“Open source has been very instrumental in reshaping the landscape of networking and, to a greater extent, the viability of white box networking solutions. Case in point, AT&T announced last year its intent to deploy over 60,000 white box routers within its core wireless network infrastructure. What’s key to making it work is a network operating system based on the ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform), spearheaded by the Linux Foundation.”
Source: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/networking-orchestration/forbes-is-white-the-new-color-of-networking/