Huawei launches APAC's first ever OpenDaylight lab

SHENZHEN, CHINA: Huawei announced the opening of its OpenDaylight (ODL) Lab in Shenzhen, China.

OpenDaylight is an open and collaborative network programmability platform for software defined networking (SDN). It also creates a solid foundation for network virtualization function (NFV) for networks of any size or scale. The Huawei run ODL Lab will become the first of its kind in Asia Pacific, and second in the world to be hosted by a third-party as part of the approved OpenDaylight Community Labs list.

The Lab encourages open innovation and transparency for SDN and will enable developers and users in the region to test and experience ODL projects.