Tungsten Fabric Review: Cloud-Native SDN for Kubernetes Technical Documentation

Tungsten Fabric Review: Cloud-Native SDN for Kubernetes

Tungsten Fabric (TF) represents a fundamentally different approach to SDN—rather than controlling physical switches via OpenFlow, it provides cloud-native overlay networking for virtualized and containerized…

Farzaneh Pakzad25/10/2025

Faucet SDN Controller Review: YAML-Based Lightweight SDN Technical Documentation

Faucet SDN Controller Review: YAML-Based Lightweight SDN

Faucet represents the convergence of modern DevOps practices with SDN—a lightweight, YAML-configured controller that treats network infrastructure like server clusters. With a score of 69.3%…

Farzaneh Pakzad25/10/2025

OpenDayLight (ODL) Controller Review: Cloud & Telco SDN 2025 Technical Documentation

OpenDayLight (ODL) Controller Review: Cloud & Telco SDN 2025

OpenDayLight (ODL) stands as the most pervasive open-source SDN controller platform, with a score of 84.5% in our comprehensive evaluation and the largest community support…

Farzaneh Pakzad25/10/2025

ONOS SDN Controller Review: Architecture & Use Cases 2025 Technical Documentation

ONOS SDN Controller Review: Architecture & Use Cases 2025

Complete ONOS controller review: distributed architecture, extensive API support, and production deployment for Service Providers. Compare ONOS vs OpenDayLight.

Farzaneh Pakzad24/10/2025

Ryu SDN Controller Review: Python-Based Flexible Framework Technical Documentation

Ryu SDN Controller Review: Python-Based Flexible Framework

Ryu (pronounced "ree-yooh," meaning "flow" in Japanese) represents a fundamentally different approach to SDN controllers—rather than a complete platform, it's a component-based framework that provides…

Farzaneh Pakzad24/10/2025

OpenKilda Controller Review: Telstra’s Global SDN Platform Technical Documentation

OpenKilda Controller Review: Telstra’s Global SDN Platform

OpenKilda is a production-proven SDN controller developed by Telstra to solve the unique challenges of managing a globally distributed network spanning multiple continents. With a…

Farzaneh Pakzad24/10/2025

SDN Controller Comparison 2025: ONOS vs ODL vs Ryu Guide Technical Documentation

SDN Controller Comparison 2025: ONOS vs ODL vs Ryu Guide

The Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology landscape has evolved quickly over the last two years. Due to the developing nature of the SDN controller space,…

Farzaneh Pakzad24/10/2025

Kubernetes Explained Technical Documentation

Kubernetes Explained

Container Orchestration for Modern Applications Platforms such as Docker have provided users with greater flexibility when running applications on both virtual infrastructure and physical hardware.…

Aptira25/08/2021

Santa’s Scalable Sack Storage & Delivery Automation Case Studies

Santa’s Scalable Sack Storage & Delivery Automation

Aptira previously built a scalable sack storage solution for Santa. While the sack storage has been reliable, Santa wanted to offer a virtual chimney-drop user…

Aptira21/12/2020

Automated Network Traffic Engineering and Tunneling Case Studies

Automated Network Traffic Engineering and Tunneling

Previously, network engineers were required to provision network services and keep track of changes in real time in order to implement Network Traffic Engineering (TE).…

Aptira22/12/2019

Real-World Open Networking. Part 5: Dissonance between Networks and Software Domains Thoughts

Real-World Open Networking. Part 5: Dissonance between Networks and Software Domains

In our last post we finished up a detailed examination of different aspects of Interoperability. In this post, we will analyse the different mindsets between…

Aptira05/10/2019

Real-World Open Networking. Part 4 – Interoperability: Problems with API’s Thoughts

Real-World Open Networking. Part 4 – Interoperability: Problems with API’s

In our last post we looked at different general patterns of standards compliance in Open Network solutions. In this post we drill down another layer…

Aptira04/10/2019

Real-world Open Networking. Part 3 – Interoperability: Problems with Standards Thoughts

Real-world Open Networking. Part 3 – Interoperability: Problems with Standards

In our last post we unpacked Interoperability, including Open Standards. Continuing this theme, we will look at how solution developers implement standards compliance and the…

Aptira03/10/2019

Real-world Open Networking. Part 2 – Interoperability: The Holy Grail Thoughts

Real-world Open Networking. Part 2 – Interoperability: The Holy Grail

In our last post we described the attributes of an Open Network Solution. In this post we unpack what surely is the “Holy Grail” of…

Aptira02/10/2019

Real World Open Networking. Part 1 – Unpacking Openness Thoughts

Real World Open Networking. Part 1 – Unpacking Openness

In our last post in this series, we completed our coverage of the third domain of Open Networking, that of Open Network Integration. To wrap…

Aptira01/10/2019

10th Birthday + 10% off! Company Updates

10th Birthday + 10% off!

It's our 10th birthday - and you get the presents! Did you know that Aptira was founded at 9 minutes past 9, on the 9th…

Jessica Field10/09/2019

Apigee API Translation Case Studies

Apigee API Translation

One of the challenges we’ve faced recently involved an API translation mechanism required to perform API translations among different component’s native APIs, delivering a response…

Aptira30/08/2019

Implementing TMF APIs in Apigee Case Studies

Implementing TMF APIs in Apigee

A large Telco is building an Orchestration platform to orchestrate workloads that will be deployed in their Private Cloud infrastructure and spread across multiple data…

Aptira29/08/2019

Apigee Central Logging Case StudiesOpenStack

Apigee Central Logging

Completing a full-stack Private Cloud Evaluation is no mean feat. Central Logging by capturing and correlating information from all components, trapping and logging all required…

Aptira28/08/2019

Apigee: On-Prem Vs SaaS Case Studies

Apigee: On-Prem Vs SaaS

A large APAC Telco is building an Orchestration platform to orchestrate workloads that will be deployed in their Private Cloud infrastructure and spread across multiple…

Aptira27/08/2019

Apigee Service Orchestration and Integration Case Studies

Apigee Service Orchestration and Integration

The End-to-End Orchestration (E2e) of Services is achieved when the lifecycle events of network services are managed at the infrastructure level and managed across multiple…

Aptira26/08/2019

Designing & Building a Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure (NFVi) Orchestration Layer using Cloudify Case Studies

Designing & Building a Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure (NFVi) Orchestration Layer using Cloudify

One of our customers was building a greenfield Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure (NFVi) and requires Orchestration capabilities, but lacked the skills to do this themselves.…

Aptira08/08/2019

Swinburne Nextcloud Storage Case Studies

Swinburne Nextcloud Storage

Aptira previously built a large Ceph storage cluster for Swinburne. While the Ceph storage has been reliable, Swinburne wanted to offer a Dropbox-like user experience…

Aptira07/08/2019

Comparison of Software Defined Networking (SDN) Controllers. Part 7: Comparison and Product Rating Technical Documentation

Comparison of Software Defined Networking (SDN) Controllers. Part 7: Comparison and Product Rating

This final part of our Software Defined Networking (SDN) Controller comparison series includes an in-depth evaluation and product rating for each of the most popular…

Farzaneh Pakzad31/07/2019

DevConf.IN 19: Cloud Orchestration using Cloudify Company Updates

DevConf.IN 19: Cloud Orchestration using Cloudify

DevConf.IN is the annual developer's conference organised by Red Hat, India. The conference provides a platform to the FOSS community participants and enthusiasts to come together…

Jessica Field19/07/2019

Multi-Cloud Orchestration with Kubernetes, ONAP, Cloudify, Azure & OpenStack Case StudiesOpenStack

Multi-Cloud Orchestration with Kubernetes, ONAP, Cloudify, Azure & OpenStack

This customer is the research and development arm of a major Australian telecommunications company. They wanted to evaluate options to deploy and manage Virtual Network…

Aptira18/07/2019

System Integration Training

System Integration

Why is System Integration Important? Building a solution out of one technology is generally not going to give you the best results. By integrating specific…

Jessica Field17/07/2019

Replacing an OSD in Nautilus Technical Documentation

Replacing an OSD in Nautilus

Now that you've upgraded Ceph from Luminous to Nautilus, what happens if a disk fails or the administrator needs to convert from filestore to bluestore?…

Tom Fifield16/07/2019

Swinburne Ceph Upgrade and Improvement Case Studies

Swinburne Ceph Upgrade and Improvement

Swinburne is a large and culturally diverse organisation. A desire to innovate and bring about positive change motivates their students and staff. The result is…

Aptira15/07/2019

Upgrading Ceph from Luminous to Nautilus Technical Documentation

Upgrading Ceph from Luminous to Nautilus

Ceph Nautilus was released earlier in the year and it has many new features. In CentOS, the Ceph Nautilus packages depend on CentOS 7.6 packages.…

Tom Fifield12/07/2019