cal issues such as auditing, financing, IP and legal, and marketing. The TSC is in charge of projects that drive code development, testing, integration, and reference platform releases. TSC sets technical directions and holds reviews for all the projects. Automation Fault Carrier grade Tools Multisite Copper Doctor FastPath Parser Development integration HA for VNF performance SFC/VNF FG Continuous integration (octopus) - OPNFV manifests and scripts vSwitch perf OPNFV platform bootstrap Openstack LINUX opendaylight function test opencontrail Deployment tools VNF function Oscar / Fuel / Foreman / Salt stack Figure 6.3 OPNFV project overview. 6 Open Source and Research Activities 6.1.4 CORD: Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center Central Office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD) is an open source project led by the Open Network Lab (ON.Lab) and AT&T [114]. Central offices are of various sizes, supporting a large number of subscribers. Today, central offices have specialized hard- ware and software to connect the backhaul networks to cellular infrastructure. Typically, central offices contribute to high CAPEX and OPEX, which can be significantly reduced through automation and virtualization. CORD project aims to replace existing Telco central office (CO) infrastructure with data center and cloud com- ponents. It contains three key technologies: SDN, NFV, and Cloud. In particular, it would like to use COTS servers and COTS switches as the hardware, which is produced by the Open Compute Project (OCP). From the software side, it uses the ONOS SDN controller. For orchestration, it uses XOS, which is a framework for assembling and composing services. It uses OpenStack to create and manage VMs and virtual networks. Figure 6.4 shows its relationship with other open source projects. ONOS is the network operating system that manages the white box switches. It is a distributed SDN controller. It is also a platform for network services that implement the key CORD functions. Docker or OpenStack is used for virtualiz