Infrastructure Programmer Development Kit (IPDK) is an open source, vendor agnostic framework of drivers and APIs for infrastructure offload and management that runs on a CPU, IPU, DPU or switch.

I recently gave a talk at ONS 2021 with Tom Nadeau. We spoke on the power of eBPF and XDP in relation to the Telco/5G space.

OpenSwitch Revisionist History: Redux

Microsoft SONiC and Barefoot Networks At The OCP Summit

Open Source NOS Demos At the OCP Summit

Open Source NOS: Response

dNOS: Another Open Source Network Operating System

Stratum: An Open Source, Silicon Independent, Switch Operating System

If you’re a fan of networking, you are no doubt very excited by all of the recent excitement in the industry as of late. And there is no larger area of innovation in networking at the moment than Open Source networking. Two of the projects at the forefront of Open Source networking innovation are OpenStack Neutron and OpenDaylight. OpenStack Neutron is driving an API around networking for Infrastructure as a Service Clouds, and has been very successful at driving mindshare in this area. There are a large number of Plugins and ML2 MechanismDrivers for Neutron in existence already. However, so far, there is no OpenDaylight integration with OpenStack, at least upstream. I am pleased to announce that a team of us are working on making this happen, however. We have a blueprint filed and we are actively working towards the support in OpenDaylight required to support the Neutron APIs. What I’m going to show you in this blog post is how to take what we currently have for a test run and try it out yourself.

This post by Brad Casemore is rather interesting. Specifically, I love this comment:

When it comes to technologies and markets, our inherent optimism occasionally is thwarted by our intrinsic resistance to change.

This is true everywhere, but especially true in technology. I’m not saying SDN won’t penetrate the enterprise market, and neither is Brad. It will take time, for sure. What will help SDN penetrate this market is the value built on top of it. Applications provide business value, and once they can orchestrate the network to their needs, the game changes. A good example is this post by Brad Hedlund on Hadoop Clusters and the Network. Allowing a distributed piece of software like Hadoop to understand the network allows it to work more efficiently. This is an example of what will help to drive SDN adoption in the enterprise going forward.