Consortium | |
Industry | Telecommunications |
Founded | 19 November 2015 |
Founders | |
Headquarters | Fremont, California |
Key people
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President Jeff Fedders Chairman of the Board Helder Antunes Vice President Matt Vasey Executive Director Lynne Canavan |
Website | openfogconsortium |
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.
OpenFog was created on November 19, 2015, by ARM Holdings,Cisco Systems,Dell,Intel,Microsoft, and Princeton University.
There are 11 companies on the board of directors (ARM, AT&T, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Princeton University , IEEE,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,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, and 20 additional members: Hitachi, Internet Initiative Japan, , Kii, Nebbiolo, PrismTech,NEC, NGD Systems, NTT Communications, OSISoft, Real-time Innovations, relayr, Sakura Internet, Stichting imec Nederland, Toshiba, TTT Tech, Fujitsu, FogHorn Systems, TTTech and MARSEC.