Edgecore advances its white box ambitions, ‘embeds’ engineers in ONF projects
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“With the movement to open source, some of these vendors that used to be in the background are becoming more visible,” said Timon Sloane, VP of marketing with the ONF. “AT&T has SEBA in field trials and plans to take it to production; the same with Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica and Turk Telecom,” said Sloane. Trellis takes a collection of white box switches and turns it into a spine-leaf fabric to support network functions virtualization (NFV). And, VOLTHA is open source software that sits above a white box OLT and makes it look like an OpenFlow switch. “AT&T is investing significantly in the SEBA and VOLTHA programs, and Edgecore’s commitment of additional engineering talent will help ensure that these platforms are matured and ready for adoption by AT&T and other operators.” Robert Soukup, head of Deutsche Telekom’s Access 4.0 program, said: “Edgecore’s expertise and experience in open networking will further strengthen the community effort to make VOLTHA carrier-grade and ready for production deployment.