Summary: In late 2017 AT&T released a <a target="_blank" href="http://about.att.com/innovationblog/white_box_hardware" rel="noopener">white paper</a> outlining the company’s vision for a “Disaggregated Network Operating System” or dNOS.<br> According to AT&T, dNOS aims:<br> <br> * To be network OS separate from the underlying hardware that runs on multiple platforms including merchant networking silicon and x86<br> * To have standardized APIs and other interfaces for clean separation of the control plane and data plane<br> * To provide a platform to integrate with existing tools and applications and spur the development of new ones<br> <br> On today’s Priority Queue, John Medamana, AT&T Fellow and Vice President, Packet & Optical Networks at AT&T, joins us to share more information about this project.<br> We talk about why AT&T is driving this effort, what the company hopes to achieve, and where they are in the process.<br> Note that after this podcast was recorded, AT&T announced it was <a target="_blank" href="http://about.att.com/story/dnos_software_framework_into_open_source.html" rel="noopener">moving the dNOS project to the Linux Foundation</a>.<br> John is co-author of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Building-Network-Future-Flexible-Software/dp/1138631523/" rel="noopener">Building the Network of the Future: Getting Smarter, Faster, and More Flexible with a Software Centric Approach</a>. You can also follow him on Twitter at <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/johnmedamana" rel="noopener">@johnmedamana</a>.<br>
