Dave Ward, CTO of engineering and chief architect at Cisco, says the OpenDaylight Project really propelled the Linux Foundation as the go-to host for open source projects related to network virtualization. But, he adds, people working in open source networking are now experiencing “foundation fatigue.”
“OpenDaylight fundamentally changed their [the Linux Foundation’s] world,” says Ward. “It’s been wildly successful. It’s the de facto standard open source SDN controller for the industry today.” …Later this month, Ward will be giving a talk at the OpenDaylight Summit where he’ll discuss an “Open Networking Umbrella Architecture” in which open source projects align and fit into a unified strategy for enabling up-stack application development.
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