Howdy, Over the last 9 months or so, we as a community, have been working hard on increasing testing at all levels: * Component Validation - ONIE Compliance, SAI Compliance, APD Compliance, et al * Interop Testing - Ensuring OCP and non-OCP Gear works together * Industry Compliance - Ensuring Open Networking Gear works together with traditional vendors and standard protocols like BGP, OSPF, etc
As a testament to this effort, we've seen the first batch of ONIE Compliant switches, hardware contributions are coming with test plans, software contributions are coming with full testing frameworks, and we wrapping up our second plugfest of our pluggables (cables/optics) interop test plan. All of these efforts drive the adoption of Open Networking from the hyperscale to the startup with enterprises taking notice and joining the movement. Today I am happy to announce that we will be launching an Open Networking Testing Consortium later this year (End of August/Mid-September). This consortium will cover the testing needs of all the aforementioned areas starting with the Interop Testing of Cables and Optics. Here are some high level details of how the consortium will work in general and how the pluggables interop will work. The consortium will work on a yearly subscription basis where members get unlimited testing on a first come, first serve basis. Non-members can participate on an ad hoc basis at a reduced fee per event. All test plans and test results will be published to a publicly accessible (non-paywall) "Consumer Reports Site" for easy lookup. The Interop testing will be housed at UNH-IOL which has over 26 years of experience in interop testing. The test bed will also be housed at UNH-IOL with samples from all members (hardware, cables/optics, NOSs). There will be a consortium membership fee (separate from OCP membership) that is comparable to other consortiums. As part of this consortium, we will be launching what is being called "Consumer Reports of Open Networking"; essentially, a website where end users can look up which devices are compliant with which cables/optics running a particular NOS. We expect to have an MVP (Minimum Value Product) of the site running by end of the year. We will start another thread on the mailing list to gather all the requirements and the requirements for MVP. Everything outlined: open testing, open reporting, is an industry first where a complete networking solution is being validated end to end. The intention is to cover from a NIC to a pluggable to a switch through a routing protocol and back down the stack again. Here are the list of vendors that have participated in the first two plugfests: * 3M * Accton * Amphenol * Avago * Big Switch Networks * Cumulus * Finisar * JDSU * Mellanox All of these vendors and UNH-IOL have been instrumental in this process as demonstrated that we are now in rev 10 of the test plan. +--+ Carlos
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