LinuxCon + CloudOpen + ELC-E Europe 2014

ARM formed the Linaro consortium in 2010, a non-profit organization composed now of over 20 industry leading companies. Linaro's aim is to provide an open source common software and tools foundation for the industry to use - making it easier and quicker to develop Linux-based products. In 2013 Linaro formed a “sub-group” called the Linaro Networking Group (LNG). LNG with twelve industry leading hardware and software vendors has since launched a new initiative called “Open Data Plane”, or ODP. ODP is an initiative designed to promote an open API specification, and an open source and cross platform implementation for high performance data plane packet processing that is independent of current solutions that require software or hardware vendor “lock-in”, like Intel's DPDK and Freescale's USDPAA, etc. This presentation is an overview of a) what ODP is, and b) the current status of ODP.