README

NOX Network Control Platform

Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Nicira Networks Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Stanford University Copyright (C) 2009-2012 International Computer Science Institute, UC Berkeley

Welcome to the NOX network control platform. This distribution includes all the software you need to build, install, and deploy NOX in your network, as well as source code and tools to allow you to develop your own NOX applications.

This version of NOX is a developers' release. It is intended to provide a programmatic platform for controlling one or more OpenFlow switches. NOX can be extended both in C++ and provides an abstracted interface to OpenFlow. This distribution contains a set of example applications and some built in libraries which provide useful network functions such as host tracking and routing.

Note

NOX relies on OpenFlow as the communication protocol for controlling switches.