What can OpenDaylight do?

What can OpenDaylight do?

Established to accelerate the adoption of SDN and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), OpenDaylight provides an open platform for network programmability and cloud computing designed to enable SDN and create a solid NFV foundation for all sizes of networks.

What is Cisco OpenDaylight?

OpenDaylight is an open source SDN controller / framework, hosted by the Linux Foundation. It’s one of the more popular (open source) SDN controllers at the moment. One of the southbound interface protocols it supports is OpenFlow. You could buy some hardware that supports OpenFlow but a great alternative is Mininet.

How do I use OpenDaylight with Mininet?

Setting up the OpenDaylight Virtual Machine

1. Configure OpenDaylight VM interfaces.
2. Connect to the OpenDaylight VM using SSH.
3. Install Java.
4. Install OpenDaylight.
5. Start OpenDaylight.
6. Install OpenDaylight features.
7. Stop OpenDaylight.
8. Connect to the Mininet VM using SSH.

Who uses OpenDaylight?

OpenDaylight is in production in more than 150 organizations around the world–from large telecom carriers collectively supporting 1 Billion subscribers, to webscale content providers to enterprises, research organizations and universities.

Is OpenDaylight a SDN controller?

OpenDayLight is the most pervasive open-source SDN controller with extensive northbound and southbound APIs. In addition to resiliency and scalability, the modular architecture of ODL makes it a suitable choice for different use-cases.

Which southbound protocol is used by OpenDaylight?

OpenFlow
Most applications only use a small subset of the available southbound plugins to control the data plane. The NetVirt application of the Red Hat OpenDaylight solution uses OpenFlow and Open vSwitch Database Management Protocol (OVSDB).

How do I start OpenDaylight?

1. Prepare operating system. Update your operating system, applications and security tools through the apt package manager.
2. Install the Java JRE. The OpenDaylight Architects designed OpenDaylight for the Java ecosystem.
3. Set JAVA_HOME.
4. Download the OpenDaylight Zip Archive.
5. Install OpenDaylight.
6. Start OpenDaylight.

How do I access OpenDaylight GUI?

Logging In Open a browser and enter the login URL http://:8181/index.html in your browser (Chrome is recommended). Login to the application with your username and password credentials.

Is OpenDaylight and OpenFlow controller?

OpenDaylight is an SDN controller. As to their relations, OpenFlow is a protocol and OpenvSwitch and OpenDaylight are packages or software packages using that protocol. In other words, the protocol used by OpenvSwitch or OpenDaylight is OpenFlow.

How do I uninstall OpenDaylight?

To uninstall a feature, you must shut down OpenDaylight, delete the data directory, and start OpenDaylight up again. Uninstalling a feature using the Karaf feature:uninstall command is not supported and can cause unexpected and undesirable behavior.