A awesome list about Software Defined Network (SDN)
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
- 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.
- ONIE - ONIE enables a bare metal network switch ecosystem where end users have a choice among different network operating systems.
- 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
- Lagopus - A high-performance software OpenFlow 1.3 switch.
- LINC-Switch - A pure OpenFlow software switch written in Erlang
- snabbswitch - An open source virtualized Ethernet networking stack.
- 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.
- 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
- NOX - An open source development platform for C++-based software-defined networking (SDN) control applications.
- NodeFlow - An OpenFlow Controller Node Style.
- 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.
- Beehive Network Controller - A distributed SDN controller built on top of Beehive. It supports OpenFlow but can be easily extended for other southbound protocols.
- Ravel - A software-defined networking (SDN) controller that uses a standard SQL database to represent the network.
- Trema - A full-stack, easy-to-use framework for developing OpenFlow controllers in Ruby and C.
- 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.
- 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
- Pyretic - Pyretic is one member of the Frenetic family of SDN programming languages.
- NEMO - A domain specific language (DSL) based on abstraction of network models and conclusion of operation patterns.
- loxigen - LoxiGen is a tool that generates OpenFlow protocol libraries for a number of languages.
- openfaucet - openfaucet is a pure Python implementation of the OpenFlow 1.0.0 protocol, based on Twisted.
- oflib-node - Oflib-node is an OpenFlow protocol library for Node. It converts between OpenFlow wire protocol messages and Javascript objects.
- 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.
- oftest - OpenFlow Testing Framework
- 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.
- OPNFV - Accelerating NFV's evolution through an integrated, open platform.
- 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.