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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 | |
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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) | IPTables | ||||
8 | vAAA | Virtual AAA (canonical VNF) | Open Source (BSD) | 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) | Emerginov | ||
10 | Linux | "Linux" | ||||||
11 | vRouter/vCPE | OpenWRT | []http://hackstack.org/x/blog/2014/08/17/openwrt-images-for-openstack/ | OpenWRT images for OpenStack]] |