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Introduction

In the last few years, a few emerging technologies and concepts have disrupted how network equipment is designed, and how networks are built and operated: hardware commoditization and disaggregation of software from hardware and of software itself, extensive use of open source (Linux), Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and DevOps.

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Architected as a scalable, cloud-ready, agile solution, the open source OpenSwitch software implements a flexible infrastructure to enable both network operators and vendors to rapidly on-board open source Networking OS applications. OpenSwitch provides a YANG based programmatic interface, that can be accessed using Python, thus providing an ideal DevOps environmenta well-suited environment for DevOps.

OpenSwitch Features

OpenSwitch provides an abstraction of hardware network devices in a Linux OS environment, and has been designed from its inception in order to support the newest technologies and concepts in the networking industry:

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