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ONF & SDN: Why, What, How

Dan PittExecutive Director

Open Networking Foundation

Open & Virtual Networking Conference @Seoul, December 10, 2013

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Technical & Market Drivers

VM Density, x86 Capacity,

Merchant Silicon

Link Bandwidth,

Ethernet Everywhere

Cloud Svcs., Open-Source SW,

Virtualization, Distrib. Comp.

Mobile + Video

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Traditional Networking Limitations

Not Cost-Effective

• CAPEX

• OPEX

Not Agile Enough

• Time-to-market

• Rapid service provisioning

Not Oriented Towards Services

• Static configuration

• Static traffic patterns and policy

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SDN Value Proposition

• Virtualization

• Automation

• SimplificationSave Money

• Customization

• Time to Cash

• Service QualityMake Money

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SDN Architecture – Truly Different

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• Enable innovation/ differentiation

• Accelerate new features and services introduction

Programmability

• Simplify provisioning

• Optimize performance

• Granular policy management

CentralizedIntelligence

• Decouple:

• Hardware & software

• Control plane & forwarding

• Physical & logical config.

Abstraction

Infrastructure Layer

Control Layer

Application Layer

Business Applications

AP

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Network Services

AP

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AP

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Network Services

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Why OpenFlow is Important

• Open

• Standard

• Vendor-neutral

• Designed for SDN

– Simple, general

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OpenFlow Switch

Mgmt.

Data Plane

Flow Table

Match Action Statistics

SDN Controller

Mgmt.

Network Services

NtwkSvc.

NtwkSvc.

Protocol Support

OF L2 L3

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Enterprise• VM migration

• Distributed campus networks

• Ultra-low latency

• BYOD

Cloud/DC• Centralized traffic engineering

• High utilization/low cost

• Disaster recovery

• Multi-tenancy

Carrier• On-demand network services

• Traffic steering/service chaining

• Content distribution

• NFV

You/Your Customer• Whatever you can program

Real-World Applications for SDN

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Why it Matters

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ONF: Leading the SDN Revolution

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We are:

• Accelerating the adoption of open SDN

• Standardizing as little as necessary

• Advocating experimentation, coding, open-source

To us, SDN is:

• Physical separation of forwarding and control

• All benefits follow from that

We stand for:

• Open, standard, vendor-neutral interfaces

• Innovation everywhere else

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ONF Progress 2013

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• OpenFlow 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, Extensions 1.3.x, 1.4

• OF-Config 1.1.1

• OpenFlow Conformance Test 1.0.1

• 3 Sanctioned Conformance Testing Labs– Indiana University– Beijing Internet Institute– University of New Hampshire

• First OpenFlow-conformant product certification

• Chipmakers Advisory Board

• Open-Source OpenFlow Driver Competition

• Research Associates Program

• Solution Briefs, White Papers, Technical Reports, Tutorials, Webinars

• 4 new WGs, 3 new DGs

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ONF organization

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Executive Director (Dan Pitt)

Technical Advisory Group

Chipmakers Advisory Board

Council of Chairs

Arch & Framework

Extensibility

Config & Management

Testing & Interop

Forwarding Abstractions

Migration

Optical Transport

Wireless & Mobile

NBI

Working Groups Discussion Groups

• Security

• L4-7

• Carrier-Grade SDN

• Skills Certification

Committees

• Market Education

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6WIND

A10 Networks

Active Broadband Networks

ADVA Optical

Alcatel-Lucent/Nuage

Alibaba

Aricent

Arista Networks

Auvik Networks

Beijing Internet Institute (BII)

Big Switch Networks

Broadcom

Brocade

BTI Systems

Centec Networks

Ceragon

China Mobile

China Telecom

Ciena

Cisco

Citrix

CohesiveFT

Colt

Coriant

Corsa Technology

Cyan

Dell/Force10

Deutsche Telekom

Ericsson

EsteNet Technologies

ETRI

Extreme Networks

F5/LineRate

Facebook

Fiberhome Technologies

Fishnet Security

Freescale

Fujitsu

Gigamon

Glimmerglass

Goldman Sachs

Google

Guardicore

Hitachi

HP

Huawei

IBM

Industrial Tech. Research Inst.

Infinera

Infoblox

Intel

Intune Networks

Institute for Information Industry

IP Infusion

Ixia

Juniper Networks

KDDI

KEMP Technologies

Korea Telecom

L3 Communication Systems-East

Lancope

Level3 Communications

LSI Corporation

Luxoft

Marvell

MediaTek

Mellanox

Metaswitch Networks

Microsoft

Midokura

NCL Communication

NEC

Netgear

Netronome

Netscout Systems

NSN

NoviFlow

NTT Communications

Optelian

Oracle

Orange

Overture Networks

Pertino

Pica8

Plexxi

Procera Networks

Qosmos

Rackspace

Radware

Riverbed Technology

Samsung

SK Telecom

Spirent

Sunbay AG

Swisscom

Tail-f Systems

Tallac Networks

Tata Communications

Telesoft Technologies

Tekelec

Telecom Italia

Telefónica

Tellabs

Tencent

Texas Instruments

Thales

Tilera

Transmode

Turk Telekom/Argela

TW Telecom

UBIqube

Vello Systems

Verisign

Verizon

Virtela

Vmware/Nicira

Vodafone

Wipro Limited

Xpliant

Yahoo!

Zhone Technologies

ZTE

ONF Members (122 as of December 9, 2013)

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Facebook

Goldman Sachs

Google

Level 3

Microsoft

Rackspace

TW Telecom

Verizon

Virtela

Yahoo!

Alibaba

China Mobile

China Telecom

Korea Telecom

KDDI

NTT Communications

SK Telecom

Tata Communications

Tencent

Colt

Deutsche Telekom

Orange

Telecom Italia

Swisscom

Telefonica

Turk Telekom

Vodafone

ONF Operator/User Members

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ONF

Standards

Consortia

Open Source

Research & Testing

End-Users

ONF in the World

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SDN联盟

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2014 Trends

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• OpenFlow in every switch/router

• Testing: interoperabililty, conformance, performance

• OpenFlow extended to optical, wireless

• White-box/bare metal switching

• Silicon support

• Open-source software

• Orchestration tools, service chaining, NFV

• SDN for XaaS

• Webscale DCs: building their own

• Carriers: their DC; cloud services; NFV; slowly the network

• Enterprises: financial services way ahead

• High demand for learning/training

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Summary

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• SDN: the future of networking

– open, programmable, vendor-neutral,

standard where it needs to be

• Industry: investment everywhere

– even where you might not expect it

• ONF: accelerating the adoption of open SDN

– for the benefit of users

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