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Some Musings on OpenFlow and SDN for Enterprise Networks David Meyer Open Networking Summit October 18-19, 2011 Agenda • Problem Space • A Few Use Cases • Reflections on the Promise of OF/SDN • A Few Challenges and Open Questions Problem Space • Enterprise network architects and engineers are being presented with the following challenge: – Provide state of the art network infrastructure and services while minimizing TCO • It is the lack of ability to innovate in the underlying network results in the inability to keep pace with user requirements and to keep TCO under control • Surprisingly general problem (or maybe not so surprising…) – “I have a new iPhone I want to work on the campus network…” – “I need my buildings to have green networking…” –  Constant stream of new requirements • So what’s the problem? Maybe this is the problem? At Least Ethernet is still simple… Slide courtesy Gary Berger Basically, protocol soup… Many protocols, many touch points, few open interfaces or abstractions, …  Robustness vs. Complexity “Systems” View Increasing number of protocols, configurations and interactions Complexity/Robustness Spirals See J. Doyle, et. al., “Robustness and the Internet: Theoretical Foundations” What Tools Does OF/SDN Give Us Address This Growing Complexity? • Forwarding abstraction – OpenFlow/Flow Space • Distributed State Abstraction – Global Network View (Logical and Virtual) • Distributed Network Control Abstraction – Network Operating System (NOS) These Abstractions Give Us… • A unified way of thinking about network “boxes” – Routers, Switches, Firewalls, NATs, Load Balancers,... • A centralized view of the network – Simplified control logic/operations • Mechani