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The “Open” in Open Networking Dan Pitt, ONF Executive Director

March 3, 2014, Open Networking Summit

www.opennetworking.org

@openflow; @danpittpaloalto

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My Points Today

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• “Open” networking & SDN

• Relation to the rest of the “Open” world

• An announcement from ONF

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What network operators are telling us

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We want to manage our network(s) in one way

Common tools for fixed, WL, optical

Totally flexible infrastructure

We want to create our own services, quickly

Open interfaces to an abstracted network

For us and for our customers

We can’t afford vendor lock-in

Open interfaces to networking equipment

Optimized HW, remote SW we control

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Open interfaces in SDN

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Right places to foster innovation above and below

• Apps Control Plane

• NBIs (de facto)

• Control Plane Data Plane

• OpenFlow (de jure)

• Client Switching Silicon

• HAL/SDK API (?)

• “Open” = published, available, &:

• Not controlled by a single party

Open Networking: Peer-peer protocols replaced by interfaces & APIs

Data Plane

Hardware Abstraction Layer

Switching Silicon/

HW/vSwitch

Control Plane

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Network Operating System

Applications

API API API API

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Open-Source Cloud

Computing

Open Northbound

APIs

Open-Source

Controller

Open-Source

Hardware

Open Southbound

Protocol

Open SDN in the Open Movement

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Future network? = Ethernet + x86 + OpenFlow (all under Linux)

Infrastructure

Layer

Application Layer

Business Applications

Control Layer

Network Services

Network Services

API API API

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What

• Educational tool, open-source, OpenFlow 1.0 app

• Written on OpenDaylight

• Apache 2.0 license on ONF GitHub

Announcing: ONF SampleTap

Why

• Experiment with OpenFlow app development

• Learn about OpenDaylight

• Low-impact OpenFlow experience with tapping

At the Expo today! Code, blogs & webinar coming in March

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• Big Switch Networks

• Cisco Systems

• Gigamon

• HP

Commercial-grade tapping apps (now or soon)

• IBM

• Ixia (Net Optics)

• NEC

• NetScout

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Open Networking in a nutshell

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Separate control & data planes

• De jure standard protocol between

Network abstraction to applications

• De facto standard APIs between

Nothing controlled by a single party

• Community-based