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Software-Defined Networking
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a network architecture approach that decouples the network control plane from the data forwarding plane, enabling dynamic, programmatically efficient network configuration. SDN controllers expose northbound REST APIs for network applications to define routing, load balancing, and security policies, while southbound APIs communicate with switches and routers. Key SDN controllers include OpenDaylight, ONOS, and Floodlight.
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OpenDaylight RESTCONF API
OpenDaylight is an open-source SDN controller platform that exposes RESTCONF APIs for managing network devices, topology, flows, and configuration. It provides northbound REST interfaces for network applications and southbound interfaces f…
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ONOS SDN Controller REST API
ONOS (Open Network Operating System) is an open-source SDN controller that provides REST APIs for network management including topology discovery, flow rule management, host tracking, and device management.
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Providers working in Software-Defined Networking
Providers whose own tags share at least two of this topic's tags, most shared first.
| Provider | About | Rating | APIs |
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| Microsoft Azure Cdn | Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches static web content at strategically placed edge locations to deliver it to users with maximum throughput and minimum latency. The product is operated through the Microsoft.Cdn Azure Resource Mana… | exemplar | 1 |
| ZeroTier | ZeroTier, Inc. builds a software-defined networking (SDN) overlay that securely connects devices, servers, clouds, and networks anywhere in the world as if they were on the same local LAN, without the complexity of traditional VPNs, port f… | strong | 2 |
| Microsoft Azure Private Link | Microsoft Azure Private Link gives a virtual network a private IP address onto an Azure PaaS service, a partner service, or a service the customer publishes themselves, so traffic reaches it across the Microsoft backbone and never traverse… | strong | 2 |
| Juniper Networks | Juniper Networks (an HPE company since 2025) builds AI-native networking, routing, switching and security for service providers, enterprises and public-sector organizations. Its programmable surface spans the Mist cloud API (1,059 REST ope… | strong | 6 |
| Cisco Intersight | Cisco Intersight is Cisco's SaaS operations platform for UCS servers, HyperFlex clusters, Nexus fabrics, third-party storage and virtualization, covering provisioning, firmware lifecycle, workload optimization, telemetry and Kubernetes ser… | strong | 11 |
| Cisco ACI | Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is Cisco's data-center SDN fabric, programmed through the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and its object model, the Management Information Tree (MIT). Every APIC GUI, CLI a… | developing | 1 |
| Oxide | Oxide Computer Company builds a rack-scale cloud computer: integrated server sleds (Gimlet), a rack-level switch (Sidecar), Oxide's own illumos distribution (Helios), the Propolis/bhyve hypervisor and the Crucible distributed block store,… | developing | 1 |
| Citrix | Citrix is a global software company providing virtualization, networking, workspace, and digital experience products that allow organizations to deliver applications and desktops securely from data centers and clouds to any device. Citrix… | developing | 6 |
| Cisco Nexus Dashboard | APIs for managing and monitoring Cisco Nexus data center switches and network infrastructure. | developing | 1 |
| Equinix | Equinix is a global digital infrastructure company that provides interconnection and data center services to enterprises, cloud and IT service providers, and telecommunications networks worldwide. Equinix exposes a broad set of public APIs… | thin | 10 |
| Broadcom | Broadcom is a global technology company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of semiconductors and other hardware components for a wide range of industries. They provide a diverse portfolio of products for the enterprise, data… | thin | 3 |
| SimpliVity | SimpliVity is the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) pioneer acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017 and now shipped as HPE SimpliVity. Its data virtualization platform runs on the OmniStack software stack, delivering built-in dedu… | thin | 1 |
| Parallels (SWSoft) | Parallels is a virtualization and remote-access software company, originally founded as SWSoft in 1999 and renamed Parallels in 2008 (now part of Alludo/Corel). Its flagship enterprise product, Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS), de… | thin | 1 |
| NanoVMs | NanoVMs builds unikernel infrastructure that lets developers run a single application as its own lightweight, secure virtual machine with no operating system and no devops. Its open-source toolchain centers on OPS (the ops CLI, ops.city) f… | thin | 0 |
| LF Broadband | LF Broadband is a Linux Foundation Directed Fund established in late 2023 that supports open source broadband networking projects, including reference designs and virtualization tools for broadband access networks. Its flagship projects, S… | emerging | 2 |
| BTI Systems (Juniper) | BTI Systems was an Ottawa, Ontario based supplier of cloud and metro packet-optical networking systems and software, best known for the BTI 7800 Series Packet Optical Transport platform, the BTI 800 Series, and the proNX family of manageme… | minimal | 0 |
| Barefoot Networks | Barefoot Networks was a computer-networking company founded in 2013 in Santa Clara, California, that designed and produced programmable network-switch silicon, systems, and software. Its flagship Tofino Intelligent Fabric Processor was the… | minimal | 0 |
| Nicira Networks | Nicira Networks was a software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization pioneer founded in 2007 out of research by Martin Casado, Nick McKeown, and Scott Shenker on OpenFlow. Its Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) decoupled v… | minimal | 0 |
| Plexxi * | Plexxi was a software-defined networking (SDN) startup building data-center fabric and network orchestration, backed by GV and Lightspeed Venture Partners. It was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and folded into the Aruba Netwo… | minimal | 0 |
| Snaproute | SnapRoute was a cloud-native networking startup, backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners, that built a containerized, microservices-based network operating system (its FlexSwitch / Cloud-Native Network OS) aimed… | 0 | |
| Stateless | Stateless was a Boulder, Colorado network-infrastructure startup (founded 2016) that built a software platform for network automation in the hybrid multi-cloud era, delivering network functions such as firewalls and load balancers through… | 0 |
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