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Vision
The CloudRouter Project is a collaborative open source project focused on developing a powerful, easy to use router designed for the cloud.
Compute resources are rapidly migrating from physical infrastructure to a combination of physical, virtual and cloud environments. A similar transition is emerging in the networking space, with network control logic shifting from proprietary hardware-based platforms to open source software-based platforms. CloudRouter is a software-based router distribution designed to run on physical, virtual and cloud environments, supporting software-defined networking infrastructure. It includes the features of traditional hardware routers, as well as support for emerging technologies such as containers and software-defined interconnection. CloudRouter aims to facilitate migration to the cloud without giving up control over network routing and governance.
Key features
- Full-stack SDN implementation including OpenDaylight and ONOS
- Standards-based interfaces
- Built on the rock-solid foundation of Linux
- Monitoring and availability
- Support for containers and cloud images
- Security monitoring tools including FastNetMon for DDoS and DOS detection and analysis, and BGPstream for analysis
Architecture & design goals
- Optimized for interconnection
- Run in the cloud or on-premise
- Flexible build system supporting multiple distribution formats
- Easy to use and configure
- Security as a core feature, not an afterthought
- High performance with minimal resource consumption
- Highly scalable