Intelligent Switching Software

NoviWare is the first high-performance OpenFlow 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 compliant switch software available for license to network equipment manufacturers. NoviFlow is raising the speed benchmark for software defined networking (SDN) to 240 gigabits per second (Gbps) by integrating network processors with the NoviWare intelligent switching software. NoviFlow offers NoviWarefor EZchip NP-4 and NP-5 network processors, and can customize the solution as needed to meet other hardware requirements. 

NoviWare 400

NoviWare 400 provides the industry’s broadest support of the OpenFlow 1.3 and 1.4 specification, including all actions, instructions and match fields. It has also been extended to support key OpenFlow 1.5 features, thus delivering the capabilities and performance needed by intensive, leading-edge SDN and NFV applications. By implementing NoviWare 400 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 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 12,000 Group table entries
• Up to 4,096 Meters
• Support for multiple OF Controllers
• Up to 1 million wildcard match flow table entries in TCAM (60 tables)
• Up to 15 million exact match flow table entries in DRAM (60 tables)
• Link Aggregation Group (LAG)
• OpenFlow queues
• Tunnel Metadata for GRE, MPLS & VxLAN
• VLAN, MPLS and PBB tag processing
• Extensive set of O&M features: rich CLI, OF-Config, TACACS+, RADIUS and SNMP
• OpenFlow 1.4 features:
  • Bundles
  • Eviction & Vacancy Event
  • PBB UCA match field and set-field action field
• OpenFlow 1.5 features
  • Copy Fields action
• OpenFlow Experimenter Extensions:
• L2-L7 matching: user defined IP and UDP payload match fields and set-field actions
• L2MPLS/VxLAN/L2GRE encapsulation and decapsulation
• Matching on logical ports
• BFD link monitoring
• Hash on user defined ordered list of OpenFlow fields. Can be used to load balance in Select Group (all products) and in LAG (2000 Series only) or in the copy-field action
• Copy-Field action based on OpenFlow 1.5 also supported on OpenFlow 1.3 to 1.5 through OpenFlow Experimenter action
• MPLS payload matching