NECOS Industrial Workshop (18-Oct, 2019): Operator View RNP IDS - Software Defined Infrastructure

1. Marcos Schwarz (marcos.schwarz@rnp.br)
R&D Coordinator
NECOS Industrial Workshop – Campinas, October 18th 2019

2. About RNP
• The national advanced network for
higher education, research and
innovation institutions
• ~600 organizations, ~1.500 campuses
• 8 million students and professors,
35.000 research groups, 180.000
researchers
• Ipê Network
• Multi-gigabit backbone
• 100% optical fiber
• A Point of Presence (PoP) in each
capital (26 states and federal capital)

3. Timeline

4. • What
• Virtualizable and programmable physical infrastructure
• composed of an Overlay SDN and an nationwide Distributed Edge Cloud
• Infrastructure orchestration platform
• to provision remote computing and networking resources
• integrating open solutions for automation and orchestration
• Why
• To support the evolution of RNP’s existing applications and services to the hybrid
cloud paradigm
• To adopt new methodologies and processes of validation, testing and provisioning
Software Defined Infrastructure

5. • Overlay SDN
• 10G SDN whitebox
• Based on low cost x86 HW
($800) and open software
• Edge Cloud
• High performance servers
• Expansible up to 100Gbps
disk to disk file transfers
Deployed Infrastructure
Whitebox
SuperServer 5019D-FN8TP
Baremetal
SuperServer 1029U-E1CRT

6. Provided Resources
• Overlay SDN
• multi-tenant virtual WAN with
guaranteed bandwidth and
tunneling to remote sites
• Edge Cloud
• VMs, Containers and Baremetal

7. • Integrates existing orchestrators
• Through a web interface, CLI and
Rest APIs
• Virtual networks: Open vSwitch, NSI
• Containers: Docker e Kubernetes
• Baremetal, VMs: MAAS
• Reuse of ONOS SDN controller as
framework
• developed for 1 ½ year with 2 FTEs
• using agile methodologies
• 50.000 lines of code
SOLO Orchestrator

8. • Scope
• Extend the service control network
to remote sites
• Using SDN, NSI and VLXAN
• On demand deployment of CDN
Edge servers
• Instantiated on the nearest PoP to the
user
• Automatic discovery/registration (via
Consul)
• Benefits
• Optimization of resources usage
and location
• Seamless integration to existing
infrastructure
Use case: PoC evolution of RNP’s Video Delivery Service

9. • Improvement of architecture, automation and security
• Creation and evolution of advanced services
• Flow Analytics based on Machine Learning
• Distributed flow collection and analysis – RNP’s Engineering team and GT-IPE Analytics Research
Group
• CI/CD containers
• CDN deployment to hybrid cloud and baremetal – BrainIT Startup
• Corporate container platform based on Rancher/Kubernetes – RNP’s R&D, Services and IT Teams
• NFV
• Deployment of VNFs/CNFs in containers and performance analysis up to 10G – GT-FENDE Research
Group
• RNP’s PoP as an Edge Cloud
• Deployment of an OpenStack with HA to provide PoP’s services – GT-NOSFVERATO Research Group
On Going Activities

10. Converged RNP’s Infrastructure

11. • provide IT infra as cloud for advanced services and integrated to the
public cloud
• promote the evolution of PoP’s networking services to NFV
• offer IaaS, PaaS and SaaS based on open and commercial ecosystems as
part of RNP’s Innovation Platform to Research Groups and Startups
• Narrow the technologic gap between academia and the market from different
regions of Brazil, enabling exchange of infrastructure and expertise
Future Expectations