SDN & NFV together are technologies intended to ease connectivity and accessto content and workloads. This talk with address the need foropen/programmable/available access technologies to make this a reality. Access virtualization is one of the focus areas across the networking industryand provides some of the greatest opportunities to explore new approaches toconnectivity and new models for carriers and others providing internetservices. This talk with look at ongoing initiatives in this area such asONOS/CORD, OpenDaylight, OPNFV and present a set of common goals, valuable toour ecosystem, being addressed across these implementations.