NoviWare

NoviWare 400.4 provides the industry’s broadest support of the OpenFlow 1.3 and 1.4 specification, including all actions, instructions and match fields, and key OpenFlow 1.5 features such as Copy-Fields and group chaining, thus delivering the capabilities and performance needed by intensive, leading-edge SDN and NFV applications. By implementing NoviWare 400.4 in their products, OEMs can significantly accelerate time-to-market of full-featured OpenFlow 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 offerings to their customers.

NoviWare 400.4 features include:

• High performance, fully programmable, software upgradable OpenFlow 1.5 packet processing pipeline based on NPU
• Linux-based NoviWare host CPU software for Intel or PowerPC
• Up to 10,000 Group table entries
• Up to one Million meters
• Support for multiple OF Controllers  (ODL, ONOS, RYU)
• Up to 1 million wildcard match flow table entries in TCAM (60 tables)
• Up to 6 million exact match flow table entries in DRAM (60 tables)
• OpenFlow queues
• Bundles, Eviction, Vacancy Events, Role Status Events, Group and Meter change notifications
• Link Aggregation Group (LAG) with dynamic provisioning of ports
• L2MPLS networks for layer 2 PTP or PTMP MPLS services
• Extensive set of O&M features: rich CLI, OF-Config, TACACS+, RADIUS and SNMP v2/v3, and features optimized for large scale deployments including Plug-and-Play features such as gRPC remote automated provisioning and Switch IP address set via DHCP
• OpenFlow Experimenter-based extensions for ODL/ONOS/RYU controllers:
  • L2-L7 matching, packet processing and flow management with up to 32-byte wide user defined IP and UDP payload exact or wild card match fields and maskable set fields actions
  • Hash on user defined ordered list of OpenFlow fields and Symmetric Hash of Fields
  • OF 1.5 Copy-Field also supported on OF 1.3 to 1.5 through OpenFlow Experimenter action
  • VLAN and MPLS payload matching
  • L2 tunneling protocol encapsulation/decapsulation for network virtualization via transport of Ethernet frames inside VxLAN/L2GRE/L2MPLS/GTP frames
  • Timestamping
  • Swap fields
  • Traffic shaping and Hierarchical Quality-of-Service (H-QoS) Optional Feature (see below for more info)

NoviWare FlowShaper H-QoS Feature is an optional add-on to NoviWare that leverages the Traffic Management and Hierarchical Quality-of-Service (H-QoS) capabilities of the same network processors already deployed around the world in chassis-based edge routers. The difference is that NoviFlow packages this awesome capability in a 1U enclosure, making NoviSwitches the ideal platform for implementing QoS-based services at a fraction of the price of conventional solutions. FlowShaper benefits from the advanced SDN architecture of NoviWare, giving it many advantages over traditional H-QoS solutions:

• match fields in the SDN industry, and even makes it possible for users to define new match fields, even in the packet payload.
• Far more flexible classification (more varied sources of classification) as NoviWare implements the most complete set of OpenFlow 
• The ability to track to 1 million meters using these flexible flow classifications and associated policies (Drop, DSCP Remark) compliant with RFC2697 srTCM and RFC2698/ MEF 5 trTCM.
• Flows can be placed into any of 16 queues per class and a maximum of 46,000 classes for a total of 736,000 queues, and can then be forwarded through a 4-level hierarchy where traffic shaping is applied based on priority and rate limits, with 1 GB of deep DRAM buffer memory used for traffic shaping and Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) providing for congestion avoidance.