I’m hearing the opposite, great in the core, not as necessary on fringes.
I’ve got friends migrating core data center switches and routers to OpenFlow. So the hardware concentrates on the actual packet flows only (Data layer) and let’s a controller define the complicated stuff across multiple devices. I’m thinking it could be useful for fiber providers running multiple network segments selling capacity with less complication and hard coding. I’m already spanning my small fiber network with several services and tunnels for other providers. Static entry tables for loopbacks and VPLS paths are becoming cumbersome already. Maybe this stuff will help a bit with that? Not sure. Maybe it’s still too fringe. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2016 5:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OpenFlow and SDN From what I've read it is better for places where you need to manage flows and not so much in the core, mainly due to whatever is hardware accelerated. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions<http://www.ics-il.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png]<https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/ICSIL> Midwest Internet Exchange<http://www.midwest-ix.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png]<https://twitter.com/mdwestix> The Brothers WISP<http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> [http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png]<https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp>[http://www.ics-il.com/images/youtubeicon.png] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> ________________________________ From: "Sterling Jacobson" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2016 6:28:47 PM Subject: [AFMUG] OpenFlow and SDN Anyone implemented OpenFlow in anything? What are the advantages to an ISP? I just bought a switch with OpenFlow capabilities to play with. Not sure what I'm doing, lol!
