Hi Suresh-
I'm unaware of any super detailed comparisons. Floodlight is a fork of
the Beacon codebase from roughly a year ago, and the base of Big
Switch's product. The differences that I'm aware of (Mike can probably
chime in here):
-Licensing, Beacon's core is a modified GPLv2 (any bundles you write on
top can be just about any OSS license, see Beacon's license page for a
list), Floodlight is Apache
-Beacon uses OSGi for live code load/unload/replacement and service
wiring, and Spring for its IoC container and configuration
-Beacon optionally embeds the Jetty webserver and includes a custom web
UI based on Spring's MVC (but you can use plain servlets or anything
else you want)
-Performance wise I'm unaware of any public benchmarks for Floodlight. I
did a lot of performance work on Beacon after the fork and you can see
benchmarks relative to a few other controllers here:
http://www.openflow.org/wk/index.php/Controller_Performance_Comparisons
-Floodlight has a larger REST interface exposing counters, packets, etc,
and a simple cli that interfaces with it
-Floodlight has a static flow module
Hope that helps, if you have any specific questions let us know..
-David
On 2/11/2012 6:15 PM, irus temp wrote:
Hello All,
A newbie question.
is there any apples to apples comparison between Beacon Vs Floodlight?
Are these two different set of animals? How do I get some information
comparing these two sets?
Thanks a lot,
-Suresh
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