Telecommunications infrastructure giant Ericsson announced plans to launch a new lab in support of the OpenDaylight Project community, which is looking to propel the development, testing and verification of software defined networking services. The Ericsson lab, which will be run in conjunction with the OpenDaylight Project, will be at its campus in San Jose, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Ericsson, which is a “founding Platinum sponsor” of the OpenDaylight Project, said the move shows its continued support of the community and goals in establishing integration and testing protocols for SDN and network functions virtualization platforms. The company noted it was currently working with OpenDaylight Project members to produce the Hydrogen open-source software.
“Network programmability and interoperability are two key goals of the OpenDaylight Project,” explained Neela Jacques, executive director of OpenDaylight Project. “It is great to see Ericsson devoting significant resources to support the integration and testing of SDN and NFV innovations and applications coming out of the community.”
The OpenDaylight Project, which is a project spun out of The Linux Foundation, claims 31 member organizations working to integrate technologies and code to deliver a common, open source platform for network programmability. The organization welcomed its two newest members last month with the addition of Coriant and ZTE.
A recent report from ACG Research noted that annual spending on all SDN-related equipment could hit $29.5 billion per year by 2018, compared with less than $4.5 billion expected to be spent this year. For actual equipment set to be used in live network operations that growth is forecast to increase from $858 million this year to $15 billion by 2018.
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