communications
  
• Jennifer Rexford – Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Computer Science Department, Princeton University
  
• Alex Choi – CTO, Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate R&D Center, SK Telecom
  
• Guru Parulkar, Exec Director of ONF and ON.Lab and Exec Director of Stanford Platform Lab
  
• Nick McKeown – Professor, EE and CS, Stanford University
  
• Srini Kalapala – Vice President, Global Technology and Supplier Strategy, Verizon
  

To further understand the new ONF Open Innovation Pipeline, I encourage you to check out the following: 

• Video commentary by Guru and Urs Holzle, Senior VP, Tech Infrastructure & Google Fellow, Google
  
• Video commentary by Urs and Nick Mckeon, Professor, EE and CS, Stanford University
• Executive Director Guru Parulkar's blog, Open Innovation Pipeline: Described
  
• The complete ONF FAQ, addressing the Open Innovation Pipeline, Software Defined Standards, Membership, and Merger Background

Please help us amplify the news by sharing on your social networks, and follow @ONF_ONOS (our newly re-named handle) for future updates. Below are suggested click-to-tweets for easy posting. 

 

[NEWS] @openflow unveils new Open Innovation Pipeline to transform open #networking http://bit.ly/2l8K1m3

• Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/3r6EK
  

[NEWS] @openflow charts next phase of #SDN & #NFV with new Open Innovation Pipeline http://bit.ly/2l8K1m3

• Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/hCx82
  

[ONF Blog] Open Innovation Pipeline: Described by @guruparulkar, via @ONF_ONOS bit.ly/2lLOacT ...  

• Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/Fb5cT

[VIDEO] "#ONF brought SDN to mainstream. #ON.Lab had a great rep for software. Excited for the two to come together" https://vimeo.com/203855490 

• Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/5mY7r

[VIDEO] "ONF is stepping up to build an end-to-end open innovation pipeline" - @guruparulkar https://vimeo.com/203779004 

• Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/4rbUZ

[VIDEO] "By having everyone involved, we get to shape #ONF in a direction most helpful to the industry as a whole." https://vimeo.com/203855490 

• Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/rdN2c

[NEWS] @openflow announces new Board of Directors to align the missions of #ONF & #ONLab http://bit.ly/2l1oPvK

• Click to Tweet: https://ctt.ec/3434O  

[NEWS] @openflow Board of Directors now includes project members representing both @ONF_CORD® & @ONF_ONOS http://bit.ly/2l1oPvK

• Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/arzb9

[NEWS] New @openflow Board of Directors features leading network operators & creators of #SDN movement http://bit.ly/2l1oPvK

• Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/6rW64

Thank you,

Meredith 

onl...@linuxfoundation.org