The OpenDaylight Project recently announced the fourth release of its open Software-Defined Networking (SDN) platform, dubbed as OpenDaylight Beryllium (ODL Be).
ODL Be promises better performance and scalability with new network services offer clustering and high availability and a whole lot of new features incuding improved data handling, messaging for transport, greater abstraction of network models, broad management of network elements, and a new GUI.
For the first time in OpenDaylight, the Be release includes all the components necessary to fully support OpenStack High Availability and Clustering with improved support for Neutron APIs and features.
It is also said to be providing the broadest set of SDN use cases, both traditional and greenfield, for service provider and enterprise networks. New services and architectural improvements in Beryllium will enable new use cases in the areas of Cloud and NFV as well as adding scale and flexibility to the traditional use cases in the areas of network resource optimization and automated service delivery.
Neela Jacques, executive director, OpenDaylight
ODL Be delivers important performance and scalability improvements and adds significant new network services and abstractions to serve the ever-growing set of use cases being tackled by end-users.
Chris Luke, chair of the OpenDaylight Advisory Group and senior principal engineer, Comcast
Thousands of end users around the globe use, test and deploy OpenDaylight as an SDN platform, with many having contributed code and ideas to the ODL Be release.
