Many companies have announced SDN products which may or may not include OpenFlow. The following directory aims to capture SDN products that have been announced but are not yet shipping. As always, this is a living document and we’re looking for additional vendors and announced SDN products to add to this list. Since community members contribute to the content displayed, we cannot be held accountable for any inaccuracies that might crop up–though we’ll always do our best to review and edit incorrect information as we find them.
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HARDWARE SWITCH AND ROUTERS
Vendor(s)Product| Aricent Group | OpenFlow Client |
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Our OpenFlow client software significantly reduces product development and integration timelines, thereby helping original equipment manufacturers and value added resellers accelerate the time to market of the products in which they wish to… | |
| CALIENT Technologies Inc. | S320 Photonic Optical Circuit Switch |
| The S320 Photonic Circuit Switch dynamically manages the optical layer in software defined networks & datacenters. Features high port count (320x320), massively scalable bandwidth (> 32 Tbit/s), ultra-low latency & power consumption, and OpenFlow API | |
| Extreme Networks | Summit X480 |
| Highly scalable and versatile Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches to help optimize application performance. | |
| Extreme Networks | Summit X670 |
| High density, low latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet stackable switches with optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks. | |
| Juniper Networks | JunOS SDK on MX routers and EX Switches |
Juniper announced in October 2011 their JunOS SDK would support OpenFlow and that they would make OpenFlow available to their SDK developers. | |
| Mellanox Technologies | SwitchX-2 |
SwitchX-2, the next generation of Mellanox’s switch silicon, is optimized for Software Defined Networking (SDN). SwitchX-2 includes advanced capabilities of remote configurable routing tables, lossless and congestion free networks,… | |
LAYER 4-7 APPLICATION
Vendor(s)Product| Openwave Mobility Inc | Integra 4 |
|---|---|
| A mobile broadband value-added services (VAS) platform | |
| Openwave Mobility Inc | Integra 4 |
| A mobile broadband Value Added Services (VAS) Gateway | |
| Openwave Mobility Inc | Integra 4 |
| A mobile broadband Value Added Services (VAS) Gateway | |
| Openwave Mobility Inc | Integra 4 |
| A mobile broadband Value Added Services (VAS) Gateway | |
| Radware | DoS Secured Virtual Tenant Networks (VTN) |
Radware and NEC, Have jointly developed the DoS Secured VTN solution. the solution leverages NEC\'s pFlow product portfolio and VTN architecture together with the Market leading Radware DefensePro Attack mitigation system to provide a… | |
NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE
Vendor(s)Product| Nuage Networks | Virtualized Services Platform |
|---|---|
| The Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) lays the foundation for an open and dynamically controlled datacenter network fabric to accelerate application programmability, facilitate unconstrained mobility, and maximize compute efficiency | |
ORCHESTRATION SOFTWARE
Vendor(s)Product| Ecode Networks | Evolve |
|---|---|
| Evolve is an SDN Orchestration platform, providing an interface to the user, delivering the complete SDN experience. Evolve is modular, providing multiple SDN Apps for seamless business delivery. | |
SDN CONTROLLER
Vendor(s)Product| Amartus | Chameleon OS™ |
|---|---|
| A dynamic programmable, model driven Software Defined Service (SDS) & Network (SDN) orchestration platform for hybrid networks. It provides network programmability that span’s both traditional and SDN based networks to deliver high-quality, on-demand | |
| Cisco Systems | OnePK |
onePK is an easy-to-use toolkit for development, automation, rapid service creation and more. It enables you to access the valuable data inside your network via easy-to-use APIs. Build or extend applications across your routers and switches, to… | |
| HP | HP Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller |
The new HP Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller abstracts the physical hardware from the logical deployment, providing a centralized view and automating network configuration of all devices in the infrastructure. By eliminating thousands… | |
| IBM | IBM System Networking Programmable Network Controller |
The IBM Programmable Network Controller provides an OpenFlow-based network fabric with centralized control of network flows and virtual machine mobility. Features include:
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| Tail-f Systems | Network Control System (NCS) |
| NCS provides a real-time, less expensive way to control and automate network services, to deliver true multi-vendor SDN solutions that control today’s and tomorrow’s networks. | |
SDN SDK
Vendor(s)Product| Qosmos | ixEngine DPI and metadata engine |
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| DPI and metadata engine for L4-7 application visibility at all layers in SDN architecture: infrastructure, controller and application. | |
SILICON
Vendor(s)Product| Broadcom | Trident II 56850 |
|---|---|
High performance switching ASIC. Supported on OpenFlow-enabled switches by various firmware, including Indigo firmware, XORPlus firmware and other vendor proprietary firmware | |
| Cavium Networks | Octeon (on 10Gbps NIC) |
xFlow Research Inc. helped develop a 10Gbit/s network interface card (NIC) based on Cavium that supports OpenFlow 1.0 | |
| Centec Networks | CTC5160(GreatBelt) |
| The CTC5160 (GreatBelt) is a high feature, high performance IP/Ethernet switch designed to fulfill next generation Metro Ethernet, Enterprise, Wireless Backhaul, Data Center and Broadband aggregation network requirements. | |
| EZchip | NPS-400 |
| NPS-400 is a revolutionary C-programmable 400Gbps Network Processor for Smart Networks. Breakthrough architecture with 256 CTOPs, 4K threads, Traffic Manager, DPI, Security, Search Engine and 960G I/O in one chip. | |
| Marvell | Prestera |
In May 2011, Marvell announced the availability of an OpenFlow-enabled, fully featured switching solution based on Marvell | |
VIRTUAL SWITCH AND ROUTERS
Vendor(s)Product| NEC | ProgrammableFlow’s vPFS Virtual Switch for Windows Server 8 |
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ProgrammableFlow’s vPFS Virtual Switch for Windows Server 8 leverages the Hyper-V Extensible Switch application programming interface (API) to create a dynamic data center fabric allowing for ease of network management and to increase… | |
OTHER
Vendor(s)Product| ConteXtream | ConteXtream Grid solution |
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ConteXtream’s Grid solution is an SDN-based network virtualization that forms a software abstraction layer on top of traditional networks, creating an any-to-any network grid. | |
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