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Learning OpenDaylight

You're reading from   Learning OpenDaylight A gateway to SDN (Software-Defined Networking) and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782174523
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Reza Toghraee Reza Toghraee
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Preface 1. Introduction to SDN - Transformation from Legacy to SDN 2. Overview of OpenDaylight FREE CHAPTER 3. OpenDaylight Installation and Deployment 4. Building a Virtual SDN Test Lab with Virtual Switches 5. Basic Networking with OpenDaylight 6. Overview of OpenDaylight Applications 7. Building SDN Applications for OpenDaylight 8. Network Function Virtualization 9. Building a Software-Driven Data Center with OpenDaylight

OPNFV and its role in service provider NFV


Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) was announced by the Linux Foundation back in 2014. Its aim is to create a standard carrier-grade platform, mainly for NFV.

Since the Linux Foundation also hosts OpenDaylight and Open Network Operating System (ONOS), the combination of a network controller such as OpenDaylight or ONOS and OPNFV can help transition industry toward virtualization of networks and network functions.

OPNFV promotes open source networking and motivates companies to work together to accelerate innovation. It can be used by service providers, data centers, cloud providers, vendors, end users, and developers to create an open source platform in order to accelerate the development and deployment of NFV.

Its main current objective to create a standard open source platform for VNF in order to run on different platforms. For example, if OpenStack and VMware vSphere are both OPNFV certified, we can load a OPNFV certified VNF (such as a virtual load...

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