Awesome SDN

A awesome list about Software Defined Network (SDN)

• Awesome SDN
  • Protocol
  • Controller
  • Simulator/Emulator
  • Language

Software Switch

• OpenvSwtich - Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch.
• Indigo - Indigo is an open source project aimed at enabling support for OpenFlow on physical and hypervisor switches.

Protocol

• OpenFlow - A communications protocol that gives access to the forwarding plane of a network switch or router over the network.
• OF-Config - OpenFlow Management and Configuration Protocol
• OVSDB - A communication protocol which used to manage the OpenvSwitch database.

Controller

• NOX - An open source development platform for C++-based software-defined networking (SDN) control applications.
• NodeFlow - An OpenFlow Controller Node Style.
• ONOS - Open Network Operating System.
• OpenDaylight - OpenDaylight Platform
• POX - A networking software platform written in Python
• Ryu - A component-based software defined networking framework.
• Floodlight - A java-based openflow controller.

Simulator/Emulator

• Mininet - An Instant Virtual Network on your Laptop (or other PC)
• Epoch - SDN simulator for Mac OSX
• EstiNet - A world-renowned software tool for network planning

Language

• P4 - A declarative language for expressing how packets are processed by the pipeline of a network forwarding element such as a switch, NIC, router or network function appliance.

Library

• loxigen - LoxiGen is a tool that generates OpenFlow protocol libraries for a number of languages.