Opendaylight Project

OpenDaylight is a community-led, open, industry-supported platform for network programmability to enable SDN and NFV for networks at any size and scale. Its second release “Helium” comes with a new user interface and a much simpler and customizable installation process due to the use of Apache Karaf container. When users try to manage their networks using OpenDaylight, it provides a better integration with OpenStack, including significant improvements in the Open vSwitch Database Integration project, and a technology preview of advanced OpenStack features such as Security Groups, Distributed Virtual Router, and Load Balancing-as-a-Service. OpenDaylight software is a combination of components, including a fully pluggable controller, interfaces, protocol plug-ins, and applications. With this common platform both customers and vendors can innovate and collaborate in order to commercialize SDN- and NFV-based solutions. In the Helium release, the platform has evolved in other key areas such as high availability, clustering, and security, as well as strengthening and adding new protocols like OpenFlow Table Type Patterns, PacketCable MultiMedia, an application policy framework, and tools for Service Function Chaining. OpenDaylight was launched in 2013.

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