AT&T Open Sources Its SDN Framework To The Linux Foundation (fiercetelecom.com)

An anonymous reader writes "It's no secret that AT&T has been planning to move to a software-defined network for quite a while. Now, they've decided to open-source the whole thing." From Fierce Telecom: AT&T today announced it will release its Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy (ECOMP) platform to the wider telecom industry as an open source offering managed by the Linux Foundation. The goal, the company said, is to make ECOMP the telecom industry's standard automation platform for managing virtual network functions and other software-centric network capabilities.
AT&T delivered 8.5 million lines of code to the Linux Foundation on Wednesday, saying "We want to build a community -- where people contribute to the code base and advance the platform..." AT&T said Wednesday they've already received interest from other major telecoms, and "we want this to help align the global industry." While their ultimate goal is to virtualize 75% of their own network by 2020, at least one analyst sees a larger trend where the whole telecom industry collectively bypasses equipment vendors and begins "taking network innovation into its own hands."

Comments

License?

[willoughby]

What license is it released under?

Re:The kernel -includes- SDN in 98% fewer lines

[HiThere]

That's possible, but my guess would be that they implemented a large number of features that the kernel didn't even contemplate (and would insist on relegating to user space). Feature creep is a constant problem.

Another thing is, AT&T probably didn't HAVE user space separate from the kernel, as the entire application was intended as a software defined network.