The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the adoption of open Software-Defined Networking (SDN) championed by Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo!, announced on Tuesday that 24 qualified SDN startup companies have joined the organization. These companies are part of the newly established startup membership category launched in January 2014 with six initial companies.
This new membership category was created to encourage innovation and help startup organizations become more actively involved in building a competitive open SDN ecosystem. The membership for startup companies are $1k a year, reduced from previously $30k a year. These companies must be within two years of its incorporation to qualify into the startup category.
Blue Ocean Networks Pty LTD, Friesty, Gencore Systems, GreeNet, Intelliment Security, Saisei, Sanctum Networks Ltd, SDN Essentials, Stormvium, and xNet Technologies Inc, are among the new eighteen additional startup SDN organizations that have joined ONF.
“ONF launched the startup membership category earlier this year to enable contributions from a wider range of SDN organizations for the ultimate benefit of end users. Startup organizations offer new, out-of-the box thinking to networking. Bringing them into ONF drives a new level of innovation, helping to advance commercialization and adoption of open SDN.”
- Dan Pitt, Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation
