Intel Now a Platinum Member of the OpenDaylight Project
The OpenDaylight Project today announced that Intel, one of the project’s founding members, is now a Platinum member. The company joins existing OpenDaylight Platinum members Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Ericsson, HP, IBM, Juniper, Microsoft and Red Hat in the industry effort to advance an open, common framework for SDN.
OpenDaylight has made significant progress in the last 18 months to advance the much needed collaborative community efforts for developing an open source SDN controller platform. Such a platform is essential for broader market adoption of SDN and NFV technologies across market segments. The OpenDaylight Project has united hundreds of developers and users to deliver an inclusive platform that includes current and emerging protocols, standards and code that can be leveraged by users.
“The year ahead will see increased adoption and deployment of OpenDaylight-based SDN controllers,” said Neela Jacques, executive director, OpenDaylight. “Intel has been actively engaged in working with partners on a broad spectrum of technologies critical to the successful deployment of SDN and NFV and will imbue a new vibrancy in the OpenDaylight community.”
“The SDN controller is a key component in Intel’s Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) reference architecture,” said Uri Elzur, SDN System Architecture Director at Intel. “By playing a larger role in a community of like-minded industry leaders through OpenDaylight, we aim to advance the capabilities, deployment, automation and agility of SDI for the benefit of our customers.”
Uri Elzur will join OpenDaylight’s board of directors and Rajeev Koodli, Architect at Intel, will join OpenDaylight’s Technical Steering Committee. Intel developers have been participating in the OpenDaylight community since launch and will dedicate additional resources to the project as part of its Platinum membership.
