How to Finally Break-up with your Switch Vendor Using Stratum
Open networking promised the end of vendor lock-in, but we have yet to see this promise realized – until now. Between vendor-agnostic models like SAI and OpenConfig, and control and management plane- …
| Talk Title | How to Finally Break-up with your Switch Vendor Using Stratum |
| Speakers | Devjit Gopalpur (Software Engineer, Google), Brian O’Connor (MTS, Open Networking Foundation) |
| Conference | Open Networking Summit North America |
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| Location | San Jose, CA, USA |
| Date | Apr 2- 5, 2019 |
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| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Open networking promised the end of vendor lock-in, but we have yet to see this promise realized – until now. Between vendor-agnostic models like SAI and OpenConfig, and control and management plane-driven languages like P4 and YANG, network operators are able to take back control of their networks and build control, management and orchestration software on their own terms. These common models enable portability between networking equipment, and the languages allow for easy extensibility by operators. To finally break the chain, Stratum’s open source agent enables these new interfaces on white box hardware, and its test suite verifies functionality on white and black boxes alike. Together, the new interfaces, languages and code base are the key to finally ending vendor lock-in.
