In 2014, software-defined networking (SDN) experts from the Universities of Berkeley and Stanford in California founded ON.Labs, with the aim of creating an SDN platform that was driven by the needs of carriers, rather than vendors or enterprises, and which would enable more radical change than the more established OpenDaylight. The resulting platform, ONOS, has received an important new endorsement from Verizon, which has just signed up for the ONOS Project, joining AT&T, China Mobile, NTT and SK Telecom, among others. Echoing the views of other supporters – including the Open Networking Foundation – a Verizon technologist said the operator’s main interest in ONOS was its promise to allow for more rapid transformation of the network. This perhaps reflects impatience…