Designed to run on StrataXGS® chipset, OpenFlow Data Plane Abstraction v2.0 enables service providers to provision, control, and instrument network switch elements through standardized instruction set, based on OpenFlow specification, APIs, and extensions. Platform defines and implements hardware abstraction layer that maps StrataXGS switch architecture to OpenFlow v1.3.1 switch and pipeline while providing concepts on how OpenFlow can be implemented in most efficient way.