The OpenDaylight Project, a community-led and industry-supported open source platform to advance Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), unveils its first open source software release “Hydrogen”. OpenDaylight which is an open platform for network programmability to enable SDN and create a solid foundation for NFV for networks at any size and scale, makes available the Hydrogen software for downloads, evaluation, commercialization and deployment by enterprises, service providers, equipment providers and academia .
The Hydrogen comes in three flavours, -Base Edition, Virtualization Edition and Service Provider Edition to help a wide array of users get up and running as quickly as possible. The Hydrogen Base Edition is for those who are exploring SDN and OpenFlow for proof-of-concepts or academic initiatives in physical or virtual environments. Hydrogen Virtualization Edition for data centers includes all the components of Base plus functionality for creating and managing Virtual Tenant Networks and virtual overlays, and includes applications for security and network management. Service Provider Edition is for providers and carriers who manage existing networks and want to plot a path to SDN and NFV. It includes Base plus protocol support commonly encountered in service provider networks, as well as security and network management applications.s
“OpenDaylight formed with the goal of tackling one of IT’s toughest challenges: simplifying network management,” said David Meyer, Technical Steering Committee chair, OpenDaylight. “This first release is a great step forward and the community is already looking to build on its work to address a variety of additional capabilities and features in subsequent releases that are being discussed at the first OpenDaylight Summit this week.”
