Congratulations to Sean Condon for being accepted as a new module owner for the following parts of the ONOS codebase:
Owners are responsible for maintaining the quality of contributions for their part of the codebase and are responsible for reviewing code contributed to those modules from other people in the community. If you have questions about the following areas of code, please contact Sean.
ONOS Build 2017 is a developer conference by the community for the community. As such, we want to make this event as open and participatory as possible and your participation is key to its success. Below is a reminder of the different ways you can sign-up to be a speaker or presenter:
The Community Showcase is a series of talks, presentations and demos by partners, collaborators and contributors of the ONOS Community. On day 1 and 2, the focus is on ONOS and on day 3, the focus is on CORD as an ONOS Use Case
The aim is to provide a platform for members of the ONOS community to share and learn from each other.
Each talk will be between 20 + 5 min of Q&A. Talks will be in the form of slide presentations.
The showcase is open to everyone. Registered participants who have submitted a talk proposal and who have been confirmed as speaker will appear on the schedule.
To submit a talk proposal, simply fill out one of the following forms:
ONOS Showcase: http://onosbuild.org/onos-community-showcase/
CORD Showcase: http://onosbuild.org/cord-community-showcase/
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: Tuesday August 1st, 2017
Do you need help with an awesome SDN project you’re working on? Do you have a phenomenal demo you want to show off ? Are you working on an experiment or idea that needs feedback or testers? At ONOS Build 2017, you’ll have your chance to show off what you’re working on and get feedback from SDN experts from all over the world during our lunch-time SDN Science Fair.
Exhibitors at the fair will be able to set up their laptops and demos at small booths while everyone else can wander around the space, stopping to chat, watch demos, ask questions, and generally just dive in, talk about stuff, and vote on their favorite project.
If you would like to present demos/posters during the SDN Science Fair, please fill out this simple form: http://onosbuild.org/sdn-science-fair/
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: Friday September 1st, 2017
The ONOS Hackathon at ONOS Build 2017 will be an event that will take place during the last two days of the conference where participants will develop a new feature into ONOS. The new feature could be as simple as a new small application on ONOS or a new subsystem within ONOS.
The idea is to encourage developers to build new applications or new features into ONOS and continue collaborating with them long after the event.
Each team will be composed of at least two people and up to a maximum of four people. Each team will be led by a Team Captain and will come with an idea of what to build for ONOS. We will also propose some ideas for those teams that lack some inspiration ;). Teams will build their feature over the duration of the event and then teams will be expected to present their work to the conference during the closing session. All participants of the conference will vote for the best projects.
Anyone can participate. Of course, if you are interested in networking technology and can write code, that’s even better but the hackathon is definitely not limited to coders. It is up to the Team Captain to select and build his/her team, so if the Team Captain decides that he needs a circus juggler or salsa dancer on his team to get the work done and win the top prize, then that’s totally fine!
Each team is led by a Team Captain who is responsible for forming his/her team and overseeing his/her team’s project from the beginning of the Hackathon until the very end. The Team Captain is also responsible for reaching unanimous agreement with his/her team on how to share their prize should his/her team win a prize.
Each team should be composed at least 2 people and up to 4 people.
They will be announced soon….
Please fill out the followig form: http://onosbuild.org/onos-hackathon/
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: Friday September 1st, 2017
With ONOS Build 2017 just a little less than two months away, we wanted to share a quick reminder that registration is free for core community members, which include code contributors, ONOS Brigade Members, Ambassadors and ONF members. However, if you’re stil new to the community, you still have one week to benefit from an early-registration 40% discount so make sure to register before Tuesday August 1st!
The registration link can be found here: http://onosbuild.org/register/
PS: tomorrow, we’ll be posting another update which will focus on all the different participation opportunities at ONOS Build 2017. Stay tuned!
We’re thrilled to announce that registrations at ONOS Build 2017 are now open! You can register directly on the event website: http://onosbuild.org/register/
Registration is FREE if you are already actively involved in the ONOS project as a code contributor, brigade member or Ambassador, or if your organization is a member of the ONF. We will also waive the registration fee if you have submitted a participation proposal for a “Community Showcase” or an “SDN Science Fair” poster and you have been accepted (see below). Finally, we offer a 40% discount for general and student registrations made before August 1st.
Call for Participation
As we mentioned in our previous ONOS Build 2017 update, the event’s success is entirely dependent on the community’s participation. There are three ways you can participate as a speaker or presenter:
The Community Showcase is a series of talks, presentations and demos by partners, collaborators and contributors of the ONOS Community. On day 1 and 2, the focus is on ONOS and on day 3, the focus is on CORD as an ONOS Use Case
If there is an awesome SDN project you’re working on or if you are working on an experiment or idea that needs feedback or testers, you’ll have your chance to show off what you’re working on and get feedback from SDN experts from all over the world during ONOS Build’s SDN Science Fair.
Exhibitors at the fair will be able to either set up their laptops and demos at small booths or hand a poster during lunch time, while everyone else can wander around the space, stopping to chat, watch demos, ask questions. Prizes will be awarded to the best projects, as voted by conference attendees.
The ONOS Hackathon will be an event spanning the length of the conference where participants will develop a new feature for ONOS. The new feature could be as simple as a new small application on ONOS or a new subsystem within ONOS. Best of all, some really cool prizes will be on offer for the top three teams, voted by conference attendees.
Submit a proposal today
If you’re interested in giving a talk at the “Community Showcase”, in presenting an inspiring SDN-related project at the “SDN Science Fair” or in participating in the “ONOS Hackathon” to win a cool prize, make sure to visit website’s participation page to submit a proposal: http://onosbuild.org/cfp/
Help sponsor the event!
Another very important way you can participate in ONOS Build 2017 is as a sponsor. We welcome all organizations who are interested in supporting us as we aim to offer a first class event for our community, while at the same time providing travel subsidies to ONOS contributors around the world who would not be able to attend the event otherwise.
If your organization is interested in becoming an official sponsor, please visit the sponsor page here: http://onosbuild.org/sponsors/
And as always, if you have any questions, make sure to contact the ONOS Build event team at onos-build [at] onlab [dot] us or directly on our Slack channel.
Guest post by Guru Parulkar in Network ComputingIf you want to transform something, truly change the way it’s done, you first have to break it down. The network infrastructure industry has been undergoing a major transformation and not surprisingly this has involved breaking open the network into parts, which has clear cost and agility benefits. By disaggregating networking devices and separating control from data, software-defined networking (SDN) lets operators run open-source networking software on commodity hardware to take advantage of the open networking movement that has sprung up across the industry.
Click here to read the full guest post by Guru Parulkar in Network Computing.
New ONOS release advances support for dynamic configuration of legacy devices, enhances whitebox leaf-spine fabric solution, and offers enhanced user interface
SANTA CLARA, Calif. April 3, 2017 – ONOS Project, the ONF/ON.Lab open source software-defined networking (SDN) OS for service providers, today announces availability of a new ONOS release now in operation in several new lab & field trials and to be featured in demonstrations at this week’s Open Networking Summit.
ONOS® is broadening its ability to bring SDN and NFV agility to mission-critical networks. By adding support for ‘incremental SDN’ alongside the ‘disruptive SDN’ capabilities for which it has been long known, ONOS can now address an ever wider array of deployment scenarios.
Additionally, ONOS now includes a number of other major enhancements such as:
“ONOS delivers important performance and scalability advancements that are needed for service providers and enterprises to advance SDN, said Bill Snow, chief development officer, ON.Lab. “New demos and POCs at ONS this week will bring to life how ONOS enables next-generation disaggregated IP/Optical transport network solutions, and how the dynamic configuration capabilities make it easy to add innovative new services, like L3VPN.”
Additional new and improved ONOS features include:
SDN-IP enhancements
Whitebox Leaf-Spine Fabric
Southbound Enhancements
vRouter
Framework
Northbound Intent Interface Enhancements
Traffic Engineering
User Interface
The full list of ONOS features in the latest releases can be found here.
ONOS Use Case Example – Argela
Showcasing the power and commercial readiness of this new release, ONOS Project collaborator Argela (the research and development arm of Turk Telekom) is currently using ONOS as the network operating system for its SDN and NFV-based network infrastructure. Argela has pilot ONOS deployments at three different Turkish government institutions, in addition to Turk Telekom’s intranet. The infrastructure provides extensive centralized analytics, policy management, zero touch traffic management, enhanced topology management and complete network security. ONOS is configured to allow for a multi-layer security at the user access, data, control and application layers. Argela’s ONOS deployment provides protection to a vast variety of threats such as DDoS protection, intrusion detection, malware protection and network access protection.
ONOS Activities at Open Networking Summit
Thanks to ONOS partners and collaborators, ONF is demonstrating several new ONOS field trials, use cases and commercial deployments at ONS this week.
The ONOS Mini Summit will show how organizations use ONOS to meet their business needs through technical sessions and hands-on design workshops on application development, multi-domain environments, security, system testing, global SDN deployment and service models. More details on ONF’s ONOS Mini Summit and CORD Mini Summit are available here.
ONOS will also be featured in the SDN & NFV Solutions Showcase (S3) exhibit area with live demos on Dynamic Configuration and Packet-optical solutions made possible by contributions from ONOS members Calient, Ciena, CoAdna, Fujitsu, Lumentum, NEC, NTT Communications, OpLink and Polatis.
The rapidly growing, diverse ONOS community comprises a core engineering team at ONF/ON.Lab, as well as developers from service providers, vendors, research and educational networks spanning many industries. Future ONOS releases will focus on further development of dynamic configuration with NETCONF and RESTCONF models and services, virtualization, codebase disaggregation, and extending intent-based interfaces. This work is driven by collaboration among the ONOS Brigades, smaller teams focused on specific features that will ship in upcoming versions of ONOS.
Additional Resources
About ON.Lab
Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) has created the leading open source platforms CORD® (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter) and ONOS® (Open Network Operating System (ONOS) for service providers. Founded by SDN’s inventors and leaders to foster an open source community to realize the full potential of SDN, ON.Lab brings innovative ideas from leading edge research and delivers high-quality open source platforms on which members of its ecosystem can build solutions. For further information, visit http://onlab.us/.
About ONF
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), the recognized leader and standard bearer for SDN. Launched in 2011, the ONF has successfully taken Software Defined Networking (SDN) from obscurity to the universally accepted vision for next generation networking.
The ONF is led by a board including representation from leading operators including AT&T, Google, NTT Communications, SK Telecom and Verizon. The merger of ONF and ON.Lab is expected to be complete in late 2017. For further information visit http://www.opennetworking.org/.
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ONF Executive Director Guru Parulkar introduces Foundation’s new game-changing Open Innovation Pipeline strategy.
Last fall, ONF and ON.Lab announced an agreement to become a single organization under the ONF name. Since that time, our aligned operations teams have been hard at work framing the go-forward strategy of the new ONF, an energizing and exciting planning initiative in preparation for our formal merger at the end of 2017.
Today, we have announced the new ONF Open Innovation Pipeline – a strategy that leverages open source platforms, network device disaggregation, and software defined standards to build high value use cases and solutions and to solidify pre-established paths for taking those solutions into operator PoCs, trials and deployment. This framework is the first and only one of its kind in the networking industry and we believe that it’s a game changing in terms of how SDN and NFV will get deployed in networks. It builds on ON.Lab’s advancements with CORD® and ONOS®, two platforms which successfully brought together operators, vendors and integrators to build solutions for carrier networks by leveraging SDN, NFV and Cloud technologies via an open source approach and disaggregated network devices in the form of white boxes. It also draws from ONF’s deep relationships with the operator community.
We understand that the SDN movement initiated by the ONF successfully set the disaggregation of networking devices and control software in motion. It has also fostered the emergence of a broad range open source platforms. We now believe that the industry needs a unifying effort to build solutions out of the numerous disaggregated components. We’re recognizing a trend – one where vendors are leveraging open source to build closed proprietary solutions – and warn that this only provides marginal benefit to the broader ecosystem. The ONF’s Open Innovation Pipeline is designed to counteract this.
Why is the Open Innovation Pipeline needed?
The SDN movement, first initiated by the ONF, has successfully set in motion the disaggregation of networking devices and control software and fostered the emergence of a broad range open source platforms. A trend has emerged where vendors leverage open source to build closed proprietary solutions, providing only marginal benefit to the broader ecosystem. Complexity still challenges many operators, who find building solutions involves the need to integrate many layers of technology, product, customization and integration.
Few players have the resources to invest in building such complex solutions. Innovative offerings have difficulty making it into operator networks because the only route to market is through closed vertically integrated “stovepipe” solutions that tightly integrate together a selection of technologies in ways that result in proprietary barriers to entry.
The industry needs a unifying effort to build solutions out of the numerous disaggregated components. An open platform and clear roadmap is needed to deliver on the promise of SDN and NFV.
ONF will also help a variety of vendors accelerate how an idea or innovation gets adopted into production networks, while operators and system integrators also stand to benefit from the Open Innovation Pipeline. The pipeline allows members of all types to bring their unique innovation and value into the solution. Operators, vendors and integrators all have a role to play, and the pipeline helps integrate these contributions into consumable solutions for operators.
How will the Open Innovation Pipeline accelerate innovation into deployment?
ONF will maintain an integrated open source platform, making it easy for new innovations to focus on where they add value. Vendors and integrators can add value and introduce offerings anywhere along the innovation pipeline. Additionally, to foster interoperability ONF will focus on developing open source interworking APIs and Models by working with the broader open source community. Additionally, data plane innovation will continue to be fostered through standards development for OpenFlow and future offerings.
Want to learn more about the Open Innovation Pipeline Strategy?
We understand that you may have questions about our new strategy. If you’d like to learn more, I encourage you to read this overview of our new Open Innovation Pipeline strategy.
And, if your travels take you to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the week of February 27, we also encourage you to visit us at the show in Hall 5, Stand 5161 to learn more about this exciting new initiative.
– Guru Parulkar, Executive Director
Rob Jack is the Chief Solution Architect, OSS within Huawei’s Consulting & IT Services division and has held senior OSS architecture and consulting roles for over 20 years throughout Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. He served as CTO for Fastwire, a specialist Inventory Management OSS solution prior to its acquisition by Huawei in 2013 and now leads research teams in Future OSS and Orchestration, helping to build Huawei’s advanced next generation Infrastructure Enabling System (IES). The TMF Catalyst project integrated ONOS as part of it’s platform, thus we have invited Rob Jack to share more details with us in this guest blog.
The TMF (tmforum.org) has long adopted a “needs-driven” approach to developing and validating the assets which it provides to the telecommunications industry. It does this primarily via its Catalyst program, whereby teams of vendors, SIs and CSPs work together to lead research on a particular business problem.
While many of the core TMF assets such as the SID Information Framework, or Business Process Framework are familiar to many in telecoms, they are perhaps associated with the development and integration of traditional OSS/BSS. More recently the TMF has been leading the OSS/BSS industry in developing new capabilities and assets towards the virtualization of networks and telecom services, with a number of programs in place towards this, including the ZOOM (Zero Touch Operations Orchestration & Management) project. ZOOM’s particular focus on SDN/NFV has tackled many challenges being driven from Telco digitization, and a number of TMF Catalyst projects are operating within ZOOM towards better defining the needs for new concepts and associated standards within this exciting field.
One of those projects, termed “Future Mode of Operations: Model-Driven Service Orchestration for Hybrid Networks” is led by Huawei with participation from vendor partners including Inspur and, in first phases, IBM. The project was championed by Orange and China Mobile, who provided a business requirement of using a modern orchestration architecture to achieve on-demand scale-out of a combined physical/virtual network during peak mobile traffic scenarios: such as stadium events or similar “tidal effect” traffic peaks in the mobile core network. The scenario demanded the use of VoLTE, and associated EPC and IMS infrastructure.
Mirroring the roll-out of NFV, the team chose to develop the scenario from standard physical infrastructure to a 4G VoLTE network, including elements such as S/PGW within the EPC and S/P-CSCF within the IMS domain. In addition, an NFV MANO provided by Huawei created access to a VNF form of the S/PGW, is becoming created, onboarded and ready for scale-out on demand.
The final piece of the puzzle was provided by partnership with ONOS. Following a workshop held after a visit from the Catalyst project team to San Jose in July 2015, a team from the ONOS Project worked to provide access to Intent APIs based around the Huawei IPVPN extensions to ONOS core. This allowed the Catalyst to achieve the second element of the hybrid orchestration proof of concept – on-demand scale-out of the IPVPN core transporting the VoLTE sessions.
The team has since worked together through three iterations of the Catalyst project, with a main focus in each phase on:
This latest iteration of the Catalyst has seen use cases from Orange and China Mobile resulting in a partnership approach to the solution as shown below:
In the mVAS scenario, ONOS is being called by a policy-based orchestration to build or scale IP-VPN based services such that any OpCo (local operating company) of an international CSP can leverage a multi-VAS service hosted at a centralized, cloudified location supporting VNF-based services.
The policy used in this scenario goes beyond the standard Event Condition Action (ECA) policies typically used today to drive many QoS based network intent rules, such as: “if Local VAS utilization goes above 80%, trigger a scale-out of VPN and use mVAS capability.” Here, the Huawei Orchestration component is using Goal and Utility Function policies – the latter can assign a cost (derived from financial metrics of CAPEX and OPEX) to first determine whether the scale-out is economical. Goal policies of ensuring overall customer experience can go hand-in-hand with the Utility Function and lower-layer ECA policies to ensure that an organization’s overall operating model can be encapsulated and automated.
The Intent APIs presented by ONOS represent a key advantage in ensuring that such an approach can be made to work without involving onerous software engineering or configuration to match and breakdown such goals into highly procedural API calls. Using these, the team was able to successfully and simply create orchestration across this complex hybrid domain. Further, these types of scale-out intents lent themselves well to modelling within an intent- model Service Catalog. The Service Orchestration system was able to include abstracted specifications of the types of virtual link services available within ONOS in its own Service Catalog, and associate those to the capabilities and capacities (again expressed abstractly) in physical and virtual domains to allow decision processes in orchestration to operate automatically.
Beyond the ONOS-based capabilities, the Catalyst has demonstrated API-based solutions and developed new standards assets through the collaboration for (among others):
Over the first two phases the Catalyst was awarded twice by an independent panel of judges. At Dallas in 2015, the project received the “Best Adoption of Frameworx”, while in Nice earlier this year it was awarded for “Greatest Contribution to Accelerating Digital Business”.
This month, the latest phase will be demonstrated at TMF events in Dallas and Singapore, and once more the contribution from the ONOS project will be key to showing a complete model-driven service orchestration for hybrid networks.
The Catalyst team acknowledges this great contribution from ONOS, and is hopeful that this collaboration between the open source world and standards organizations like the TMF continues to improve on the increasingly rapid turnaround between standards development and proven solutions that is needed to drive the real-world, mass-scale adoption of virtualized infrastructure.
If your company is a TMF member, and you would like to learn more about the project or the Catalyst program, please feel free to contact the TMF directly through info@tmforum.org or via https://www.tmforum.org/collaboration/catalyst-program/catalyst-program-benefits/
Learn about the ONOS Deployments Brigade from Luca Prete, MTS ON.Lab:
Q: Luca, please tell us a bit about yourself and role within ONOS.
A: As an SDN enthusiast, I joined ON.Lab in 2014 before the open sourcing of ONOS. I earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in Milan and a Masters in Internet technologies from the University of Pisa. I’ve been involved in computer science consulting since 2005, with a particular focus on systems and networks. Since 2012, I’ve collaborated with the Italian NREN in the R&D department, researching SDN and cloud computing systems deployments. At ON.Lab, I currently lead deployment activities.
Q: Briefly summarize the Deployments Brigade’s team, scope, goals, and any notable progress to-date.
A: The goal of the Deployments Brigade is to make ONOS-based SDN deployments easy and production-ready. During our current ONOS/SDN deployments in R&E Networks around the world, we learned a basic set of features the network operators ask for, and as a brigade we want to make it available and easy to deploy.
More specifically, we’re developing a software stack on ONOS that will allow Operators to provision on-demand Layer2 VPNs and exchange L3 routes, both over a convergent packet-optical network. We’re trying to make the stack support the most recent standards and protocols used by Service Providers and Research and Educational Networks today, such as the MEF standards – for the creation of L2 VPNs (E-LINE and E-LAN), and the NSI protocol for the provisioning of resources among multiple administrative domains.
I knew network operators really wanted such a stack and features, but when we saw the number of people from the Partners and the Community asking to participate, I was really impressed and happy. The brigade currently comprises 18 active developers from Service Providers, Vendors, RENs and Academia, while the mailing list has a broader audience including Managers and Executives.
As many know, each brigade should meet for the first time within the September-October timeframe to have the opportunity to share requirements, ideas, work together, and – why not – have some fun. Having people with different backgrounds and expectations might be challenging. The initial goal was to discuss requirements, define tasks, go through the initial design phases together, and possibly start to code. Exceeding my expectations, in one week, we defined requirements and tasks, we talked about the solution design, and we coded a full working solution in answer to our first use-cases: being able to manage VLAN tags in SDN-IP and run together applications to provide on-demand Layer2 and Layer3 services (VPLS and SDN-IP). Additional code under review will enable more new features; soon VPLS will be able to associate in the same network interfaces using different VLAN IDs, as well as different tag types, such as MPLS tags, VLAN IDs, and so on. The Intent Framework will natively support bandwidth provisioning and enforcement, and the VPLS app will be able to use it, opening a completely new set of use-cases.
Q: Has the Deployments Brigade team developed any best practices, or do you have any advice to share with the other Brigades to optimize collaboration leading into the ONOS Developer Summit?
A: The work week and the preparation leading up to it was very educational.
Arriving prepared to the working week is fundamental: goals should be clear, a basic backlog should be in place and the staff of ON.Lab should be prepared to dedicate time to the team, to answer questions and work with them.
People will have different backgrounds and will already have different opinions, ideas, requirements. If things above are not well prepared, you’ll probably just add confusion to the group.
It’s fundamental to put the right balance between presentations, interactive design discussions and practical work – meaning coding. The week together is not a conference, it’s not intended for executives. It’s for developers. You don’t want to see people of your group become passive listeners, get bored with lots of presentations. It’s also important that everyone has the chance to fully express her/his ideas. This can be achieved through interactive discussions.
It is important for people to walk away from the working week at ON.Lab with some concrete work in progress. While I may have difficulties starting a coding task from scratch once back to my daily job, If I were to start a task at ON.Lab with a concrete idea of how things might be done and help from core developers, I would feel excited and fully involved looking forward to bringing the task to completion.
Lastly, the social aspect shouldn’t be forgotten. This has been at least as important as coding for the success of the project. I’ve personally noticed a huge difference between the first day of meeting and the next days. After team bonding, people were better able to comfortably interact. This was true both for external contributors and for internal people at ON.Lab.
Q: How can people get involved with the Deployments Brigade?/Any call-to-action?
A: There are many ways people can get involved. As a geographically distributed group, we use online tools, and we want to make sure they all remain up to date as much as possible.
Basic information about our brigade can be found on the ONOS Wiki at https://wiki.onosproject.org/display/ONOS/Deployment+brigade. This contains anyway the main other pointers I’m giving here, and tells you how to get involved.
Our backlog, a list of current tasks and their current progress can be found on our Agile tool platform, at https://jira.onosproject.org/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=1&view=planning.nodetail
We also have a public mailing-list we use to talk one each other, which is public. The address is brigade-deployments@onosproject.org. If you’re interested in looking at the old conversations, the archive is available at https://groups.google.com/a/onosproject.org/forum/?hl=en#!forum/brigade-deployments
I’ll close with expressing how happy and satisfied I feel when I see how much has been done by the deployments brigade, and how much is also going on. I guess this is the demonstration of the potential of such initiative, that – hopefully – will continue to produce better and better results.
