Why SDN and ON.LAB are Hot Topics

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Exponential Interest

Jul 2012 Oct 2012 Nov 2012 Dec 2012 Feb 2013

ACQUISITIONS

Oct 2011 Apr 2013

EVENTS

400

AttendeesMARKET

Feb 2012 Feb 2013

$2

$3.7

Billions

May 2012 Dec 2012

STANDARDIZATION

51

90Members

400

1,500

More Products AnnouncedAnd Available

More Start-Ups and VC investment too!

Crossing the SDN Chasm

BROADERADOPTION

2009 2012

Number of OrganizationsAdopting SDN

Time

SDN Definition

Forwarding includes both wireline and wireless.

Southbound API offer L1/L2/L3 forwarding abstraction.

Applications could be Routing, Traffic Engineering or Mobility.

3rd partycomponents

Network OS

Apps Apps

Network OS

Apps Apps

OpenVendor Agnostic

Interfaces & Standards

Open Interfaces

Open Interfaces

Network Hypervisor LogicallyCentral

Separationof Control &Forwarding

Forwarding

Why An Open Source Community

Open Source At A Glance

600,000+ projects100+ Billion lines of code10 Million person-years of work

SDN innovation will come from open source like

40% of cloud innovation15% of mobile enterprises19% of mobile apps

Source: Black Duck

Free software tools and platforms accessible to all Support from passionate SDN expertsFreedom to use, redistribute and modify without IP infringement

Empowered community and continuous improvement

Huge creative and diverse potential for unprecedented scale

Unlocking Network Potential

Traditional NetworkingControl plane

embedded into the boxClosed proprietary with no open interfaceA big barrier to innovation

The Promise of SDNSeparation of forwarding and control planesOpen and vendor agnostic interface (e.g. OpenFlow)Well defined control plane abstractions to enable rapid innovation

Need to create new tools

Use them and modify them freely to experiment new possibilities

Exchange ideas and experience

App App

App

OperatingSystem

Specialized PacketForwarding Hardware

Invention

Platform Development

Deployments

Demonstrations

And Beyond

2007 – Creation of SDN Concept

2007 – Ethane2008 – NOX, OpenFlow2009 – FlowVisor, Mininet2010 – Beacon

2009 – Stanford2010 – GENI started and grew to 20 universities2013 – 20 more campuses to be added

Leveraging A Strong SDN/OpenFlow Foundation

2008-2011 – SIGCOMM2011 – Open Networking Summit, Interop

2012 –Defining SDN research agenda for the coming years

ON.LAB Role

IDEAS BROADERADOPTION

Early stage ideas and prototypes from the research community

Leveraged by organizations and users for commercial usage

DevelopmentDistributionDeployment

SupportDemonstrations

Proven applicability by the ON.LAB community

OUR VISIONOpen The Cloud Infrastructure For Innovation

OUR MISSIONDevelop, distribute, deploy, and support open source Software-Defined Networking (SDN) tools and platforms

Bridging Two Worlds

IDEAS BROADERADOPTION

Demonstration

Development Deployment

Support Distribute

A Shared GoalChip vendors Equipment vendors Software vendorsVendors

UsersResearchComputer science R&E community

Service providers Cloud providers

R&E network operators

Members Organizations

People Behind ON.LAB

NICK MCKEOWN – Board Member• Stanford• ONRC• ONF• Start-ups• Cisco

GURU PARULKAR – Executive director, Board Member• Stanford• ONS• ONRC

SCOTT SHENKER – Board member• Berkeley• ONF

WILLIAM SNOW – VP of Engineering• Nortel Networks• Cisco• IBM• Start-Ups• Dev./QA/Ops/Support

LARRY PETERSON – Chief Architect• Princeton• PlanetLab

PANKAJ BERDE• Infoblox• Yahoo!• EMC

UMESH KRISHNASWAMY• Juniper• HP

ON.LAB Portfolio

3rd partycomponents

Network OS

Apps Apps

Network OS

Apps Apps

Open Interfaces

Open Interfaces

Network Hypervisor

Forwarding

FlowVisor

Mininet

ONOS

SDN IP-Peering

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