Network Enabled Testbeds

Eamonn Power (Senior System Administrator) 2015-11-13

TSSG

• Founded: In 1996, has 100+ researchers (112 people) in Waterford.

• Expertise: is a leading software R&D Centre with particular expertise in network, mobile

and communications services.

• Science: is a leading SFI funded SRC Centre working with IBM, Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent.

• International: is one of Ireland’s leaders in the EU collaborative R&D programmes

(FP7/Horizon 2020) and has worked with over 450 companies on these programmes.

• Industry: completed over 110 direct industry projects in Ireland over the past 5 years and

has spun out a number of leading international start-ups such as FeedHenry Ltd

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Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

Overview

• ICT Testbeds

• XiFi and FIPPP

• MDVPN, GÉANT and

HEAnet

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• SDN Testbed

• FII

Testbeds and Sustainability

• Things you can do with

commercial offerings

• Things commercial

offerings don’t do (yet?)

• Communities and

economies of scale

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FIPPP and XIFI

• Technology Foundation

• FIWARE

• FI-CORE

• Infrastructures

• INFINITY

• XIFI

• 8 Industry Driven Themes

• 16 Accelerators for SMEs

• 5 Programme Facilitation and

Support Projects

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Timelines

XIFI: April 2013 – September 2015

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Grizzly Havana

Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13 Jan-14 Feb-14 Mar-14 Apr-14 May-14 Jun-14 Jul-14 Aug-14 Sep-14 Oct-14 Nov-14 Dec-14 Jan-15 Feb-15 Mar-15 Apr-15 May-15 Jun-15 Jul-15 Aug-15 Sep-15

Icehouse Juno Kilo

2013 2014 2015

Implementation

• 1GB circuits

• MDVPN link via Cisco VXR

• Dell Firewall

• 2 Pica8 switches

• Dell Server Hardware

– C6220 cluster

– R720 servers

– R420 servers

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Implementation

• OpenStack Juno (Fuel)

– Nova

– Neutron

– Glance

– Cinder

– Swift (partial)

• FIWARE Lab Federated Services

– Monitoring Components

– Central Keystone

– Public IP addresses (HEAnet provided)

– Private IP addresses (private subnet on

MDVPN)

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Multi Domain VPN

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Multi Domain VPN

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Lessons Learned

• Keep Support Tools Simple

• Upgrades are not trivial!

• Responsibility vs. Ownership

• Resource Quotas are good

• Known States of Systems

• HEAnet team worked well with

us

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• Mature tools are important

• HA in the platform

• Monitoring and Authentication

Services

• Keep Support Processes

Simple

Pan-Ireland SDN Testbed

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Eamonn Power, Senior Administrator

@eamonnpowerynetepower@tssg.org

+353 51 302956

Thank you for your attention

Any questions?

Acknowledgments: The research conducted by XIFI receives funding from the European

Commission FP7 under grant agreement N°: 604590. The European

Commission has no responsibility for the content of this presentation