Industry suppliers have an important challenge: To implement open networking technology that meets the telecom industry requirements of high reliability, low latency, and scalability. Open networking can help communications service providers (CSPs) rapildly deploy new services, scale resources up and down as needed, and lower costs. When combined with OpenStack®, open networking provides the benefits of open source with the network industry requirements of reliability, high bandwidth, and low latency. Open networking can substantially reduce vendor lock-in, lower costs, and provide a standards-based platform for network innovation.