Don’t miss this virtual event sponsored by the ONF CALA Ambassador team. In this webinar you will learn about the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit, operator-led consortium that is focused on driving transformation of network infrastructure and carrier business models around the world. The ONF serves as the umbrella for a number of projects […]
The A-team is the ONF Ambassador Program’s 5-member body that oversees and manages the program. The team is tasked to ensure that the Ambassador Program runs smoothly and that all Ambassadors are fully supported. The A-team is directly nominated and elected by the entire ONF community. Our 2021 A-team election results are in and we […]
It is exciting to see the Aether pilot network growing each month with the addition of new edge sites worldwide. The goal of the pilot network is to accelerate Aether development, make continual improvements for scale and reliability, and guide the addition of new features by leveraging insights and feedback from edge site collaborators. Secondly, […]
We want to take a moment to highlight people and contributions that are making a substantial difference across our amazing communities. Table of Contents (alphabetical) Aether Ambassador Program COMAC+OMEC Developer Relations OIMT ONOS/µONOS OTCC P4 SD-RAN SEBA/VOLTHA Stratum Trellis Aether In this month’s Aether update, we are focusing on SDN Substrate (aka TOST – Trellis/ONOS/Stratum/Tofino) […]
Thirteen years ago, in March of 2008, Nick McKeown and seven academic colleagues published a Call-to-Action for the network research community, proposing OpenFlow as an experimental open interface between the network’s control and data planes. The goal was to enable innovation, which at the time included the radical idea that anyone—even researchers—should be able to […]
ONF launched Aether, the first 5G connected edge cloud platform built with open source components, back in March of 2020. Since then, Aether has been rapidly evolving with the addition of many new features, edge deployments and ecosystem partners. To keep you up-to-date with the exciting and fast-paced progress being made, we are planning to […]
In this community member profile, we would like to introduce David Gengenbach, a PhD. student at the Università della Svizzera italiana and a researcher at SAP, based in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is an active contributor in the Open Networking Foundation’s Stratum community. David has been participating in the Stratum community as part of the […]
We want to take a moment to highlight people and contributions that are making a substantial difference across our amazing communities. Table of Contents (alphabetical) Aether Ambassador Program COMAC+OMEC Developer Relations OIMT ONOS/µONOS OTCC P4 SD-RAN SEBA/VOLTHA Stratum Trellis Aether ONF publicly launched the Aether Project website. The ONF team continued to develop core component features, […]
Dear ONF Community, It has been an interesting and remarkable year, to say the least. As a community we have made immense progress in our mission, and we are grateful you have been a part of it. We want to take this opportunity to thank everyone in the ONF ecosystem, and a special thank you […]
MENLO PARK, Calif. – December 3rd, 2020 — Today, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced that ONF’s Aether™ 5G Connected Edge Cloud platform is being used as the software platform for the $30M DARPA Pronto project, pursuing research to secure future 5G network infrastructure. DARPA is funding ONF to build, deploy and operate the network […]
We want to take a moment to highlight people and contributions that are making a substantial difference across our amazing communities. Table of Contents (alphabetical) Aether Ambassador Program COMAC+OMEC Developer Relations OIMT ONOS/µONOS OTCC P4 SEBA/VOLTHA Stratum Trellis Aether ONF team has made advances on every subsystem of the Aether platform: SDN Substrate, SD-Core, SD-RAN, […]
Editor Note: This post was originally written by Mario Baldi and Vipin Jain for Pensando’s website. With permission, we are re-publishing it here, as they nicely articulate the need for SmartNIC standardization. Introduction Open standards are an essential component in thriving technology ecosystems. They benefit users, vendors, and third parties developing software applications. An area that […]
