Japanese SDN company Midokura is giving away its keystone product.

Midokura is open sourcing its MidoNet network virtualization system in an effort to have it recognized as a – or the – default networking component in the OpenStack cloud orchestration system. But the company’s initiative speaks to perhaps a larger issue with open source networking efforts, especially those driven by vendors.

Midokura says the Neutron networking component of OpenStack is fragmented by various vendor implementations attempting to supplant a technically inferior Open vSwitch (OVS) default. Analysts agree.

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