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. GitHub, blog 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: home, wiki, networking 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
Links: networking in Google cloud blog, OpenSource.Google
Google research: Networking publications, Networking team
Google search: networking in Google cloud, networking 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 Azure, Technet;
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: Home, Artifacts, 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 groups; nfvwiki (for PoCs)
ONF - Open Networking Foundation
Use: SDN documentation, certification
Links: Documentation
SDN and OpenFlow world congress presentations.
ODCC - Open Data Center Committee
- server group
- data center working group
- testing and certification working group
- network working group
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