OpenDaylight Platform

Carbon 3.0

Carbon is the sixth release of OpenDaylight (ODL), the leading open source platform for programmable, software-defined networks.

Features include:

• Enhancements to support IoT deployments, Metro Ethernet, and cable operator support
• Integrated NFV management
• Security, Scale, Stability, and Performance (S3P), with a particular focus on clustering and federation

PANTHEON.tech’s Carbon distribution package is free from any proprietaries to give you unobstructed OpenDaylight experience with Carbon SR3, which was built on CentOS 7. The image contains pre-installed Carbon release of the OpenDaylight platform. Choose this release to test your products on before moving to proprietary distributions.

Download the Carbon code, documentation and get started!

Version: Carbon-v3.0

Operating System: Linux/Unix, CentOS 7
Method of Delivery: 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Pricing: free of charge

Highlights

Why should you use our Carbon image?

Minimal profile CentOS7
Pure Carbon experience

No proprietary adjustments or packages
An ideal testing environment

The image is for free
Keep your costs smart

Support
Carbon consulting and support is a commercial service offered by PANTHEON.tech. Please contact us for more details.

OpenDaylight Platform

Nitrogen 2.0

The main focus is the major version upgrade of Apache Karaf container from 3.0.8 to 4.0.9. Each release of Karaf provides a set of common dependencies, that should remain consistent across applications in the container so you get stable, interoperable and secure ODL (S3P).

Features include:

• Overall platform performance due to a map of dependencies generated and maintained by Karaf 4.0 which makes both startup and new feature deployment much quicker.
• The same dependency map that speeds deployments also makes it easier to track, isolate and discover breakdowns and errors
• ODL depends on third party features that interact with parts of Karaf, but until the Nitrogen release, the Karaf security features did not cover them.

PANTHEON.tech’s image contains pre-installed Nitrogen release of the OpenDaylight platform, thus guarantees the purest Nitrogen experience.

Download the Nitrogen code, documentation and get started!

Version: Nitrogen-v2.0

Operating System: Linux/Unix, CentOS 7
Method of Delivery: 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Pricing: free of charge

Highlights

Why use our Nitrogen image?

Minimal profile CentOS7
Pure Nitrogen experience

No proprietary adjustments or packages
An ideal testing environment

The image is for free
Keep your costs smart

Support
Nitrogen consulting and support is a commercial service offered by PANTHEON.tech. Please contact us for more details.

OpenDaylight Platform

Oxygen 2.0

Fire triangle. In order to create a fire, one needs three elements:

Fuel, Heat & Oxygen

Let PANTHEON.tech’s Oxygen-SR2 release into your mixture, which now supports Containers and P4 plugin for the platform so that you can have more airy ODL experience without any proprietary modifications.

Choose this version if you need to test your products on the Oxygen platform before moving to proprietary distributions.

Download the Oxygen code, documentation and get started!

Version: Oxygen-v2.0

Operating System: Linux/Unix, CentOS 7
Method of Delivery: 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Pricing: free of charge

Highlights

Why use our Oxygen image?

Minimal profile CentOS7
Pure Oxygen SR2 experience

No proprietary adjustments or packages
An ideal testing environment

The image is for free
Keep your costs minimal

Support
Carbon consulting and support is a commercial service offered by PANTHEON.tech. Please contact us for more details.

MD-SAL Queries

Model-Driven SAL (MD-SAL) Queries is a PANHTHEON.tech developed tool aimed at ODL developers, to speed up work with MD-SAL API. It is an extension to existing OpenDaylight core projects.

It brings a brand new feature to OpenDaylight model-driven service abstraction layer: query operations on a data store.

Being targeted at OpenDaylight MD-SAL application developers, the project introduces well-fitted query language suited for YANG model-based data tree structures.

Why MD-SAL Queries?

Higher coding efficiency, quicker operations, lower costs

Faster data store query operations
Speed up via flexible attribute indexing

A well-fitted query language
For YANG model-based data tree structures

Rich and easy to navigate application programming interface
Avoids repeated boilerplate coding caused by missing support for filtered read operations

Available examples to minimize learning process
Watch our videos, or use one of our example snippets, to start using MDSAL right away

What is the basic functionality MD-SAL Queries offers? Who are the developers that will have the best use for it?

SNMP

We offer the best implementation of the Simple Network Management Protocol southbound plugin (SSB) currently on the market. Rewritten from scratch in order to correspond with the current standards of a high-performing and reliable code.

Its purpose is to provide ODL applications with the ability to communicate with SNMP devices using the SAL layer, provided by MD-SAL. It also provides supporting tools and utilities, such as translating MIB files to YANG models, together with trap support. Support for clustering is included, enabling load distribution (scaling up) across clustered environment, as well as ensuring its high availability.

Highlights

What’s in it for you?

Best ODL implementation of SNMP southbound plugin
Rewritten from scratch to adhere to current standards of high-performing and reliable code

Interconnects ODL devices
SNMP devices communicate via MD-SAL’s SAL layer

Supporting tools and utilities
Translates MIB files to YANG models & trap support

Clustering support
High availability thanks to load distribution

How does translating a YANG model work? What are the main differences between MIB and YANG and how does the SNMP Southbound Plugin utilize the smi2yang command line application?

Visibility Package

Visibility package is a software component used to gather and visualize network topology data from different networks, network management systems, and cloud orchestrators.

For better visibility with features such as

• Single and multilayer topology visualization
• Topology templates
• Device information gathering
• Device configuration
• Inventory control
• Monitoring of link and interface utilization
• Device console access
• Clustering support
• Scheduled Actions
• AAA
• Fault tolerance

Supports several southbound plugins

Standardized southbound interfaces and commonly used management protocols

• NETCONF
• SNMP
• SSH
• TELNET

Visibility Package integrations

Visibility Package integrates several networking technologies such as FD.io, VPP, and Honeycomb. It also utilizes OpenDaylight SNMP and NETCONF southbound plugins.

Telemetry and Time series data from managed networks may be stored in Elasticsearch and visualized in Kibana or forwarded to Kafka for further processing by the PNDA cluster.

Visibility Package Demo

PANTHEON.tech’s Visibility Package for OpenDaylight is a software component, which is not only a great network topology visualization tool but also provides automation and network management functionality for data centers.

How does the package’s topology discovery process work?

Data centers have become increasingly important for virtualized and micro-service oriented applications. The purpose of the PANTHEON.tech Visibility Package for OpenDaylight is to provide data centers with automation and network management functionality.

Honeycomb

A part of the FD.io project, in addition to being a NETCONF/RESTCONF Java-based management agent, Honeycomb also serves as a framework for building specialized agents. PANTHEON.tech provides its commercial supported distribution: we offer Honeycomb’s pre-packaged version, ready to be installed in the Linux distribution of your choice, as well as VM images with pre-packaged installations of Honeycomb and the Vector Packet Processor.

Description

While using features and utilities from various OpenDaylight projects such as YANG Tools, controller, MD-SAL as well as NETCONF, the Vector Packet Processor is Honeycomb’s biggest use case. SDN controllers such as OpenDaylight can be integrated with VPP via Honeycomb’s management agent. As a generic agent, Honeycomb can be positioned on top of any other system or software that can be controlled from any JVM code. This is possible thanks to Honeycomb’s modularity.

Highlights

Why use PANHTHEON.tech’s Honeycomb distribution?

Commercial supported distribution
Every problem solved easily

VPP integration
NETCONF/RESTCONF/BGP management agent for VPP

ODL integration
Enables VPP integration with the OpenDaylight SDN platform

Java based
Provides framework for building specialized agents

Pre-packed version
Just install and run

How do we use Honeycomb and VPP to interconnect Linux containers?

VPP Honeycomb with BGP support together with OpenDaylight SDN controller used to announce IPv6 neighbor discovery information in topology model

Sysrepo

Linux native YANG-based configuration and operational state datastore for Unix/Linux applications. Applications can use Sysrepo to store their configuration provided by their YANG model, and configured via NETCONF. Sysrepo ensures consistency of the data stored in the datastore and enforces data constraints defined by YANG model.

Highlights

Why choose Sysrepo as datastore?

Consistency
Consistency of data stored in the datastore, full transaction and concurrency support

C-language API
C-language API or Python 2 & 3 / Lua / Java bindings can be used by apps to enter their configuration

Management agent integration
Integrated with the Netopeer 2 NETCONF server, integration with other NETCONF / RESTCONF management agents is possible

Multiple datastores
Startup, running and candidate datastore support

Operational data
Support for publishing applications’ state data to Sysrepo

Notifications & RPCs
Event notifications, custom RPCs & YANG 1.1 Actions support

Sysrepo Demo

Integration of Sysrepo with Virtual Packet Processors (VPPs) and Linux containers

LIGATO

The open source cloud platform for building and wiring VNFs: Ligato provides infrastructure and libraries, code samples and CI/CD process to accelerate & improve the overall developer experience. It thus paves the way towards faster code reuse, reducing costs and increasing application agility & maintainability. Being native to the cloud, Ligato has a minimal footprint, plus can be easily integrated, customized and extended, deployed using Kubernetes.

We offer Ligato as a commercial supported distribution, consisting of a pre-packed version, ready for installing on a Linux distro of your choice.

High performance networking & network wiring

• Cloud native: Minimal footprint, simple management, deployed using Kubernetes
• VPP agent: Robust management and config of high speed virtual networking device
• BGP agent: integration of BGP protocol & automatic configuration of VPP Agent L3 routes
• SFC Controller: Chaining VNFs (based on VPP agent), routers (IOS XE)
• High performance network wiring: MEMIF interconnection for VNF, vSwitch, vRouter
• Easy integration: Google protocol buffers APIs, Docker images, connectors
  (ETCD, Redis, Kafka, Cassandra)
• Customizable: Utilizes plugins for better extensibility

Find out more about Ligato on GitHub.

Chronos

Chronos is a time and attendance system, which people love. It’s simple, yet efficient. It’s extremely flexible and adjustable according to your company’s very needs. Our customers give it positive ratings thanks to its simple use, intuitive and user-friendly user interface. And the greatest of all its pros? Trying out Chronos costs you literally nothing. We give out the basic version for free.

Includes

features that make it stand out of the crowd

• Attendance records available online
• Employee attendance overviews
• Differentiating between executive and employee positions
• Full attendance management in accordance with options provided by labour regulation
• Interconnectable with physical terminals of your choice
• Individual employees’ overviews
• Month-end closing
• Easy-to-export data to .pdf, .xls and .doc formats

The choice is yours

It’s both efficient and comfortable

• Whether you run Chronos locally or from our cloud
• Access it from anywhere: your desktop, tablet or cell phone
• Supports Chrome, Firefox and MS Edge browsers
• Use it with a physical terminal communicating through RFID or NFC chips

Highlights

What makes Chronos great?

Complexity
Supports all local options and customs

Legal compatibility
In accordance to your labour legislation

High flexibility
Access from any device

Physical availability
Connect with any terminal