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Re: Open Souce Network Operating Systems


From: Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 08:09:28 -0800

There's AT&T's dNOS effort[1], though I think that wasn't really targeting CPE so much as DC and carrier type WAN gear. A single platform for DC, aggregation, and other SP roles is already pretty ambitious. Adding CPE into the mix as well is another big stretch even beyond that.

It's also more at the "initiative" stage than anything fully fledged, afaict.

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[1] https://about.att.com/content/dam/innovationblogdocs/att-routing-nos-open-architecture_FINAL%20whitepaper.pdf

On Wed 2018-Jan-17 14:35:09 +0000, Ruairi Carroll <ruairi.carroll () gmail com> wrote:

Hey,

Have a look at a similar thread from recently:
http://seclists.org/nanog/2018/Jan/180

/Ruairi

On 17 January 2018 at 14:28, Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com> wrote:

If one were to deploy whitebox switches, X86 servers, low cost ARM and
MIBPS CPE devices, and basically anything that can run linux today, what
network operating system would you recommend? The goal would be to have a
universal network operating system that runs across a variety of devices.
From low cost residential CPE's with wifi to switches to BGP speaking
routers. Is there anything that can do it all today?


I will use something like OpenWRT as an example. I don't consider this
anywhere near carrier grade, but it runs on X86 and low cost routers. I
don't think it will run on whitebox switches though.

Mikrotik RouterOS would be another example as it can run on low cost
Routerboards, and X86 servers. But it is not opensouce.

Is there any up and coming projects to look into?

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