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How then does the communications industry and its suppliers move to the open model of innovation, development and collaboration enjoyed by other technology-based industries? Enter Open Source. Benefits of Open Source in the Enterprise domain include higher quality software, improved security, lower cost of ownership and greater innovation. Linux has long been a leader in open source for Operating Systems, successful as a result of strong governance and collaboration and without one vendor controlling development or direction. Traditionally, the pace of innovation in the networking industry has been determined by a process that included standards creation, separate implementation of it based on each Network Equipment Providers's interoperation and then multi-vendor interoperability testing. Often times several iterations of the process were required until the technology was ready for wide deployment.
Standards and Open Source, Better together: Open Source Software can accelerate and simplify the process as the open source implementation of the standards provides immediate feedback loop to the standard creation, and a reference implementation for Equipment Providers and Network Operators.
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