It’s been a year since OpenFog launched with ARM as a founding member alongside Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, and Princeton University. I wanted to provide an update as to what we’ve done.
We have added to the membership from all over the world including Universities and both large and small companies, with a total membership now at 53 companies and Universities. These members are all contributing to forward the vision for OpenFog as an interoperable way to write software to accommodate the compute, networking and storage resources from the cloud to the edge.
OpenFog has started Regional Committees in both Japan and North America, with excitement and contributions coming in from both regions.
We are completing the reference architecture, which will be available 1Q 2017. Stay tuned for more information on that. The reference architecture is meant to guide engineers on how to implement fog systems. We have starting working on testbeds to test the architecture. Testbeds will be a strong focus for 2017. After testbeds, the next step is to turn the reference architecture into a standard. Although OpenFog is not a standards body, we will work with the IEEE to create a standard from our work. This will begin in late 2017.
You will continue to hear about OpenFog at Mobile World Congress as well as other events throughout the year. We are planning an OpenFog event, held jointly with IEEE for October.
I’m excited about what we’ve accomplished and look forward to a busy and challenging 2017.