The ONOS community announced its latest open source SDN Network Operating System release – Falcon, featuring additional support for Central Office Re-Architected as a Data Center (CORD), many new applications and more support for southbound protocols. This marks the 6th software release since the ONOS project became public in December 2014.
Some highlights of Falcon:
- ONOS is now a part of the OPNFV distribution called Brahmaputra, thanks to the efforts of Huawei who developed OpenStack Neutron ML2/L3 interfaces/features, VTN, Service Function Chaining, OVSDB and Installers’ Plugin.
- ONOS continues to be a key component of ONF’s Atrium distribution, and Falcon will be integrated with the most recent ONF Atrium 2016/A distribution through the ONOS project’s collaboration with the ONF.
- Continued expansion of the REN networks including new network support with NCTU Taiwan, GÉANT Europe, KREONET Korea, AARNET Australia, AmLight South America.
- Troubleshooting applications from FNLab/BUPT china.
- OSPF southbound protocol support from Huawei and Cognizant and a SNMP southbound provider from BTI.
- New GUI views including the driver matrix view and the application view.
- New northbound reservation capabilities from Fujitsu
- Dynamic cluster scaling support.
“ONOS has rapidly evolved to become a platform for service providers to monetize SDN and NFV, while helping vendors and service providers alike to create SDN and NFV solutions leveraging open source and invent new business models,” said Bill Snow, vice president of engineering at ON.Lab. “The ONOS project continues rapid innovation and delivery with quarterly releases, and the capability of each release continues to improve with accelerating participation of the community. It is really exciting to see the new PoCs. Our goal has always been to methodically move the use case ideas from concept to trial and then into production.”