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Open Networking Summit is the industry’s premier open networking event, gathering enterprises, service providers and cloud providers across the ecosystem to share learnings, highlight innovation and discuss the future of Open Source Networking, including SDN, NFV, orchestration and the automation of cloud, network, & IoT services.

This is the only industry event where attendees can:

  • Hear from industry visionaries and leaders on the future of Networking beyond SDN/NFV
  • Attend deep technical tracks on topics that are here today, tomorrow and on the horizon
  • Learn from the use cases of their peers as consumption of Open Source Networking is the “new norm” and mandated by most Enterprise CIOs, Carrier CTOs and Cloud Executives

For years, ONS has united the networking industry ecosystem of network operators, both disruptive and incumbent vendors, open source projects, leading researchers and investors to discuss breaking SDN and NFV developments for immediate impact to shape the future of the networking industry. ONS 2019 continues to build on its successes as the premier open source networking event sharing the future of SDN, NFV, and Orchestration by further growing the community and accelerating adoption of these technologies.

From our perspective, we had our best event ever, in this networking infrastructure space, at ONS 2018!

Bob MonkmanDirector, Networking Software Strategy & Ecosystem Programs at Arm