Testbed and Opportunities. Jerry Horgan, TSSG

1. SDN Testbeds
Jerry Horgan, Infrastructure Manager 31st March 2015

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INFRASTRUCTURE GROUP
Jerry Horgan
Infrastructure Manager
jhorgan@tssg.org / +353 (0)51 302940
www.tssg.org/research/groups/infrastructure

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TSSG
Telecommunications Software & Systems Group
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4. Software based Testbeds
• Using virtual switch images on an
OpenStack cluster or other hypervisor /
bare-metal
• Supports:
– VMWare NSX
– Cisco ACI
– OpenFlow
• OpenStack / Neutron integration with
physical switches
• OpenDaylight / OpenContrail support
• switch / server based traffic generation
• Background traffic from OpenStack
cluster
• Virtual switch images currently
supported:
– Arista vEOS
– Open vSwitch
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5. Hardware based Testbeds
• Distributed Testbed
– 4 x Nodes:
• Waterford
• Cork
• Dublin (x 2)
– 1 x Arista 7050T 2
x physical servers
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6. Bringing it all together
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• Distributed Testbed
• Localised
• Software based Testbeds

7. Contact
Jerry Horgan
Infrastructure Manager
Email: jhorgan@tssg.org
Phone: +353 51 302940
LinkedIn:
http://ie.linkedin.com/in/jerryhorgan
http://www.tssg.org
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