OpenDaylight Magnesium Advances Open Source Software Defined Networking | Linux Today

OpenDaylight Magnesium Advances Open Source Software Defined Networking

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Sean Michael Kerner
Apr 2, 2020

On March 31, the OpenDaylight Magnesium release became generally available marking the 12th release of the open source Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller platform. The OpenDaylight project was officially announced in April 2013 with a long list of marquee sponsor all focused on the goal of creating an open source SDN controller. OpenDaylight has two releases in any given year, with Magnesium following up the Sodium and Neon releases from 2019.

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