ReadWrite team says, “Most discussions of SDN stop at the control and data planes. However, abstraction and programmability of the management layer of the network is critical to enable cloud orchestration applications to manage, end-to-end, all the infrastructure elements of the cloud—compute, storage, and network—for more rapid application delivery.

Rich Representation State Transfer (REST) and XML APIs provide access and programmability for Brocade networking equipment operating within cloud environments. In particular, the Network Operating System for the Brocade VDX Switches provides a fabric-level API, improving orchestration efficiency for higher-level constructs. The APIs may be used by SDN controllers, network automation tools, and cloud orchestration platforms of all types: delivered by in-house developers, commercial entities, and open source communities“.

Networks Should Embrace Open Source, Too

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