From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Casado Subject: Re: Open vSwitch Design Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:05:25 -0800 Message-ID: <4ED09DC5.4000501@nicira.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org, Chris Wright , Herbert Xu , Eric Dumazet , netdev , Jamal Hadi Salim , John Fastabend , David Miller To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dev-bounces-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: dev-bounces-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > Not sure how Openvswitch implementation relates to Openflow specification. The short answer is that Open vSwitch serves as one of the standard reference implementations for OpenFlow (in fact, the primary developers of Open vSwitch were some of the original designers of OpenFlow). Multiple hardware switches on the market use Open vSwitch as the basis for their OpenFlow support. > > There are a few switches supporting Openflow already: > http://www.openflow.org/wp/switch-nec/ > http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/options/networking/bnt8264/index.html There are many other ports announced or available from vendors such as HP, Brocade, Pica8, Extreme, Juniper, and NetGear. Cisco has even announced support support for OpenFlow on the Nexus 3k (http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=213545). .martin > > The standard(s) are here: > http://www.openflow.org/wp/documents/ > > Good info from recent symposium: > http://opennetsummit.org/past_conferences.html > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martin Casado Nicira Networks, Inc. www.nicira.com cell: 650-776-1457 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~