RIFT.IO, INC.
BURLINGTON, MA

Our goal from day one was to build a platform that would provide everyone with the same capabilities and technology enjoyed by the largest networking technology companies. ~Tony Schoener, President Virtual network functions need to provide the same degree of simplicity, efficiency, and hyperscale that web applications have today. Simply porting a network function to virtualized data center architecture will not deliver meaningful change or cost savings. And trading in one expensive complexity for another simply shifts dollars to a new company or a new business unit of an existing vendor. Instead, these virtual network functions need to provide the same degree of simplicity, efficiency, and hyperscale that web applications have today. And NFV will only be successful if the industry embraces the same community-driven open development model that has transformed web based enterprise services. The RIFT.io founders believe that the best way to accomplish this is to bring the same open source, community-driven model that fuels the growth of Web-based businesses, and combine it with the scalability, security, and operational simplicity demanded by cloud-scale network services on data center architecture. This is RIFT.ware: the industry’s first open source, hyperscale network service virtualization (NSV) platform. RIFT.io is its employees; we are engineers, designers, and dreamers. We are a culture of passion, learning and respect. It’s exuded by the interactions that happen everyday. The ideas that helped form RIFT.io into what it is today came from the contributions of employees ranging from the development of it’s products to the lifestyle of its offices. Our goal from day one was to build a platform that would provide everyone with the same capabilities and technology enjoyed by the largest networking technology companies. ~Tony Schoener, President Virtual network functions need to provide the same degree of simplicity, efficiency, and hyperscale that web applications have today. Simply porting a network function to virtualized data center architecture will not deliver meaningful change or cost savings. And trading in one expensive complexity for another simply shifts dollars to a new company or a new business unit of an existing vendor. Instead, these virtual network functions need to provide the same degree of simplicity, efficiency, and hyperscale that web applications have today. And NFV will only be successful if the industry embraces the same community-driven open development model that has transformed web based enterprise services. The RIFT.io founders believe that the best way to accomplish this is to bring the same open source, community-driven model that fuels the growth of Web-based businesses, and combine it with the scalability, security, and operational simplicity demanded by cloud-scale network services on data center architecture. This is RIFT.ware: the industry’s first open source, hyperscale network service virtualization (NSV) platform. RIFT.io is its employees; we are engineers, designers, and dreamers. We are a culture of passion, learning and respect. It’s exuded by the interactions that happen everyday. The ideas that helped form RIFT.io into what it is today came from the contributions of employees ranging from the development of it’s products to the lifestyle of its offices. YANG is the data modeling language standard used by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). YANG provides a semantically precise data modeling of both configuration and state change information. This precision allows it to be compiled into data parsers/validators and can even automatically be compiled into transactional Netconf operations. It is also possible to compile YANG specifications into a YAML DSL with associated data model parsers/validation checkers. There have certainly been no shortage industry debates in favor and against both proposals with solid arguments raised by both sides. However, while mired in the heat of these arguments, the NFV industry is perhaps missing the bigger picture: Why not simply enable them all? That is, instead of arguing which language is better, the industry should spend its energy and knowhow behind a more productive effort to create the proper schema as the framework to support any number of data models and languages. Choose any VNF, any cloud, and ensure interoperability in any service provider operational environment. RIFT.ware is published as open source software and features open APIs and interfaces. What company do you represent/work for? We're always interested in talking with amazing people. We're always happy to talk to anyone about what we do here. What can we help you with? With 3 offices in 2 countries, we’re taking advantage of the talent that’s out there and making it easier for you to come visit.