Yup, I think thats a good breakdown. The only thing I would add is that Floodlight is supported by the team at Big Switch (although we have a number of non-Big Switch contributors at this point too and would welcome more). We use Floodlight as the core of a commercial controller we offer as well.
-- Mike On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:47 PM, David Erickson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > openflow-discuss mailing > [email protected]https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > openflow-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss > > -- Mike Cohen Big Switch Networks [email protected]
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