Smarter Cities on Open SDN Networks, Dan Pitt

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Smarter Cities on Open SDN Networks
Dan Pitt, Executive Director
www.opennetworking.org
ONF-BIO Workshop
July 7, 2015 Bristol

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SDN drivers
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Mobile
Computing
Hyperscale,
Virtualized
Data Centers
On-
Demand
Network
Services
Internet
of Things
TSUNAMI OF DATA

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Traditional networking limitations
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Not Cost-Effective
• CAPEX
• OPEX
Not Agile Enough for On-Demand
• Time-to-market
• Rapid service provisioning
Not Designed for Virtualization or Cloud
• East-west traffic support
• Bottleneck for server virtualization
Worst of all: vendors call the shots

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The real force behind SDN
• Orchestration
• Automation
• Centralized policy mgt.
Save Money
• Service creation
• Revenue acceleration
• Customer customization
Make Money
• We define what the network does
for us, not the vendors!
• Democratization of technology
Operator
Control!
This is why ONF exists:
To empower anyone who operates a network

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Urbanization & its discontents
• The world’s population: consolidating
in urban areas, 84% by 2050
• High-density challenges: scale
scarce resources, ensure urban
health & safety while protecting the
environment
• Cities: make at least as smart as the
smart phones in our pockets

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Smarter cities for an urban species
• Smart public lighting systems grow
brighter as pedestrians approach &
smart thermostats readjust as people
leave the room
• Smart home cameras alert emergency
response, give first responders traffic
assistance, and pre-alert emergency
room personnel
• Smart driverless cars optimize traffic
routes & reduce accidents

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Smarter cities communication grid
• Adaptive & Programmable
– Enhance resiliency for disaster management
– program security based on devices & applications
– reduce latency & prioritize traffic for public safety
alerting.
• Open & Standards-based
- Platform & Vendor agnostic

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Infrastructure
Layer
Control
Layer
Application
Layer
Business Applications
API
Network Services
API
API
Common APIs
• Diverse applications
• Open service models
Standard Protocol
Open Platform
• Common framework
• Multi-vendor software
• Network abstractions
• Standard, programmatic
• Common data models
Open, standard I/Fs for innovation
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“Open” = Not controlled by a single party

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ONF in general
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We are:
• A non-profit supported only by member dues
• Standardizing as little as necessary
• Advocates of experimentation, coding, open-source
To us, SDN is:
• Physical separation of forwarding and control
• Simplification of networking devices
• Creating value through operator software
To us, ONF success means:
• SDN products
• SDN-based services
• Best-of-breed market, absent vendor lock-in

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ONF in 2015
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• Open SDN
– NBIs, information models, security
– Partnerships: OCP, OIF, ODL, ONOS, OPNFV, ETSI NFV, OpenStack
• OpenFlow
– Optical extensions, wireless extensions
– TTPs, PIF
– Interoperability, conformance, performance
• Open Source
– OpenSourceSDN.org
• 2 NBIs
• PIF IR
• OF-Config/OVSDB
• Atrium
• Orchestration/automation/LB?
– Community projects

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ONF software leadership council
• Lightweight governance, stewardship, wisdom
Jono Bacon
XPRIZE
Foundation
Stuart Bailey
Infoblox
(Chair)
Jasson Casey
Flowgrammable
Saurav Das
ONF
Bithika
Khargharia
Extreme
Networks
Inder Monga
ESnet
Carl Moberg
Cisco
Dave Lenrow
HP
Steve Noble
NetDef
Ben Pfaff
VMware
Rob Sherwood
Big Switch
(Vice Chair)
Dan Talayco,
Self-Referential
Software

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Support
multiple
controller
frameworks
Adopt existing
open source
Incorporate
feedback into
new projects
Built on ONOS
now, ODL
coming
Available at
OpenSourceSD
N.org
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Mission
Provide an open source SDN distribution to accelerate open
SDN evaluation and adoption of OpenFlow HW switches
Qualifiers
Atrium overview

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Problem: SDN applications dependent on switching pipelines
Solution: Flow Objectives I/F– foster application portability on any switch
Problem: SDN controllers dependent on switching pipelines
Solution: Switch plugins – enable stack to run over hardware from multiple vendors
Problem: OpenFlow switches don’t interoperate
Solution: Integration – drive common OpenFlow 1.3 features from vendor-neutral controller
Problem: Open source SDN components are typically standalone
Solution: Integration – provide an integrated distribution consisting of open source components
Atrium objectives

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Network operator impact
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Appeal to many operator types
Lower barrier to SDN adoption
Expand horizontally (controllers) and
vertically (applications)

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Vendor impact
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Provide rapid deployment of complete
SDN solution
Demonstrate controller & application
compatibility, switch interoperability
Build market confidence in HW
OpenFlow

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The Smart Cities impact:
A collaborative exploration with Bristol Is Open
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• Contribute to the BIO Smart Cities Stack
for rapid creation of new SDN services for
consumption by Smart City app developers
• Feed experience back into OpenFlow &
Atrium to support innovative Smart City
applications, use cases
• Expand adoption globally based on the
Bristol blueprint
ONF: accelerating the adoption of open SDN