FYI:
*Press Releases*
*Open Networking Foundation Launches Industry's First Open-Source
"OpenFlow^(TM) Driver" Contest*
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/Competition to Encourage Implementation, Interoperability of the
OpenFlow Standard/
OPEN NETWORKING SUMMIT, Santa Clara, Calif., April 17, 2013 -- The Open
Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to
promoting Software-Defined Networking (SDN), today announced the
industry's first competition to create an open-source "OpenFlow^(TM)
Driver." The competition is open to the worldwide development community
to create an interoperable open-source implementation of the latest
OpenFlow standard. ONF intends the competition to produce an OpenFlow
driver that everyone from network equipment vendors and ISVs to
operators, and larger open-source projects can use for easy transitions
between different implementations of the OpenFlow protocol. The winner
of the "OpenFlow Driver" competition will be awarded one grand prize of
$50,000.
"ONF is committed to solving market needs in very practical ways," said
Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation. "This
competition is designed to encourage additional SDN innovation by
seeking additional open-sourced technology solutions. We want this
OpenFlow Driver to be of use for global developers of OpenFlow products,
making it easier for them to build value around and easily update the
OpenFlow protocol component with the latest ONF specifications as they
evolve."
The competition is open to all organizations and individuals worldwide
interested in developing an OpenFlow driver that any developer can use
in a controller or switch to maintain compatibility among switches and
controllers. The contest will open for submissions on April 16, 2013 at
12:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, and will close on August 15, 2013 at
11:59 p.m. PDT. Judges, who will be selected by the Foundation, will
critique on the following:
·Compliance with the OpenFlow specification standard
·Correctness of operation with test harness
·Ease with which the submission can be integrated into a controller
·Completeness of the implementation
·Clarity of the code and architecture
·Memory footprint
·Potential performance and scaling of the architecture
·Portability of the code
·Modularity of the code
·Extensibility and maintainability of the code
·Integration with multiple programming languages
·Performance and scalability of the code
The winner will be announced on September 30, 2013. The winning entry
will be provided under both Apache 2.0 and GPL dual-licenses for maximum
compatibility with both open-source projects and commercial ones. For
more information about the open-source "OpenFlow Driver" competition and
submission guidelines, please visit www.opennetworking.org/competition
<http://www.opennetworking.org/competition>. Competition terms and rules
can be found at:
www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/misc/openflow-driver-competition-terms-conditions.pdf
<http://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/misc/openflow-driver-competition-terms-conditions.pdf>.
About ONF
Launched in 2011 by Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft,
Verizon, and Yahoo!, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is a growing
nonprofit organization with more than 90 members whose mission is to
advance the commercialization and use of SDN and the OpenFlow protocol.
ONF will accelerate the delivery and use of SDN and OpenFlow
technologies and standards while fostering a vibrant market of products,
services, applications, customers, and users. For further details visit
the ONF website at: http://www.opennetworking.org.
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