On March 15, during the Open Networking Summit event, in the United States, the Brazilian National Research and Educational Network (RNP), AmLight, which operates the international links between the USA and Latin America, and other academic networks performed a demonstration using ONOS (Open Network Operating System), a global testbed for programmable network experiments.

ONOS is an open-source operational system which integrates two cutting-edge circuit management technologies in a single platform: SDN (Software Defined Networks) and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization). The effect of this integration separates the network command from the physical infrastructure and virtualizes its functions, allowing great scalability, availability and network performance.

The main goal of the demonstration was to test a specific ONOS application, SDN-IP, which supports the interoperability between traditional IP-based routing and distributed traffic using the Openflow protocol. The networks that took part in the experiment were RNP, RedCLARA (Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks), CaribeNET, the academic networks of São Paulo (ANSP), Chile (Reuna), Australia (AARNet), Europe (Géant) and South Korea (Kreonet), the academic traffic exchange point in Miami (Ampath) and the Chiao Tung National University, in Taiwan.

The experiments were transmitted by video and are available in the ONOS project website. Also check out the online map of the networks' status.