News


  • Linux 3.7.3 released

    July 15th, 2021

    We recommend to update to the latest BISDN Linux maintenance release! Read more ….

  • Linux 3.7.0 released

    February 24th, 2021

    Now our BISDN Linux officially supports the ISIS routing protocol! Read more, and let us know what you think ….

  • BISDN joins TIP in creating an Open vBNG

    January 28th, 2021

    BISDN is contributing its longstanding expertise in disaggregating broadband network gateways (BNG) to the Telecom Infra Project’s (TIP) OpenBNG activities ….

  • IoT Gateway available now!

    January 22th, 2021

    Check out our IP65 gateway for indoors and outdoors! It just loves harsh environments such as aviation, logistics, autonomous devices and more ….

  • BISDN Linux 3.6.0 released

    January 19th, 2021

    We just released BISDN Linux v3.6.0, which now includes the latest 5.10 LTS kernel. This prepares adding full IS-IS and MSTP support within the next couple of releases. Read more….

  • BISDN Linux 3.5.2 released

    December 9th, 2020

    We are happy to announce BISDN Linux v3.5.2 for all our platforms! In this release we include support for Layer 3 support on bond interfaces. Read more….

  • BISDN is Intel Network Builders Winners’ Circle Partner

    November 10th, 2020

    BISDN was recognized as an Intel® Winners’ Circle Solution Partner for the second time. Read more…

  • BISDN Linux 3.5.0 released

    October 26th, 2020

    This release adds the link aggregation feature. It is now possible to configure bonded interfaces on a switch while using the bonding modes ‘balance-rr’,’active-backup’ and ‘802.3ad’. This release only supports layer 2 forwarding and bridging for bonded interfaces, meaning it is not possible to add and/or use IP addresses or any routing features on top of these new bonded interfaces. These layer 3 features will be added in the following releases. Download the latest builds from our repo

  • BISDN Linux 3.2.0 released

    July 10th, 2020

    We released BISDN Linux v3.2.0 for the Agema 7648 and the Accton AS4610 switch models. New in this release: Port physical link state is reflected on TAP interfaces; Physical and configured link speed is reflected on TAP interfaces. Download the latest builds from our repo

  • BISDN Linux 3.1.0 released

    June 5th, 2020

    We have today released BISDN Linux 3.1.0 for the Agema 7648 and the Accton 4610 platforms: please check out the release notes

  • BISDN is Tibit Certified Integration Partner

    May 13th, 2020

    We are very pleased to announce that BISDN is now Tibit Certified Integration Partner (CIP). For anyone having questions on pluggable OLT modules, just get in touch with us!

  • Berlin SDN/NFV Meetup goes digital

    March 24th, 2020

    Today’s SDN/NFV Meetup will be held online at 6.30 pm – a chance for anyone not in Berlin to grab a beer and join via Zoom 

  • BISDN Linux 3.0 released

    March 23th, 2020

    We have just released the new BISDN Linux version 3.0. With this release we introduce …

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  • BISDN Linux 2.1 released

    February 19th, 2020

    We have just released the new BISDN Linux version 2.1. This release includes …

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  • BISDN @BBWF in Amsterdam

    October 15th, 2019

    Together with Tibit Communications, BISDN shows the integration of the Tibit PON Controller software onto a whitebox switch, providing a lightweight solution for 10G PON rollout. If you are around, come and visit us at

    Stand A40

  • Microplug OLT Demo

    September 27th, 2019

    Our CEO Hagen Woesner gave a talk on SEBA with Microplug OLTs during ONF Connect 2019! If you missed it, you can still watch it

    here

  • Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights episode

    June 7th, 2019

    Our CEO Hagen Woesner joins Intel® Chip Chat Network Insights to share about our products, resources and efforts in delivering innovation to the market and what drives this focus. Listen to the chat:

    here

  • Basebox interoperability confirmed

    April 9th, 2019

    BISDN has successfully shown Basebox’ interoperability during EANTCs latest massive multi-vendor interoperability test. The results and the whitepaper are being shown during the MPLS SDN NFV World Congress in Paris from 09. – 12.04.2019…

    read more

  • BISDN Linux Distribution used by Cellusys

    March 6th, 2019

    Cellusys is using BISDNs Linux Distribution for their unified firewall solution. Check out their solution brief for more details.

  • Meet BISDN @MWC in Barcelona

    February 13rd, 2019

    Meet our team during MWC 2019 and check our demo! Do come and see us at our booth at 4YFN, Startup Corner 8 #M4.5, or schedule a meeting in advance via info(a)bisdn.de

  • Meet BISDN @FOSDEM in Brussels

    February 2nd, 2019

    During FOSDEM, Tobias Jungel explained how we got from Closed to Open Source Switch ASICs. Listen to the talk here!

  • basebox.org launched

    December 21st, 2018

    We have launched basebox.org, a dedicated new website for baseboxd, the open source whitebox router. Please refer to this website for anything and everything on the open source project, for documentation, release notes, a community slack etc.

  • Meet BISDN @ONF Connect in in Santa Clara

    December 3rd, 2018

    BISDN will be participating in ONF Connect from Dec 4th to 6th. Being a contributor to the Stratum project, BISDN staff is going to present its Open Source Whitebox Router during a session in the NFV Fabric track…

    read more

  • Meet BISDN @TIP Summit in London

    September 26, 2018

    BISDN will join the Telecom world’s TIP Summit 2018 in London on October 16th/17th. Being one of the three German-based TEAC winners, we are looking forward to showcase the first results of our cooperation with carriers and vendors within the Telecom Infrastructure Project…..

    read more

  • BISDN joins P4 consortium

    May 28, 2018

    BISDN announced that it has joined the P4 Language Consortium. P4 is a prototype-independent programming language specifically designed for programming switches….

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  • BISDN joins Intel Network Builders Program

    April 21, 2018

    BISDN announced that it has joined the Intel Network Builders ecosystem. This program connects software vendors, OEMs, telecom equipment vendors, system integrators and carriers to accelerate the deployment of NFV and SDN solutions….

    read more

  • BISDN participates in EANTC Interoperability Test

    April 13, 2018

    BISDN announces that it has participated in the interoperability test run by the European Advanced Networking enter (EANTC). The interoperability of its external Basebox controller on top of an AG7648 Delta switch was verified…

    read more

  • BISDN is selected to join TEAC

    March 21, 2018

    BISDN is pleased to announce that it is among the three winning companies selected to join TEAC Germany (TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Center), an incubator structure initiated by Facebook and Deutsche Telekom…

    read more


Open Source vBNG

During the ONF Spotlight Series, BISDN CEO Dr. Hagen Woesner discussed the vBNG architecture and performance evaluation with David Bainbridge, Ciena.

The series was conducted by the Open Networking Foundation


Product

 

  • BISDN Linux Distribution

    The open source operating system for whitebox switches. Turns your switch into an SDN switch with an Open Flow interface, or – alternatively- you can have the SDN controller directly on the switch. 

    BISDN Linux data sheet.pdf

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  • All our solutions are built on and around our core product BISDN Linux. 

    Get in touch with our distributors for supply. They will deliver to your doorstep.

 


Carrier solutions

  • Wi-Fi Gateway

    For a large Tier1 carrier BISDN developed and piloted a Wi-Fi network which extended home routers by a centrally operated wifi network.

  • vBNG Gateway

    We have built a virtual Broadband Remote Access Server (vBRAS) prototype, based on the CUPS approach (Control User Plane Separation). 

    vBNG Whitepaper.pdf

  • Whitebox OLT 

    In our capacity as Certified Integration Partner (CIP) for Tibit Communications, we have set up a lab in Berlin. Here we are showcasing the interoperability of the pluggable OLTs (Optical Line Terminals) with various switch platforms and with ONUs (Optical Network Units).

    If you would like to learn more about pluggable OLTs on whiteboxes, please contact us. We provide remote access to the lab, and we are here to help.

 


Open Source

BISDN projects and tools

We open source networks

Open platforms require open interfaces. OpenFlow was at the beginning of the era of whiteboxes, breaking the vendor-lock-in of network devices. A vast amount of new solutions have since emerged from the open source community and from commercial operators. 

We combine the ease-of-use of Linux networking with SDN and state-of-the-art packet processing platforms. For this purpose we have open sourced three core elements:

 

Open Source Whitebox Router

We provide baseboxd, a deamon that offloads Linux kernel forwarding and routing to hardware switches. baseboxd is open source. It closes the gap between well-established Linux open source routing projects, such as FRR, and whitebox switches. 

It’s essentially SDN without the difficult part. No need to program any interfaces, just configure the entire router like a Linux box. Hardware acceleration centuplicates the router performance. Only buy the hardware and download the rest. If you like we will support you – just get in touch to learn about our support schemes.

More details on the Router are available on the dedicated project website. 

Xdpd

We address the challenges of enhanced packet processing on non-ASIC environments and generic compute platforms with our eXtensible DataPath Daemon (xdpd) – a datapath framework that supports various packet processing platforms.
Check out the Intel-DPDK-based soft switch on github.

Rofl

For those working on solutions in OpenFlow,  our Revised OpenFlow Library (rofl) facilitates the development of controllers and datapath elements. Roflcommon is a C++ library offering a generic OpenFlow endpoint. Rofl-datapath is an ASNI-C implementation of an OpenFlow pipeline. 
It is easily portable to multiple compute and switching platforms, including ARM, MIPS and FPGA. Check out the code on github.

 

We are members of the following programs and projects

Research activities

We are actively participating in research activities in SDN and NFV. We have been particularly active in the following research projects:

 


About Us

Our story

BISDN was founded in 2012 in Berlin, Germany, and set out to develop the software needed in the rapidly changing world of software defined networking. Based on long-standing experience in the area of telecommunication as well as datacenter networking, BISDN focusses on high-performance whitebox switching and open network software solutions. With BISDN Linux as the core of most of their products, BISDN aims to build the free and open SDN solutions needed for the future world of networking.

BISDN team


Contact

If you would like to visit us…

… our office is located in Berlin-Tiergarten, in close proximity to Potsdamer Platz:
Please find our offices at OpenStreetMap.

 

BISDN GmbH
Körnerstraße 7-10, Aufgang A
10785 Berlin, Germany

Geschäftsführung: Dr. Hagen Woesner, Andreas Köpsel
Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg, HRB 141569B
USt-ID DE283257294
D-U-N-S Nr. 342618395
Email: info<a>bisdn.de
Tel: +49 30 610 816 100

 

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