OpenContrail SDN Moves to Linux Foundation as Tungsten Fabric | Linux Today

OpenContrail SDN Moves to Linux Foundation as Tungsten Fabric

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Christine Hall
Apr 10, 2018

Juniper didn’t have much luck running OpenContrail as an open source project, mainly because it didn’t have open source experience. It hired Bias, who had open source experience as a founding member and former director of the OpenStack Foundation, in 2016, but it wasn’t until AT&T, one of the project’s two major backers, last year threatened to leave the project due to a lack of community that it got serious about turning things around.

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