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Open Transport Switch and Transport SDN
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Open Transport Switch and
Transport SDN
Leigh Wade
Business Development Director APAC
June 6th, 2013
www.infinera.com/go/sdn
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Packet World
• Connectionless
• Enterprise origins
• Dynamic flows
• Innate control plane
(EMS/NMS independent)
• Numerous distributed CP
solutions
• Monolithic, closed systems
Transport World
• Connection (circuit) oriented
• Service provider origins
• Static pipes
• EMS/NMS + Cross-connect
paradigm
• Nascent CP (GMPLS)
• Open, programmable
systems
Some Historical Context
Historically, transport networks have
actually been programmable, but via a proprietary NMS.
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Rise of the Data Center
• Cloud & content networking
• Distributed computing & M2M traffic
Convergence of networking layers
• {Packet + OTN + ROADM + WDM} = Dynamic & Agile transport
• Necessity for economical scale & operational simplicity
Evolving cost/bit @ different layers
• Transport economics create opportunities for multi-layer optimization
Emergence of (packet) SDN
• Virtualization & Unification of entire network
Motivations behind Transport SDN
The Networkis Evolving
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Rapid & Flexible Bandwidth
• Turn-up bandwidth quickly to support
applications
Simplify/Automate Operations
• Multilayer, multivendor & multi-domain
orchestration
Improve Resource Utilization
• Coordinate & optimize between layers,
select optimal path
Speed New Service Deployment
• Services created faster w/direct API
access to transport layer
Extending SDN to Transport
SDN unlocks the value of dynamic transport bandwidth.
Applications
SDN Control Layer
Abstraction
Discover,
Monitor,
Control
• Multi-layer
• Multi-vendor
• Multi-domain
Packet flows
OTN circuits
Optical wavelengths
Physical Resources
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Promise of Transport SDN
Multi-layer,Multi-Domain,Multi-VendorAbstraction&Automation
Domain 1 Domain 2
WDM
OTN
IP
This is what applications see
Vendor A Vendor B
Vendor X Vendor Y
= SDN Control
A B C D
IHGFE
J K L M
RQPON
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SDN control of analog layer is too complex
SDN needs a digital abstraction of the transport network
Integrated switch fabric + WDM abstracts programmable pool of BW
Leverages open & programmable GMPLS intelligence
SDN-Ready Transport Networking
Bandwidth Virtualization forProgrammable transport
Bandwidth Virtualization™
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FlexCoherent, Instant Bandwidth, Other SW controllable functions
Infinera Solution Vision
Switching
PIC WDM
DNA Management System OTS
GMPLS Control Plane
Digital
Digital
Digital
Bandwidth Virtualization
OpenFlow 1.x + Web 2.0 Protocols
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Open Transport Switch is a light weight virtual switch employed in
SDN architectures for facilitating resource discovery, monitoring and
provisioning of transport flows
OpenFlow for provisioning function, adds other required protocols
Runs on top of programmable packet/optical transport platforms
Key Enabler: Open Transport Switch
SDN Control Layer
WDM/
OTN/
Packet
WDM/
OTN/
Packet
OTS OTS
Ethernet Ethernet
Applications
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Ethernet
Switch
OTN/MPLS/
DWDM
Ethernet
Switch
OTN/MPLS/
DWDM
Ethernet Optical
OTS OTS OTS OTS
SDN Controller
Explicit Path Set Up
(provision every node)
Compatible with Existing Control Planes
OpenFlow
Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet
LSR
LSR
LSR
LSR
ENET
ENET
ENET
ENET
OTS OTS
OTS
OTSMPLS
Ethernet
POTN
POTN
POTN
POTN
OTS
OTS
SDN Controller
GMPLS
Implicit Path Set Up
(provision edge nodes only,
leverage existing control plane)
OpenFlow
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Infinera and ESnet Transport SDN Demo
bnl-tb-wdm-3 bnl-tb-wdm-4
40G
100G
20G 20G
20G L1 Tunnel
SDN Controller communicating with OTS via OpenFlow
Bandwidth on Demand application for Big Data RDMA transport
3 physical transport path options (with varying latencies)
Implicit & explicit provisioning of 10GbE/40GbE services demonstrated
Topology Monitoring App BW on Demand App
ESnet SDN Controller
Mellanox Mellanox
Path #1
Path #2
Path #3
OTS
ESnet LIMAN Production Network
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Testbed
OTS
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Use Case – Optimizing Inter-data Center Networking
Data Center
Routers Transport
Switch
Data Center
Optical Transport
Network
SDN Orchestration
Centralized
Intelligence &
Control
Dynamic, flexible QoS bandwidth for packet flows
Layer 0/1/2/2.5/3 integration & abstraction
Centralized TE for better performance & utilization
Multi-layer resource optimization
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Use Case – Multi-Layer Optimization
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Router
Optics
Digital
Switching
$$$,kW
Converged Packet/OTN/Optical Layer
IP/MPLS Layer
Next-gen networks will drive need for multi-layer representation,
topology computation & provisioning
SDN approach facilitates orchestration across layers & domains
SDN Orchestration
Local IP net
Local Enet
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Dynamically configurable
L1 virtual networks
Multi-tenancy for P-OTS
Customer managed SDN
Controller
Use Case – L1 Virtual Network
Network-as-a-Service(NaaS)
Virtual Network SLice
Customer Virtual-Network
Management
20G
SDN NetVisor
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Extending SDN to Transport has significant benefits:
• Lowers opex via open multi-layer, multi-vendor, multi domain orchestration
• Lowers capex by optimizing flows across layers
• Speeds service delivery for internal and external customers
• Makes transport resources dynamic & visible to applications for new services
• Creates the ability to easily slice the network
Transport platforms that can virtualize wavelengths into an
abstracted pool of bandwidth are well positioned to adopt T-SDN
GMPLS can play an important role in supporting higher level
abstractions of transport networks and for migration to T-SDN
OTS is an open approach & ESnet demo key 1st step towards
realizing open, programmable transport networks.
Summary
Transport SDN can abstract and present a flat representation to applications with automated discovery, monitoring and provisioning
So now we have one last step to achieve the part of our vision of “Intelligent Bandwidth”.
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These platforms that converge WDM and switching can be used to create a digital node at any location needed in the network.
Now that we have access to all services in digital format where needed, we layer on an intelligent control plane using GMPLS.
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The GMPLS intelligence creates a self aware transport network that has deep knowledge of every element in the network. Infinera has the largest GMPLS deployments in the world across integrated DWDM and OTN converged platforms.
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This GMPLS intelligence is combined with digital switching control over bandwidth to fundamentally “virtualize” the transport resources such that any service can be mapped into this flexible pool of bandwidth.
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On top of this we build a layer of application programming interfaces
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And on top of this we implement our industry leading unified DNA management system. This software building block approach also allows us to easily support SDN control as well.
All of this combined we call the Digital Optical Network.
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An Infinite Pool of Intelligent Bandwidth that is Scalable, Efficient, Simple, Reliable and Programmable.
This final example is about a service provider creating networks slices using SDN and delivering high capacity layer 1 virtual private networks as a service on a common infrastructure.
Fundamentally, Network as a Service
This approach actually slices up the network and can even virtualize the actual transport hardware itself on a port-by-port and card-by-card basis.
This provides the security and garneted performance of a transparent private line service at extremely high capacities but in a very cost effective manner and
The service provider can expose as much control as the to the end user as desired.