Why SDN leaders join ON.LAB

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Community of vendors, network operators, researchers who want to bring the latest SDN research from Stanford, Berkeley, and other universities to practice via open source tools and platforms and thus realize the potential of SDN.

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Why Organizations Join

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Keep track of latest SDN research and innovations

Bring the latest SDN research to practice

Demonstrate early stage SDN ideas with ON.LAB

o Learn about ideas and innovations from leading SDN researchers and developers

o Get advise from ON.LAB experts on your SDN strategy

o Co-develop open source SDN tools and platforms incorporating latest research

o Co-develop demos of use cases using SDN tools and platforms multiplying your investment in ON.LAB

o Develop and access ON.LAB tools and platforms before their public release

o Nurture a talent pool for your organization coding with ON.LAB experts

Why Users Join

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o Learn SDN as the new paradigm of networking and how it is transforming the industry

o Stay informed of the latest SDN innovations and their impact on Internet and Cloud

o Demonstrate your innovative networking ideas using ON.LAB tools and platforms

o Demonstrate SDN use cases using ON.LAB tools and platforms

o Create SDN deployments using ON.LAB tools and platforms

o Improve ON.LAB tools and platforms to make your day job easier

o Help other organizations learn from your experience

o Be recognized as a leader in SDN space

Why Contributors Join

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o Actively shape the biggest transformation in networking with ON.LAB

o Advise new users and potential future co-workers

o Get peer recognition within the ON.LAB ecosystem

o Leverage your expertise to collaborate with ON.LAB on open source SDN tools and platforms

o Work with ON.LAB community on road map of SDN tools and platforms

o Keep abreast of latest SDN research and innovations from leading universities

o Learn about latest SDN technologies and use cases

What Our Members Told Us

Software Defined Networking is transforming the networking industry, delivering levels of performance, control, and availability that had not previously been possible. Google was one of the first organizations to champion Software-Defined Networking and one of the first to deploy it in a real production environment at large scale. Becoming an ON.LAB sponsor seemed a natural evolution of our past partnership with Clean Slate and ONRC programs at Stanford. ON.LAB turns advanced research into high-quality, scalable tools and platforms designed to move the SDN industry forward. Google is a strong supporter of open source communities along multiple fronts, including networking and SDN. Our collaboration with ON.Lab around network architecture, systems, and use cases are of tremendous mutual benefit.•Amin Vahdat, Distinguished Engineer at Google

SDN will be critical to help enterprises and service providers build simpler networks that, with the help of virtualization, are much easier and cheaper to control, and to make use of for improved revenue and business impact. The work ON.Lab is doing to empower vendors and users to better understand this new technology, and to develop working prototypes of SDN solutions to spur continuing innovation in the field, is crucial to driving this next evolution in networking."•Chris Janz, vice president of market development, Ciena

What Our Members Told Us

"Software-Defined Networking represents a new paradigm of networking. NEChas been a supporter of SDN research at Stanford since beginning and is afounding member of ON.Lab and ONRC. This collaboration has been a importantfactor in NEC's leadership of OpenFlow and SDN with award winning productsand solutions. As SDN becomes main-stream over the next several years, NECcontinues the collaboration and support for ON.Lab and its mission todevelop, deploy and support advanced open source SDN tools and advancedplatforms for the SDN field."•Atsushi Iwata, Deputy General Manager, Knowledge Discovery Research Labs,•NEC Corporation