Helium features 11 new protocols, applications and technologies for creating interoperability across software-defined networks.
Some highlights:
- A new user interface provides a much simpler and customizable installation process.
- The use of the Apache Karaf containers enables users to build on-demand combinations of components and features.
- Deeper integration with OpenStack, including significant improvements in the Open vSwitch Database Integration project.
- A technology preview of advanced OpenStack shoes features such as Security Groups, Distributed Virtual Router and Load Balancing-as-a-Service.
- Improvements in high availability, clustering and security.
- Strengthening and adding new protocols like OpenFlow Table Type Patterns, PacketCable MultiMedia, an application policy framework.
- New tools for Service Function Chaining.
The OpenDaylight Project also confirmed that over a dozen vendors are building their controllers on top of OpenDaylight,.
“The OpenDaylight community is iterating, shaping and defining a de facto standard for SDN and NFV through code creation,” said Neela Jacques, executive director, OpenDaylight. “They’ve taken on the monumental task of bringing together all the disparate technologies, thoughts and ideas around SDN and forming it into a cohesive platform. The community has made amazing progress in a short amount of time as you can see in this second release which integrates more functionality, apps and use cases. Helium brings us one step closer to having one common platform the entire industry can standardize on.”