awesome-sdn.md

Awesome SDN

A awesome list about Software Defined Network (SDN)

• Awesome SDN
  • Introduction
  • Network Operating System
  • Install Enviroment
  • Software Switch
  • Network Virtualization
  • Protocol
  • Controller
  • Simulator/Emulator
  • Language
  • Library
  • Test
  • NFV
  • Misc

Introduction

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an approach to computer networking that allows network administrators to manage network services through abstraction of higher-level functionality. Wiki : Software-defined networking

Network Operating System

• PicOS - A SDN OS for white box switches Layer-2/3 feature set with support for OpenFlow, OVSDB, and other protocols.
• OpenNetworkLinux - A Linux distribution for "bare metal" switches, that is, network forwarding devices built from commodity components.
• OpenSwitch - A linux network oerating system from Hewlett-Packard.

Install Enviroment

• ONIE - ONIE enables a bare metal network switch ecosystem where end users have a choice among different network operating systems.

Software Switch

• OpenvSwtich - Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch.
• Indigo - Indigo is an open source project aimed at enabling support for OpenFlow on physical and hypervisor switches.
• CPqD - An OpenFlow 1.3 compatible user-space software switch implementation ^{★ 135, pushed 192 days ago}
• Lagopus - A high-performance software OpenFlow 1.3 switch.
• LINC-Switch - A pure OpenFlow software switch written in Erlang ^{★ 178, pushed 376 days ago}
• snabbswitch - An open source virtualized Ethernet networking stack.

Network Virtualization

• FlowVisor - An OpenFlow controller that acts as a hypervisor/proxy between a switch and multiple controllers. Can slice multiple switches in parallel, effectively slicing a network. ^{★ 89, pushed 1083 days ago}
• OpenVirtex - A network hypervisor that can create multiple virtual and programmable networks on top of a single physical infrastructure. ^{★ 34, pushed 520 days ago}

Protocol

• OpenFlow - A communications protocol that gives access to the forwarding plane of a network switch or router over the network.
• OF-Config - OpenFlow Management and Configuration Protocol
• OVSDB - A communication protocol which used to manage the OpenvSwitch database.
• POF - Protocol Oblivious Forwarding

Controller

• NOX - An open source development platform for C++-based software-defined networking ( SDN ) control applications.
• NodeFlow - An OpenFlow Controller Node Style. ^{★ 48, pushed 1533 days ago}
• ONOS - Open Network Operating System.
• OpenDaylight - OpenDaylight Platform
• POX - A networking software platform written in Python
• Ryu - A component-based software defined networking framework.
• Floodlight - A java-based openflow controller.
• Vyatta - The first commercial Controller built directly from OpenDaylight.
• OpenContrail - A SDN project that utilizes SDN & NFV and provides all the necessary components for network virtualization.
• IRIS - A Resursive SDN Openflow Controller created by SDN Research Section, ETRI.
• Open MUL - A lightweight SDN/Openflow controller written almost entirely in C from scratch.
• OESS - The Open Exchange Software Suite to configure and control OpenFlow Enabled switches. ^{★ 13, pushed 129 days ago}
• Beehive Network Controller - A distributed SDN controller built on top of Beehive. It supports OpenFlow but can be easily extended for other southbound protocols. ^{★ 14, pushed 175 days ago}
• Ravel - A software-defined networking (SDN) controller that uses a standard SQL database to represent the network. ^{★ 2, pushed 175 days ago}

Simulator/Emulator

• Mininet - An Instant Virtual Network on your Laptop (or other PC)
• OpenNet - A simulator for software-defined wireless local area network
• EstiNet - A world-renowned software tool for network planning
• ns-3 - A discrete-event network simulator that supports openflow environment.

Language

• P4 - A declarative language for expressing how packets are processed by the pipeline of a network forwarding element such as a switch, NIC, router or network function appliance.
• Frenetic - The Frenetic Programming Language and Runtime System ^{★ 89, pushed 129 days ago}
• Pyretic - Pyretic is one member of the Frenetic family of SDN programming languages.

Library

• loxigen - LoxiGen is a tool that generates OpenFlow protocol libraries for a number of languages. ^{★ 51, pushed 129 days ago}
• openfaucet - openfaucet is a pure Python implementation of the OpenFlow 1.0.0 protocol, based on Twisted. ^{★ 30, pushed 1426 days ago}
• oflib-node - Oflib-node is an OpenFlow protocol library for Node. It converts between OpenFlow wire protocol messages and Javascript objects. ^{★ 12, pushed 1724 days ago}
• OpenFlowJ - A Java implementation of low-level OpenFlow packet marshalling/unmarshalling and IO operations.
• nettle - A Haskell library for working with the OpenFlow protocol.
• OCaml OpenFlow - A serialization and protocol library for OpenFlow. ^{★ 9, pushed 417 days ago}

Test

• oftest - OpenFlow Testing Framework ^{★ 47, pushed 130 days ago}
• STS - SDN Troubleshooting System, simulates network devices, allowing programmatically test cases generation.
• nice-of - A tool to test OpenFlow controller application for the NOX controller platform.
• OpenSDNCore - Virtualisation Testbed for NFV/SDN Environment.

NFV

• OPNFV - Accelerating NFV's evolution through an integrated, open platform.

Misc

• Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter, CORD - Reference Implementation of a Service Delivery Platform that Provides Cloud Economies and Agility.
• OPEN-Orchestrator Project, Open-O
• Open Source MANO Community, OSM
• Enhanced Controller Orchestration Management Policy, ECOMP - Operations management framework.