OpenFlow Standard: Accelerated Conformance test footsteps

Earlier, 20 companies were involved in the PlugFest convention for the OpenFlow standard for software definition networks, the second event was hosted by the Open Network Foundation (opened Networking Foundation, onf), This is the first certification laboratory for ONF to choose conformance testing at the Indiana Network Transformation Research and Education Center.

Participants included Brocade, Ciena, Juniper NX, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Huawei and NEC. Up to 50 engineers tested commercial and Highland controllers and switches, mainly using OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.2 for Topology Discovery (topology Discovery), and PP-level use cases, including the use of virtual machines.

The event, which was held last October 8 ~ 12th, was the second event of the organization following the first PlugFest conference held in the third month of this year. "We see not only the growth of the participants and the number of products being tested, but also the trends in the commercialization of the controller in the market," said Mike Haugh, chairman of the ONF Test and interoperability Working Group and senior Marketing product manager at Ixia Company.

"Brocade has been developing SDN solutions for business and service providers, improving network control standards, providing customers with greater business flexibility and new service models to achieve better it asset utilization," said Daniel, director of Brocade's Routing and application product marketing. Williams said.

"We are delighted to be able to work with other suppliers to test OpenFlow 1.2 controllers and switches," said Joubine Dustzadeh, the company's chief technology strategist and Vice president of technology strategy and network.

"We brought the Programmableflow controller PF6800, Programmableflow switch PF5240 and PF5820, and our latest virtual Switch openflow based on PF1000," Su-hun Yun, senior manager of NEC American company, said. "In this plugfest, all the tests were successful. ”