The CloudRouter Project, which is a Linux-based open source routing and software-defined networking (SDN) initiative, released its CloudRouter 3.0 and new performance numbers showing throughput in excess of 650 Gbps on commodity hardware.
The CloudRouter 3.0 release ships with new versions of ONOS Drake 1.4, CentOS 7.2, and Fedora 23. Four new open source projects have been added including iSDX, an open source SDN exchange point, two new network traffic generator and analyzers, Ostinato and pktgen-dpdk, and pmacct, a network monitoring utility.
CloudRouter 3.0 new key features summary:
- 100 GigE Performance: new DPDK 2.2.0 kernel enhancements tested at 650 Gig/sec
- OS: upgraded to CentOS 7.2 or Fedora 23
- SDN OS: ONOS 1.4 (Drake) in addition to OpenDaylight Lithium
- SDN Exchange Point: iSDX for advanced routing interconnection
- Security and Performance Testing: pktgen-dpdk, Otinato
- pmacct: network monitoring utility
“Today’s announcement gives network administrators the choice of continuing to use CloudRouter as a software-based router or advancing into deployments of software-based controllers with whitebox hardware,” said Jay Turner, CloudRouter Project Lead and Senior Director of DevOps at IIX. “The community told us that they wanted the benefits of SDN in the future, but needed a bridge between old and new architectures. CloudRouter is an open source network innovation platform, and we believe it’s the most flexible SDN platform out, incorporating best-of-breed open source projects, fully tested for security and stability.”
“The traditional way of building networks with vertically integrated, proprietary, over-priced boxes is being disrupted, and replaced by the new and much more open way of disaggregation, abstraction and easy composition of network resources. This transformation was driven by hyper-scale cloud and web services providers and is being widely accepted to power web-scale IT. The decoupling of software from hardware first happened on switches, and CloudRouter is bringing it one step further to routers. Mellanox is a supporter and driver of this transformation, and we build hardware for the new open composable networks that enable this transformation to happen without performance or infrastructure efficiency compromises,” said Chloe Jian Ma, Senior Director of Cloud Marketing at Mellanox.
