Cisco Clarifies SDN Controller Positioning and OpenDaylight Participation | Linux Today

Cisco Clarifies SDN Controller Positioning and OpenDaylight Participation

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 10, 2014

Cisco is now focusing all of its commercial Software Defined Networking (SDN) efforts around its Cisco ONE and ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) efforts. Where does that leave OpenDaylight?

Cisco is one of the leading contributors and members of the OpenDaylight initiative, which is run as a Linux Foundation collaborative project. In fact, Cisco’s contribution to OpenDaylight ranks as the company’s largest open-source contribution ever.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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