Welcome to USC

Introduction

Unified Secure Channel (USC) is a Software Defined Networking (SDN) component that uses unified secure channels to enable communications between SDN controllers and enterprise network elements. USC is distributed as a part of the community driven and industry supported OpenDaylight Project, an open source platform for SDN and NFV.

USC enables secure and high performance communication between SDN controllers and network elements across wide area networks. By establishing a unified secure tunnel, USC facilitates secure and reliable management and control of various devices, including network devices, cloud gateways, IoT devices. Out of the box, USC provides call-home, mutual authentication, and protocol multiplexing.

In enterprise networks, more and more controller and network management systems are being deployed remotely and in the cloud. As enterprise networks become more and more heterogeneous - branch, IoT, wireless - enterprise customers will want a converged network controller and management system solution. USC can solve the security, performance, and management issues for such solutions.

Key Features

• High Security: Encrypted communication & mutual authentication

• Better Performance: Converged tunneling for all protocols

• Large Capacity: Support clustering & Satisfy different capacity requirements with elastic scalability

Project Facts

Project Creation Date: Dec 11th, 2014

Lifecycle State: Incubation

Type: Protocol

Primary Contact: An Ho <an.ho@huawei.com>

Project Lead:  An Ho <an.ho@huawei.com>

Committers:  

• Helen Chen helen.chen@huawei.com helenc878

• An Ho an.ho@huawei.com anipbu

• Victor Xu s.xu@huawei.com victorxu

• George Zhao george.y.zhao@huawei.com gzhao

Emeritus:

• Jinzhu Duan duanjinzhu@huawei.com djz

• Xin Chang xin.chang@huawei.com xchang

• Yan Zhuang zhuangyan.zhuang@huawei.com yan

IRC: freenode.net #opendaylight

Mailing List: usc-dev@lists.opendaylight.org
    Archives: mailing list archives

Meetings: See Community Meetings 

Repository: git clone https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/usc

Jenkins: jenkins silo

Gerrit Patches: code patches/reviews

Bugs:

• open bugs