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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background-color:#e0e0e0;">Frenetic</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Programming_paradigm" title="Programming paradigm">Paradigm</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Domain-specific_language" title="Domain-specific language">Domain-specific</a> (<a href="Software-defined_networking" title="Software-defined networking">software-defined networking</a>), <a href="Reactive_programming" title="Reactive programming">reactive</a>, <a href="Modular_programming" title="Modular programming">modular</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Type_system" title="Type system">Typing discipline</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Dynamic</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.frenetic-lang.org">www<wbr>.frenetic-lang<wbr>.org</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #EEEEEE;">Influenced by</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="OCaml" title="OCaml">OCaml</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Frenetic</b> is a <a href="Domain-specific_language" title="Domain-specific language">domain-specific language</a> for programming <a href="Software-defined_networking" title="Software-defined networking">software-defined networking</a> (SDN). This domain-specific programming language allows network operators, rather than manually configuring each connected network device, to program the network as a whole.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frenetic is designed to solve major <a href="OpenFlow" title="OpenFlow">OpenFlow</a>/<a href="Nox_(platform)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nox (platform)">NOX</a> programming problems. In particular, Frenetic introduces a set of purely functional abstractions that enable <a href="Modular_programming" title="Modular programming">modular program development</a>, defines <a href="High-level" class="mw-redirect" title="High-level">high-level</a>, programmer-centric packet-processing operators, and eliminates many of the difficulties of the two-tier programming model by introducing a see-every-<a href="Network_packet" title="Network packet">packet</a> programming paradigm. Hence Frenetic is a <a href="Functional_reactive_programming" title="Functional reactive programming">functional reactive programming</a> language operating at a packet level of abstraction.<sup id="cite_ref-voellmy_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voellmy-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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</style><cite id="CITEREFVoellmy,_Andreas2010" class="citation web cs1">Voellmy, Andreas; et al. (July 10, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr1432.pdf">"Don't Configure the Network, Program It"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. cs.yale.edu<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 22,</span> 2011</span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-voellmy-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-voellmy_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFVoellmyHudak,_Paul2011" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Voellmy, Andreas; Hudak, Paul (2011). "Nettle: Taking the Sting Out of Programming Network Routers". <i>Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages</i>. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 6359/2011. pp. <span class="nowrap">235–</span>249. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-642-18378-2_19">10.1007/978-3-642-18378-2_19</a>. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-3-642-18377-5</bdi>.</cite></span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>
<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFFosterHarrisonMeolaFreedman2010" class="citation conference cs1">Foster, Nate; Harrison, Rob; Meola, Matthew L.; Freedman, Michael J.; <a href="Jennifer_Rexford" title="Jennifer Rexford">Rexford, Jennifer</a>; Walker, David (November 30, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2010/Workshops/PRESTO/PRESTO_papers/04-Foster.pdf"><i>Frenetic: A High-Level Language for OpenFlow Networks</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. ACM PRESTO 2010. <a href="Association_for_Computing_Machinery" title="Association for Computing Machinery">ACM</a>. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-1-4503-0467-2</bdi>.</cite></li>
<li>Nate Foster, Rob Harrison, Michael J. Freedman, <a href="Jennifer_Rexford" title="Jennifer Rexford">Jennifer Rexford</a>, and David Walker (December 6, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/19310/4/frenetic-tr.pdf">Frenetic: A High-Level Language for OpenFlow Networks, Technical report</a>. Cornell University. Retrieved February 22, 2011.</li></ul>
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