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Welcome to my website. I am a longtime resident of Silicon Valley and enthusiastic champion of new technologies that meet important needs of people and society, focusing on startup companies in the Valley and Australia.
Perhaps we met at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale (where I was an executive in residence), at Santa Clara University (where I served as dean of engineering), or at Nortel, Bay Networks, HP, or IBM. In California, North Carolina, or Switzerland. Or prowling Downtown Palo Alto restaurants, but that's another website.
ONF launches; come see at Interop http://goo.gl/tPZ8X #Interop (via@opennetfound)
After some months getting organized under the covers, the Open Networking Foundation launched officially on March 22, 2011 with six board members and 17 other members. Since then another nine companies have joined. A complete list of current members can be seen at www.OpenNetworkingFoundation.org. [Full disclosure: I am dedicated fulltime to ONF as executive director.] I have seen no more exciting a prospect for the future of networking than Software-Defined Networking, which ONF exists to promote. The first specification to be standardized by ONF will be OpenFlow, for which two preliminary draft specifications have already been issued; you can download them at www.OpenFlow.org.
A great opportunity to learn about ONF and see OpenFlow in action will be at Interop this coming week May 10-12, 2011, in Las Vegas. The entire InteropNet Lab booth is devoted to OpenFlow (with at least 15 exhibiting companies), a panel on the Real Next Generation Network will be held Wednesday May 11 from 3:15-4:15 in Breakers L (featuring the inventor of OpenFlow), and ONF itself will conduct an information session on Wednesday May 11 from 11:00-11:45 in Reef C (all at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Conference Center). Come see me. There will be food!