Check out this presentation given by ADVA Optical Networking, IBM and Marist College at our North American Symposium in New York City this year regarding SDN and real world use cases

1. Software Defined Networking - Real World
Use Cases (Test bed at Marist/IBM)

2. Our Speakers Today
Todd Bundy
Director Global Business Development,
ADVA Optical Networking
tbundy@advaoptical.com
Robert M. Cannistra
School of Computer Science and
Mathematics
Marist College
robert.cannista@marist.edu
Casimer DeCusatis
Distinguished Engineer,
IBM STG – eSystems Dev Lab
decusat@us.ibm.com
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3. The Need for SDN
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4. Tough Reality:
Life is Not Fair
…for Networking
Professionals
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5. Clients Seek
Smarter System
Networking
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6. Big Data: Fueling Smarter Commerce Cycle
Safety / Security
10s millions cameras
Healthcare
Peta
Tera
1B medical images/yr
Customer
Data Volume
Exa
Video
Image
Audio
Text
Giga
Structured data
1B camera phones
1990’s
2000’s
2010’s
Computational Needs
Sophistication of Analysis
High
2020’s
Med
Low
Media
Wide Area Imagery
Digital Marketing
Enterprise Video
72 video hrs/minute
100’s TB per day
10+% of video views
Used by 1/3 of enterprises
Source: IBM Market Insights based on composite sources
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7. Lack of
Automated, Programmable Network
Today: VM on-boarding
is measured in minutes
60+
%
93%
But… today:
multi-tier virtual-system
connectivity is measured
in days.
?
Percent of
servers
virtualized
Use storage Use network
virtualization virtualization
Source: 2012 IBM Data Center Study:
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John Manville, Cisco IT; The
Power of a Programmable
Cloud, OFC 2013 (OM2D.2): “It
takes about 5 days from an endend point of view to provision
something like that (a multi-tier
system).” Goal is to “get at least
to sub-one day.”
http://www.ibm.com/data-center/study
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8. Virtualization and Beyond
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9. What is OpenFlow ?
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10. Separating the Data Plane from the Control Plane:
A Useful Analogy
Control plane is the CPU
or network controller
Dataplane are the roads
Data plane are switches & ports
Control plane is the navigation
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11. Packet or Flow Switched?
• Ethernet topologies are packet
switched
• OpenFlow topologies (today) are
flow switched
Statistical link utilization
Application level network control
IBM System Networking
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12. Do We Want Distributed or Centralized?
• Ethernet topologies were built
distributed
Scalable but hard to monitor
• OpenFlow topologies (today) are
centralized
Control-data separation forces this model
Strengths of one approach are weaknesses of the other
Centralized is better suited for modern cloud applications
IBM System Networking
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13. SDN Model: Applications Influence the Network
App
App
Program
& Instruct
VM
VM
VM
VM
Network
Hypervisor
Old Model
IBM System Networking
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14. Getting Life Back for the Network Administrator
Programmable by orchestration application
Orchestration
Application
Dynamically provisioned
Open SDN Platform
Apps and Services
Connectivity
Service
Path
Service
Security
Appliance
…
Scalable capacity
Open SDN Controller
Overlay
Layer (DOVE)
Control Plane
Layer (Native)
Tenant 1 cloud
Data Plane
Layer (OF)
Link
Layer
Tenant 2 cloud
Network Hypervisor
Virtualized programmable
Optical network (Bandwidth
on Demand)
DC3
v
DC2
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Abstracted HW complexity
DC1
IBM System Networking
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15. ODIN – The Open Datacenter Interoperable Network
An industry standard point of view on SDN & network virtualization
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/networking/solutions/odin.html
Virtualized &
SDN Enabled Optical Network
DC3
(ADVA OF Agent)
v
DC1
DC2
Overlays Virtualize L2/3 functions
Pools of
Virtual Appliances
Pods of IT Resources
stacked switches
lossless Ethernet,
Storage, & more
Embedded Blade, Virtual Switches
FCoE
SDN controller
Gateway
SAN
OpenDaylight SDN Project
FCoE Storage
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16. SDN Controller: ODP
• Strategic that there be an open
source Controller
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Industry isn’t breaking vendor
lock-in just to create vendor
lock-in
Equipment vendors must not be
owners of controller
ADVA will not build an SDN
controller
• ODP is the best candidate
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•
ADVA Optical Networking has
joined and is making
contributions
Aligning our WAN Orchestration
with ODP
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Common core technologies
Shared core model & extension
Shared tooling
Common Persistence
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SDN Controller

17. Optical Agility
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18. Fixed Wavelengths are Under Utilized
100%
90%
Network Utilization
80%
Uniform node-to-node traffic
excess
70%
traffic
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
base
traffic
10%
00:00
01:00
02:00
03:00
04:00
05:00
06:00
07:00
08:00
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00
20:00
21:00
22:00
23:00
0%
Time
Currently, enterprises must contract for over-provisioned fixed capacity to meet the multigigabit peaks, which results in costly, underutilized capacity during sustained quiescent
periods
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19. Cloud Bursting Technologies Require Network
Agility
The High Cost of Overprovisioning
During the storage or virtual machine migration at the beginning of a cloudburst into
the provider cloud, bandwidth of 1 to 10 gigabits per second will generally be required.
However, for the remainder of that IaaS instance life-cycle, much lower bandwidth,
rarely exceeding 200 megabits per second, is required.
Customer 1
Remote Desktop
Customer #2
Virtual
Tape/Disk/Server
Cloud
Customer #3
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20. Optical Transport and SDN
• Decades of work have yielded today’s agile core networks
• Unfortunately, the information to make intelligent decisions resides
at higher layers
• Problem is made worse by today’s flow dominated traffic
Hybrid
EDFA/RAMAN
Amp
Gridless
ROADM
Intelligent
MUX
Router
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Coherent
Receiver
Router
Agile
Core
Network
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21. Day-time Config
All sites/offices working
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22. Night-time Config
Backup job running between sites A & B
Double the bandwidth “on demand”
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23. Night-time Config
“Live” Virtual Machine Migration between A & C
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24. Night-time Config
Backup job running between Site B and C
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25. Recovery Scenario
Backup job running between sites A & B
Fiber failure and recovery via SDN Controller
Site B
Site A
1x 10G
1x 10G
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Site C

26. What Does SDN Mean –
to Users & Established Vendors?
Hype, Fear,
Uncertainty
& Doubt
Where is OpenFlow ?
Source: Gartner technology hype cycle,
adapted from Wikipedia
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See SDN: a Theory of Everything

27. Dynamic Infrastructure Test Bed
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28. Our Speakers Today
Benjamin Carle
School of Computer Science and
Mathematics
Marist College
benjamin.carle@marist.edu
Matthew Johnson
School of Computer Science and
Mathematics
Marist College
matthew.johnson1@marist.edu
Junaid Kapadia
Undergraduate Information
Technology Student
Marist College
junaid.kapadia1@marist.edu
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29. Our Speakers Today
Zachary Meath
Undergraduate Computer Science
Student
Marist College
zachary.meath1@marist.edu
Mary Miller
Undergraduate Computer Science
Student
Marist College
mary.miller1@marist.edu
Devin Young
Undergraduate Computer Science
Student
Marist College
devin.young1@marist.edu
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30. Use Cases
Bandwidth calendaring
Cloud bursting
Cloud DC
Private
Datacenters
Workload balancing
Secure multi-tenancy
Tenant 1
Load
Load
Tenant 2
Transactional nature of DC-to-DC traffic (bulk data transfers)
offers opportunities for optical bandwidth-on-demand.
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31. MARIST: SDN Dynamic Infrastructure Test Bed
Floodlight
Controller (VM)
IBM G8264
OF Switch
VM Cluster
ADVA OF Agent (VM)
IBM V7000
Storage
single
10G
single
10G
IBM G8264
OF Switch
Site A
ADVA FSP
3000
IBM G8264
OF Switch
dual
10G
dual
10G
ADVA
FSP 3000
Storage
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IBM G8264
OF Switch
ADVA
FSP 3000
Site B
Site C
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Storage

32. Dynamic Infrastructure Test Bed
VM Cluster
IBM V7000
Storage
OpenFlow Controller (VM)
• Floodlight
• IBM Controller
• OpenDaylight
dual 10G
IBM G8264
OF Switch
dual 10G
ADVA FSP 3000
Site A
OpenFlow
ADVA OpenFlow Agent (VM)
• OpenFlow v1.0 northbound
• ADVA control plane southbound
OpenFlow
dual 10G
dual 10G
ADVA
FSP 3000
Storage
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ADVA
FSP 3000
Site C
Site B
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Storage

33. Automating the Flows
ADVAlanche
Avior
Openflow Controller
(ie: Floodlight Controller)
OF Switch
OF Switch
(ie: IBM G8264)
ADVA OF Agent
ADVA FSP 3000
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OF Switch
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34. Pieces to the Puzzle
• Avior – Openflow Management Application
• ADVAlanche – Dynamic Optical Provisioning Application
• Ganglia – Network Monitoring Application
• Vmware – Server Virtualization Hypervisor & Management
• ADVA FSP 3000 – Agile Optical Networking Hardware (ROADM)
• IBM G8264 OF Switches – Openflow Capable Switches
• Physical Servers
• Virtual Machines
• Storage Area Network
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35. Marist Test Bed: Application and UI
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2
AVIOR
User (or automated tool)
decides to modify network
2
1
Call ADVAlanche through
avior
ADVAlanche
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User or automated trigger
modifies transport network
through ADVAlanche
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Lambda provisioned
5
Complete application aware
action
3
OF Controller
(ie: OpenDayLight Controller)4
OF Switch
OF Switch
OF Switch
ADVA OF Agent
ADVA FSP 3000
5
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36. Avior - Overview
• Motivation
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Difficult to configure Openflow Controller via bulky CLI or API
Efficient controller management requires easy-to-use, high-level tool
Today’s network administrators need mobility
• Avior Web Application
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Monitor Openflow network statistics
Configure static network flows
Administer firewall and other policies
Accessible from various platforms including Mobile
Modular design supports enhancements and third-party add-ons
Supports different Openflow controllers through thin adapters
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37. Avior - Demo
• Avior Overview (Interface and Functionality)
• Login Screen
• Controller Status
• Hosts on the Network
• Switches on the Network
• Static Flow Pusher/Manager
• Firewall
• Modular Design
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38. Marist Test Bed:
• Overview
• Graphical user interface to observe and provision
optical links on the WAN
• Web application design allows access from tablets,
phones, and personal computers
• User can interact with the optical network by drawing
links between nodes
• Current topology can be provisioned with one click
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39. Marist Test Bed:
• Features
• Profiles
• Save custom topology
• Can be initiated by:
• ADVAlanche web application
• ADVAlanche API
• Schedule
• From specified data and time implement profile.
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40. Marist Test Bed:
• Triggers
• ADVAlanche monitors the network through Ganglia
• Looks for an event specified by the user
• CPU Utilization
• Memory
• Disk Space
• When the event is triggered, it executes an action
• Provision the network
• Migrate a VM
• Clone a VM
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41. Let’s Proceed with the Dynamic
Provisioning Demo
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42. Workflow
Monitored
By Ganglia
VM Playing
Video
Ganglia
Double Link Bandwidth Migration
Datacenter A
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Datacenter B
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43. Summary
• Optical network virtualization offers cloud providers & tenants
high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity on demand.
• Different models for optical network virtualization exist.
• A compromise between hiding the optical complexity and
exposing the optical topology is required.
• Open approaches based on standardized GMPLS or emerging
OpenFlow technologies are possible.
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44. Live Demo
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45. Thank You
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