Title or Title Event/Date Presenter, PresenterTitle, Internet2
SDXs & the Internet2 Innovation Platform To keep our community
at the tip of the spear, how can we support the evolution of SDXs?
Rob Vietzke -Vice President, Network Services Eric Boyd - Senior
Director, Strategic Projects Slide 2 The Communitys Network Story
(2014) Abundant Bandwidth / 100G+ Deeply Programmable (Native
OpenFlow) Support for Data Intensive Science (Science DMZ)
Interconnected with public Internet Supports production quality
& disruptive innovation Open for your innovation! Provides
production & innovation platform to: Dozens of high performance
compute clusters Hundreds of campus data centers Potentially
thousands of SDN ports Hundreds of wireless access networks
Thousands of researchers Millions of potential collaborators Slide
3 Internet2 operates several IXPs & Collaborates
Internationally MAN LAN with NYSERNET / WIX with MAX Singapore
Facility with Singaren ANA-100G with ESNET, CANARIE, NORDUNET,
SURFNET, GEANT Soon: AGE-OX w/ Ankubut in Fujarah, UAE None are
currently SDXs However Internet2 operates a backbone network
Interconnects Starlight, AMLIGHT, Pacific Wave, MANLAN, WIX
Interconnects public exchanges too: Equinix, Telex, SIX, others
which can also be viewed as a set of IXPs which can also be viewed
as a single distributed IXP The backbone network is built on an SDN
substrate, arguably making it a set of SDXs Internet2 and SDXs
Slide 4 Internet2 Fiber Footprint Slide 5 Slide 6 Slide 7 Growing
Use of AL2S Slide 8 Innovation Platform Petabytes per month Slide 9
April, 2012: Announce intent to build AL2S on SDN October, 2012:
AL2S is launched March, 2013: AL2S becomes heterogeneous April,
2013: Innovative Applications Contest Launched August, 2013: Begin
migration of AL3S over AL2S November, 2013: Innovative Applications
Demod December, 2013: AL2S supports Multpoint VLANs March, 2013:
FlowSpace Firewall debuts June, 2014: AL2S supports network
virtualization Timeline Slide 10 10 2013 Internet2 GOLD SILVER
BRONZE 2013 Internet2 Innovative Application Awards Projects
include: Video streaming BGP routing over OpenFlow SDN for Exchange
Points GENI integration Slide 11 Scientist Request: I want to
transfer data and do compute / storage between this set of
endpoints with this flow pattern Answer: You should use the FTP
service (or You should videconferencing service or You should use
broadcast service, etc.) Middleware Builder Request: I want to
build an FTP Service Answer: You should use the Compute service,
the Storage service, and the Network Service in these
configurations Network Operator Request: I want a VLAN between
these two points or I want to control switches along this path
Service Levels Which is the SDX? Slide 12 Slide 13 Slide 14 Slide
15 Slide 16 Basic components SDN Switches Controller Virtual
Machines and/or compute/storage Challenges Compelling applications
Programming abstractions Scalable operations Realistic deployment
& Willing SDN peers Analytics & Measurement Moving
bilateral pilots to multidomain operations What is an SDX? Slide 17
Includes one or more SDN-enabled Switch(es) Standards compliant /
not built on proprietary vendor extensions Controlled by one or
more SDN controllers Must enable user-supplied controllers (virtual
IXPs or virtual networks) Platform for Innovation Built on open
source, standards-compliant software Operationally transparent
Enables next generation of application design Robust and scalable
Backed by an integrated test harness (software stack is
complicated) Nationwide / global footprint Availability must exceed
standard for traditional Layer 3 networks Measurable perfSONAR
& Analytics Operationally manageable Internet2 definition of an
SDX Slide 18 AL2S has been operating for nearly 2 years Connectors
include regional networks, campuses, etc. Anyone who can reach AL2S
can exploit its SDX-like functionality AUP Free Internet2 SDX Slide
19 Identify trust, user authentication, resource use authorization
issues Leverage Community trust (InCommon) Interdomain provisioning
Daisy chain models do not scale Certificate-based approaches have
regular expiration problems Modular architecture Enables innovation
Multiple opportunities for attack Multiple opportunities for
resource overconsumption Workshop Charge (1) Slide 20 Identify
interoperability issues and testing strategies for different models
Multiple (subtly different) approaches to multi-tenancy (Flowvisor,
Flowspace Firewall, OVX, etc.) Multiple approaches to integrating
compute and storage resources Monitoring software is common
(perfSONAR), but what to test is still being discussed Running a
robust SDX requires multiple levels of software (Vendor
implementation of OF, Multi-tenancy solution, Controller,
Application, Interdomain Stitching) which requires a test harness,
automated test software, etc. Workshop Charge (2) Slide 21 Specify
a staged set of research and prototyping activities needed to
properly understand and realize these models in practice
Environment(s) to evaluate vendor implementations Environment(s) to
evaluate multi-tenancy implementations Environment(s) to evaluate
controllers Environment(s) to evaluate cloud integration Workshop
Charge (3) Slide 22 Provide a strawman plan, with level of effort
needed, for experimenting with a national scale SDX prototype
deployment Knit together Internet2 solution with several (3-4)
implementations at traditional IXPs Can we create a solution where
someone who arrives at MAN LAN / WIX / AMLIGHT / STARLIGHT (for
example) can Deploy a controller across a multiple partner slice
Integrate with GENI Racks on 3-4 campuses Stand up a prototype
service (e.g. prototype research network without routers) Integrate
with OpenStack Workshop Charge (4) Slide 23 Title or Title
Event/Date Presenter, PresenterTitle, Internet2 SDXs & the
Internet2 Innovation Platform To keep our community at the tip of
the spear, how can we support the evolution of SDXs? Rob Vietzke
-Vice President, Network Services Eric Boyd - Senior Director,
Strategic Projects
