Routing a Production Enterprise Network with Faucet, with Brad Cowie from WAND

Brad Cowie is a member of the WAND Network Research Group at the University of Waikato, in Hamilton,

New Zealand. He is also a core member of the Faucet project which

develops an open source OpenFlow controller for enterprise networks,

which he uses to build production OpenFlow networks.

This episode is a recording of a talk

that Brad gave at the OpenStack Summit in

Sydney on Nov. 6, with the following abstract:

Within the WAND network research group at the University of Waikato, we

operate a 100% OpenFlow-controlled network for research/teaching/BYOD

traffic. The access/aggregation layer of this network is provided by

vendor OpenFlow switches (most running embedded OpenvSwitch with ASIC SDK

drivers to drive merchant silicon). The core routing for the network is

provided by a linux server running a high-speed userspace OpenvSwitch

bridge accelerated by DPDK. The entire network is controlled by our open

source OpenFlow v1.3 controller, Faucet. We also introduce our

test-driven methodology for implementing network features in Faucet and

how this can also be applied to operating a network.

You may want to view the slides

that accompany the talk.

For more information on Faucet, visit the Faucet website. You can reach Brad as

gizmoguy on IRC or @nzgizmoguy on Twitter.

OVS Orbit has previously covered Faucet in Episode 45:

Faucet and OpenFlow at Allied Telesis, Epsiode 33:

Lightning Talks, and Episode 19: The Faucet SDN

Controller.

OVS Orbit is produced by Ben Pfaff. The

intro music in this episode is Drive,

featuring cdk and DarrylJ, copyright 2013, 2016 by Alex. The bumper

music is Yeah Ant

featuring Wired Ant and Javolenus, copyright 2013 by Speck. The outro

music is Space

Bazooka featuring Doxen Zsigmond, copyright 2013 by Kirkoid. All

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