Ben, Iben, I suppose I should answer the question since I wrote that blog. The original post to this discussion group was made by a friend, who did not give me a heads-up before he did the post. Hence I did not notice there were questions we should clarify. Sorry if that caused some confusion.
This open source program (opne PicOS software stack, including OVS, on the Pronto platform) is completely a Pica8 project. Nicira did not approve or affiliate with our plan. However, we want to stay synchronized with OVS development and make OpenFlow available on the merchant silicon platforms. Pica8 currently only tests our platform with NOX, Beacon, and FloodLight. However, given our OVS implementation is derived from the OVS open source project, we think it is compatible to most of the controllers that can work with OVS. Hope this answers the question. Thanks, James ---------------------------------------- > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:48:48 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Pica8 Goes Open Source? > > Not sure who is the "you" that the questions are directed to. If it's > pica8, I guess that they will have to respond. If it's Nicira (or me), > then I do not know of any plans for Nicira to sell or support Ethernet > switching hardware. (I've been away for a week, maybe our plans > changed > ;-) > > I also don't know of plans to test OVS interoperation against any > controllers other than Nicira's own. Of course, we want OVS to > correctly interoperate with a wide variety of controllers and so we > accept bug reports and patches. I believe that the ONF has a "testing" > working group, so perhaps Nicira or someone else will validate OVS > against a testsuite that the ONF develops. > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:43:26AM -0800, Iben Rodriguez wrote: > > Pica8 is both a hardware switch vendor and open source software > > provider, is that right? > > > > Now we can get ethernet switching hardware and commercial support > > for open vswitch from you? > > > > What OVS controllers will you test interoperation with? > > > > Thanks! > > > > I b e n > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 09:41:48AM +0100, Guillaume FORTAINE wrote: > > > > http://pica8.org/blogs/?p=137 > > > > > > Interesting, especially the diagram, which includes a box labeled > > > "Open vSwitch". Thanks for passing this along. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > discuss mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
