The OpenDaylight Project, the leading open source platform for programmable, software-defined networks, has unveiled its fifth open Software-Defined Networking (SDN) release, OpenDaylight Boron that comes with enhancements to better support cloud, NFV, performance and tools.
OpenDaylight said that more than half of the new projects proposed under the latest release came from user organizations, including: YangIDE, led by AT&T, provides support for building new YANG models, Telefonica and Intel-led NetIDE, which makes it easier to share apps across controller deployments and EMAN, led by Comcast, for improved energy efficiency for the network.
Boron provides several enhancements to evolve OpenDaylight’s support for Cloud and NFV. OpenStack-related capabilities have been re-architected within a unified development framework for better scalability and performance, including clustering, High Availability (HA), and persistence. Southbound enhancements for VNFs include OpenFlow and NETCONF optimization, as well as hardware VTEP support, and DPDK enhancements.
Neela Jacques, Executive Director, OpenDaylight
With Boron, the OpenDaylight platform cements its position as the de facto standard platform for building next-generation networking solutions. Boron further develops and standardizes support for the industry’s leading use cases, while facilitating development of innovative new approaches to solving network-related business challenges.
Chris Rice, SVP of Domain 2.0 Architecture and Design at AT&T
We contributed to the release and expect to use the code at the heart of our network. We like OpenDaylight for the breadth of ‘brownfield’ protocols that are supported, its model driven approach that matches our service abstraction logic, and the ability to add applications on top of the controller base.
