OpenFlow is the Past as ONF Announces Stratum Project to Redefine SDN | Linux Today

OpenFlow is the Past as ONF Announces Stratum Project to Redefine SDN

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Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 13, 2018

At the beginning of the Software Defined Networking (SDN) era, the OpenFlow protocol was at the core, backed by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). Now in 2018, the ONF is now aiming to usher in a new era of SDN with

 On March 12, the ONF announced the formation of a new project called Stratum that aims to redefine the SDN landscape in a fundamental way. Code for the Stratum project is initiating coming from Google, from technology it uses for SDN within its own environments.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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