Brocade vRouter Overview
The Brocade® 5600 vRouter is purpose-built for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), bringing an impressive performance boost. As the first virtual router for carrier-class networks, the Brocade 5600 is the highest-performing software router in the industry, achieving 10+ Gbps performance per physical core, and is up to 40 times faster than competitive virtual routing products. The Brocade 5600 delivers advanced routing, stateful firewall, NAT, and VPN capabilities in software without sacrificing the reliability and carrier-class performance of hardware networking solutions.
Designed to provide high-performance virtual routing, Brocade 5600 vRouter, some of the use case of vRouter include:
• ACL offload from hardware routers
• Virtual Firewall (vFW)
• Virtual VPN (vVPN) gateway
• Virtual Customer Edge (vCE) router
• Virtual Customer Premise Equipment(vCPE)
• Secure cloud access
For more information please visit the vRouter page.
Brocade vRouter OpenStack Integration
Cloud service providers want to use Brocade vRouter as a tenant virtual router in their OpenStack cloud. In order to perform the vRouter VM lifecycle management and required configurations, a new Neutron L3 plugin for Brocade vRouter is required.
Brocade Neutron L3 Plugin for vRouter supports CRUD operations on vRouter, add/remove interfaces from vRouter and floating IPs for VMs. It performs vRouter VM lifecycle management by calling Nova APIs during the Create and Delete Router calls. Once the vRouter VM is up, L3 plugin connects to the REST API end-point exposed by the vRouter VM using REST API to perform the appropriate configurations. L3 plugin supports add/remove router interfaces by attaching/detaching the neutron ports to vRouter VM using Nova API.
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Learn more on Brocade's involvement with OpenStack at http://www.brocade.com/OpenStack.