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Recall that ONOS represents various network components and properties as protocol-agnostic model objects at the core tier, and as protocol-specific objects at the provider tier. The following are the major representations mapped translated across the two tiers:
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DeviceManager | OpenFlowDeviceProvider |
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Device | OpenFlowSwitch |
DeviceId/ElementId | Dpid |
Port | OFPortDesc |
MastershipRole | RoleState/RoleValue |
The OpenFlow
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Subsystem
The following figure summarizes the key components of the OpenFlow southbound, comprised of the OpenFlowDeviceProvider
and the OpenFlow driver components. While not a subsystem in the ONOS Service sense, we will refer to these components collectively as the OpenFlow subsystem.