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IBM is asking that people judge the OpenDaylight SDN project by its accomplishments, not by its roster.
By Jim Duffy | 19 April, 2013 14:00
The third annual Open Networking Summit, an SDN conference organized by the Open Networking Foundation, convened this week just after ONF members Cisco and IBM unveiled a separate effort to define an open source SDN framework. Unlike the user-driven ONF, OpenDaylight is a vendor-driven project to cultivate a system of SDN applications, but it also raised suspicion of the group's real intent: Is it designed to stall SDN's momentum and the threat, real or perceived, it could pose to incumbent hardware vendors? ONF Executive Director Dan Pitt discussed some of these topics with Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy at the Santa Clara, Calif., conference.
By Jim Duffy | 18 April, 2013 15:50
The OpenDaylight Project may have won attention last week with a founding list of vendors including Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, but it's standing on the shoulders of others, according to the head of the Open Networking Foundation.
By Stephen Lawson | 16 April, 2013 23:28
If you're skeptical about the intentions of the OpenDaylight SDN consortium, you're not alone.
By Jim Duffy | 09 April, 2013 15:17
Even though standards bodies like the Open Networking Forum (ONF) are leading the effort to standardize software-defined networking, Dell has proposed an SDN working committee within the Object Management Group.
By Jim Duffy | 14 March, 2013 20:20
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