Brian O'Connor

Brian works on open source SDN platforms at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). He is currently serving as the technical lead for the Stratum project and is a member of the ONOS project’s technical steering team. Brian received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, where his academic focus spanned theory, systems, and computer networking. Out of the office, Brian enjoys staying active on his bike, on the slopes, and in the pool.

stratum_bfrt Now Ready for All Users with Stratum 22.06 Release

The Stratum community is pleased to announce the release of Stratum 2022-06-30 (or 22.06 for short) including hardware targets that have been certified for this new release. STRATUM 22.06 OVERVIEW

July 13, 2022

ONF Releases Stratum v22.03 and Launches a Core Contributors Program

The Stratum community is pleased to announce the release of Stratum 2022-03-18 (or 22.03 for short) including hardware targets that have been certified for this new release. A Stratum Core Contribu

April 7, 2022

Stratum v21.12 Released, Enabling SD-Fabric and Aether

ONF is pleased to announce the Stratum 2021-12-13 release (or 21.12 for short). This release is a relatively small release, but contains a number of important bug fixes, including fixes for P4 Mete

January 10, 2022

Stratum v21.10 Released, Enabling SD-Fabric and Aether

ONF is pleased to announce release 2021-10-09 of Stratum (or 21.10 for short). This release contains several new features and fixes for Stratum's Intel® Tofino™ target; stratum_bfrt is now the d

November 8, 2021

Stratum Adds Multiple Enhancements for Intel Tofino

ONF is pleased to announce the release of Stratum: 2021-06-30 release (or 21.06 for short). This release includes many new features plus bug fixes for Stratum's Intel® Tofino™ target, plus suppo

July 20, 2021

Stratum 21.03 Released

ONF is pleased to announce the release of Stratum: 2021-03-31 (or 21.03 for short). This release contains many bug fixes and new features for Stratum running on Intel® Tofino™, including support

April 7, 2021

Stratum 20.12 Released

ONF is pleased to announce the release of Stratum: 2020-12-18 (or 20.12 for short). This release contains many enhancements to Stratum’s support for Intel® Tofino™, including support for TNA a

January 6, 2021

Stratum 20.09 Released

ONF is pleased to announce the second Stratum release: 2020-09-30 (or 20.09 for short). This release supports P4Runtime 1.2.0 (on IANA-assigned service port 9559) and gNMI 0.7.0 with an expanded se

October 6, 2020

Stratum Now Powers Trellis and ODTN Opening the Door to Embedding Network Functions into the Fabric

Since Stratum’s open source release in September 2019, the community has been actively working towards productization and production deployments along with the introduction of new features and sw

March 5, 2020