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==== Open Source VNFs ====
The page documents the list of open source VNF, the network function being virtualized, basic features and other attributes.
^ No   ^ VNF                      ^ Use Case                          ^ Brief Description                                                                                                                                                                                        ^ Pros                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ^ Cons                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ^ Contact                                       ^ Details                                                                 |                                 |
|    1 | Clear Water IMS          | IMS Control Plane                 | Clear Water is an open source implementation of IMS (the IP Multimedia Subsystem) designed to provide voice, video and messaging services. Clear water handles only control plane traffic for sessions.  | Open source, All in one and Scalable VNF                                                                                                                                                                                          | Available in AMI and OVI formats, Supports Openstack,  All In one Install is limited to fixed domains and is recommended not to use this, Multi-instance VNF Image requires Chef integration, however, scripts are provided by Clear Water for IMS deployment  | Martin Taylor(Martin.Taylor@metaswitch.com)   | [[IMF Use Case with Clear Water]]                                       |                                 |
|  2   | Brocade VRouter 5400     | vPE                               | Brocade, VYATTA Virtual Router                                                                                                                                                                           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Licensed                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |                                               |                                                                         |                                 |
|  3   | Cisco systems CSR 1000V  | vPE                               | Cisco Systems, cloud router                                                                                                                                                                              |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Licensed                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |                                               |                                                                         |                                 |
|  4   | ConteXstream             |                                   |                                                                                                                                                                                                          |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Licensed                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |                                               |                                                                         |                                 |
|  5   | PaloAlto Networks        |                                   |                                                                                                                                                                                                          |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Licensed                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |                                               |                                                                         |                                 |
|  6   | Metaswitch Perimeta SBC  | IMS Control and Data Plane        | Metaswitch Perimeta Session Boarder Controller, (SBC) handles both the Signalling and media traffic associated with the RTP sessions and streams.                                                        | Exercise user plane with high rate, small packets. Provides standard set of benchmarking number likes number of calls supported in SR-IO, vSwitch, etc environment, potential for Platform performance testing for small packets  | Licensed                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | TBD                                           | [[Metaswitch IMS Use Case]]                                             |                                 |
|  7   | vFW                      | Virtual Firewall (canonical VNF)  |                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Open Source (GNU GPL)                                                                                                                                                                                                             |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |                                               | [[http://www.netfilter.org/|IPTables]]                                  |                                 |
|  8   | vAAA                     | Virtual AAA (canonical VNF)       |                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Open Source (BSD)                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |                                               | [[http://freeradius.org/|Free Radius]]                                  |                                 |
|  9   | Emerginov                |  IMS control planned - like       | integration of open source solutions (HTTP/SIP proxies, Media serveur,..) managed by Puppet                                                                                                              | Open Source                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Morgan Richomme (morgan.richomme@orange.com)  | [[http://www.emerginov.ow2.org|Emerginov]]                              |                                 |
|  10  | Linux                    | "Linux"                           | Linux (Centos or Ubuntu based) VNF to perform ping tests                                                                                                                                                 | Open Source                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |                                               |                                                                         |                                 |
|  11  | vRouter/vCPE             | OpenWRT                           | OpenWRT is frequently used as virtual CPE                                                                                                                                                                | Open Source                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |                                               | [[http://hackstack.org/x/blog/2014/08/17/openwrt-images-for-openstack/  | OpenWRT images for OpenStack]]  |
|  12  | vIDS | Snort                           | Intrusion Detection System                                                                                                                                                 | Open Source                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |                                               |       [[https://www.snort.org/|www.snort.org]]                                                                  |
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