The
OpenDaylight Project, the leading open source platform for programmable, software-defined networks, today announced that
OpenDaylight Beryllium (ODL Be),
its fourth open Software-Defined Networking (SDN) platform release, is
now available to service providers and enterprises seeking to
solve key network challenges related to Automated Service Delivery, Network Resource Optimization, Cloud and NFV, and others.
"Dozens of vendors and end users have already chosen to build and
deploy solutions leveraging the OpenDaylight platform," said 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. ODL Be brings us one step closer to
unifying the industry around a single, common platform."
Those who have already deployed ODL will see significant improvements
in performance, scalability and functionality with ODL Be. New network
services offer clustering and high availability, improved data handling,
messaging for transport, greater abstraction of network models, broad
management of network elements, and a new GUI. ODL Be is the ideal
platform to get a full range of options for configuring policy and
intent, and there are several new applications built on ODL that make
the transition to SDN even easier.
New Features in OpenDaylight Beryllium
- Performance and Scalability: Stronger analysis
and testing of clustering (where multiple instances of ODL act as one
logical controller) appear in ODL Be. Applications that want to be
cluster-aware can choose how to put data across the cluster. 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. As of the Be
release, OpenDaylight enables workload placement on hosts with
DPDK-accelerated virtual switches.
- Ease of Adoption: ODL Be continues to integrate
features to improve interoperability for multivendor environments with
updates to its microservices architecture and new projects like NetIDE
for intent-based network modeling. The NeXt UI feature allows you to
better understand OpenDaylight's functionality through user-friendly
visual displays. Updated documentation is available to aid in
installation and deployment.
- Abstracting Network Models: ODL Be includes the
widest range of configurations for policy and intent of any controller
or platform. Four methods are supported - NEMO, Application Layer
Traffic Optimization (ALTO), Group Based Policy (GBP) and Network Intent
Composition (NIC) - providing unparalleled flexibility for intent-based
management and direction of network services and resources.
- Broad Set of Use Cases: ODL Be provides 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.
"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," said Chris Luke, chair of the OpenDaylight
Advisory Group and senior principal engineer, Comcast. "Community
participation and contributions continue to grow, which is reflected in
the Beryllium release. The platform is being enhanced and refined
consistent with how open SDN is being utilized throughout the
ecosystem."
OpenDaylight's developer community continues to work closely with the OpenDaylight Advisory Group,
composed of senior technical architects from some of OpenDaylight's
most demanding users (including AT&T, China Mobile, Comcast,
Caltech, Tencent, and Telefonica, among others), to develop the feature
sets most needed for the demands and constraints of real world networks.