5 Vendor-Agnostic Orchestration Platforms for SONiC Enterprise Data Centers
SONiC adoption in enterprise data centers is obviously accelerating. Teams running multi-vendor, white-box hardware, across leaf-spine fabrics find that SONiC’s programmability and open-source model effectively solves OS/vendor lock-in. However, the next problem...
[How-To] Evaluate an Enterprise Network Orchestration & Automation Platform
Why vendor lock-in still dominates procurement. Most enterprise network teams do not set out to achieve full vendor lock-in. It accumulates through years of individually reasonable purchasing decisions. You buy the best switch for this data center, the best SD-WAN...[Case Study] Scalable Wi-Fi Orchestration: Vendor-Agnostic Abstraction with OpenDaylight
To enable seamless application deployment at scale, a leading software company needed to eliminate the bottleneck of manual, vendor-specific network configuration. PANTHEON.tech transformed this vision into a high-performance orchestration layer, by leveraging our...
Quantum-Proof VPP: Bringing Post-Quantum Security to the Data Plane
The quantum computing era is not a distant theoretical concern – it is an engineering reality that network architects and security teams need to address as soon as possible. At the intersection of high-performance, open-source networking and cutting-edge...
VPP 105: Memory Management & DPDK APIs
Welcome to the 5th part of our VPP Guide series! Today, we will be asking ourselves practical questions regarding the various technologies & libraries managed in VPP – their usage, advantages, and management. Let’s jump right into it and ask ourselves: Why...
Vector Packet Processing 104: gRPC & REST
Welcome back to our Vector Packet Processing implementation guide, Part 4. Today, we will go through the essentials of gRPC and REST and introduce their core concepts, while introducing one missing functionality into our VPP build. This part will also introduce the...
Vector Packet Processing 103: Ligato & VPP Agent
Welcome back to our guide on Vector Packet Processing. In today’s post number three from our VPP series, we will take a look at Ligato and its VPP Agent. Since the original version of this article, the Ligato project has consolidated. The VPP Agent and CN-Infra...
Vector Packet Processing 101: VPP Plugins & Binary API
In the first part of our new series, we will be building our first VPP platform plug-in, using basic examples. We will start with a first-dive into plugin creation and finish with introducing VAPI into this configuration. If you do not know what VPP is, please visit...
