OpenDaylight (ODL) overview

- [Announcer] So, what is Open Daylight?…It is an open source project that consists…of multiple industry leaders and multiple companies…under the Linux Foundation.…Multiple vendors including Cisco, HPE, Juniper, and IBM…contribute to the Open Daylight Project.…The focus of Open Daylight is customers…with some programming resources that desire…a free community supported SDN controller,…especially if the focus is on open flow.…

This is very similar to the Linux idea…where you could download ubuntu Linux…and install it for free,…but you would need to support it yourself.…Cisco also has the Open SDN Controller or OSC.…This is a commercial controller based on Open Daylight…and includes Cisco value added functions such as…installation helpers, log and metrics aggregation,…plug-in clustering and monitoring.…Other vendors such as Brocade also have a commercial version…of the Open Daylight Controller.…

The focus of OSC is customers…with some programming resources that desire…a commercially supported edition…of a free community supported SDN controller…