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Re:HP announces OpenSwitch, an open-source network operating... by ju-st on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:49PM (#10335238)
It's just like the usual IOS or JunOS. It's just open source, thats the only new thing I suppose. This has nothing to do with SDN.
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Re:HP announces OpenSwitch, an open-source network operating... by standel on Monday October 05, 2015 @06:06PM (#10335354)
Actually, to the contrary. It's all about SDN.

It provides open interfaces to interact with the switch through several means like OVSDB, REST API ... or CLI. OpenFlow is not supported yet although will be in near future.

Since it's open source, it also gives you the opportunity to run other agents in the switch control plane ... which is hardly possible with IOS or JunOS.

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