The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) predicted that open-source software will become the predominant means toward developing industry network standards by 2015.
The ONF, a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the adoption of open software-defined networking (SDN), unveiled its networking industry predictions for 2015 at Layer123 SDN and OpenFlow World Congress in Düsseldorf, Germany.
In the upcoming year, ONF executive director Dan Pitt also predicts that open SDN will become a requirement among network operators in RFPs, emerging OpenFlow products will make it the southbound standard of choice, and SDN skills training will kick into gear in 2015.
“The SDN industry has made considerable progress over the past year toward achieving mainstream adoption, and ONF has supported this progress through our work with vendors and end users to establish standards and move discussions along,” said Pitt. “We’ve already seen glimmers of these predictions taking shape over the past year, and in 2015 I believe that these trends will really take off.”
Pitt offers his predictions for SDN and the networking industry in 2015 below: