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Facebook Open Sources Open/R Distributed Networking Software

posted by martyb on Monday November 20 2017, @07:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the "The-Open/R-is-the-Computer"-does-not-have-the-same-ring-to-it dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Facebook is no stranger when it comes to open sourcing its computing knowledge. Over the years, it has consistently created software and hardware internally, then transferred that wisdom to the open source community to let them have it. Today, it announced it was open sourcing its modular network routing software called Open/R, as the tradition continues.

"Open/R is a distributed networking application platform. It runs on different parts of the network. Instead of relying on protocols for networking routing, it gives us flexibility to program and control a large variety of modern networks," Omar Baldonado, Engineering Director at Facebook explained.

[...] "This goes along with movement toward disaggregation of the network. If you open up the hardware and open up the software on top of it, it benefits everyone," Baldonado said.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/15/facebook-open-sources-open-r-distributed-networking-software/

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by LoRdTAW on Monday November 20 2017, @04:00PM (1 child)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday November 20 2017, @04:00PM (#599273) Journal

    That's what I gather as well. TI'm reading through the article on open/r now and so far all I can gather is it has something to do with mesh networking and terrorism maybe? not sure:

    Open/R was originally designed as a shortest-path routing system to power Terragraph, our multi-node wireless network that delivers high-speed internet connectivity in dense urban areas via short-hop transmission between small nodes.

    Okay, mesh networking. Got it.

    Today at Networking @Scale, we introduced Open/R, the extensible distributed network application platform that powers the Terragraph network. Although Open/R began as routing software for Terragraph, it has evolved into a platform that allows us to rapidly prototype and deploy new applications in the network. We have also successfully adapted Open/R for use with other parts of Facebook's networking infrastructure.

    Platform based on mesh routing?

    Design
    At its core, Open/R generalizes the concept of a replicated state database found in well-known link-state routing protocols such as OSPF and ISIS. It uses this as an underlying message system upon which we can build multiple applications.

    After that I dont know what they are talking about. Mainly because I don't work with any web stuff.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by bob_super on Monday November 20 2017, @05:53PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday November 20 2017, @05:53PM (#599312)

    That last quote sent me from "Ok, SDN" to "Ok, WTF" ?