Community

The goal of NetDEF is simple:

Provide support for the Networking Community involving Development, Training, Testing and Training.

We will:

Work on Open Source projects such as FRRouting developing, testing and support the community outreach.

We help on Open Source Projects with testing. We run our own CI System and use our advantage as a independent non-profit organization to throughly test, verify and publish unbiased results.

We work on supporting educational institutions in network training.

We are true believers of the Open Source Spirit and we are engaging to advance the Open Source communities and projects

Projects We Have Supported:

RouteFlow: software modification, testing and donation of a Pica8 3290 to CPqD in Brazil.

FRRouting: Testing (Running the main CI system for the community) and development. Currently we employ 4 FRRouting maintainers at NetDEF.

RIPE: Started Open Source Working Group in 2013 to improve the communication between ISP (as users) and the Open Source Developers.

Current Status:

The Network Device Education Foundation is a company based on San Jose, California and is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit organization