This is exciting news, as someone who has been present at these two plugfests - the interoperability between OCP and non-OCP parts has been crucial to make the solution attractive to the mass market. Standards are only as powerful as the testing and certification behind them.
--Matt Peterson Cumulus Networks - Office of the CTO On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Carlos Cardenas < car...@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > opencompute-networking mailing list > Unsubscribe: > http://lists.opencompute.org/mailman/options/opencompute-networking > > opencompute-networking@lists.opencompute.org > http://lists.opencompute.org/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-networking > >
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