Presentation detailed about SDN (Software Defined Network) overview . It covers from basics like different controllers and touches upon some technical details.
Covers Terminologies used, OpenFlow, Controllers, Open Day light, Cisco ONE, Google B4, NFV,etc
2. Agenda
• What? Why?
• Architecture
• SDN Controllers
• Open Flow
• Daylight Control
• Cisco
• Cisco ONE
• Cisco onePK
• Google B4
• Demo
3. What is SDN?
The physical separation of the network control plane
from the forwarding plane, and where a control plane
controls several devices
• Directly programmable
• Agile: Abstracting control from forwarding
• Centrally managed
• Programmatically configured
• Open standards-based vendor neutral
4. SDN Operation - Control/Data Plan
• Control plan :Logic for controlling forwarding behavior.
Examples: routing protocols, network middle box configuration
• Data plane : Forward traffic according to control plane logic
— Examples: IP forwarding, Layer 2 switching
5. Why? So Many Uses/Use cases
1. Virtualization: Use network resource without worrying about
where it is physically located, how much it is, how it is
organized, etc.
2. Orchestration: Should be able to control and manage
thousands of devices with one command.
3. Programmable: Should be able to change behavior on the fly.
4. Dynamic Scaling: Should be able to change size, quantity
5. Automation: To lower OpEx minimize manual involvement
Troubleshooting
Reduce downtime
Policy enforcement
Provisioning/Re-provisioning/Segmentation of resources
Add new workloads, sites, devices, and resources.
6. Why? So Many Uses/Use cases
6. Visibility: Monitor resources, connectivity
7. Performance: Optimize network device utilization
Traffic engineering/Bandwidth management
Capacity optimization
Load balancing
High utilization
Fast failure handling
8. Multi-tenancy: Tenants need complete control over their
addresses, topology, and routing, security
9. Service Integration: Load balancers, firewalls, Intrusion
Detection Systems (IDS), provisioned on demand and placed
appropriately on the traffic path
9. Open Flow
OpenFlow Protocol Specification
! OpenFlow controller communicates with
switch over a secure channel
" OpenFlow protocol defines message format
" Purpose of control channel: update flow table
" Logic is executed at controller
10. Matching (OpenFlow v. 1.0)
! Packet header fields matched against one of N
tables
! If no match, packet is sent to controller
! Otherwise, switch performs action
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16. Google B4 Architecture
-Software-defined WAN
• Logically centralized traffic-engineering controller, which allows applications to manipulate bandwidth
across data centers through WAN networks.
• Automation - separate monitoring, management and operation from individual boxes
17. Amazon VP Cloud
Dynamic Scaling of Resources:
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
! Connect logically
isolated VM
instances to existing
network
! Connection to
existing
infrastructure via
VPN
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25. Active Networks
• Networks where switches perform custom
computations on packets
• ž Examples (and motivation)
• —Trace program running at each router
• —Middleboxes: firewalls, proxies, application services
26. Network Virtualization
• What is Network Virtualization?
• ž Representation of one or more logical network
topologies on the same infrastructure.
• ž Many different instantiations
—Virtual LANs (VLANs)
—Various technologies and network testbeds —Today:
VMWare, Nicira, etc.
Editor's Notes
Software Defined Networking (SDN): A new networking paradigm whereby the behavior of a network is controlled by a single high-level software program. The general term for network architectures whereby the control plane (software that controls network behavior) and the data plane (the devices that forward traffic) are separate from one another.
Control plane: The functions in the network that control the behavior of the network (e.g., network paths, forwarding behavior). Typically, the control plane is instantiated as a single, high-level software controller.
Data plane: The functions in the network that are responsible for forwarding (or not forwarding) traffic. Typically, the data plane is instantiated as forwarding tables in routers, switches, firewalls, and middleboxes.
Network virtualization: The notion of instantiating many distinct logical networks on top of a single, shared physical network infrastructure.
SDN is the framework to automatically manage and control a large number of network devices and services in a multi-tenant environment
OpenFlow originated SDN but now many different southbound and northbound APIs, intermediate services and tools are being discussed and implemented by the industry, e.g., XMPP, ForCES, PCE, ALTO
The OpenFlow protocol is a foundational element for building SDN solutions. The SDN architecture is:
Directly programmable: Network control is directly programmable because it is decoupled from forwarding functions.
Agile: Abstracting control from forwarding lets administrators dynamically adjust network-wide traffic flow to meet changing needs.
Centrally managed: Network intelligence is (logically) centralized in software-based SDN controllers that maintain a global view of the network, which appears to applications and policy engines as a single, logical switch.
Programmatically configured: SDN lets network managers configure, manage, secure, and optimize network resources very quickly via dynamic, automated SDN programs, which they can write themselves because the programs do not depend on proprietary software.
Open standards-based and vendor-neutral: When implemented through open standards, SDN simplifies network design and operation because instructions are provided by SDN controllers instead of multiple, vendor-specific devices and protocols.
OpenDaylight SDN Controller platform is the leading open source SDN controller project under Linux Foundation
Multi-company collaboration under Linux foundation
Many projects including OpenDaylight Controller
NO-OpenFlow (Not Only OpenFlow): Supports multiple southbound protocols via plug-ins including OpenFlow
Dynamically linked in to a Service Abstraction Layer (SAL) Abstraction SAL figures out how to fulfill the service requested by higher layers irrespective of the southbound protocol
Modular design using OSGI framework
A rich set of North-bound APIs via RESTful services for loosely coupled applications and OSGI services for co-located applications using the same address space
Allows customers to define their own network, address space, etc.
Extend existing enterprise data center VPN between Amazon VPC and data center
Applications/Benefits Dynamic scaling
Disaster recovery Manageability
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that proposes using IT virtualization related technologies, to virtualize entire classes of network node functions into building blocks that may be connected, or chained, together to create communication services.