Nicira FOSS alternatives

Karsten 'quaid' Wade kwade at redhat.com
Tue Feb 7 01:16:11 UTC 2012


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On 02/06/2012 05:07 PM, Renich Bon Ciric wrote:
> http://nicira.com/
> 
> Hello, guys!
> 
> Does anybody know about FOSS alternatives to this "virtual
> networking" layer these guys are proposing?

Isn't http://wiki.openstack.org/Quantum relevant? IIRC, it was a
Nicira employee who wrote/leads Quantum to 'provide "network
connectivity as a service" between interface devices (e.g., vNICs)'. I
wonder if that's at the core of their product now?

Dan Wendlandt of Nicira presented this at the oVirt workshop last
November:

http://www.ovirt.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Quantum_Ovirt_discussion.pdf

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