ACI

• ACI is used in the Datacentre space.

• It is used to configure, manage, and operate AIO packaged SDN datacentre, integration into kubernetes, load balancing, security, etc.

• One could use Open Daylight with Nexus, etc., which is a smaller, more self-defined, self-crated SDN, using NXAPI, programmable infrastructure. Your controller would have an API, which would communicate with programmable device.