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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with OpenStack
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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with OpenStack

by Sriram Subramanian, Sreenivas Voruganti
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
216 pages
4h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Extensible Cloud Operating System

The Extensible Cloud Operating System (XOS), available at http://xosproject.org/, implements the creation and management of services as a core operation. XOS treats everything as a service and provides a framework for implementing multi-tenant services. XOS is modeled as an anything-as-a-service operating system, providing general programming abstractions for network-wide operations.

XOS is architected as a set of core functionality, extensible by services built over it. It supports mechanisms to combine services to create a new functionality. It also provides support for multiple applications executing concurrently, leveraging software services, and multiplexing hardware resources among them:

Figure 4: XOS architecture ...

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