The document discusses the FIBRE architecture for open networking experimentation. It describes the deployment of standardized "FIBRE-BR racks" across islands to enable reproducibility and uniform management. Each island runs the FIBRE Control and Monitoring Framework (CMF) to support experimentation using either the OFELIA or OMF frameworks. Hardware includes IBM servers, NetFPGA switches, and Icarus nodes connected via the FIBREnet network. The UFSCar island is provided as an example deployment.

1. FIBRE Architecture
Cesar Marcondes (UFSCar)
FIBRE Open Workshop
Salvador, 26/27-11-2012

2. FIBRE and FIBRE-BR
Deployment Infrastructure
Wireless and Wired Technologies
Federation with FIBRE-EU

3. Review of FIBRE Island Resources

4. Island Design
• Homogeneous “FIBRE-BR racks”? Yes !
– Single documentation
• Cookbooks on how to create the VMs,
• Cookbooks on how to use them
– Reproducibility / Compliance
– Bugs found can be fixed on all islands
– New features can be applied uniformly
– Modularity to support 2 overlapping “testbeds” in
1st Phase (OCF-based and OMF-based)

5. IBM Server

6. NetFPGA Servers
Can be used both as OF SWITCH
and experiment PC

7. Icarus Nodes

8. OpenFlow Switch for Datapath
Normal Switch for Control path
• Example: UFSCar using DATACOM OF 1.0
hybrid switch (per port configuration)

9. FIBRE – Island

10. Example: UFSCar Island
Deployment

11. Hardware Status (Deployment)

12. Software: Control and Monitoring
Framework (CMF)
• According to the requirements
• Support at same time both OCF and OMF
– OCF (OFELIA Control Framework)
– OMF (Orbit Control Framework)

13. OFELIA Xen Agent (Concepts)
Trapezoid forms (eth1.999, eth2..ethN) are Linxu bridges.
Red interfaces is an interface for Dom0 management only
Green interfaces, (eth1 and peth1.999) are interfaces for the control LAN
Yellow interfaces are experimentation interfaces.
Each server can have N of this experimentation interfaces.

14. FIBRE Overall Software Architecture

15. Logical Topologies
• Icarus Nodes could be
running on the Normal
Control Switch
(although not elegant)
or set a VLAN and
“learning switch”
controller in the OF
Switch

16. FIBREnet
Giga

17. FIBRE Islands Deployment

18. Thank you / Obrigado
Cesar Marcondes
Federal University of São Carlos
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