As carriers gain more experience with open source platforms and start moving from strategies to PoC (Proof of Concept) to implementation, they are looking toward open source networking projects with broad community support that meet their needs, while striking the appropriate balance between functional diversity and practical path to realization. This talk provides an overview of such a proposed open source networking stack (i.e. Nirvana Stack) and its objectives such as ability to support diverse controllers/forwarders within an OpenStack instance, ease of integration, and evolvability to support future needs. The proposed Nirvana Stack in reference is an ODL based controller with a common North Bound Interface (NBI) to OpenStack (with Gluon innovations) and a common South Bound Interface (SBI) to FD.IO/VPP based data plane.
