This document discusses the intersection of open source software and network control planes. It provides an overview of emerging open source SDN projects like OpenDaylight and RouteFlow, which is a software-defined IP routing project. RouteFlow uses an open source control plane with a Linux-based "glue" to program the data plane. The document argues that open source and SDN are accelerating the standardization of networking and that the frontier of networking is shifting from closed, vendor-led systems to ones based on APIs, open source, customer-led approaches, and network function virtualization.

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When Open Source Meets
Network Control Planes
• Christian Esteve Rothenberg (UNICAMP – University of Campinas, Brazil)
• Roy Chua (SDNCentral & Wiretap Ventures, US)
• Josh Bailey (Google, New Zealand)
• Martin Winter (NetDEF – Network Device Education Foundation, US)
• Carlos Correa (UFF – Fluminense Federal University & UNIMED, Brazil)
• Sidney C. de Lucena (UNIRIO – Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Marcos Rogério Salvador (Lenovo Innovation Center, Brazil)
• Thomas Nadeau (Brocade, US)

3. EMERGING SDN STACK

4. OVERVIEW OF OPEN SOURCE SDN PROJECTS

5. Components of the New Frontier
"We’d love to see OpenDaylight do for networking
what Linux has done for the computing industry."
Adapted from: Kyle Mestery

6. SDN AND OPEN SOURCE ARE EVOLVING AND
ACCELERATING THE PATH OF STANDARDIZATION

7. RouteFlow: Basics
Data Plane
Control Plane

8. RouteFlow: High-level Architecture
Data Plane
Control Plane
Glue
Linux

9. RouteFlow: High-level Architecture
Data Plane
Control Plane
Glue

10. ROUTEFLOW: SOFTWARE-DEFINED IP ROUTING

11. CARDIGAN:
ROUTEFLOW GOING LIVE AT AN INTERNET EXCHANGE

12. The Frontier of Networking
Existing
• CLIs
• Closed Source
• Vendor Lead
• Classic Network Appliances
New
• APIs
• Open Source
• Customer Lead
• Network Function
Virtualization (NFV)
Adapted from: Kyle Mestery, Next Generation Network Developer Skills

13. Thank you!
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