TrustArc Webinar - How to Build Consumer Trust Through Data Privacy
Router Offload Solutions at SDN and OpenFlow World Congress
1. ROUTER OFFLOAD SOLUTIONS
USING METASWITCH GULFSTREAM SDN CONTROLLER
INTELLIGENT AGGREGATION
Augmenting Carrier Ethernet aggregation using advanced
Software Defined Networking techniques to offload traffic
from traditional Provider Edge routers.
www.metaswitch.com
www.advaoptical.com
2. Customer
Edge
Router
Provider Edge
Router
Data
Source
Aggregation
Switch
eBGP
Customer
Edge
Router
Network
Core
Data
Destination
3. Customer
Edge
Router
Provider Edge
Router
Data
Source
Aggregation
Switch
eBGP
Customer
Edge
Router
Network
Core
Data
Destination
4. Metaswitch
Gulfstream
SDN Controller
Customer
Edge
Router
Provider Edge
Router
Data
Source
iBGP
ADVA Optical
FSP 150EG-X
eBGP
Customer
Edge
Router
Network
Core
Data
Destination
5.
6. Metaswitch
Gulfstream
SDN Controller
Customer
Edge
Router
Provider Edge
Router
Data
Source
iBGP
ADVA Optical
FSP 150EG-X
eBGP
Customer
Edge
Router
Network
Core
Data
Destination
7. Metaswitch
Gulfstream
SDN Controller
Customer
Edge
Router
Provider Edge
Router
Data
Source
iBGP
ADVA Optical
FSP 150EG-X
eBGP
Customer
Edge
Router
Network
Core
Data
Destination
8. Metaswitch
Gulfstream
SDN Controller
Customer
Edge
Router
Provider Edge
Router
Data
Source
iBGP
ADVA Optical
FSP 150EG-X
eBGP
Customer
Edge
Router
Network
Core
Data
Destination
9. Summary
• Open standards based SDN solution using OpenFlow 1.3.
• Automatically optimizes network path selection to offload
traffic from Provider Edge routers.
• Significantly reduces Provider Edge router equipment costs.
• 100% transparent to surrounding network equipment
requiring no reconfiguration.
• Controller configuration model matches traditional L2
switch for operational familiarity.
10. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING
www.metaswitch.com
www.advaoptical.com
Editor's Notes
So, this intelligent SDN approach to aggregation, has many benefits.
It obviously reduces PE capacity requirements that represents a significant cost saving in itself.
It also allows carriers to leverage low cost white box switching for aggregation
Including making it easier for the carrier to follow Moore’s law as new OpenFlow switches are released, because there is minimal impact on management integration - the controller is the primary point of management, and that doesn’t change when moving to new hardware.
And it can be parachuted into existing networks with minimal disruption since it requires no renumbering of IP schemes, no changes in AS boundaries, no introduction of IGPs - it’s effectively transparent to the existing network.