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7 Essentials Of Software-Defined Networking
What is SDN? If you have to ask, you're not alone. We boil SDN architectures down to the
essentials, including OpenFlow, SDN APIs, and overlay networks.
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Software-defined networking (SDN) may be the technology du jour, but as of yet it is largely conceptual -- and
those concepts vary depending on the approach. Vendors talk about their own SDN architectures, OpenFlow,
SDN APIs, and overlay networks either as if they are interchangeable, or without ever mentioning the other
options. It's no wonder that SDN leaves many folks in IT with no grasp of the "definition" at all.
The basis of SDN is virtualization, which in its most simplistic form allows software to run separately from the
underlying hardware. Virtualization has made cloud computing possible and now allows datacenters to
dynamically provision IT resources exactly where they are needed, on the fly. To keep up with the speed and
complexity of all this split-second processing, the network must also adapt, becoming more flexible and
automatically responsive. We can apply the idea of virtualization to the network as well, separating the function
of traffic control from the network hardware, resulting in SDN.
Whether out of a need for self-preservation or a desire to improve technology, the networking industry is
embracing SDN with surprising enthusiasm. Legacy networks have serious limitations and old methods that
simply will no longer work. As virtualization, cloud, and mobility create more complex environments, networks
must be able to adapt in terms of security, scalability, and manageability. Most enterprise networks, however, rely
on fixed boxes and appliances requiring a great deal of manual administration. Changing or expanding these
networks for new capabilities, applications, or users requires reconfiguration that is time consuming and
expensive.
Software-defined networks take a lesson from server virtualization and introduce an abstraction layer separating
network intelligence and configuration from physical connections and hardware. In this way, SDN offers
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programmatic control over both physical and virtual network devices that can dynamically respond to changing
network conditions using OpenFlow or some other programmable and controllable packet/flow processing
protocol.
There are several approaches to SDN, but the most common components and concepts are covered in the
following slides. Though the technology is very much in the midst of its development, vendors and industry
organizations are working to make the technology open and flexible while adhering to existing Internet standards.
At its core, SDN promises to enable network technology innovation and versatility while reducing complexity
and administrative overhead.
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I would have read this, but an ad on every slide exceeded the utility of the information. I am sure it was a
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SDN Is Changing Everything

The demand for SDN is being driven by major communications service providers and major enterprises,
versus the network equipment manufacturers (NEMs). If you were a telecom service provider or other major
consumer of network infrastructure equipment, SDN is in theory very attractive for various reasons, such as
the ability to only wire your network once and only once and use centrally controlled, lower-cost switches
from multiple vendors
SDN is still in "early adopter" stage but moving fast. Companies like Google and Amazon have proven out
the concept. However, market requirements to support service providers and major enterprises are still
evolving. What are the various use cases that need to be supported? What type of programmatic interfaces
should be presented? What types of network applications need to be supported?
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From our past we learned split architecture from PSTN to VoIP with MGW connecting to CS services (MSC
Server) and IMS Services (MCRF) using BICC, H.248 on IP, but now it will be SDN convergence with Data
plane and Network operating system on control plane.
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Marilyn, thanks for the greetings - yes now I feel much more comfortable with SDN. From what I
understood, the essence of SDN is the separation of control plane and data plane. This is not some new
concept and modern switches/routers adopted it widely. But SDN put the physical network infrastructure as a
pure resource pool and data plane. Instead by making the control plane ("controller" in SDN terminology)
separate and providing necessary intelligence/programming API, SDN offers not only higher efficiency on
resource utilization, but also provides possibility for redefining the virtual overlay network. So far I did not
see so many great examples in the market but I do believe it will contribute more and more to IT area,
especially cloud computing and big data.
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Virsingh, I think awareness is probably just beginning, as you say. Companies that define themselves and
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there in US but people i meet still only SDN= Software Defined Networking...
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Sam, I share your sympathy. I read about how companies are embracing SDN because current products didn't
allow them to do what they needed with their networks, and I understand that. But for every company (like
Google) that has a team of network engineers working out the complexities of virtual resource allocation,
there are probably a thousand with limited networking and data center expertise who are very worried about
how this will affect them.
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When it comes to SDN, I feel for IT managers. While Google perhaps is the most well know example of a
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company that implemented SDN in the data center and in the network interconnecting their data centers,
what I understand is that Google deployed a modified version of the OpenFlow protocol (GoogleFlow?). And
they did deploy SDN pretty quickly. But how many IT managers have the resources that Google has?
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I really was not being critical about the numbers, but trying to make the point that various market estimates
related to SDN should probably only be viewed as providing a sense of how this market might grow going
forward since we have no historical data upon which to forecast the market with any accuracy.
Something else that comes to mind is that much of the SDN activity currently is targeted at the at the data
center. Service providers, as far as I know, are taking a much more cautious approach, although I'm pretty
sure they too will embrace SDN. Yet another market for SDN is the campus network--again I'm not hearing
much at this time about SDN in the campus.
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Li, thanks for your comment. I am glad you found this an adequate overview. I thought readers might
appreciate a basic explanation of the technology without all the complexity of how each vendor is
approaching SDN. Are you experimenting with SDN yet?
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Will SDN really catch on?

The past few months have produced a flurry of SDN activity in the networking industry, culminating with Cisco
announcing its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). But is anyone really buying any of this stuff?
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If they aren't, that will be changing soon. According to a recent report from Transparency Market Research, the
global SDN market is expected to reach $3.52 billion by 2018, growing at an astonishing annual growth rate of
61.5 percent from 2012 to 2018. The report classifies SDN technologies into four categories: SDN switching,
SDN controllers, cloud provisioning and orchestration, and security and services.
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Basic SDN architecture

An SDN architecture consists of three layers. At the top is the application layer, which includes applications that
deliver services, such as switch/network virtualization, firewalls, and flow balancers. These are abstracted from
the bottom layer, which is the underlying physical network layer. In between lies the SDN controller, the most
critical element of SDN. The controller removes the control plane from the network hardware and runs it as
software, but must integrate with all the physical and virtual devices in the network. In this way, the controller
facilitates automated network management and makes it easier to integrate and administer business applications.
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OpenFlow enables SDN

Several vendors have adopted the OpenFlow protocol, originally developed at Stanford University, as the basis of
their SDN strategies. But OpenFlow is not the only way to do SDN and should not be equated with it. The
OpenFlow specification is now in version 1.4 and is managed by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). The
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and a switch to tell the controller about traffic flows and communicate to the switch how to forward those flows.
OpenFlow first gained popularity with service providers including Google, and many hardware and software
vendors, including Alcatel-Lucent, Brocade, Cisco, Dell, F5, HP, Juniper Networks, NEC, Plexxi, and VMware,
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SDN using APIs

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are an alternate way to provide the abstraction necessary for SDN
along with a highly programmable infrastructure. APIs provide a channel by which instructions can be sent to a
device to program it. Programmers can read API documentation to understand the device and code the
appropriate commands into their applications. In SDN, APIs are called "northbound" or "southbound," depending
on where they function in the architecture.
APIs that reside on a controller and are used by applications to send instructions to the controller are northbound,
because the communication takes place north of the controller. Southbound APIs reside on network devices such
as switches. These are used by the SDN controller to provision the network, with the communication taking place
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SDN network overlay

Another SDN option is a network overlay. In this case, rather than building an entire logical SDN network from
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The overlay is created using virtual switches inside hypervisors. These set up tunnels that make use of the
underlying physical network, but don't need to actually configure the hardware to send traffic to its destination.
Emerging protocols including VXLAN, STT, and NVGRE make this possible by using network encapsulation.
Several vendors, most notably VMware, offer overlay network solutions.
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