Why SDN leaders join ON.LAB

1. Why SDN leaders
join ON.LAB
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2. Community
Community of vendors,
network operators,
researchers who want
to bring the latest SDN
research from Stanford,
Berkeley, and other
universities to practice
via open source tools
and platforms and thus
realize the potential of
SDN.
o Vendor
o Network Operator
o Research Lab
Organizations
Users
Contributors

3. Why Organizations Join
Learn Collaborate Contribute
Keep track of latest SDN
research and
innovations
Bring the latest SDN
research to practice
Demonstrate early stage
SDN ideas with ON.LAB
o Learn about ideas and
innovations from leading
SDN researchers and
developers
o Get advise from ON.LAB
experts on your SDN
strategy
o Co-develop open source
SDN tools and platforms
incorporating latest
research
o Co-develop demos of use
cases using SDN tools and
platforms multiplying your
investment in ON.LAB
o Develop and access
ON.LAB tools and
platforms before their
public release
o Nurture a talent pool for
your organization coding
with ON.LAB experts

4. Why Users Join
Learn Collaborate Contribute
o Learn SDN as the new
paradigm of
networking and how it
is transforming the
industry
o Stay informed of the
latest SDN innovations
and their impact on
Internet and Cloud
o Demonstrate your
innovative networking
ideas using ON.LAB tools
and platforms
o Demonstrate SDN use
cases using ON.LAB tools
and platforms
o Create SDN deployments
using ON.LAB tools and
platforms
o Improve ON.LAB tools
and platforms to make
your day job easier
o Help other
organizations learn
from your experience
o Be recognized as a
leader in SDN space

5. Why Contributors Join
Learn Collaborate Contribute
o Actively shape the
biggest transformation
in networking with
ON.LAB
o Advise new users and
potential future co-
workers
o Get peer recognition
within the ON.LAB
ecosystem
o Leverage your
expertise to
collaborate with
ON.LAB on open
source SDN tools and
platforms
o Work with ON.LAB
community on road
map of SDN tools and
platforms
o Keep abreast of latest
SDN research and
innovations from
leading universities
o Learn about latest SDN
technologies and use
cases

6. What Our Members Told Us
Software Defined Networking is transforming the networking industry, delivering
levels of performance, control, and availability that had not previously been
possible. Google was one of the first organizations to champion Software-
Defined Networking and one of the first to deploy it in a real production
environment at large scale. Becoming an ON.LAB sponsor seemed a natural
evolution of our past partnership with Clean Slate and ONRC programs at
Stanford. ON.LAB turns advanced research into high-quality, scalable tools and
platforms designed to move the SDN industry forward. Google is a strong
supporter of open source communities along multiple fronts, including
networking and SDN. Our collaboration with ON.Lab around network
architecture, systems, and use cases are of tremendous mutual benefit.
•Amin Vahdat, Distinguished Engineer at Google
SDN will be critical to help enterprises and service providers build simpler
networks that, with the help of virtualization, are much easier and cheaper to
control, and to make use of for improved revenue and business impact. The
work ON.Lab is doing to empower vendors and users to better understand this
new technology, and to develop working prototypes of SDN solutions to spur
continuing innovation in the field, is crucial to driving this next evolution in
networking."
•Chris Janz, vice president of market development, Ciena

7. What Our Members Told Us
"Software-Defined Networking represents a new paradigm of networking. NEC
has been a supporter of SDN research at Stanford since beginning and is a
founding member of ON.Lab and ONRC. This collaboration has been a important
factor in NEC's leadership of OpenFlow and SDN with award winning products
and solutions. As SDN becomes main-stream over the next several years, NEC
continues the collaboration and support for ON.Lab and its mission to
develop, deploy and support advanced open source SDN tools and advanced
platforms for the SDN field."
•Atsushi Iwata, Deputy General Manager, Knowledge Discovery Research Labs,
NEC Corporation