Tag: OPNFV

  • 2016 Open Networking Summit: Open Source Rules, But Are There Too Many Choices?

    2016 Open Networking Summit: Open Source Rules, But Are There Too Many Choices?

    Introduction: For its first few years, the Open Networking Summit (ONS) focused on pure SDN – strict separation of control and data planes, centralized SDN controller computing routes for hundreds of “packet forwarding engines” in its domain and OpenFlow as the southbound API/protocol used between control and data planes.  Overlay networks (a logical network mapped…