What is lighty.io?

lighty.io is an SDK that provides components for the development of SDN controllers and applications based on well-established standards in the networking industry. It takes advantage of PANTHEON.tech’s extensive experience from the involvement in the OpenDaylight platform and simplifies and speeds up the development, integration, and delivery of SDN solutions.

lighty.io also enables SDN programmers to use ODL services in a plain JavaSE environment. lighty.io enables a major OpenDaylight distribution vendor to build and deploy their applications faster.

FRINX UniConfig

FRINX UniConfig provides a common network API across physical and virtual devices from different vendors. It leverages an open source device library, which offers connectivity to a multitude of networking devices and VNFs.

The API provides the ability to store intent and operational data from services and devices, enables to commit intent to the network, syncs from the network so that the latest device state is reflected in the controller, compares intended state and operational state and provides device and network wide transactions. All changes are applied in a way that only those parts of the configuration that have changed are updated on the devices.

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The UniConfig framework consists of distinct layers, where each layer provides a higher level of abstraction. APIs of the lowest layer provides the ability to send and receive unstructured data to and from devices. The unified layer provides translation capabilities to and from OpenConfig. The UniConfig layer provides access to the intent and the actual state of each device plus the capability to perform transactions and rollback of configurations.

NETCONF devices can be configured via their native YANG models or via OpenConfig. Finally, FRINX UniConfig also provides service modules based on IETF YANG models for the configuration of L2VPNs, L3VPNs and enables the collection of LLDP topology information in heterogeneous networks.

The UniConfig Framework is based on open source projects like OpenDaylight and Honeycomb. It publishes all translation units under the Apache v2 license. Customers and integration partners can freely contribute, modify and create additional device models, which work with the UniConfig Framework.

How did PANTHEON’s lighty.io help?

PANTHEON.tech’s lighty.io helped to make UniConfig run and build faster.

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Porting UniConfig to lighty.io required no changes to the application code and has brought many measurable improvements. UniConfig now starts faster, has a smaller memory footprint, and most importantly – significantly reduces build time.

lighty.io packs many features, some of which are:

Client libraries for communication with ODL back end for Java, Python, and Golang
Enhanced NETCONF device simulator
Microservice friendly structure
Easy to use utilities for YANG model data serialization and deserialization
Example applications for integration with vertx.io, spring.io and others which enable your productivity
Inclusive of maintained examples and guides so the newcomers can start working immediately and be efficient

About FRINX

FRINX offers solutions and services for open source network control and automation. The team is made up of passionate developers and industry professionals who want to change the way networking software is created, deployed and operated. FRINX offers network automation products and distributions of OpenDaylight and FD.io in conjunction with support services. They are proud to count service providers and enterprise companies from the Fortune Global 500 list among its customers.

About PANTHEON.tech

PANTHEON.tech is a software research & development company focused on network technologies and prototype software. Yet, we do not perceive networks as endless cables behind switches and routers. For us, it is all software-defined. Clean and neat. Able to dynamically expand and adapt according to the customer’s needs.

We thrive in a world of network functions virtualization and arising need for orchestration. Focusing on SDN, NFV, Automotive and Smart Cities. Experts in OpenDaylight, FD.IO VPP, PNDA, Sysrepo, Honeycomb, Ligato and much more.