Following AT&T‘s T 17,13 +0,22 +1,30% donation of their ECOMP code to the Linux Foundation, it is being integrated with Linux Foundation’s Open Orchestrator (OPEN-O) platform.
“By combining two of the largest open source networking initiatives, the community is able to take advantage of the best architectural components of both projects. We’re excited to see the industry coalesce around ONAP with this unprecedented merger. Such a broad effort and investment will expedite our vision to deliver an open platform for network automation.” – Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation.
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) is the new project that brings these together. There are quotes from participants of the OPEN-O and ECOMP projects in the press-release. The merger a positive step according to all. This provides proven modules for implementation from ECOMP, and the standardised API from OPEN-O. And most of all developers now only have one thing to focus on, rather than two.
But code mergers aren’t just an announcement, there is lots of work ahead to integrate the code; to determine which bits to keep, which to adjust, and what to get rid of. Let’s see when a first code release for ONAP occurs.
