GEC NEWS WIRELINCX is a breakthrough in efficient Software-defined Network Switching
Infoblox has announced LINCX, a new production-ready open-source software-defined networking switch that is fully programmable, available now as a free download from the FlowForwarding.org project (www.flowforwarding.org).
Stuart Bailey, founder and chief technology officer of Infoblox, and his research team developed LINCX as a contribution to the SDN community—not as an Infoblox product—to demonstrate how SDN makes it possible to quickly and inexpensively create powerful new technology that can disrupt traditional hardware-based networking. The goal for LINCX, therefore, is to help drive further awareness and development of open-source SDN applications.
LINCX was built in one year by a team of only 6 engineers at a cost of about $1 million, and contains about 34,000 lines of code. Commercial-grade hardware switches typically require teams of dozens of engineers working for several years and contain hundreds of thousands or even millions of lines of code.
“We created LINCX to showcase how the world changes when network control moves to software and is completely separated from the underlying hardware,” Bailey continued. “I’m excited to have this opportunity to help keep Infoblox at the cutting edge of network innovation. If we can build LINCX in a year with just six people, we know others will soon be able to create SDN applications that are even more interesting. SDN is an open playing field, and I expect there will be many winners among networking incumbents, as well as among future start-ups that today are only a gleam in the eyes of young engineers.”
