Increasingly, service providers and network operators outside of the data center wish to leverage the advantages of disaggregation that their peers in the data center have enjoyed for several years. This puts pressure on OEMs to supply a portable NOS that runs on Open Compute compatible hardware as well as their own. We will examine the challenges this presents to OEMs and review the options available to them including how open initiatives like ONL, SAI and TAI are making this easier. Finally, we will present an architecture that will allow an OEM to create a portable NOS, based on ONL, with fast time to market, a high degree of flexibility and with the potential to be deployed in the access, aggregation and core networks not currently targeted by any disaggregated, portable, NOS.
