Advancing the Open Source Community through Development and Givebacks
As a long-standing participant in the open source community, Cisco is driving the growth of open source technologies, expanding the development of open standards, and investing resources to provide for sustainable innovation. Our commitment to the open community is visible throughout the company's history and encompasses activities including:
Standards development
Extensive use of open source software in solutions
Targeted givebacks to the open source community
Our investment in sustaining open initiatives is best illustrated by the following examples:
Contributions to BGP as a foundation for the Internet
Open sourcing the Vovida SIP stack for rapid time to market for VoIP applications
Creating an extensible interface between mobility network and applications with the Mobility Services Engine
Cisco is an industry leader in driving open standards. From investing in the protocols that drove the early growth of the Internet, to developing the standards that are empowering the next wave of collaboration, Cisco works actively across industry standards bodies to promote interoperability and openness.
Cisco is an active contributor to open source software, and recognizes the value of open source for rapid time-to-market for new solutions, but also in the exponential growth of innovations coming from the open source community.
Opening the network as the platform is the future frontier of service-oriented network architectures that enable applications to run with the network as opposed to simply over the network.
