NoviWare 400.4
Noviware 400.4 is the SDN industry’s most complete and highest performance implementation of the OpenFlow 1.3/1.4/1.5 standard for use in switches, WAN IP/MPLS routers, network appliances and other high-performance forwarding planes. It is deployed around the world in NoviFlow’s NoviSwitch products, and is also offered via software license to OEM and ODM switching platform suppliers. NoviWare 400.4 consists of all the software necessary for a pure-play OpenFlow switch, and currently supports the Mellanox NP-4 and NP-5 network processor and Barefoot Tofino ASIC with host CPU’s from Intel. Today’s major network operators demand flexible, scalable switching and routing solutions that deliver wire-speed performance. NoviWare was designed from the ground up to be a reliable, scalable platform for OpenFlow, combining a fully programmable L2-L7 packet forwarding data plane with high throughput performance.
NoviFlow Inc.™ aims to change the traditional approach to networking by making switching and routing smarter. The company was founded to deliver upon the promise of OpenFlow and SDN by delivering solutions that can handle complex flow processing and be field upgradable via software updates, making it possible for data centers and WANs to keep up with today’s exponentially growing networking demand.
Key features:
- Implements all required and optional OpenFlow 1.3/1.4 match fields, as well as 59 out of 60 actions and basic support of OF 1.5
- Supports Mellanox NP-4 and NP-5 and Barefoot Tofino based networking hardware.
- Fully programmable OpenFlow 1.3/1.4/1.5 pipeline with up to 60 wildcard match, plus 60 exact match flow tables.
- External TCAM for wire-speed wildcard matching in very large flow tables (up to a million flows).
- OpenFlow queues and up to 1 Million meters.
- Exact-match flow table entries in DRAM (up to 6 Million flows).
- Host processor software optimized for maximum flow-mods/second performance on Intel hosts.
- Hardware abstraction layer to facilitate porting to other platforms
OpenFlow Experimenter-based extensions:
- L2-L7 matching, packet processing and flow management.
- Hash on user defined ordered list of OpenFlow fields and Symmetric Hash of Fields
- Copy-Field action based on OF1.5 also supported on OF1.3 to 1.5 through OpenFlow Experimenter action
- VLAN and MPLS payload matching
- Additional tunnel encapsulation/decapsulation (VxLAN, L2MPLS, L2GRE, GTP, PPPoe, L2TP, STT)
- Timestamping
- Swap fields
- Traffic Shaping and Hierarchical Quality-of-Service (H-QoS) Optional Feature
Category
Red Hat Certifications
This product has been certified to run on the following Red Hat products and technologies:
| Target Product | Level |
|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x | Self-Certified |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x | Self-Certified |
