Erlang, Infoblox Build OpenFlow 1.2 Switch

LONDON -- OpenFlow based SDN allows companies to cost effectively improve performance of clustered applications in high density data centres like Big Data analysis and reduce their operating costs.

Erlang Solutions and Infoblox have today announced the release of the first OpenFlow 1.2 compliant switch. Erlang Solutions has worked with Infoblox on LINC, a soft switch implementation of the 1.2 version of the OpenFlow protocol. OpenFlow is a standard driven by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Software-Defined Networking (SDN), a revolutionary approach to networking that brings software-like programmability to networks. By using OpenFlow-based SDN, companies can cost effectively improve the performance of clustered applications in high density data centers like Big Data analysis and reduce their operating costs with modern OpenFlow enabled hardware.

The LINC switch has now been released as commercial friendly open source through the FlowForwarding.org community website, encouraging users and vendors to use LINC and contribute to its development. The initial LINC implementation focuses on correctness and feature compliance. Through an abstraction layer, specialized network hardware drivers can be easily interfaced to LINC. It has been implemented in Erlang, the concurrent soft-real time programming language invented by Ericsson to develop their next generation networks.

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