Network Operating System

Mionstars5 - A switch OS based on ONLP API and Yocto project.

Misc

Aether Project - the first open source Enterprise 5G/LTE Edge-Cloud-as-a-Service platform (ECaaS).

Controller

OpenContrail - A SDN project that utilizes SDN & NFV and provides all the necessary components for network virtualization.

Ryu - A component-based software defined networking framework.

Books

SDN: Software Defined Networks: An Authoritative Review of Network Programmability Technologies

Network Operating System

Beluganosstars113 - Beluganos is a new network OS designed for white-box switches (OF-DPA), which can apply large-scale networks.

OcNOS - Extensive switching and routing protocol support with advanced capabilities such as MPLS and SDN

Open Network Linux, ONL - A Linux distribution for "bare metal" switches, that is, network forwarding devices built from commodity components.

OpenSwitch - A linux network operating system from Dell EMC.

PicOS - A SDN OS for white box switches Layer-2/3 feature set with support for OpenFlow, OVSDB, and other protocols.

SONiC - Software for Open Networking in the Cloud SONiC

Stratum - An open source, silicon-independent switch operating system for software-defined networks

Software Switch

BESSstars265 - Berkeley Extensible Software Switch, BESS is a modular framework for software switches.

bmv2stars380- A P4 software switch which is usually used as a tool to verify the funtions the developers describe in P4 language.

FD.IO - Relentlessly focused on data IO speed and efficiency for more flexible and scalable networks and storage

Indigostars63 - Indigo is an open source project aimed at enabling support for OpenFlow on physical and hypervisor switches.

Open vSwitch - Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch.

PISCES - A Programmable, Protocol-Independent Software Switch.

Protocol

gNMIstars334 - gRPC Network Management Interface

gNOIstars109 - gRPC Network Operations Interface

Controller

Beehive Network Controllerstars61 - A distributed SDN controller built on top of Beehive. It supports OpenFlow but can be easily extended for other southbound protocols.

Floodlightstars698 - A java-based OpenFlow controller.

IRIS - A Resursive SDN Openflow Controller created by SDN Research Section, ETRI.

Netrackstars65 - An OpenFlow controller framework in Go.

NOXstars133 - An open source development platform for C++-based software-defined networking (SDN) control applications.

OESSstars27 - The Open Exchange Software Suite to configure and control OpenFlow Enabled switches.

OpenDaylight - OpenDaylight Platform

POXstars575 - An open source development platform for Python-based software-defined networking (SDN) control applications.

Ravelstars8 - A software-defined networking (SDN) controller that uses a standard SQL database to represent the network.

Trema - A full-stack, easy-to-use framework for developing OpenFlow controllers in Ruby and C.

Vyattastars43 - The first commercial Controller built directly from OpenDaylight.

Simulator/Emulator

Containernetstars300 - Mininet fork that allows to use Docker containers as hosts in emulated networks

MaxiNet - MaxiNet extends the famous Mininet emulation environment to span the emulation across several physical machines. This allows to emulate very large software-defined networks.

Mininet - An Instant Virtual Network on your Laptop (or other PC)

OpenNetstars67 - A simulator for software-defined wireless local area network

Language

Freneticstars208 - The Frenetic Programming Language and Runtime System

NEMO - A domain specific language (DSL) based on abstraction of network models and conclusion of operation patterns.

Library

oflib-nodestars15 - Oflib-node is an OpenFlow protocol library for Node. It converts between OpenFlow wire protocol messages and Javascript objects.

openfaucetstars26 - openfaucet is a pure Python implementation of the OpenFlow 1.0.0 protocol, based on Twisted.

OpenFlowJ - A Java implementation of low-level OpenFlow packet marshalling/unmarshalling and IO operations.

Test

Cbenech - Benchmarking tool for controllers

ofteststars83 - OpenFlow Testing Framework

STS - SDN Troubleshooting System, simulates network devices, allowing programmatically test cases generation.

Overlay Network

NVGRE - NVGRE-Network-Virtualization-using-Generic-Routing-Encapsulation

VXLAN - Virtual Extensible LAN

Router

bgp4rstars26 - BGP4R is a ruby library which enables the creation and manipulation of BGP messages. In BGP4R, all well-known BGP constructs are defined in classes.

BGPFeederstars7

FreeRouter - Java-based vRouter

Quagga - Quagga is a routing software suite, providing implementations of OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIP v1 and v2, RIPng and BGP-4 for Unix platforms, particularly FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris and NetBSD. Quagga is a fork of GNU Zebra which was developed by Kunihiro Ishiguro.

Misc

Open Network Automation Platform, ONAP - Alignment of the two projects creates a harmonized and comprehensive framework for real-time, policy-driven software automation of virtual network functions that will enable software, network, IT and cloud providers and developers to rapidly create new services.

Open Source MANO Community, OSM

OPEN-Orchestrator Project, Open-O

High Performance Network

ASAP2 - The ASAP2 accelerator is built on top of eSwitch NIC hardware, and allows either the entire virtual switch, or significant portions of virtual switch or distributed virtual router (DVR) operations to be offloaded to the Mellanox NIC

Userspace Network Stack

mTCPstars1.8k - mTCP is a highly scalable user-level TCP stack for multicore systems. mTCP source code is distributed under the Modified BSD License. For more detail, please refer to the LICENSE. The license term of io_engine driver and ported applications may differ from the mTCP’s.

net-next-nusestars259 - Network Stack in Userspace (NUSE) NUSE allows us to use Linux network stack as a library which any applications can directory use by linking the library. Each application has its own network stack so, it provides an instant virtualized environment apart from a host operating system.

Analytics

Apache Spot - Community-driven cybersecurity project, built from the ground up, to bring advanced analytics to all IT Telemetry data on an open, scalable platform

Books

DevOps for Networking

Network Algorithmics：An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices

Network Programmability and Automation Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer

SDN网络指南(OpenSource Book in Chinese by Pengfei Ni)

SDN核心技术剖析和实战指南

Software Defined Networking with OpenFlow

Paper

A Survey on the Security of Stateful SDN Data Planes

SDN A Comprehensive Survey

Controller

lighty.io corestars89 - lighty.io core components - An open source development framework for building Java-based SDN controllers.

Network Operating System

OpenWrt - Is a Linux Operating System targeting embedded devices.

Controller

OVN - OVN: Open Virtual Network for Open vSwitch

Overlay Network

GENEVE - What is GENEVE?

Protocol

P4 Runtime

OF-Config - OpenFlow Management and Configuration Protocol

Test

ptfstars106 - A python based dataplane test framework based on unittest.

Router

Bird - The BIRD project aims to develop a fully functional dynamic IP routing daemon primarily targeted on (but not limited to) Linux, FreeBSD and other UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

gobgpstars2.9k - GoBGP is an open source BGP implementation designed from scratch for modern environment and implemented in a modern programming language, the Go Programming Language.

yabgpstars203 - YABGP is a yet another Python implementation for BGP Protocol. It can be used to establish BGP connections with all kinds of routers (include real Cisco/HuaWei/Juniper routers and some router simulators like GNS3) and receive/parse BGP messages for future analysis.

Userspace Network Stack

nff-gostars1.2k - NFF-Go becomes part of DPDK project umbrella under Linux Foundation! Mirror repo can be found here: http://dpdk.org/browse/apps/nff-go/. We will accept patches through DPDK mail-list and standard DPDK contribution process too.

Language

POF - Protocol Oblivious Forwarding

Awesome Posts

VXLAN L3应用EVPN，呈现完整overlay网络

Library

nettlestars20 - A Haskell library for working with the OpenFlow protocol.

Misc

Mininet Spear Narmox - A online web service provides a visualization of Mininet Topology

Controller

Open Security Controller - Software-defined security orchestration solution that automates deployment of virtualized network security functions, like next-generation firewall, intrusion prevention systems and application data controllers

Analytics

PNDA - The scalable, open source big data analytics platform for networks and services.

SNAS - Streaming Network Analytics System (project SNAS) is a framework to collect, track and access tens of millions of routing objects (routers, peers, prefixes) in real time.

High Performance Network

RDMA - Remote direct memory access (RDMA) is a direct memory access from the memory of one computer into that of another without involving either one's operating system. This permits high-throughput, low-latency networking

XDP - XDP or eXpress Data Path provides a high performance, programmable network data path in the Linux kernel as part of the IO Visor Project.

Userspace Network Stack

drv-netif-dpdkstars189 - drv-netif-dpdk is a DPDK network interface for rump kernels. The combined result is a userspace TCP/IP stack doing packet I/O via DPDK.

f-stackstars3.2k - F-Stack is an user space network development kit with high performance based on DPDK, FreeBSD TCP/IP stack and coroutine API.

Paper

Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance

Simulator/Emulator

Tinynetstars44 - A lightweight instant virtual network for rapid prototyping SDN

High Performance Network

DPDK - DPDK is a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing.

Router

FRRouting - An IP routing protocol suite for Linux and Unix platforms which includes protocol daemons for BGP4, BGP4+, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, PIM-SM/MSDP and LDP as well as very early support for IS-IS, EIGRP and NHRP.

Paper

High Performance Datacenter Networks: Architectures, Algorithms, and Opportunities

Protocol

NETCONF

OpFlex

Path Computation Element Protocol, PCEP

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, XMPP

Paper

A Guided Tour of Data-Center Networking

Library

Scapy - Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program.

Books

重构网络-SDN架构与实现

深度解析SDN: 利益、战略、技术、实践

软件定义网络:SDN与OpenFlow解析

Books

圖解OpenFlow

Software Switch

ZeroTierstars9k - ZeroTier is a software-based managed Ethernet switch for planet Earth.

Simulator/Emulator

ns-3 - A discrete-event network simulator that supports OpenFlow environment.

Network Operating System

Cumulus Linux - Cumulus Linux is a powerful open network operating system that allows you to automate, customize and scale using web-scale principles like the world's largest data centers.

FlexSwitch - The first open source network protocol suite offering complete layer2/layer3 functionality for accelerating development and deployment of whitebox networking gear

Controller

ONOS - Open Network Operating System.

NFV

OPNFV - Accelerating NFV's evolution through an integrated, open platform.

Misc

Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter, CORD - Reference Implementation of a Service Delivery Platform that Provides Cloud Economies and Agility.

Install Environment

ONIE - ONIE enables a bare metal network switch ecosystem where end users have a choice among different network operating systems.

Library

OCaml OpenFlowstars13 - A serialization and protocol library for OpenFlow.

loxigenstars94 - LoxiGen is a tool that generates OpenFlow protocol libraries for a number of languages.

Language

Pyretic - Pyretic is one member of the Frenetic family of SDN programming languages.

P4 - A declarative language for expressing how packets are processed by the pipeline of a network forwarding element such as a switch, NIC, router or network function appliance.

Network Virtualization

FlowVisorstars152 - An OpenFlow controller that acts as a hypervisor/proxy between a switch and multiple controllers. Can slice multiple switches in parallel, effectively slicing a network.

OpenVirtexstars77 - A network hypervisor that can create multiple virtual and programmable networks on top of a single physical infrastructure.

Software Switch

snabbswitchstars2.8k - An open source virtualized Ethernet networking stack.

LINC-Switchstars211 - A pure OpenFlow software switch written in Erlang

CPqDstars282- An OpenFlow 1.3 compatible user-space software switch implementation

Lagopus - A high-performance software OpenFlow 1.3 switch.

Test

OpenSDNCore - Virtualisation Testbed for NFV/SDN Environment.

nice-of - A tool to test OpenFlow controller application for the NOX controller platform.

Controller

Open MUL - A lightweight SDN/Openflow controller written almost entirely in C from scratch.

NodeFlowstars58 - An OpenFlow Controller Node Style.

Protocol

OVSDB - A communication protocol which used to manage the OpenvSwitch database.

OpenFlow - A communications protocol that gives access to the forwarding plane of a network switch or router over the network.

Simulator/Emulator

EstiNet - A world-renowned software tool for network planning