An overview of why the Open Networking Lab and SDN are hot topics.

1. Why SDN and
ON.LAB are Hot
Topics
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2. Exponential Interest
MARKET
$2
$3.7
Billions
May 2012 Dec 2012
ACQUISITIONS
EVENTS
Attendees
400
1,500
400
Oct 2011 Apr 2013
STANDARDIZATION
Members
51
90
Feb 2012 Feb 2013
Jul 2012 Oct 2012 Nov 2012 Dec 2012 Feb 2013

3. More Products Announced
And Available
More Start-Ups and VC investment too!

4. Crossing the SDN Chasm
BROADER
ADOPTION
Number of Organizations
Adopting SDN
2009 2012
Time

5. 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 party
components
Apps Apps
Network OS
Apps Apps
Network OS
Open
Vendor Agnostic
Interfaces &
Standards
Open Interfaces
Network Hypervisor
Open Interfaces
Logically
Central
Separation
of Control &
Forwarding
Forwarding

6. Why An Open Source
Community
Open Source At A Glance
600,000+ projects
100+ Billion lines of code
10 Million person-years of work
SDN innovation will come
from open source like
40% of cloud innovation
15% of mobile enterprises
19% of mobile apps
Empowered
community and
continuous
improvement
Huge creative and
diverse potential for
unprecedented scale
Free software tools and platforms accessible to all
Support from passionate SDN experts
Freedom to use, redistribute and modify without IP infringement
Source: Black Duck

7. Unlocking Network Potential
Traditional Networking
Control plane
embedded into the
box
Closed proprietary with
no open interface
A big barrier to
innovation
The Promise of SDN
Separation of
forwarding and control
planes
Open 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

8. Leveraging A Strong
SDN/OpenFlow Foundation
Invention
Platform
Development
Demonstrations
Deployments
And Beyond
2007 – Creation
of SDN Concept
2007 – Ethane
2008 – NOX,
OpenFlow
2009 – FlowVisor,
Mininet
2010 – Beacon
2009 – Stanford
2010 – GENI started
and grew to 20
universities
2013 – 20 more
campuses to be
added
2008-2011 – SIGCOMM
2011 – Open
Networking Summit,
Interop
2012 –Defining
SDN research
agenda for the
coming years

9. ON.LAB Role
IDEAS BROADER
ADOPTION
Early stage ideas
and prototypes
from the research
community
Leveraged by
organizations and
users for commercial
usage
Development
Distribution
Deployment
Support
Demonstrations
Proven applicability by
the ON.LAB community
OUR VISION
Open The Cloud Infrastructure For
Innovation
OUR MISSION
Develop, distribute, deploy, and support open source
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) tools and platforms

10. Bridging Two Worlds
IDEAS BROADER
ADOPTION
Demonstration
Development Deployment
Support Distribute

11. A Shared Goal
Vendors
Chip vendors Equipment vendors
Users
Research
Computer science
R&E community
Members Organizations
Service providers
R&E network operators Cloud providers

12. 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
Thomas Vachuska –
ONOS Chief
Architect
•HP
Prajakta Joshi –
Director of Product
•Cisco
• Foundry
• Brocade
Madan Jampani –
Distributed System
Architect
•Amazon

13. ON.LAB Portfolio
3rd party
components
Apps Apps
Open Interfaces
Network OS
Apps Apps
Network OS
Network Hypervisor
Open Interfaces
Forwarding
SDN IP-Peering
ONOS
FlowVisor
Mininet
Testing