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Software Defined Network and Network Function Virtualization Resources and Organizations

Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are seen as a means to reduce both hardware and management costs while enabling more innovation and quicker deployment of networked devices and services. There are 3 types of organizations that define how to deploy NFV and SDN: Standard Organizations that typically define standard specifications, Open Source Organizations that implement Open Source Code and Hybrid Standard/OpenSource organization that both define standard specifications and implement open source code.

The Diagram and the accompanying tables below chart the landscape and entities of all three approaches. IEEE SDN is building relationship with this broad ecosystem to progress SDN & NFV work, also connecting the academic research work with these communities.

 

Management, Modeling and Security SDOs working on SDN & NFV
	ETSI NFV	NFV Requirements, Architecture, Interfaces, Security, Reliability, Testing POCs
	Telemanagement Forum	Data modeling and orchestration
	Distributed Management Task Force	Data modeling
	OASIS	Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA)
	Trusted Computing Group	Secure compute and software systems
Network Infrastructure SDOs Working on SDN & NFV
	Internet Research Task Force - IRTF	NFVRG Working Group focused on NFV research topics
	Internet Engineering Task Force - IETF	Focus on chaining, overlay and routing technologies SFC WG, SPRING WG, NVO3 WG, LISP WG
	Open Networking Foundation	Specific focus on Northbound API, Intent NBI Opensouce initiative on NBI
	Broadband Forum	Network Infrastructure for virtualization
	Cloud Ethernet Forum	Cloud Ethernet Services
	Metro Ethernet Forum	Carrier Ethernet Service Networking
Wireless Networking SDOs working on SDN & NFV
	3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)	Specific focus on virtualization of the Enhanced Packet Core (vEPC)
	Small Cell Forum
	Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance
	Open Mobile Alliance
	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	WiFi protocols (802.11)
Open Source Communities: SDN, OPNFV & Upstream
	OPNFV	Requirements Implementation (ARNO available)
	Open Daylight	Lithium implementation available NFV key case study with SFC
	OpenStack	NFV Forum Neutron-OpenDaylight integration, Congress, GBP etc projects
	Open vSwitch Community
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine Community (KVM)	Hypervisor and OS core
	Ceph Storage Community	Storage and data access
	Open Network Operating System	Carrier ruggedized network OS
	OpenMANO	Practical implementation of the reference architecture for Management & Orchestration under standardization at ETSI's NFV ISG (NFV MANO)
	Cloudify	Open Cloud Orchestration
	OpenBaton	NFV Compliant Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator (NFVO)