Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of GEC18Agenda/GeniSdnOffering
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v9 v10 46 46 The session consistent primarily of two presentations, one from Eric Boyd of Internet2 and one from Nick Bastin of Brainstormer Softworks. The slides for both presentations are attached to this page. 47 47 48 Eric Boyd's presentation focused on the upcoming roll-out of Advanced Layer-2 Services (AL2S) by Internet2 in late Q4 of '13 and Q1 of '14 and the impact of this roll-out on the GENI developer and experimenter community. One critical feature of the SDN approach under AL2S is the inclusion of a new service called Flowspace Firewall which is intended to work something like FlowVisor in that it is a multiplexer of experimenter OpenFlow controllers and the Firewall keeps the controllers from taking inappropriate actions on the switch (too many messages, taking up too much TCAM, extending beyond the promised flowspace restrictions). The expectation is that this service will be put out as an experimental/testbed capability and once it is mature and experimenters are proven that they can work reliably in that environment, the Firewall will go 'live' and support for live experimenter controllers on an AL2S circuit will be provided. This is expected in Q2 or Q3 of '14.48 Eric Boyd's presentation focused on the upcoming roll-out of Advanced Layer-2 Services (AL2S) by Internet2 in late Q4 of '13 and Q1 of '14 and the impact of this roll-out on the GENI developer and experimenter community. One critical feature of the SDN approach under AL2S is the inclusion of a new service called Flowspace Firewall which is intended to work something like FlowVisor in that it is a multiplexer of experimenter !OpenFlow controllers and the Firewall keeps the controllers from taking inappropriate actions on the switch (too many messages, taking up too much TCAM, extending beyond the promised flowspace restrictions). The expectation is that this service will be put out as an experimental/testbed capability and once it is mature and experimenters are proven that they can work reliably in that environment, the Firewall will go 'live' and support for live experimenter controllers on an AL2S circuit will be provided. This is expected in Q2 or Q3 of '14. 49 49 50 50 Nick Bastin's presentation focused on a proposed approach for an SDN overlay for GENI in which experimenters can build a completely encapsulated topology and control the traffic flow decisions in that network in a manner that is transparent to other users of GENI and requires no changes to existing GENI infrastructure (H/W or rack S/W). Nick proposed an approach of creating disk images containing OVS (OpenVSwitch) and then plumbing pseudo-wires from client VM's to interfaces on those VM's to the virtual switch. By then controlling the switch (using Of or some other SDN approach) the traffic routig decisions in the whole WAN can be controlled. The approach would require some encapsulation technology (e.g. MPLS labels) to transport traffic between these switches across commodity carriers, so the experimenter would be able to see traffic at the explicit OVS control points but the traversing of the broader transport network would likely be invisible to the experimenter, much as the experimenter's traffic would be opaque to the switches managing the external transport. We talked about the desirability of such an approach and left the next steps to be determined by later discussions within the GENI community.
