The CORD Project, which is focused on using NFV, SDN and cloud technology to re-invent data centers, adds carriers Sprint and Deutsche Telekom to its ranks.
The CORD Project said it attracted new members in Sprint, Deutsche Telekom, Ixia and Xpose as it looks to further the telecommunication industry’s efforts in the central office re-architected as a data center platform.
The CORD project, which was formed by the Open Network Operating System in early 2015, is focused on accelerating the adoption of open source software-defined networking and network functions virtualization solutions for service providers using open source platforms like ONOS, OpenStack, Docker and XOS. The project was recently folded into The Linux Foundation as an independent open source project, and was quickly followed up by the release of its first open reference implementation targeted at providing a single integrated solution platform for creating new customer services. The reference design is said to allow developers to autobuild CORD on a single node within one hour.
“Over the last year, CORD has continued to evolve at record speed,” said Guru Parulkar, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation, ON.Lab and Stanford Platform Lab, in a statement “Much of the success of CORD has been driven by the various pre-integrated releases based on CORD to deliver solutions for various operator use cases. We’re excited to gather with the equally fast-growing CORD community at ONS to celebrate recent developments and collaborate on future innovation.”
Sprint, DT, Ixia and Xpose are set to join CORD carrier members AT&T, China Unicom, Google, NTT Communications, SK Telecom, Comcast and Verizon Communication; and vendor partners Ciena, Cisco, Fujitsu, Intel, NEC, Nokia, Radisys and Samsung.
“CORD combines the best of SDN, NFV and cloud technologies, creating an integrated platform that enables agile deployment of innovative cloud-scale services,” said Ron Marquardt, VP of technology at Sprint. “We are excited to work closely with leading ecosystem players to drive greater scalability and innovation. Through the contribution of our own open source code for CUPS and SDN, we appreciate the power of the community driven co-development process and encourage its rapid adoption throughout the mobile industry.”
As part of this week’s Open Networking Summit, CORD said contributors plan to partner with the broader ONF community to showcase the open innovation pipeline and capabilities of CORD solutions in ONOS, and interactive demonstrations of residential CORD, “5G” mobile CORD and enterprise virtual private network.
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