The TM Forum is the largest global trade association focused on bringing together the digital ecosystem, including communication service providers, digital service providers and enterprises, with the goal of enabling an open digital world. The Forum delivers a wealth of knowledge and practical tools for our members, including unique research, best practices and standards. The […]
Dr. David McDysan is Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) in the Network Architecture (NA) department in the Verizon Technology Organization. He is responsible for certain architectural aspects related to Verizon’s future network. This includes Cloud Computing Infrastructure, software infrastructure, IP and Data services technology and standards, and how these relate to the overall service […]
Dr. Jennifer Rexford is the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering in the computer science department at Princeton University. She previously spent eight and a half years at AT&T Research, where she designed the Routing Control Platform (RCP), an early SDN architecture for backbone networks. Her current research focuses on programming abstractions for SDNs, and […]
Dr. Christopher Janz serves as Vice President and CTO of Ciena’s Agility business division. Ciena Agility delivers software that enables network operators to deliver and monetize consumption-based services on demand; flexibly, efficiently and at high velocity. As CTO, Chris is partly responsible for designing Ciena Agility’s forward path in the fast-evolving SDN and NFV technology […]
Timon Sloane, Vice President of Standards & Membership Timon Sloane is the vice president of standards and membership of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) leading the organization’s efforts with SDN standards, skills certification, and membership. In his role as vice president of standards, Timon’s primary focus is to drive activities within the organization relating to […]
Welcome to the (new) ONF website. We hope you will find this a useful resource as a prospective member, a current member contributing to the technical developments, or an interested member of the public. I personally have found ONF and the promise of Software-Defined Networking to signify the most exciting development in networking in many […]
“The rapid growth of ONF members shows a real collaboration between network operators, equipment vendors, networking and virtualization software suppliers, and chip technology providers to promote innovation through software-defined networking.” – Dan Pitt, Executive Director, ONF
ONF Founders To Speak At Information Session And Next Generation Networking Panels On Wednesday, May 11th In Las Vegas PALO ALTO, CA – May 6, 2011 – The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting a new approach to networking called Software-Defined Networking (SDN),
PORTLAND, Ore. — March 21, 2011 — Six companies that own and operate some of the largest networks in the world — Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo! — announced today the
