ONOS (Open Network Operating System)
TypeOpen Source project under The Linux Foundation
HeadquartersMenlo Park, Calif.
Key people
Guru Parulkar, Executive Director
Websitewww.onosproject.org

The ONOS (Open Network Operating System) project is an open source community hosted by The Linux Foundation. The goal of the project is to create a software-defined networking (SDN) operating system for communications service providers that is designed for scalability, high performance and high availability.

History

On December 5, 2014, the Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) along with other industry partners including AT&T and NTT Communications released the ONOS source code to start the open source community.[1] On October 14, 2015, the Linux Foundation announced that ONOS had joined the organization as one of its collaborative projects.[2]

The project was started around October 2012 under the leadership of Pankaj Berde, an architect at ON.Lab. The name ONOS was coined around end of 2012 by Berde. Early prototype was shown on April, 2013[3] at Open Networking Summit (ONS) and journey[4] of initial iterations featured at ONS 2014.

Technology overview

The software is written in Java and provides a distributed SDN applications platform atop Apache Karaf OSGi container. The system is designed to operate as a cluster of nodes that are identical in terms of their software stack and can withstand failure of individual nodes without causing disruptions in its ability to control the network operation.

ONOS Software Stack
ONOS Software Stack

While ONOS leans heavily on standard protocols and models, e.g. OpenFlow, NETCONF, OpenConfig, its system architecture is not directly tied to them. Instead, ONOS provides its own set of high-level abstractions and models, which it exposes to the application programmers. These models can be extended by the applications at run-time. To prevent the system from becoming tied to a specific configuration or control protocol, any software in direct contact with protocol-specific libraries and engaging in direct interactions with network environment is deliberately isolated into its own tier referred to as a provider or a driver. Likewise, any software in direct contact with intra-cluster communication protocols is deliberately isolated into its own tier referred to as a store.

The platform provides applications with a number of high-level abstractions, through which the applications can learn about the state of the network and through which they can control the flow of traffic through the network. The network graph abstraction provides information about the structure and topology of the network. The flow objective is a device-centric abstraction that allows applications to direct flow of traffic through a specific device without the need to be aware of the device table pipeline. Similarly, the intent is a network-centric abstraction that gives application programmers the ability to control network by specifying what they wish to accomplish rather than specifying how they want to accomplish it. This simplifies application development and at the same time provides the platform with added degrees of freedom to resolve what would normally be considered conflicting requests.

Applications (core extensions) can be loaded and unloaded dynamically, via REST API or GUI, and without the need to restart the cluster or its individual nodes. ONOS application management subsystem assumes the responsibility for distributing the application artifacts throughout the cluster to assure that all nodes are running the same application software. ONOS base distribution contains over 175 applications, which fall into numerous categories, e.g. traffic steering apps, device drivers, ready-to-use YANG models, utilities, monitoring apps.

The system provides REST API, CLI and an extensible, dynamic web-based GUI. gRPC interfaces for ONOS are under active development.

Use cases

The ONOS software has been used as a platform that applications have been written on top of or has been integrated into other projects. A number of use cases demonstrate how the software is being used today—including global research networking deployments, multilayer network control, and central office re-designed as a datacenter.

Releases

The following lists the different ONOS releases that are all named after different types of birds in alphabetical order:

Release NameRelease Date
AvocetDecember 5, 2014
BlackbirdFebruary 28, 2015
CardinalMay 31, 2015
DrakeSeptember 18, 2015
EmuDecember 18, 2015
FalconMarch 10, 2016
GoldeneyeJune 24, 2016
HummingbirdSeptember 23, 2016
IbisDecember 9, 2016
JuncoFebruary 28, 2017
KingfisherJune 5, 2017
LoonSeptember 8, 2017
Magpie (LTS)December 11, 2017
NightingaleMay 2, 2018
OwlSeptember 4, 2018
Peacock (LTS)November 29, 2018
QuailJanuary 18, 2019
RavenApril 29, 2019
SparrowAug 30, 2019
ToucanJan 27, 2020

Members

There are two tiers of membership for ONOS: Partner and Collaborator, with varying levels of commitment.

See also

References

  1. "ON.Lab Delivers Software for New Open Source SDN Network Operating System - ONOS™". PR Newswire. 2014-12-04. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
  2. Talbot, Chris (2015-10-14). "ONOS becomes a Linux Foundation collaborative project". FierceWireless. Retrieved 2016-06-08.
  3. ON.LAB (2013-12-18). "ONOS: Open Network Operating System. An Open-Source Distributed SDN O…". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. Berde, Pankaj. "ONOS early journey". Youtube.
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