SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- ONOS’ Project today announced major growth for the Central Office Re-architected as Data Center (CORD) and development of a new open reference implementation. Buoyed by rapid market adoption, new use cases for CORD will be on display at ONS this week.

CORD will provide economies of scale and agility of cloud computing to the service provider central office by leveraging infrastructure constructed from commodity building blocks. CORD began as a use case of ONOS and leverages three related technologies: SDN, NFV, and cloud. The open reference implementation builds on merchant silicon, white boxes and open-source platforms such as ONOS, OpenStack, and XOS, providing building blocks for service providers to create innovative services for their residential, mobile and enterprise customers.

CORD also emphasizes scalability, high performance, high availability and ease of use that service providers require. Many service providers and a diverse group of vendors plan to use CORD reference implementation to do experimentation, trials, and use those learnings to influence production deployments for residential, mobile, and enterprise markets.

“CORD is in a very unique and advantageous position,” said Guru Parulkar, executive director at ON.Lab. “It has evolved at record speed from a use case of ONOS to a very important systems platform that service providers can use for multiple domains of use. The list of companies now participating, contributing, using and interested in CORD is already very long and impressive.”

New Reference Implementation for Network Operators An open reference implementation of CORD built from servers and white-box switches defines a general and extensible platform. Both complete enough for field trials and general enough for multiple domains, the new reference implementation will deliver:

CORD Use Cases Showcased at ONS will include:

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