Software Defined Networking (SDN) open source platform, ONOS by On.Lab today announced the availability of the third release of its open source SDN Open Network Operating System (ONOS), named Cardinal which includes key support for IPv6 and MPLS. ONOS promises that Cardinal brings comprehensive feature sets and performance improvements to enable a new variety of deployments and solution proof of concepts (POCs).
According to ONOS, Cardinal delivers several significant enhancements, mainly in the areas of Application Intent Framework, southbound interfaces and new distributed core features and capabilities. Cardinal supports Netconf and PCEP(Path Computation Element Protocol ) interfaces for Southbound of the network operating system. In addition to POCs for enabling management of multi-layer IP/optical networks and migration to SDN networks using the SDN-IP peering application, Cardinal creates several new uses by enabling the central office to be re-architected as a data center (CORD).
ONOS added that Cardinal's Application Intent Framework supports all the key solution POCs that will be demonstrated at the Open Networking Summit (ONS2015) conference with extensions such as MPLS and tunnel support added to the framework to support a wide variety of SDN applications.
Bill Snow, vice president of Engineering at ON.Lab
The ONOS team has been running on all cylinders and continues to increase momentum with the help from the community. The code base continues to add functionality, while keeping code quality high and continually improving performance. ONOS' use cases really show its unique capabilities to transform service provider and mission critical networks.
