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Vendors Combine To Standardize Virtual Networking With OpenDayLight

Posted by timothy on from the it-is-the-case-that-camels dept.

alphadogg writes "Software-defined networking, a set of technologies to help networks better adapt to user needs with less manual effort, may at last be getting the common foundation it has needed for interoperability and efficient development. Most of the major vendors working on SDN have joined in on OpenDaylight, a project being announced this week that will develop an open-source SDN framework. The vendors, which include Cisco Systems, VMware, Juniper Networks and Ericsson, will contribute software and engineers to the effort, according to Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, which is hosting the project." A story at Slash DataCenter on the initiative gives some background, too, about the slippery concept of software defined networking.

17 comments

  1. Yet Another Standard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How about, everybody use an Intel 10Gbe virtual NIC and call it a day. Then every OS has a native driver and there's no need to deal with proprietary drivers and "tools".

    You know, seamless virtualization. Transparent portability.

    1. Re:Yet Another Standard. by drakaan · · Score: 1

      That'd be great. It's not what the article is talking about or what network virtualization is, is all...

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  2. Obligatory XKCD by heezer7 · · Score: 1

    http://xkcd.com/927/

    1. Re:Obligatory XKCD by Svartalf · · Score: 1

      Damn, got beat out...

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  3. Obligatory XKCD strip... by Svartalf · · Score: 1

    Standards are so wonderful...they're so many of them to choose from

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    1. Re:Obligatory XKCD strip... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm so sick of that god forsaken strip, we'd live in a monoculture of technology without different standards and the whole point of that strip ("oh, let's try to make one standard to rule them all"... "oh look, we have competing standards") is actually the reason we need different standards, choice, because not every use-case fits into the same mould. Not every standard is made to be universal, not every standard's objective is to be completely universal. Having large companies group together to work together on one standard is trying to avoid the situation.

    2. Re:Obligatory XKCD strip... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      use-case fits into the same mould.

      Mold is the standard spelling. Screw your proprietary imperial spelling system.

  4. Vendor Neutral by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    From TFA: "networking industry will take the same approach to developing its next generation of technology as the big-data sector did with Hadoop or Web browsers with WebKit"

    Yep gonna be universal vendor neutral standard just like webkit.

  5. vendors combine to standardize by nimbius · · Score: 2

    something thats already had a standard open source implementation for quite some time now. why the linux foundation has agreed to participate in any of this is beyond me; the platinum level open-for-business vendors include assholes like:
    Mircosoft, who after the open documents fiasco should be barred from open-anything just out of common-sense.
    Cisco, remember VRRP and CARP? yep, that cisco.
    Juniper, currently being investigated for stock backdating and being sued for misclassifying unix administrators as "lab trolls" to skirt hourly compensation. this does just fine: http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/wiki/index.php/VDE im sure OpenDayLight includes new features like lock in, collusion, price fixing, stonewalling, and empty promises.

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    1. Re:vendors combine to standardize by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Let us know when your computer or server or anything other than boxes from the vendors you deride can provide high-density, non-blocking multi-terabit per-platform Ethernet.

  6. Embrace, Extend and Extinguish by Argon · · Score: 1

    Is not a strategy unique to Microsoft. Cisco proves that it can also play the game. Cisco is likely the biggest loser if SDN takes off in a big way. This is Cisco's way of making sure they're in the play with their proprietary extensions.

    1. Re:Embrace, Extend and Extinguish by Argon · · Score: 1

      An article that expresses the same skepticism:

      http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=5A2C0BF6-9626-6CF9-119A812483E44613

    2. Re:Embrace, Extend and Extinguish by h8sg8s · · Score: 1

      Cisco *invented* this particular game in the networking industry. How else could they charge premium prices for commodity gear running community standards all these years? They stand to loose their shirt.

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    3. Re:Embrace, Extend and Extinguish by jon3k · · Score: 1

      Not exactly

  7. FFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ok, I went a step further that I should (because that should be editor's job) and searched "SDN Framework" and none of the first google results showed what the hell SDN stands for, so now I know it's not entirely my fault...

    1. Re:FFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_networking

  8. daylight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    finally they saw the Daylight!!!!