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Why Use Floodlight?

OpenFlow - -* * works with physical - and virtual - switches that speak the OpenFlow protocol
The only Apache-licensed controllercontroller - - lets you use Floodlight for almost any purpose.
Open communitycommunity - Floodlight is developed by an open community of developers. We welcome code contributions from active participants and we'll openly share information on project status, roadmap, bugs, etc.
Easy to use - - Floodlight is drop dead simple to build and run. Read through the Documentation|../../../../../../../../../display/floodlightcontroller||||\the Documentation.
Tested and Supported - - Floodlight is the core of a commercial controller product from Big Switch Networksand and is actively tested and improved by a community of professional developers. Curious? Join the mailing list.
New OpenStack support - - Check out the OpenStack documentation.

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What Is Floodlight?

The Floodlight controller is an enterprise-class, Apache-licensed, Java-based OpenFlow Controller. It is supported by a community of developers including a number of engineers from Big Switch Networks.

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Developers: Floodlight was designed to be easy to use and developer-friendly.

It offers a module system|../../../../../../../../../display/floodlightcontroller/Module+loading+system||||\a module system that makes it simple to extend and enhance. We have some simple and more complex|../../../../../../../../../display/floodlightcontroller/Advanced+Tutorial||||\ and more complex examples available.
Its easy to build and setup with minimal dependencies.
You are welcome and encouraged to contribute code.
Apache is a friendly license and you maximal freedom.

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Floodlight supports a broad range of virtual and physical OpenFlow switches.
Rich support for mixed OpenFlow and non-OpenFlow networks. Floodlight can manage multiple islands of OpenFlow switches, a common deployment scenario.
Floodlight was designed to be high performance|../../../../../../../../../display/floodlightcontroller/Performance+Configuration||||\be high performance.
Static Flow Pusher API that can be used to proactively manage a network
Support for OpenStack Quantum (coming soon)

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Join the mailing list
Download the code
Read the Getting Started Docs
Explore the developer wiki|../../../../../../../../../display/floodlightcontroller/Floodlight+Controller+Wiki||||\

http://groups.google.com/a/openflowhub.org/group/floodlight-dev/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml

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Mailing List Posts

Static Flow Pusher: timeouts not supported October 12, 2012
[Re: floodlight-dev Links between Hosts and Switches|http://groups.google.com/a/openflowhub.org/group/floodlight-dev/browse_thread/thread/7a25fb2cf1b4103b/81add1796e8fb346?show_docid=81add1796e8fb346] October 12, 2012
[Re: floodlight-dev Links between Hosts and Switches|http://groups.google.com/a/openflowhub.org/group/floodlight-dev/browse_thread/thread/7a25fb2cf1b4103b/144b239205214ac3?show_docid=144b239205214ac3] October 11, 2012
[Re: floodlight-dev Links between Hosts and Switches|http://groups.google.com/a/openflowhub.org/group/floodlight-dev/browse_thread/thread/7a25fb2cf1b4103b/5f0c80e14a66c1f1?show_docid=5f0c80e14a66c1f1] October 11, 2012
[Re: floodlight-dev Links between Hosts and Switches|http://groups.google.com/a/openflowhub.org/group/floodlight-dev/browse_thread/thread/7a25fb2cf1b4103b/f8e364f21818ef30?show_docid=f8e364f21818ef30] October 11, 2012
[Re: floodlight-dev Links between Hosts and Switches|http://groups.google.com/a/openflowhub.org/group/floodlight-dev/browse_thread/thread/7a25fb2cf1b4103b/193788691de3b5c8?show_docid=193788691de3b5c8] October 11, 2012