ONOS Emu platform the fifth this year from open source-focused organization
The Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System project this week unveiled its latest open source software-defined networking operating system under the Emu name. The launch is the fifth platform from ONOS this year.
ON.Lab said the Emu release has improvements over the Drake release from September, including improvements to the platform such as IP multicast and SDN-IP, key use cases including central office re-architected as a data center, packet/optical, service function chaining, and support for the Open Platform for NFV Project and OpenStack.
ON.Lab explained the rapid pace of new software iterations has proven effective for ONOS development and “critical to long-term adoption.”
“The ONOS project continues to accelerate the process of quarterly releases with the participation of the community,” said Bill Snow, VP of engineering at ON.Lab. “The cadence of quarterly releases is becoming a habit. One that is very important for the rapid evolution and long term success of ONOS. We’re very heartened to see the growing contributions from our community for the Emu release and use cases.”
Joining ONOS on the latest release were ECI, ClearPath Networks and FNLab from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. ON.Lab also highlighted Emu contributions from ETRI’s adaptive flow monitoring; KAIST/SRI’s performance improvements for security mode ONOS; KISTI’s announcement that they have deployed ONOS in KREONET-S; ECI’s work supporting an ONOS use case for multilayer SDN control of IP and optical layer networks; and ClearPath’s efforts to integrate Yangforge with ONOS making it easier to develop services using YANG models.
ON.Lab also called out support from member partners Huawei, which contributed support integration with OpenStack and OPNFV’s Brahmaputra; Fujitsu’s work on the resource reservation subsystem; and SK Telecom’s work enhancing CORD for the delivery of mobile network use cases moving forward.
ON.Lab launched the ONOS project late last year targeting service providers with a scalable SDN control plan “featuring northbound and southbound open APIs and paradigms for a diversity of management, control and service applications across mission-critical networks.” Founding members of the ONOS initiative include AT&T, NTT Communications, Ciena, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel and NEC. Alcatel-Lucent late last month announced it had joined the organization.
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