Linux Foundation

February 19, 2019

INNOVATION

Cisco Advances Open-Source Hybrid Information-Centric Networking for 5G

Today, Cisco CTAO, announces an important milestone to deploy an open-source version of Cisco’s Hybrid Information-Centric Networking (hICN), which is a unique network architecture based on the Internet protocol that rethinks communications around information itself and not on the location of the da…

February 18, 2019

CLOUD

20 Billion Edge Devices?!

Were you aware that there are projected to be 20 Billion (with a B) edge devices in use by 2020 (next year)?! I wasn’t either. It’s just not the kind of thing that keeps me awake at night. But apparently it is exactly the kind of thing that keeps some people up. They worry about how edge application…

April 6, 2016

OPEN AT CISCO

A BIGGER HELPING OF INTERNET PLEASE!

Written by David Ward, CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect, and Maciek Konstantynowicz, Distinguished Engineer; Chief Technology & Architecture Office For those that don’t want all the gory details, this is a short version of the longer blog conversation that can be found here. The longer blo…

April 4, 2014

OPEN AT CISCO

The First Open Source Project to Win the Interop Grand Prize…

… is none other than…  (drum roll, please!) … our one year old baby, OpenDaylight! My heartfelt congratulations go to the OpenDaylight committers and contributors, the open source collaborators who have poured their heart and soul into this wonderful project. This is indeed a remar…

March 7, 2014

OPEN AT CISCO

Open Source is just the other side, the wild side!

March is a rather event-laden month for Open Source and Open Standards in networking: the 89th IETF, EclipseCon 2014, RSA 2014, the Open Networking Summit, the IEEE International Conference on Cloud (where I’ll be talking about the role of Open Source as we morph the Cloud down to Fog computing) and…

February 9, 2014

OPEN AT CISCO

Open Daylight Shines in Impressive Debut

First Open Daylight Summit took place exactly one year since we’ve started the project, to the day! Ah, those memories of having to stay quietly patient, from our first meeting, February 4th, 2013, and longer… in hindsight, talking about it after the code actually started to flow was mor…

August 2, 2013

OPEN AT CISCO

Why I Chose the Open Source Model I did for OpenDaylight

Now that OpenDaylight has arrived, it’s time to explain why I made the Open Source choices eventually embraced by its Founders and the community at large.  One doesn’t often see such leaders as Cisco, IBM, Intel, HP, Juniper, RedHat, VMWare, NEC, Microsoft and others agree, share and collaborate on…

June 17, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco, IBM and the Linux Foundation discuss Open Source in Networked Environments

Hi all, As we continue to expand on the conversation of the Cisco Open Network Environment (Cisco ONE), this week provides yet another educational opportunity (Register here) to discuss a topic that has become some what top of mind to customers, partners and even investors alike. This is the topic o…

June 14, 2013

OPEN AT CISCO

Open Source in the Network

Join me and my good friends Dan Frye and Jim Zemlin, Tuesday June 18th at 8:30 am Pacific, in a webcast as we discuss open source, networking, communities and projects, the opportunities entailed, the win-win-win model (or win-cube model as I like to call it, for the Authors, for the Community and f…