The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) today announced that its portfolio of leading open source networking projects, encompassing access, edge and cloud solutions, are set to graduate to become independent projects under the Linux Foundation (LF). The move creates independent, community-led governance for the three major project areas: Broadband, Aether and P4, and sets the projects up for broader collaboration and adoption. As a result of this merger, ONF will be dissolved, transferring all operations to LF.
Since 2011, the ONF has driven a proactive agenda to build open source solutions across the spectrum of networking domains. ONF’s projects have matured and moved into production deployments worldwide, championed by tier-1 cloud and telecom operators. Following the release of ONF’s complete portfolio to open source over the past year, the ONF Board determined that the next logical step for ONF’s portfolio of projects is to give them each full independence and move them into a community-led framework.
Additionally, a new Open Network Models and Interfaces (ONMI) project is hosting ONF’s network modeling and interface projects (OIMT, OTCC, T-API, Wireless xHaul), the output of which various standards organizations continue to rely upon today.