Hello All, I'm happy to say that the registration for our third Open Networking plugfest, scheduled for September 21-25, is now live. You can register at: https://www.iol.unh.edu/event/2015/09/open-networking-plugfest. You will also see it listed in the events section of the main www.iol.unh.edu site. You'll also note that the opportunity to join the Open Networking Testing Consortium at UNH-IOL is now open as well, and you will find links for that in the plugfest announcement. I'll be providing an updated 'Membership Proposal' document that was shared during our last call, based on feedback I've received since then. We'll begin weekly planning calls for the plugfest in the next few weeks, to iron out modifications to the test plan (currently at Rev 11, edits from the June Plugfest will be incorporated in Rev 12).
As has been discussed, our goal is that this plugfest will serve as the launch point for a public "Consumer Reports"-like Interop Matrix of Open Networking, administered by UNH-IOL. We hope this community effort will contribute to the growing momentum behind open networking. thank you David 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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