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An extensive compilation of resources and technologies related to Software Defined Networks (SDN) for network administrators and developers.

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Network Operating System

Beluganos146over 3 years agoBeluganos is a new network OS designed for white-box switches (OF-DPA), which can apply large-scale networks
Cumulus LinuxCumulus 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
FlexSwitchThe first open source network protocol suite offering complete layer2/layer3 functionality for accelerating development and deployment of whitebox networking gear
Mion8about 6 years agoA switch OS based on ONLP API and Yocto project
OcNOSExtensive switching and routing protocol support with advanced capabilities such as MPLS and SDN
Open Network Linux, ONLA Linux distribution for "bare metal" switches, that is, network forwarding devices built from commodity components
OpenSwitchA linux network operating system from Dell EMC
OpenWrtIs a Linux Operating System targeting embedded devices
PicOSA SDN OS for white box switches Layer-2/3 feature set with support for OpenFlow, OVSDB, and other protocols
SONiCSoftware for Open Networking in the Cloud SONiC
StratumAn open source, silicon-independent switch operating system for software-defined networks

Install Environment

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

Software Switch

BESS315almost 4 years agoBerkeley Extensible Software Switch, BESS is a modular framework for software switches
bmv2552almost 2 years agoA P4 software switch which is usually used as a tool to verify the funtions the developers describe in P4 language
CPqD304about 3 years agoAn OpenFlow 1.3 compatible user-space software switch implementation
FD.IORelentlessly focused on data IO speed and efficiency for more flexible and scalable networks and storage
Indigo62almost 3 years agoIndigo is an open source project aimed at enabling support for OpenFlow on physical and hypervisor switches
LagopusA high-performance software OpenFlow 1.3 switch
LINC-Switch213about 11 years agoA pure OpenFlow software switch written in Erlang
Open vSwitchOpen vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch
PISCESA Programmable, Protocol-Independent Software Switch
snabbswitch2,978about 2 years agoAn open source virtualized Ethernet networking stack
ZeroTier14,719almost 2 years agoZeroTier is a software-based managed Ethernet switch for planet Earth

Network Virtualization

FlowVisor164about 13 years agoAn OpenFlow controller that acts as a hypervisor/proxy between a switch and multiple controllers. Can slice multiple switches in parallel, effectively slicing a network
OpenVirtex96almost 3 years agoA network hypervisor that can create multiple virtual and programmable networks on top of a single physical infrastructure

Protocol

OpenFlowA communications protocol that gives access to the forwarding plane of a network switch or router over the network
OF-ConfigOpenFlow Management and Configuration Protocol
OVSDBA communication protocol which used to manage the OpenvSwitch database
NETCONF
OpFlex
Path Computation Element Protocol, PCEP
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, XMPP
P4 Runtime
gNMI481almost 2 years agogRPC Network Management Interface
gNOI161almost 2 years agogRPC Network Operations Interface

Controller

Beehive Network Controller73over 10 years agoA distributed SDN controller built on top of Beehive. It supports OpenFlow but can be easily extended for other southbound protocols
Floodlight752over 2 years agoA java-based OpenFlow controller
IRISA Resursive SDN Openflow Controller created by SDN Research Section, ETRI
lighty.io core136almost 2 years agolighty.io core components - An open source development framework for building Java-based SDN controllers
Netrack91over 7 years agoAn OpenFlow controller framework in Go
NodeFlow58over 14 years agoAn OpenFlow Controller Node Style
NOX139over 12 years agoAn open source development platform for C++-based software-defined networking ( ) control applications
OESS27over 3 years agoThe Open Exchange Software Suite to configure and control OpenFlow Enabled switches
ONOSOpen Network Operating System
Open MULA lightweight SDN/Openflow controller written almost entirely in C from scratch
Open Security ControllerSoftware-defined security orchestration solution that automates deployment of virtualized network security functions, like next-generation firewall, intrusion prevention systems and application data controllers
OpenContrailA SDN project that utilizes SDN & NFV and provides all the necessary components for network virtualization
OpenDaylightOpenDaylight Platform
OVNOVN: Open Virtual Network for Open vSwitch
POX629almost 2 years agoAn open source development platform for Python-based software-defined networking ( ) control applications
Ravel9over 8 years agoA software-defined networking (SDN) controller that uses a standard SQL database to represent the network
RyuA component-based software defined networking framework
TremaA full-stack, easy-to-use framework for developing OpenFlow controllers in Ruby and C
Vyatta43almost 11 years agoThe first commercial Controller built directly from OpenDaylight

Simulator/Emulator

Containernet399about 2 years agoMininet fork that allows to use Docker containers as hosts in emulated networks
EstiNetA world-renowned software tool for network planning
MaxiNetMaxiNet extends the famous Mininet emulation environment to span the emulation across several physical machines. This allows to emulate very large software-defined networks
MininetAn Instant Virtual Network on your Laptop (or other PC)
ns-3A discrete-event network simulator that supports OpenFlow environment
OpenNetA simulator for software-defined wireless local area network
Tinynet45almost 3 years agoA lightweight instant virtual network for rapid prototyping SDN

Language

Frenetic224almost 3 years agoThe Frenetic Programming Language and Runtime System
NEMOA domain specific language (DSL) based on abstraction of network models and conclusion of operation patterns
P4A 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
POFProtocol Oblivious Forwarding
PyreticPyretic is one member of the Frenetic family of SDN programming languages

Library

loxigen96over 3 years agoLoxiGen is a tool that generates OpenFlow protocol libraries for a number of languages
nettle20almost 9 years agoA Haskell library for working with the OpenFlow protocol
OCaml OpenFlow13about 11 years agoA serialization and protocol library for OpenFlow
oflib-node15almost 15 years agoOflib-node is an OpenFlow protocol library for Node. It converts between OpenFlow wire protocol messages and Javascript objects
openfaucet25almost 14 years agoopenfaucet is a pure Python implementation of the OpenFlow 1.0.0 protocol, based on Twisted
OpenFlowJA Java implementation of low-level OpenFlow packet marshalling/unmarshalling and IO operations
ScapyScapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program

Test

Cbenech31over 3 years agoBenchmarking tool for controllers
nice-ofA tool to test OpenFlow controller application for the NOX controller platform
oftest86over 2 years agoOpenFlow Testing Framework
OpenSDNCoreVirtualisation Testbed for NFV/SDN Environment
ptf148over 2 years agoA python based dataplane test framework based on unittest
STSSDN Troubleshooting System, simulates network devices, allowing programmatically test cases generation

NFV

OPNFVAccelerating NFV's evolution through an integrated, open platform

Overlay Network

GENEVEWhat is GENEVE?
NVGRENVGRE-Network-Virtualization-using-Generic-Routing-Encapsulation
VXLANVirtual Extensible LAN

Router

bgp4r27almost 7 years agoBGP4R is a ruby library which enables the creation and manipulation of BGP messages. In BGP4R, all well-known BGP constructs are defined in classes
BGPFeeder8about 4 years ago
BirdThe 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
FreeRouterJava-based vRouter
FRRoutingAn 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
gobgp3,667almost 2 years agoGoBGP is an open source BGP implementation designed from scratch for modern environment and implemented in a modern programming language, the Go Programming Language
QuaggaQuagga 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
yabgp238almost 2 years agoYABGP 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

Misc

Aether Projectthe first open source Enterprise 5G/LTE Edge-Cloud-as-a-Service platform (ECaaS)
Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter, CORDReference Implementation of a Service Delivery Platform that Provides Cloud Economies and Agility
Mininet Spear NarmoxA online web service provides a visualization of Mininet Topology
Open Network Automation Platform, ONAPAlignment 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
Open Source MANO Community, OSM
OPEN-Orchestrator Project, Open-O

High Performance Network

ASAP2The 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
DPDKDPDK is a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing
RDMARemote 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
XDPXDP 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

Userspace Network Stack

drv-netif-dpdk196almost 11 years agodrv-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-stack3,888almost 2 years agoF-Stack is an user space network development kit with high performance based on DPDK, FreeBSD TCP/IP stack and coroutine API
mTCP2,015about 2 years agomTCP 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-nuse292over 2 years agoNetwork 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-go1,388almost 4 years agoNFF-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

Analytics

Apache SpotCommunity-driven cybersecurity project, built from the ground up, to bring advanced analytics to all IT Telemetry data on an open, scalable platform
PNDAThe scalable, open source big data analytics platform for networks and services
SNASStreaming 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

Resources / Books

DevOps for Networking
Network Algorithmics:An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices
Network Programmability and Automation Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer
SDN: Software Defined Networks: An Authoritative Review of Network Programmability Technologies
SDN网络指南(OpenSource Book in Chinese by Pengfei Ni)
SDN核心技术剖析和实战指南
Software Defined Networking with OpenFlow
圖解OpenFlow
重构网络-SDN架构与实现
深度解析SDN: 利益、战略、技术、实践
软件定义网络:SDN与OpenFlow解析

Resources / Paper

A Guided Tour of Data-Center Networking
A Survey on the Security of Stateful SDN Data Planes
High Performance Datacenter Networks: Architectures, Algorithms, and Opportunities
Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance
SDN A Comprehensive Survey

Resources / Awesome Posts

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