Dhiraj Sharma Senior Vice President at Reliance Jio

As service providers seek to transform their networks to keep pace with bandwidth demands, open frameworks have come to the forefront of options for network disruption. Leveraging open components can help break vendor lock-in, accelerate innovation, and reduce costs.

Open source projects are also attractive because they can be formed very quickly. All that is needed is an idea, and then for a few companies to come together to begin trying that idea out. However, this has also led to a plethora or open organizations and frameworks either overlapping in scope or leaving significant gaps in implementation.

Service providers are currently trialing open frameworks such as CORD today in the lab. But will these open source, multi-vendor solutions make it to commercial deployment or will traditional monolithic vendors prevail?

This panel session will feature a combination of service providers and vendors with their own viewpoint on the role of open source frameworks in driving network disruption – and if open frameworks will “win” out. Attendees will:  

• Understand the different open frameworks currently in the market (CORD, SEBA, Open Broadband, Open Daylight, TIP, ONAP, etc.) – and discover how they relate and how they differ
• Learn about the challenges associated with deploying open source solutions
• Gain insight into which service providers are taking the open source plunge, which frameworks they’re using, and the key outcomes achieved in lab trials to date
• Decide if open frameworks are the future of next generation networks