Overview

Soodar, new generation of high-capacity, enterprise, core routers, is a recent product in network’s industry. Using the latest technologies and improvements in network’s domain, make it a robust and reliable choice for being employed in network designs. Implementing a Cisco-wise CLI in control plane and providing a wide range of monitoring tools, ease network administrators getting familiar with product and make them more comfortable with it. The data plane, is the beating heart of Soodar. Equipping a fully-optimized software based data plane with Soodar assures high throughput on router.

Soodar can be used in vast different networks, but it is highly optimized to be used as a router in:

  • MPLS core networks

  • IPv4/6 core networks

  • Data centers

The heart of Soodar, is its operator system. SoodarOS.

SoodarOS

SoodarOS is a routing operating system based on linux, that provides a reliable control-plane and a fast, software based data-plane with all state-of-the-art technologies.

To acheive this, SoodarOS leverages two known software suites:

  • FRR for control-plane

  • VPP for data-plane

FRR is a software suite that provides TCP/IP based routing services with routing protocols support such as BGP, RIP, OSPF, IS-IS and more . FRR also supports special BGP Route Reflector and Route Server behavior. In addition to traditional IPv4 routing protocols, FRR also supports IPv6 routing protocols.

VPP is an extensible framework that provides out-of-the-box production quality switch/router functionality. It is a high performance, packet-processing stack that can run on commodity CPUs with a rich feature set.

SoodarOS uses an advanced software architecture to provide you with a high quality router. SoodarOS has an interactive user interface and supports common client commands.

Architecture

The following figure, shows SoodarOS components and their relationship

SoodarOS components