The new Switch Light virtual switch is based on Open Source technology called Indigo which provides an OpenFlow agent. The idea of having a virtual switch for SDN is not new, the Linux kernel itself includes an open source virtual switch already called vSwitch. The Open vSwitch has been part of every Linux distribution since the Linux 3.3 kernel release a year ago.
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