On April 8, 2013,
The Linux Foundation announced the founding of the OpenDaylight Project. The goal was to create a community-led and industry-supported, open-source platform to accelerate adoption & innovation in terms of
software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). The project's founding members were Big Switch Networks, Brocade,
Cisco,
Citrix,
Ericsson,
IBM,
Juniper Networks,
Microsoft, NEC,
Red Hat and
VMware. Reaction to the goals of
open architecture and administration by The Linux Foundation have been mostly positive. While initial criticism centered on concerns that this group could be used by incumbent technology vendors to stifle innovation, most of the companies signed up as members do not sell incumbent networking technology.
Technical steering committee For governance of the project, the technical steering committee (TSC) provides technical oversight over the project. The TSC is able to hold voting on major changes to the project. As of June 2022, the TSC includes: • Anil Belur (The Linux Foundation) • Cedric Ollivier (
Orange) • Guillaume Lambert (Orange) • Ivan Hrasko (
PANTHEON.tech) • Luis Gomez (
Kratos) • Manoj Chokka (
Verizon) • Robert Varga (PANTHEON.tech) • Venkatrangan Govindarajan (
Rakuten Mobile)
Code Contributions By 2015, user companies began participating in upstream development. The largest, actively contributing companies include
PANTHEON.tech,
Orange,
Red Hat, and
Ericsson. At the time of the Carbon release in May 2017, the project estimated that over 1 billion subscribers accessing OpenDaylight-based networks, in addition to its usage within large enterprises. There is a dedicated OpenDaylight Wiki, and mailing lists. == Technology ==