OcNOS Data Sheet

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OcNOS

OcNOS: Industrys First Full-featured

Network OS for White Box
Carrier-grade NOS for Bare Metal Switches Features and Benefits
OcNOS is a modular, multi-tasking network
OcNOS is the industrys first full-featured network OS for operating system, with tight integration
capabilities on commodity hardware. This
White Box. Its features include advanced capabilities, such design allows for scaled and performance
as extensive switching and routing protocol support, MPLS critical deployments. The niche coupling
with merchant silicon utilizes key hardware
(Multiprotocol Label Switching), and SDN (software defined capabilities for better performance and
networking). OcNOS features hybrid, centralized or distrib- feature set.

ute network support; scalable, modular high performance Common Software for Multiple
Deployments and Hardware
network; and a robust data plane built on merchant silicon.
OcNOS is designed using
FAIL several abstraction layers.
OcNOS provides seamless transition from network operators to build networks with
The hardware abstraction

SDN
traditional networks to open networks diverse, manage networks on their own,
layer, allows the OcNOS
with investment protection. OcNOS gives and rapidly deploy new networking features
software to run over multiple
network operators, carriers and enterprises and services at less TCO.
control plane CPU `and forwarding chipset
the physical software solution needed hardware. The system calls are also
Based on the widely-deployed and time-
to achieve the disaggregated network- well abstracted allowing to switch across
tested ZebOS network stack, OcNOS
ing model. Instead of a vendor locked-in operating systems if required. It has been
brings the power of the Open Compute
model, and proprietary solution models, integrated and verified with multiple com-
Project, an open hardware movement and
a disaggregated networking model allows modity hardware, which again allows seam-
foundation, to data networking.
less portability across diverse network
hardware.

System Architecture Modular Software Design

FAILOcNOS control plane
software design is highly
Network Services

modular with multiple

SDN
Network Vitalization ELAN ELINE IP Routing Switching MPLS, BGP
VxLAN/NVGRE Gateway Carrier Ethernet Services Services BGP VPNs etc MPLS VPN Services processes handling each
OcNOS

Network Automation Network Operations individual key protocols. The

SDN Controller Integration Network Telemetry
Integration Configuration,
ODL/OpenStack
Chef/Puppet/Ansible
Sflow/ipfix
Image Management processes are managed and contained
by a process handler framework, which
also monitors the processes, restarts and
OcNOS maintains event logging for them. OcNOS
Customizable
Programmable
SAF
WEB Custom/Prop. can be customized, built and packaged with
SMI NETCONF and Management
CLI
API
IMM-OI
REST API Interface minimal software features, reducing CapEx
and device footprint. The control plane fea-
Extensible Model Driven Transaction Oriented Device Management Plane tures support for layer 2 switching, Carrier,
Data Center Switching, MPLS/MPLS-TP,
QoS Data
Layer 3 SDN
Future
Standards comprehensive support for multicast and
Layer 2 Carrier and MPLS and Multicast
and
HA
Switching Ethernet
Center
Bridging
Routing MPLS-TP Network Services
Based or
Custom unicast routing support.
Modules Modules Protocol Modules VIRT Modules
Modules Modules Protocol
Modules Modules
Modules
Interoperation and Ease of Use
Network Services Module OcNOS solution is built
PAL
using openFAIL
networking
standards, with semantics
Hardware Abstraction and Service Layer

SDN
for device management
extensions. The operation
Linux Kernel and management is pro-
vided using CLI and SNMP which is built
on top a fully transactional management
plane. This allows the OcNOS-based net-
 OcNOS

work node to be easy to operate and inter-
operate with another vendor node. The
OcNOS management plane can support
a wide variety of management interfaces
like CLI, SNMP, REST, NETCONF, SAF
IMM-OI and any future or custom north
bound management interface.
Support for Disruptive Networking
Technologies
OcNOS supports technologies required
end users the ability to write user defined Designed From The Ground Up;
functions to program the network control Based on ZebOS Design
and data plane to provide custom program-
OcNOS has been designed from the
mable network operations.
ground-up and is optimized to address
High Availability the needs of public/private/ hybrid cloud
network.
OcNOS provides standards based redun-
dancy protocols like VRRP,
OcNOS enables new applications and
BFD, ring failure recovery ushering in the era of Software Defined
FAIL Networks (SDN), newer, demanding
protocols, MLAG, and
graceful restart mecha- data center and enterprise network

SDN
for bandwidth scaling at data centers nisms. This protocol level environments.
and interconnects. The redundancy provides OcNOS heavily borrows from the
FAIL popular ZebOS line of products, it
OcNOS centralized trans- guaranteed network level
action based managed redundancy. For device level redundancy, takes advantage of a rich feature density

SDN object modeling layer

allows for multiple model-
ing layer allows for multiple management
interfaces. This, in turn, allows for a central
service level provisioning and chaining
across multiple devices. OcNOS infrastruc-
ture is SDN and NFV ready. The control
plane and data plane has support for SDN
support through OpenFlow, Segment
Routing The SMI based C APIs provides
OcNOS supports service availability frame-
works based master-slave hot standby
syncing. This feature is supported for
several key protocols allowing device level
redundancy in the absence of peer level
network support.
and robustness that has built up over
the years. OcNOS provides industry
standard CLI, supports all standard
MIBs and other standard operation and
management tools.
Its integrated centralized management
and provisioning layer allows for transac-
tion based configuration and device
feature modelling.

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