OpenFog Consortium

OpenFog Consortium
Consortium
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 19 November 2015
Founders
Headquarters Fremont, California
Key people
 President
Jeff Fedders
Chairman of the Board
Helder Antunes
Vice President
Matt Vasey
Executive Director
Lynne Canavan
Website openfogconsortium.org

The OpenFog Consortium (sometimes stylized as Open Fog Consortium) is an consortium of high tech industry companies and academic institutions across the world aimed at the standardization and promotion of fog computing in various capacities and fields.

The consortium was founded by Cisco Systems, Intel, Microsoft, Princeton University, Dell, and ARM Holdings in 2015 and now has 47 members across the North America, Asia, and Europe, including Forbes 500 companies and noteworthy academic institutions.[1]

History

The ceremony formalizing an agreement of cooperation between OpenFog, the Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and the IoT Acceleration Consortium, 2016.

OpenFog was created on November 19, 2015,[2][3][4][5] by ARM Holdings,[6] Cisco Systems,[7] Dell,[8] Intel,[9] Microsoft,[10] and Princeton University.[11]

Administration

There are 11 companies on the board of directors (ARM, AT&T, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Princeton University , IEEE,[12] GE, Schneider Electric and Verizon), with the general membership currently comprising 13 academic members: Aalto University, Arizona State University, California Institute of Technology, Georgia State University,[13] National Chiao Tung University, National Taiwan University, Shanghai Research Centre for Wireless Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Southern California, University of Pisa, Vanderbilt University, Wayne State University,[14] and 20 additional members: Hitachi, Internet Initiative Japan, Itochu, Kii, Nebbiolo, PrismTech,[15] NEC, NGD Systems, NTT Communications, OSISoft, Real-time Innovations,[16] relayr, Sakura Internet, Stichting imec Nederland, Toshiba,[17] TTT Tech, Fujitsu, FogHorn Systems, TTTech and MARSEC.

Published Work

In February 2016, OpenFog Consortium published the white paper, "OpenFog Reference Architecture". It outlined the eight pillars of an OpenFog architecture: Security; Scalability; Open; Autonomy; Programmability; RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability); Agility; and Hierarchy.[4][18]

References

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  1. ↑ OpenFog Consortium - About Us: Members
  2. ↑ Janakiram, MSV (18 April 2016). "Is Fog Computing the Next Big Thing in the Internet of Things". Forbes Magazine. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Alex, Davies (20 November 2015). "Usual suspects form OpenFog Consortium". ReThink Internet of Thing Newsletter. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  4. 1 2 McKendrick, Joe. "Fog Computing: a New IoT Architecture?". RT Insights. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  5. ↑ Princeton University, Submission to ACM (18 December 2015). "Communications of the ACM: Fog Computing Harnesses Personal Devices to Speed Wireless Networks". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "The Open Fog Consortium and ARM". community.arm.com. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  7. ↑ "Cisco Corporate Blog". OpenFog Consortium: An Ecosystem to Accelerate End-to-End IoT Solutions. Cisco. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Accelerating IoT: Dell and Other Leaders Create the Open Fog Consortium". en.community.dell.com. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  9. ↑ "Clearing the fog: the industry doubles down on distributed cloud". Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  10. ↑ "Microsoft helps accelerate IoT with new OpenFog Consortium". Microsoft IoT Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "'Fog' computing harnesses personal devices to speed wireless networks". www.princeton.edu. Princeton University. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  12. ↑ Gutierrez, Peter (14 April 2016). "OpenFog Consortium Bolsters Its Ranks". Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  13. ↑ "GSU Joins the OpenFog Consortium". 1 February 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  14. ↑ "Wayne State University Joins OpenFog Consortium". 5 March 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  15. ↑ "PrismTech Joins the OpenFog Consortium". 5 February 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  16. ↑ "RTI Joins OpenFog Consortium". 22 February 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  17. ↑ "Toshiba Joins OpenFog Consortium". 10 March 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  18. ↑ "White Papers – Open Fog Consortium". www.openfogconsortium.org. Retrieved 2016-05-09.
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