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 AS6712-32X - Leaf/Spine Switch

• Specification - Accepted Jan 2016
• License: OCPHL - Permissive
• Contact: Jeff Catlin

Accton AS7712-32X - Leaf/Spine Switch

• Specification - Accepted Jan 2016
• 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

Inventec DCS6072QS - 48x10GB SFP+, 6x40GB QSFP+ - Leaf Switch

• Specification - Accepted Jan 2016
• License - OCPHL - Permissive
• Contact: Alex Johnstone

Inventec DCS7032Q28 - 32x100GB QSFP28 - Leaf/Spine Switch

• Latest version/spec: Specification - Accepted Jan 2016
• License - OCPHL - Permissive
• Contact: Alex Johnstone

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

Facebook Wedge

• Specification, package - Accepted Nov 2015
• License - OCPHL - Reciprocal
• Contact: Hans-Juergen Schmidtke/Omar Baldonado (Facebook), Jeff Catlin (Accton), Edge-core

Shared hardware specifications still under review

PLEASE NOTE THESE HAVE BEEN SHARED WITH THE COMMUNITY AND ARE STILL UNDER REVIEW BUT NOT YET ACCEPTED BY THE IC

Accton - 32x100G - based on Cavium silicon

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

Broadcom/Interface Masters Open 1.0 Leaf and Spine Switch specification

• Latest version/spec: v1.0, October 2013
• Spec status: Shared, 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

Shared software specifications still under review

PLEASE NOTE THESE HAVE BEEN SHARED WITH THE COMMUNITY AND ARE STILL UNDER REVIEW BUT NOT YET ACCEPTED BY THE IC

ACPI Platform Description

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

OpenNSL

• Broadcom, OpenNSL software spec, v0.14, November 2015
• Mentioned at OCP Eng Workshop Boston 2015 Discussed at [TBD]
• Spec status: Shared, To Be Discussed
• License: Apache v2
• Contact: Ashok Raman

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
• Interface Priority
• Rev 25, Current working draft
• 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

Various Projects

Common Module Interface

• Original presentation from UNH Eng Workshop
• Kickoff document from Nov 09
• Meeting Minutes
  • Nov 18 6-layer Stack Python User Interface
  • Dec 02 6-layer Stack
  • Dec 09 ONL(P) Overview SFP Interrupt Diagram
  • Dec 16 Draft Spec 0.3
  • Jan 13 Draft Spec 0.4 Proposed Demo for Summit
  • Jan 27

Old Specs

Specs that are no longer active are located here.