NetVirt Neon Release Details

NetVirt is a network virtualization solution that includes the following components as well as others: Open vSwitch based virtualization for software switches, Hardware VTEP for hardware switches, Service Function Chaining support within a virtualized environment, support for OVS and DPDK-accelerated OVS data paths, L3VPN (BGPVPN), EVPN, ELAN, distributed L2 and L3, NAT and Floating IPs, IPv6, Security Groups, MAC and IP learning.

Major Features Delivered in Neon
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No new features delivered for Neon.

Quality Improvements
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Considerable increase in CSIT coverage and reliability
CSIT cleanup to make tests more reliable
Include more scenarios in CSIT: external networks, PNF's, IPv6, SNAT, L3VPNs
General code cleanup
Adopt better transaction handling patterns
Memory leak cleanup
Better exception handling