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An application implements a narrow set of features and interact interacts with the rest of ONOS through its northbound API. Examples of ONOS applications include network control functions, such as traffic forwarding, and managerial interfaces, like the GUI.
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Use cases are aimed at tackling complex SDN deployment scenarios faced by the members of the ONOS community. Likewise, their implementations tend to be complex, and usually include combinations of applications, drivers, and at times, system core components and specialized APIs.
Use cases are have been (and continue to be) developed for ONOS. Each use case has their own documentation sets, maintained separately from the main body of ONOS documentation, as they have their own development cycles and are governed separately from the ONOS project. Refer to the Apps and Use Cases page for a full listing of the use cases.
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