The ONF Atrium SDN platform garners the 2016/A tag with OpenDaylight support
The Open Networking Foundation updated its Atrium open software-defined networking solution with support for the Linux Foundation’s OpenDaylight platform. The move is being released under the Atrium 2016/A tag.
ONF said the update builds on the now termed Atrium 2015/A release from last June that used a platform from Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System providing support for OpenDaylight into the Atrium router. The equipment is built on the OpenDaylight framework and is said to control OpenFlow hardware switches using Quagga’s open source implementation of the border gateway protocol, which is used for Internet routing.
The update also brings along OpenDaylight Device Identification and Driver Module support for work across multiple OpenFlow version 1.3 hardware for Atrium 2015/A’s flow objectives and device drivers. The Atrium 2016/A solution is said to also include Leaf-Spine Fabric, which is described as the first Layer 2/3 Clos network fabric built using Open Compute Project hardware and can scale up to 16 racks using design principles of Layer 3 down to the top of the rack switch. The fabric is set for a field trial with a “major operator … as part of the Central Office Rearchitected as Data Center project with ON.Lab.”
“In this release of Atrium, the porting to OpenDaylight provides a large and vibrant community with a new vehicle for adopting open SDN,” said Bithika Khargharia, director of product and community management at ONF and principal architect of solutions and innovation at Extreme Networks. “ONF is actively creating an ecosystem and the architecture needed to assist network operators to more easily build custom solutions and allow vendors to take advantage of common building blocks, reducing their development costs and improving interoperability.”
OpenDaylight touted its inclusion into the new solution by stating a greater opportunity for operators and vendors to adopt open SDN architectures.
“The increase of open SDN projects within the industry through community contributions shows that the industry is on the right path to accelerating commercial adoption of open SDN,” said Neela Jacques, executive director of OpenDaylight.
ONF was formed in 2011 by a handful of technology and telecom heavyweights, including Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon Communications and Yahoo.
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