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Year 1: OSM Races out of the Starting Gates to Shape

Global Mano Ecosystem

Written by Chris Buerger, Intel, Chair of OSM Marcom Task Force

Speed matters. In software
development, no matter whether it
is proprietary or open source, early
success is often defined in the same
way as an Olympic 100-meter dash.
The first few steps out of the starting
block are critical in quickly getting to
the 100m point. The race then changes
once this has been accomplished – the
straight line race track starts to curve
and a group of runners settles in to run
the distance and find success at the
finish line.
To me, the first year of OSM bears a
number of similarities to a 100-meter Year 2 will be different. Speed still NFV World
race, and as the year 2017 has just matters, but it will be accompanied
started, I am taking some time to by well-measured collaboration Congress
reflect on what we have jointly activities to take the OSM software
accomplished since the inception of the stack through the standard lab/field/ 2017
OSM community and outline a number production deployment cycle with
of personal thoughts on key themes for service providers engaging in MANO.
this new year. Interoperability, stability, security
and the size and maturity of the
OSM releases have been commercial support ecosystem for
downloaded more than OSM will become key themes on
2000 times from 50+ the road to production deployments.
countries, 55 organizations New use cases and network service
scenarios from the broader community
have joined OSM, we have will tie the code base to its economic
much to be proud of value. I expect that OSM’s guiding
principle of modularity for any software
Not to wax nostalgic, but looking back component will provide additional
at 2016 does showcase a number of choice and capabilities.
accomplishments that would be the
envy of the majority of open source In addition, as a result of the success
communities. From the first public OSM of broadly observed initiatives such as 2-5 May 2017,
demonstration at the end of February Telefonica’s UNICA program, a set of
at MWC 2016, to creating two OSM existing and new community members Silicon Valley,
releases that have been downloaded will choose to actively invest time
more than 2000 times from 50+ and contribute engineering expertise San Jose, USA
countries, to capturing the interest and code as purchase points for OSM
of 55 organizations that have joined proliferate across the globe. ETSI’s ETSI is pleased to endorse
OSM, we have much to be proud of. groups for NFV and MANO will receive Layer123’s NFV World
On the technical side, the creation of a an increasing amount of input based
well-functioning, one-step installable, on the pragmatic results of the work Congress, taking place in San
multi-VIM, multi-SDN controller within OSM. Jose, USA.
OSM Release ONE that incorporates Member of the NFV ISG
information models commonly agreed OSM turns its sights from
upon by a group of operators and a 100-meter dash to a 10k leadership team will
solution vendors stands out to me. race in 2017 contribute to the conference
On the community engagement side, programme. Don’t miss
the OSM workshop at SDN World So speed and timing will still matter as
Congress in The Hague, the launch of OSM turns its sights from a 100-meter the opportunity to obtain
the new website, quarterly newsletters, dash to a 10k race in 2017. I believe first-hand information on
the OSM Twitter channel and, personally that as with other successful software ETSI and how to contribute
most important, the contributions development initiatives, collaborative to its NFV standardization
of an awesome group of marketing and reliable execution and a singular
professionals to create awareness and focus on unlocking OSM’s economic activities by visiting the ETSI
excitement for OSM top my list. value for the entire community over exhibition stand.
Speed still matters, the next 5-10 years will set us apart. For more information on the
OSM’s accomplishment in getting out
but it will be accompanied of the starting block with speed and NFV World Congress visit the
by well-measured clear direction is the best indicator for event website at: https://
collaboration activities continued success in 2017 and beyond. www.layer123.com/nfv

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