Networking/SpecsAndDesigns

Note that the specs below are at different stages of submission/approval

Hardware Specs

Accepted Hardware

Accton AS5712-54X - Leaf Switch

• Specification, design package - Accepted Oct 2014
• License: OCPHL - Permissive
• Contact: Jeff Catlin

Accton ORSA-1RU - Open Rack Switch Adapter

• Specification, design package - Accepted Mar 2015
• License: OCPHL - Reciprocal
• Contact: Jeff Catlin

Alpha Networks - SNX-60x0-486F - 48-port 10G SFP+ & 6-port 40G QSFP Switch

• Specification, design package - Accepted July 2015
• License: OCPHL - Permissive
• Contact: Robert Chu

Alpha Networks - SNQ-60x0-320F - 32-port 40Gb QSFP TOR/Aggregation Switch

• Specification, design package- Accepted July 2015
• License: OCPHL - Permissive
• Contact: Robert Chu

Mellanox MSX1410OCP - SwitchX-2 48 SFP+ & 12 QSFP+

• Specification, design package - Accepted Oct 2015
• License - OCPHL - Reciprocal
• Contact: Michael Rivers, Amir Sheffer

Mellanox MSX1710OCP - SwitchX-2 36 QSFP+

• Specification, design package - Accepted Oct 2015
• License - OCPHL - Reciprocal
• Contact: Michael Rivers, Amir Sheffer

Contributed Hardware

PLEASE NOTE THESE HAVE BEEN CONTRIBUTED TO THE COMMUNITY BUT NOT YET ACCEPTED BY THE IC

Accton - 32x40G, 32x100G - based on Broadcom silicon

• Latest version/spec: spec for 32x40G, spec for 32x100G
• Spec status: community review - April 13, 2015
• Contact: Jeff Catlin

Accton - 32x100G - based on Cavium silicon

• Latest version/spec: v.02
• Spec status: contributed - Oct 9, 2015
• Contact: Jeff Catlin

Facebook Wedge

• Latest version/spec: Wedge spec
• License - OCPHL - R
• Spec status: community review - April 13, 2015, IC review Sept 2015, IC vote Oct 2015
• Orderability: now - from Accton
• Contact: Hans-Juergen Schmidtke/Omar Baldonado (Facebook), Jeff Catlin (Accton)

Inventec DCS6072QS

• Latest version/spec: v1.02, May 2015
• License - OCPHL - P
• 48x10GB SFP+, 6x40GB QSFP+
• Spec status: Submitted
• Switch availability: now
• Contact: Alex Johnstone

Inventec DCS7032Q28

• Latest version/spec: v1.02, May 2015
• License - OCPHL - P
• 32x100GB QSFP28
• Spec status: Submitted
• Switch availability: now
• Contact: Alex Johnstone

Broadcom/Interface Masters Open 1.0 Leaf and Spine Switch specification

• Latest version/spec: v1.0, October 2013
• Spec status: Pending, Last review by Incubation Committee, July 2014, awaiting final license determination by Broadcom
• Orderability: now
• Contact: Eli Karpilovski (Broadcom), Ben Askarinam (Interface Masters)

Software Specs

Accepted Software

Open Network Install Environment

• Cumulus Networks, ONIE Proposed charter, v0.2, July 2013
• Latest ONIE info is at http://onie.org
• Spec status: Final and accepted - 2014
• ONIE Information Section
• License: GPLv2
• Contact: Curt Brune

Open Network Linux

• Big Switch Networks, ONL software spec, v0.9, Nov 2014
• Latest ONL info is at http://opennetlinux.org/
• ONL Information Section
• Spec status: Final and accepted - Jan 2015
• License: EPLv1
• Contact: Rob Sherwood and Jeff Townsend

Switch Abstraction Interface

• Microsoft, Dell, Facebook, Broadcom, Intel, Mellanox Current Spec v2
• Spec status: Final and accepted - July 2015
• License: Apache v2
• Contact: Kamala Subramaniam
  • Earlier versions: 2014-10-06 , April 2015 v1

Contributed Software

ACPI Platform Description

• Cumulus Networks, APD software spec, v0.1, April 2015
• Discussed at OCP Summit 2015
• Spec status: submitted
• License: Kernel pieces (GPLv2), Userland docs/build: MIT
• Contact: Dustin Byford

Open Compute SW Interface v1.01

• Mellanox switch software interface proposed API
• Latest version/spec: v1.01, Jan 2014
• Spec status: in discussion with community
• Contact: Aviad Raveh

Testing Activities

Pluggable Transceiver and Host Compliance and Interopability Test Plan

This is in conjunction with the UNH Interoperability Lab and their Open Networking Test Services

• Integrator's List
• Test Configs
• Integrator's List Policy Latest
• Rev 20 Latest, Used for Interop Program 2015-09
• 2015-06 Used in 2015-06 Dry Run
• 2015-02 Used in 2015-02 Dry Run
• Program Launched: 2015 September 21
• Contact: David Woolf, UNH-IOL

HW Performance Testing

• Mellanox proposed spec
• Discussed at UNH July 2014 workshop
• Contact: Amit Katz, Mellanox

Old Specs

Specs that are no longer active are located here.