24. The OpenDaylight Project
The OpenDaylight (ODL) project was initiated in 2013 when The Linux Foundation (TLF) announced the funding of a community-led SDN open source framework. One of the more interesting aspects of this project kickoff was that the founding members consisted of some of the heavyweight vendors such as IBM, Cisco, HP, Big Switch Networks, Arista Networks, Microsoft, Brocade, and Juniper, among others. Furthermore, these giants were prepared to not only throw their considerable technical resources behind the project but also to finance and support the aspirations of this SDN open source project. This, of course, raised some skepticism, because it was not clear as to what end these vendors were working; some had clearly different ...
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