The document discusses the growing interest and adoption of SDN and ON.LAB. It notes the exponential increase in events, acquisitions, and market size related to SDN from 2011-2013. It also discusses ON.LAB's role in bridging ideas from research to broader adoption through the development, distribution, deployment and support of open source SDN tools and platforms.

1. Why SDN and
ON.LAB are Hot
Topics
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2. Exponential Interest
Jul 2012 Oct 2012 Nov 2012 Dec 2012 Feb 2013
ACQUISITIONS
Oct 2011 Apr 2013
EVENTS
400
Attendees
MARKET
Feb 2012 Feb 2013
$2
$3.7
Billions
May 2012 Dec 2012
STANDARDIZATION
51
90
Members
400
1,500

3. More Products Announced
And Available
More Start-Ups and VC investment too!

4. Crossing the SDN Chasm
BROADER
ADOPTION
2009 2012
Number of Organizations
Adopting SDN
Time

5. SDN Definition
Forwarding
includes both
wireline and
wireless.
Southbound API
offer L1/L2/L3
forwarding
abstraction.
Applications could
be Routing, Traffic
Engineering or
Mobility.
3rd party
components
Network OS
Apps Apps
Network OS
Apps Apps
Open
Vendor Agnostic
Interfaces &
Standards
Open Interfaces
Open Interfaces
Network Hypervisor
Logically
Central
Separation
of Control &
Forwarding
Forwarding

6. Why An Open Source
Community
Open Source At A Glance
600,000+ projects
100+ Billion lines of code
10 Million person-years of work
SDN innovation will come
from open source like
40% of cloud innovation
15% of mobile enterprises
19% of mobile apps
Source: Black Duck
Free software tools and platforms accessible to all
Support from passionate SDN experts
Freedom to use, redistribute and modify without IP infringement
Empowered
community and
continuous
improvement
Huge creative and
diverse potential for
unprecedented scale

7. Unlocking Network Potential
Traditional Networking
Control plane
embedded into the
box
Closed proprietary with
no open interface
A big barrier to
innovation
The Promise of SDN
Separation of
forwarding and control
planes
Open and vendor
agnostic interface (e.g.
OpenFlow)
Well defined control
plane abstractions to
enable rapid
innovation
Need to create
new tools
Use them and
modify them freely
to experiment new
possibilities
Exchange ideas
and experience

8. Invention
Platform
Development
Deployments
Demonstrations
And Beyond
2007 – Creation
of SDN Concept
2007 – Ethane
2008 –
NOX, OpenFlow
2009 –
FlowVisor, Mininet
2010 – Beacon
2009 – Stanford
2010 – GENI started
and grew to 20
universities
2013 – 20 more
campuses to be
added
Leveraging A Strong
SDN/OpenFlow Foundation
2008-2011 – SIGCOMM
2011 – Open
Networking
Summit, Interop
2012 –Defining
SDN research
agenda for the
coming years

9. ON.LAB Role
IDEAS BROADER
ADOPTION
Early stage ideas
and prototypes
from the research
community
Leveraged by
organizations and
users for commercial
usage
Development
Distribution
Deployment
Support
Demonstrations
Proven applicability by
the ON.LAB community
OUR VISION
Open The Cloud Infrastructure For
Innovation
OUR MISSION
Develop, distribute, deploy, and support open source
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) tools and platforms

10. Bridging Two Worlds
IDEAS BROADER
ADOPTION
Demonstration
Development Deployment
Support Distribute

11. A Shared Goal
Chip vendors Equipment vendors Software vendorsVendors
UsersResearch
Computer science
R&E community
Service providers Cloud providers
R&E network operators
Members Organizations

12. People Behind ON.LAB
NICK MCKEOWN –
Board Member
•Stanford
•ONRC
•ONF
•Start-ups
•Cisco
GURU PARULKAR –
Executive
director, Board
Member
•Stanford
•ONS
•ONRC
SCOTT SHENKER –
Board member
•Berkeley
•ONF
WILLIAM SNOW –
VP of Engineering
•Nortel Networks
•Cisco
•IBM
•Start-Ups
•Dev./QA/Ops/Support
LARRY PETERSON –
Chief Architect
•Princeton
•PlanetLab
PANKAJ BERDE
•Infoblox
•Yahoo!
•EMC
UMESH
KRISHNASWAMY
•Juniper
•HP

13. ON.LAB Portfolio
3rd party
components
Network OS
Apps Apps
Network OS
Apps Apps
Open Interfaces
Open Interfaces
Network Hypervisor
Forwarding
FlowVisor
Mininet
ONOS
SDN IP-Peering
Testing