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Erlang and OpenFlow Together At Last

Posted by timothy on from the from-this-day-forth-no-erlang dept.

New submitter SIGSTOP writes "The LINC [OpenFlow 1.2 software-based] switch has now been released as commercial friendly open source through the FlowForwarding.org community website, encouraging users and vendors to use LINC and contribute to its development. The initial LINC implementation focuses on correctness and feature compliance. Through an abstraction layer, specialized network hardware drivers can be easily interfaced to LINC. It has been implemented in Erlang, the concurrent soft-real time programming language invented by Ericsson to develop their next generation networks."

2 of 93 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Great how the summary fails to fails to describ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    what OpenFlow is, and the OpenFlow link goes to a non-existent page.

    Link was missing a ":" - https://www.opennetworking.org/standards/intro-to-openflow

    Here's wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFlow

  2. Re:Great how the summary fails to fails to describ by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Informative

    Openflow is a protocol to let various routers communicate and coordinate how they route packets. That's my understanding of it. Google says they've gotten substantial efficiency improvements using it.

    Erlang, of course, is a language designed to be as reliable and fault-tolerant as possible. I didn't know they used it in routers, but apparently some people want to.

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    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."