 It's The Cube. Here is your host, Jeff Crick. Hi, Jeff Crick here with The Cube. We're on the ground at the Santa Clara Convention Center at the Open Daylight Summit. It's the second Open Daylight Summit that they've had about the third year of the foundation. We want to come down and give you a feel for what's going on. We're really excited for our next guest, Masashi Kurosan from NEC. Welcome. Thank you very much. Yeah, so you are a CTO, SDN group and chief advanced technologies. Smart guy. Thank you. But you're here, you said, really in a different role, talking about being an ambassador for Open Daylight in Japan. So what does that mean for the people that don't know that? Ambassador is taking the role to promote Open Daylight, introduce Open Daylight technology and to grow Open Daylight community. And you said off camera you've been getting a lot of excitement, so you started some meetups, you started to get the community together. I wonder if you can share kind of how that's going. Yeah, the first meetup was held in January and at that time more than 50 people gathered in spite of a weekend meetup. And the second was in June and it was held from 7.30 p.m. In spite of that, more than 70 people gathered. So many Japanese people are very interested in Open Daylight. They are enthusiastic about Open Daylight technology and this community. Why do you think they're so excited about Open Daylight? Because obviously SDN, we've talked about software-defined hardware and software-defined virtualization and networking was kind of the last thing. So why are they so excited about open networking and SDN? I think there is a long history. As you know, in IT area there was a movement from mainframe to open system. And it take more than 20 years and at that time Linux was emerged and Linux changed IT world. And people are expecting the same thing in networking area as well. So at the start point, at the emergence of SDN Open Daylight was proposed and established. Then people are very much excited about this concept and are very much fun to this idea, I believe. Right. And you said you're involved in other open source projects as well like Open Stack. How does Open Stack, Open Daylight, how all these things kind of fit together in what you're trying to put together from a product perspective? Well, that's very interesting. NEC is currently working on several open source projects, including Linux, Open Stack, Onos and OPNFD. In these areas, they are closely relating. For example, we are contributing Open Stack in a tremendous amount of contribution code. And Open Stack and this HDM controller are helping together to promote or to assist users operation environment. And this kind of improvement will help our social infrastructure and as well as our environment as well. And talk just a little bit about the role of open source now in IT and how both as an enabling technology as well as something that you deliver, that open source has been such a game changer and what the impact has been for NEC. Initially, we started our proprietary SDN controller. We released our first SDN product in 2011. Since then, that was based on the OpenFlow technology. Since then, as SDN expands, we recognize that not only OpenFlow but also other software technologies are very important. And at the same time for upper layer security, triple layer kind of technology are very important as well. And we think, we recognize that single or only a company cannot realize the total solution for open, total solution for SDN controller. And so we think that by leveraging open source technology, our product can be much more matured and also other software technologies can be much more matured. And also at the same time for customers, for users, they don't care whether that is a product or that is open source. They need a functionality, they need support from industry. So we believe that not only by helping, by supporting both product and open source, customers will be much happier. Yeah, you're right. Because at the end of the day, they just want something that works, right? Absolutely. And then when is your next meetup? That will be in September. September. 200 people, you think? 1,000 people. Just give them pizza and beer. That's the secret to meetups in this day. So you give them pizza and beer there too? Sure. Absolutely, all right, good. Well, Kudosan, thanks for stopping by. Good luck on your ambassadorship. Sounds like you're well on your way. And thanks again for taking a minute out of your day. Thank you very much. Absolutely, thank you. He's Kudosan. I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE. Thanks for watching.