The ODL crowd broke out of Silicon Valley to bring their annual summit to the software mecca of Bellevue, Wash.

September 30, 2016

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The third OpenDaylight Summit was the first to take place outside of Silicon Valley, and also groundbreaking as a celebration and broad discussion of actual deployments and real-world usage of ODL controllers.

Executive Director Neela Jacques kicked things off with a keynote in which he stressed that the theme of the event was "It just got real," and that point was driven home by presentations from AT&T, Telstra and Tencent on how they are putting ODL controllers to work.

Being a developer conference, there was also a certain amount of silliness, although fewer folks in bare feet and t-shirts than at some previous events.

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Figure 1: Kicking It Off Neela Jacques, in his keynote address, paid tribute to three key players in getting OpenDaylight off the ground: Dan Pitt, former executive director of the Open Networking Foundation, which launched software-defined networking as an open source initiative; Margaret Chiosi, long-time AT&T executive and strong open source advocate; and Tony Tkacik from Pantheon, now part of Cisco, who was a key developer of the model-driven service adaptation layer. Neela Jacques, in his keynote address, paid tribute to three key players in getting OpenDaylight off the ground: Dan Pitt, former executive director of the Open Networking Foundation, which launched software-defined networking as an open source initiative; Margaret Chiosi, long-time AT&T executive and strong open source advocate; and Tony Tkacik from Pantheon, now part of Cisco, who was a key developer of the model-driven service adaptation layer.

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