CORD: Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter

This talk describes a new service management toolkit, called XOS, built on top of OpenStack and ONOS (Open Network Operating System) to manage scalable services running in a TelcoCentral Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD). The goal of CORD is is to allow Telcos to benefit from both the economies of scale (infrastructure constructed from a few commodity building blocks) and the agility (the ability to rapidly deploy and elastically scale services) that cloud providers like Amazon, Google.