The document summarizes the activities and initiatives of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) since the previous Open Networking Summit in 2013. It discusses how ONF has advanced the development of SDN/OpenFlow standards, grown its membership, and run programs to promote SDN adoption. It outlines ONF's focus areas for 2014 including advancing the OpenFlow substrate, building out northbound APIs, and connecting more users and operators to SDN through collaboration and outreach.

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ONF & SDN: Come Far, Moving Fast
Dan Pitt, ONF Executive Director
Open Networking Summit, March 5, 2014
www.opennetworking.org; @openflow: @danpittpaloalto

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ONF ONS Update: What a Year (coming & going)!
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• ONF since ONS 2013
– Guess who won the $50,000 competition?
• SDN since ONS 2013
• ONF initiatives 2014

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SDN Value Proposition: No Change
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Making
Money
• Customization
• Time to Cash
• Service Quality
Saving
Money
• Virtualization
• Automation
• Simplification

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ONF Since ONS 2013
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• OpenFlow 1.3.2, 1.3.3, Extensions 1.3.x, 1.4
• OF-Config 1.1.1, 1.2
• OpenFlow Conformance Program
– OpenFlow Conformance Test Suite 1.0.1
– 4 Sanctioned Conformance Testing Labs
• Chipmakers Advisory Board
• Open-Source OpenFlow Driver Competition
• Open-Source educational SampleTap project
• Research Associates Program (17)
• Solution Briefs, Technical Reports, Tutorials, Webinars
• Startup membership category
• Expanded technical scope due to market demand

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ONFBoard
Executive Director (Dan
Pitt)
Technical Advisory
Group
Chipmakers
Advisory Board
Council of Chairs
Arch & Framework
Extensibility
Config & Management
Testing & Interop
Forwarding Abstractions
Migration
Optical Transport
Wireless & Mobile
NBI
Discussion Groups
• Security
• L4-7
• Carrier-Grade SDN
Committees
• Market Education
ONF Scope

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ONF Membership: +40 since last ONS
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ONF Membership: +40 since last ONS
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ONF Operator/User Members
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Facebook
Goldman Sachs
Google
Level 3
Microsoft
Rackspace
TW Telecom
Verizon
Virtela
Yahoo!
Alibaba
Baidu
China Mobile
China Telecom
Korea Telecom
KDDI
NTT Communications
PCCW Global
SK Telecom
Tata Communications
Telecom Malaysia
Tencent
Colt
Deutsche Telekom
Orange
Telecom Italia
Swisscom
Telefonica
Vodafone
ECI Telecom

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• Purpose: To spur development of an open-source OpenFlow driver to enable developers to focus on value-add;
targeted at controllers
• The Prize: $50,000 to an individual or team
• Runners up: Flowgrammable and InfoBlox
• The winner….
• Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Telecomunicações, Campinas BR
OpenFlow Driver Competition
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SDN Since Last ONS
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One SDN Market Projection
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Ⓒ SDNcentral.com 2013

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AT&T Domain 2.0
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• “Utilizing Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networks (SDN)”
• “An advanced all-IP broadband, all-wireless, and all-cloud infrastructure”
• “Simplify & scale network by”
– “Separating HW & SW functionality
– Separating network control plane and forwarding planes
– Improving management of functionality in the software layer”
• “Some current suppliers…some new providers”

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SDN in Consumer Publications
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British Airways High Life
October 2013

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SDN in Popular Culture
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November 16, 2013

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ONF Initiatives 2014
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ONF 2014: Simple as A-B-C
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Advance Open SDN
Build Real OpenFlow
A
B
C
Connect Users to SDN

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Advance Open SDN
• OpenFlow substrate (OpenFlow, OF-Config, Optical Transport, Mobile & Wireless)
• Northbound I/Fs (to services above the OpenFlow substrate)
• Liaisons: ODL, OIF, OSO, SDOs
Build Real OpenFlow
A
B
C
Connect Users to SDN

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NBI Latitudes & Longitudes
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SpectrumofNorthboundInterfaces

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Advance Open SDN
• OpenFlow substrate (OpenFlow, OF-Config, Optical Transport, Mobile & Wireless)
• Northbound I/Fs (to services above the OpenFlow substrate)
• Liaisons: ODL, OIF, OSO, SDOs
Build Real OpenFlow
• Conformance Program 1.3, PlugFests, benchmarking
• PoCs; SDN Solutions Showcase
• Startup memberships
• Open Source Software (OCP); open-source software
A
B
C
Connect Users to SDN

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Open-Source Software in ONF
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Why
• Learning, validation; not commercial
Where
• ONF GitHub repository; Apache 2.0 license
What
• OpenFlow driver
• ONF SampleTap
• Conformance test framework
• Prototype NBIs
• …

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Advance Open SDN
• OpenFlow substrate (OpenFlow, OF-Config, Optical Transport, Mobile & Wireless)
• Northbound I/Fs (to services above the OpenFlow substrate)
• Liaisons: ODL, OIF, OSO, SDOs
Build Real OpenFlow
• Conformance Program 1.3, PlugFests, benchmarking
• PoCs; SDN Solutions Showcase
• Startup memberships
• Open Source Software (OCP); open-source software
A
B
C
Connect Users to SDN
• Migration: use cases, methods, metrics, tools
• Inbound Requirements: L4-7, Security, Carrier-Grade SDN
• Liaisons: ETSI/NFV, OpenStack, ONUG, ODCA, TMF, US-Ignite

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ONF’s Many Friends
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ONF
Standar
ds
Consort
ia
Open
Source
Research
End-
User

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Conclusion
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• SDN trends
– Operators speaking, acting
– Vendors responding
• ONF contributions: simple as A-B-C
– Advancing open SDN
– Building Real OpenFlow
– Connecting Users to SDN
Come spell the future with us!