the path forward for software defined networks
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What’s the Business Value in Openflow/SDN Independent Software Vendors provide Virtual Appliances on standard high volume servers and storage
Today’s network is a fragmented mix of proprietary software and hardware appliances High touch, low service velocity and slow to deploy High cost of development is stifling innovation and emergence of new vendors
Open interface standardized forwarding planes provide commonality, scale and capex/opex efficiencies – zero touch provisioning
Design, deployment, management and service velocity all benefit from a common approach
Firewalls
WAN Optimization
Load Balancers
Service Aggregation
DPI
DDoS, Attack Mitigation
Session Border Controllers
Routers/Switches
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• OpenFlow 1.3 support, with a path to 1.5 and beyond • Support for any compliant controller • 100’s of thousands to Millions of flow entries • Multiple Flow Tables • Group Tables • Thousands of flow updates per second • Reconfigurable for TTP demands
What makes a good forwarding plane
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The Corsa Data Planes
•4 X 40G QSFP+ Ports •48 X 10G SFP+ Ports
• 4 X 100G CFP Ports •24 X 10G SFP+ Ports
Corsa DP6420
Programmable Openflow 1.3 Forwarding Engine •640Gb/s fabric capacity •Multiple flow tables supporting millions of flow entries •Fast table set up – 1000’s of flowmod updates per second •Works with any OF1.3 compliant controller: ONOS, VellOS, Opendaylight, Ryu ... •FPGA based to evolve with market, standard and use cases
Corsa DP6440
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Bandwidth on demand in the WAN
L3 ACL Bandwidth Brokering under VellOS 7.0 Connectivity Exchange with OpenFlow 1.3 control
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Upcoming trends
2009 2014 2013 2016 2015
Incubation, OF1.0 thru 1.X releases, controller wars begin
OpenFlow 1.3 released
TTP Development and controller/data plane interoperability testing
Commercial grade controllers from HP, NEC, Opendaylight ...
Commercial grade applications and systems for WAN/Enterprise/Telco
Network Appliance vendors transition to become Network Application vendors
No commercial grade data plane or controller = no commercial success
2017
Trough of Disillusionment
Peak of Inflated Expectations
Plateau of Productivity
Slope of Enlightenment