Projects
Networking
Project Chairs: Omar Baldonado | Scott Emery
The Open Compute Networking Project is creating a set of technologies that are disaggregated and fully open, allowing for rapid innovation in the network space. We aim to facilitate the development of network hardware and software – together with trusted project validation and testing – in a truly open and collaborative community environment.
We’re bringing to networking the guiding principles that OCP has brought to servers & storage, so that we can give end users the ability to forgo traditional closed and proprietary network switches - in favor of a fully open network technology stack. Our initial goal is to develop a top-of-rack (leaf) switch, while future plans target spine switches and other hardware and software solutions in the space.
Charter
Networking Project Scope:
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Fully disaggregated and open networking HW & SW
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Operating System - Linux based operating systems & developer tools, and ReST API’s
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Fully automated configuration management & bare metal provisioning
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Universal & Multi-Form Factor Switch motherboard hardware
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Fully open integration & connectivity
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Energy efficient power & cooling designs
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Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Out of Scope
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Protocol stacks & virtualization
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network architectures & topologies.
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hardware abstraction layer, deep packet inspection, hardware based security, firewall feature sets and load balancing
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Project Specifications and Designs can be found on the wiki pages. Click here to see a current list of available Project Specifications and Designs.
