Open Networking Foundation Releases Stratum, Next-Gen SDN Platform

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) released Stratum, which will provide an open source foundation for the operator consortium's next-generation software-defined networking (SDN) work. In pursuit of a truly "software defined" data plane based on white-box switches, the ONF in March first unveiled the Stratum project, backed by 23 founding members, including Google. After the subsequent incubation period, the official release of Stratum was announced last week. Stratum is an open source, silicon-independent switch operating system for software-defined networks that runs on a variety of switching silicon and various whitebox switch platforms," the ONF said.