OpenDaylight was founded in part by Cisco and other large networking companies to provide a solution that was compatible with their products as to allow the consumer to continue to evaluate vendor products along with their open networking counterparts. Over time, OpenDaylight has been embraced by companies such as Brocade, which sells a commercial version of OpenDaylight called the Brocade SDN Controller.
Formerly known as the Brocade Vyatta Controller, the Brocade SDN Controller is based on OpenDaylight and has a few extra features such as support for the 5600 series vRouters:
Brocade SDN Controller — simple topology
In the preceding screenshot, you can see that there are two OpenFlow switches (273 and 274) to which two hosts are connected to each for a total of four.
The following is a diagram of the setup used to produce the Brocade SDN Controller screenshots:
Testing setup for Brocade SDN Controller
In the preceding diagram, we have a PC running multiple...