I’m incredibly happy to announce some really exciting things that are happening in open source at Big Switch Networks. Today we announced the launch of a commercial version of Indigo Agent, which is a fully deployable thin switching software platform called Switch Light, and a revamped open source site: ProjectFloodlight.org. In this posting I wanted to explain how we got here and why we are making these changes.
Contributed by Eli Karpilovski, Senior Manager, Cloud @ Mellanox (elik@mellanox.com).
I’m excited to showcase the results of a demo we put together leveraging the Floodlight controller and our new OpenFlow-enabled NIC. This particular demo enables extraction of network information to detect and protect against security threats in real-time for a more resilient and cost-effective mobile network.
The demo uses the following technologies:
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Combining these technologies illustrates an innovative ability to extract network and application information that can be translated and leveraged to a scalable solution for detection of various security threats, in real-time.
Contributed by Rob Sherwood – CTO of Controller Technologies at Big Switch Networks.
I’m hearing more and more about SDN “controllers” these days.
Tech Execs at big networking companies are talking about delivering controllers in coming years. And I still see interesting projects emerging from academic institutions. Even Lua students can now experiment with OpenFlow controllers. In general, this is a good thing and I’m happy to see it.
There’s some really exciting stuff happening in the Project Floodlight community, so we just gave the website a new look and feel to match. We hope you like it. Read more here.
