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ONF pushes optical vendors into open source with ODTN project

May 3, 2018

Backed by its operator membership, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is continuing its effort to herd traditional telco vendors into the world of open source.

To wit: ONF announced its Optical Disaggregated Transport Network (ODTN) open source project on Wednesday, which is backed by China Mobile, Comcast, NTT, TIM and Telefónica.

Like similar efforts by ONF, ODTN was designed to put operators in control of projects and to negate vendor lock-in by allowing service providers to select best-of-breed components instead of buying an entire system from a single vendor.

While open source has been around for years now, there’s still some foot dragging by vendors that don’t want to abandon the traditional vendor/operator relationships.

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