Organizations

Facebook

Links: networking blog

ZTP (zero-touch provisioning) - blog post

Open/R - routing protocol/platform. GitHub, blog post

FBNet Command Runner (FCR) - A thrift service to run commands on heterogeneous Network devices with configurable parameters. GitHubblog post

FBOSS (Facebook Open Switching System)

Katran - "network load balancer". GitHub, blog post

State service - GitHub

fbtracert - GitHub

 

Open Compute Project (OCP)

"Community of engineers around the world whose mission is to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for scalable computing"

Links: homewikinetworking specs and designs, which network OS work on which platforms

 

Telecom Infra Project (TIP)

OCP-like project for telecom infra. Initial focus: access, backhaul, core and management.

Links: home

 

Google

Links: networking in Google cloud blog, OpenSource.Google

Google research: Networking publicationsNetworking team

Google search: networking in Google cloudnetworking in Google

Technologies: 

  • Google Front Ends (GFEs) are software-defined, distributed systems that are located in Google points of presence (PoPs) and perform global load balancing in conjunction with other systems and control planes.
  • Andromeda - Google network virtualization stack
  • Maglev is a distributed system for Network Load Balancing.
  • Envoy proxy is an open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications.

Security: GCP infrastructure security design

 

Microsoft / Azure

Links: networking blogs on AzureTechnet

Software for Open Networking in the Cloud - SONiC, related blog post

 

OPNFV

Use: tools, approaches and best practices to integrate open-source solutions into NFV platform (NFV infrastructure and NFV infrastructure management)

Links: HomeArtifacts, Wiki, Docker hub

 

Open19 Project

LinkedIn-driven project to create open specification for servers and data/edge centers.

Links: home

 

ETSI NFV ISG

Use: reference architecture for the distributed virtualized environment hosting highly critical software; requirements for the building blocks

Links: Home page; Working groupsnfvwiki (for PoCs)

 

ONF - Open Networking Foundation

Use: SDN documentation, certification

Links: Documentation

SDN and OpenFlow world congress presentations.

 

ODCC - Open Data Center Committee

About: Design open platform for China datacenters. Working groups:
  • server group
  • data center working group
  • testing and certification working group
  • network working group
Links: Home
 

TMForum Zoom

Use: NFV/SDN aspects of OSS/BSS transformation

Links: Home page

 

3GPP SA5

Use:  Requirements, architecture and solutions for provisioning and management of the network (RAN, CN, IMS)

Links: Home page

 

QuEST Forum

About: "QuEST Forum unifies the ICT community through the implementation of TL 9000 (an ICT specific quality management system that is built on ISO 9001), performance benchmarking, and a broad array of common metrics that support rapid industry adoption of new technologies and consistent quality of communication networks around the world."

Links: About QuEST Forum

 

OIForum

"OIF work applies to optical and electrical interconnects, optical component and network processing technologies"

Keywords: FlexE (Flex Ethernet), MLG (Multi-link Gearbox)

Links: home