ONOS Partnership Expands with the Addition of New Members Cisco and SK Telecom

MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ON.Lab today announced that ONOS, the open source SDN Network Operating System for service providers and mission critical networks, has achieved two significant milestones in a short period of two months after its successful launch. Following its open source release on Dec. 5, 2014, ONOS has now crossed 1,000 software downloads globally and announced the expansion of its partnership with the addition of new members – Cisco and SK Telecom. Cisco CSCO, the worldwide leader in networking, and SK Telecom SKM, Korea's largest telecommunications company, will join the ONOS community comprised of leading service providers, vendors, collaborators and individual contributors to accelerate SDN adoption and drive open innovation.

ONOS is a carrier-grade SDN network operating system for service provider networks architected to provide high availability, scalability, performance, and rich northbound and southbound abstractions. Cisco and SK Telecom join founding members who are funding and contributing to the ONOS initiative including: AT&T, NTT Communications, Ciena, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, NEC; as well as members who are collaborating and contributing to ONOS including ONF, Infoblox, SRI, Black Duck, Internet2, GARR, CNIT and Create-Net.

"The successful launch of ONOS marks an important milestone in the ongoing transformation of the network infrastructure with SDN," said Guru Parulkar, Executive Director of ON.Lab. "Adding Cisco and SK Telecom as contributing partners significantly strengthens the ONOS community and drives our ongoing mission to bring openness and innovation to the Internet and Cloud for the public good." 

"We encourage the increased adoption of open source SDN solutions with developers and end-customers, and are supportive of industry initiatives that promote an open environment," said David Ward, CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect at Cisco. "We are focused on collaborating with the ONOS community, to foster more innovation and advances in networking application platforms to grow the developer community for networking." 

"SDN and network virtualization hold great promise for mobile carriers," said Alex Jinsung Choi, CTO and Executive Vice President at SK Telecom. "As mobile subscribers tend to be younger and have always-on access to their devices, we often see the demand for new use cases and services come from mobile markets first, creating vast business opportunities. The promise of open source SDN to deliver true cloud-like benefits to the network such as scale, automation, programmability, flexibility and service agility will enable us to meet the rapidly evolving demands of this sector."

ONOS was open-sourced and made publicly available for download on Dec. 5, 2014, by ON.Lab, leading service providers, vendors and collaborators. In addition to the number of downloads, ON.Lab saw impressive attendance at its pre- and post-launch events including a total of more than 1000 attendees at its two ONOS webinars and 100+ business leaders from leading service providers and vendors at its partner summit in Palo Alto, Calif.

ONOS has been well received by the developer community as is evident from the fast adoption of the open source release, as well as rapid growth in the community contributions to the ONOS codebase and feature set following this release.

"ONOS brings a fresh perspective to software-defined networking. The ONOS Intent Framework is an innovative architectural approach with compelling features. In particular, I think the SDN-IP feature will become increasingly important as SDN is rolled out in production and the need to interconnect SDN and IP networks comes to the fore," said David Jorm, Product Security Engineer at IIX. "My primary contribution to ONOS has been forming the security response team and developing a security response process. Security is critical to the success and adoption of SDN and I'm hopeful that establishing a strong security process early on will assist in keeping ONOS as secure as possible."

"When I first looked into ONOS source code, I saw 'beauty' in it, with its modular architecture, well-defined clean interface and especially its Intent Framework with high-level abstractions that dramatically simplify the interface. It is like an edifice designed by a great architect and I immediately decided to contribute to the code base. I hope that many applications will be developed on the ONOS foundation," said Kunihiro Ishiguro, CTO and Executive Director at Access Company.

ONOS is an SDN network operating system for service provider networks and mission critical networks. This platform delivers a highly available, scalable SDN control plane featuring northbound and southbound open APIs and paradigms for a diversity of management, control, and service applications. Initially targeted to service providers, ONOS will expand into cloud service providers, enterprises and into mainstream deployments. The addition of new partners, code, and use cases will be a strong driver for the growth of its ecosystem and its continued successful evolution.

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 ON.LAB
The Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) is a non-profit organization founded by SDN inventors and leaders from Stanford University and UC Berkeley to foster an open source community for developing tools and platforms to realize the full potential of SDN. ON.Lab brings innovative ideas from leading edge research and delivers high quality open source platforms on which members of its ecosystem and the industry can build real products and solutions. ON.Lab has a team of highly motivated and talented individuals, with expertise and a stellar track record in industry and research institutions. ON.Lab's team is focused on creating high quality open source tools and platforms that benefit and bring true SDN value to the community.

About Cisco
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About SK Telecom
SK Telecom SKM KSE: 017670), established in 1984, is Korea's largest telecommunications company with more than 27 million mobile subscribers, accounting for over 50% of the market. The company reached KRW 16.602 trillion in revenue in 2013. As the world's first company to commercialize CDMA, CDMA 2000 1x, CDMA EV-DO and HSDPA networks, SK Telecom launched the nation's first LTE service in July 2011. SK Telecom also became the world's first mobile carrier to launch 150Mbps LTE-Advanced and on June 26, 2013 and 225Mbps LTE-Advanced on June 19, 2014 through Carrier Aggregation. Backed by rapid nationwide deployment, a rich device lineup and diverse mobile value added services, the company secured over 16.3 million LTE and LTE-Advanced subscribers as of October 2014. Also, based on its strength in network operations business, SK Telecom is seeking new growth engines by building ICT convergence business models in areas of healthcare, enterprise solutions, media and education. For more information, please visit www.sktelecom.com or email to press@sktelecom.com

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