awesome-sdn

Beluganos

Beluganos is a new network OS designed for white-box switches (OF-DPA), which can apply large-scale networks

Cumulus Linux is a powerful open network operating system that allows you to automate, customize and scale using web-scale principles like the world's largest data centers

The first open source network protocol suite offering complete layer2/layer3 functionality for accelerating development and deployment of whitebox networking gear

Mion

A switch OS based on ONLP API and Yocto project

Extensive switching and routing protocol support with advanced capabilities such as MPLS and SDN

A Linux distribution for "bare metal" switches, that is, network forwarding devices built from commodity components

A linux network operating system from Dell EMC

Is a Linux Operating System targeting embedded devices

A SDN OS for white box switches Layer-2/3 feature set with support for OpenFlow, OVSDB, and other protocols

Software for Open Networking in the Cloud SONiC

An open source, silicon-independent switch operating system for software-defined networks

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

BESS

Berkeley Extensible Software Switch, BESS is a modular framework for software switches

bmv2

A P4 software switch which is usually used as a tool to verify the funtions the developers describe in P4 language

CPqD

An OpenFlow 1.3 compatible user-space software switch implementation

Relentlessly focused on data IO speed and efficiency for more flexible and scalable networks and storage

Indigo

Indigo is an open source project aimed at enabling support for OpenFlow on physical and hypervisor switches

A high-performance software OpenFlow 1.3 switch

LINC-Switch

A pure OpenFlow software switch written in Erlang

Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch

A Programmable, Protocol-Independent Software Switch

snabbswitch

An open source virtualized Ethernet networking stack

ZeroTier

ZeroTier is a software-based managed Ethernet switch for planet Earth

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

OpenVirtex

A network hypervisor that can create multiple virtual and programmable networks on top of a single physical infrastructure

A communications protocol that gives access to the forwarding plane of a network switch or router over the network

OpenFlow Management and Configuration Protocol

A communication protocol which used to manage the OpenvSwitch database

gNMI

gRPC Network Management Interface

gNOI

gRPC Network Operations Interface

Beehive Network Controller

A distributed SDN controller built on top of Beehive. It supports OpenFlow but can be easily extended for other southbound protocols

Floodlight

A java-based OpenFlow controller

A Resursive SDN Openflow Controller created by SDN Research Section, ETRI

lighty.io core

lighty.io core components - An open source development framework for building Java-based SDN controllers

Netrack

An OpenFlow controller framework in Go

NodeFlow

An OpenFlow Controller Node Style

NOX

An open source development platform for C++-based software-defined networking ( ) control applications

OESS

The Open Exchange Software Suite to configure and control OpenFlow Enabled switches

Open Network Operating System

A lightweight SDN/Openflow controller written almost entirely in C from scratch

Software-defined security orchestration solution that automates deployment of virtualized network security functions, like next-generation firewall, intrusion prevention systems and application data controllers

A SDN project that utilizes SDN & NFV and provides all the necessary components for network virtualization

OpenDaylight Platform

OVN: Open Virtual Network for Open vSwitch

POX

An open source development platform for Python-based software-defined networking ( ) control applications

Ravel

A software-defined networking (SDN) controller that uses a standard SQL database to represent the network

A component-based software defined networking framework

A full-stack, easy-to-use framework for developing OpenFlow controllers in Ruby and C

Vyatta

The first commercial Controller built directly from OpenDaylight

Containernet

Mininet fork that allows to use Docker containers as hosts in emulated networks

A world-renowned software tool for network planning

MaxiNet extends the famous Mininet emulation environment to span the emulation across several physical machines. This allows to emulate very large software-defined networks

An Instant Virtual Network on your Laptop (or other PC)

A discrete-event network simulator that supports OpenFlow environment

A simulator for software-defined wireless local area network

Tinynet

A lightweight instant virtual network for rapid prototyping SDN

Frenetic

The Frenetic Programming Language and Runtime System

A domain specific language (DSL) based on abstraction of network models and conclusion of operation patterns

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

Protocol Oblivious Forwarding

Pyretic is one member of the Frenetic family of SDN programming languages

loxigen

LoxiGen is a tool that generates OpenFlow protocol libraries for a number of languages

nettle

A Haskell library for working with the OpenFlow protocol

OCaml OpenFlow

A serialization and protocol library for OpenFlow

oflib-node

Oflib-node is an OpenFlow protocol library for Node. It converts between OpenFlow wire protocol messages and Javascript objects

openfaucet

openfaucet is a pure Python implementation of the OpenFlow 1.0.0 protocol, based on Twisted

A Java implementation of low-level OpenFlow packet marshalling/unmarshalling and IO operations

Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program

Cbenech

Benchmarking tool for controllers

A tool to test OpenFlow controller application for the NOX controller platform

oftest

OpenFlow Testing Framework

Virtualisation Testbed for NFV/SDN Environment

ptf

A python based dataplane test framework based on unittest

SDN Troubleshooting System, simulates network devices, allowing programmatically test cases generation

Accelerating NFV's evolution through an integrated, open platform

What is GENEVE?

NVGRE-Network-Virtualization-using-Generic-Routing-Encapsulation

Virtual Extensible LAN

bgp4r

BGP4R is a ruby library which enables the creation and manipulation of BGP messages. In BGP4R, all well-known BGP constructs are defined in classes

The BIRD project aims to develop a fully functional dynamic IP routing daemon primarily targeted on (but not limited to) Linux, FreeBSD and other UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General Public License

Java-based vRouter

An IP routing protocol suite for Linux and Unix platforms which includes protocol daemons for BGP4, BGP4+, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, PIM-SM/MSDP and LDP as well as very early support for IS-IS, EIGRP and NHRP

gobgp

GoBGP is an open source BGP implementation designed from scratch for modern environment and implemented in a modern programming language, the Go Programming Language

Quagga is a routing software suite, providing implementations of OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIP v1 and v2, RIPng and BGP-4 for Unix platforms, particularly FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris and NetBSD. Quagga is a fork of GNU Zebra which was developed by Kunihiro Ishiguro

yabgp

YABGP is a yet another Python implementation for BGP Protocol. It can be used to establish BGP connections with all kinds of routers (include real Cisco/HuaWei/Juniper routers and some router simulators like GNS3) and receive/parse BGP messages for future analysis

the first open source Enterprise 5G/LTE Edge-Cloud-as-a-Service platform (ECaaS)

Reference Implementation of a Service Delivery Platform that Provides Cloud Economies and Agility

A online web service provides a visualization of Mininet Topology

Alignment of the two projects creates a harmonized and comprehensive framework for real-time, policy-driven software automation of virtual network functions that will enable software, network, IT and cloud providers and developers to rapidly create new services

The ASAP2 accelerator is built on top of eSwitch NIC hardware, and allows either the entire virtual switch, or significant portions of virtual switch or distributed virtual router (DVR) operations to be offloaded to the Mellanox NIC

DPDK is a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing

Remote direct memory access (RDMA) is a direct memory access from the memory of one computer into that of another without involving either one's operating system. This permits high-throughput, low-latency networking

XDP or eXpress Data Path provides a high performance, programmable network data path in the Linux kernel as part of the IO Visor Project. It is designed to run on any processors. The first supported CPU was Intel x86 and it is now extended to IBM POWER and ARM

drv-netif-dpdk

drv-netif-dpdk is a DPDK network interface for rump kernels. The combined result is a userspace TCP/IP stack doing packet I/O via DPDK

f-stack

F-Stack is an user space network development kit with high performance based on DPDK, FreeBSD TCP/IP stack and coroutine API

mTCP

mTCP is a highly scalable user-level TCP stack for multicore systems. mTCP source code is distributed under the Modified BSD License. For more detail, please refer to the LICENSE. The license term of io_engine driver and ported applications may differ from the mTCP’s

net-next-nuse

Network Stack in Userspace (NUSE) NUSE allows us to use Linux network stack as a library which any applications can directory use by linking the library. Each application has its own network stack so, it provides an instant virtualized environment apart from a host operating system

nff-go

NFF-Go becomes part of DPDK project umbrella under Linux Foundation! Mirror repo can be found here: . We will accept patches through DPDK mail-list and standard DPDK contribution process too

Community-driven cybersecurity project, built from the ground up, to bring advanced analytics to all IT Telemetry data on an open, scalable platform

The scalable, open source big data analytics platform for networks and services

Streaming Network Analytics System (project SNAS) is a framework to collect, track and access tens of millions of routing objects (routers, peers, prefixes) in real time

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