The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Software-Defined Networking (SDN), today announced ONF’s annual technical roadmap designed to drive the commercialization of open, standards-based SDN. ONF continues to solve market needs in practical ways, developing new standards, and introducing working groups with the needs of end users in mind. ONF’s technical roadmap will be overseen by Rick Bauer, newly appointed by ONF to the position of technical program manager. “Rapid SDN adoption requires practical solutions,” said Dan Pitt, executive director of ONF. “We’re committed to serving as a networking consumer advocate, representing the needs of global SDN users by providing standardized approaches that promote competition and best-of-breed solutions. This allows users to achieve maximum organizational impact by innovating and governing the operation of their networks according to their own business objectives, through software that they control.” Organizations understand the value of software programmability in the network, and know that truly standards-based systems best meet the needs of operators and users. ONF does not support vendor-specific protocols and does not believe that all standards – especially software APIs – should be set by a committee. ONF will standardize only what is necessary to move the networking industry [...]

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