Hi,
I might be jumping the gun here a little bit , however we @ Benu Networks
are very interested in pursuing, facilitating & participating in Open
Branch platforms (specially an Open Wi-Fi AP).
We believe that open desegregated Wi-Fi AP can kickstart a new wave of
innovation that can radically disrupt the branch office / SMB , similar to
what is already been happening to OCP based Data Center Switching.
We would love to open up a discussion in the group and see if we can find
fellow travelers to join us. As a starting point we'd like to offer a high
level proposal the looks like the one shown below :
Wi-Fi APs are not your typical switches as 802.11 has big WLAN (RF)
component that needs a whole different class of management e.g.
- ICM : Interference Counter Measure (Ability to automate interference
mitigation)
- 802.1r fast mobility (Ability to provide fast handovers from one AP to
another) ,
- 802.11k handoff steering (Ability to interact with user
devices for AP attach)
- Band steering policies (2.4 Ghz v/s 5 GHz)
- Network (SSID) steering policies (Virtual SSID scenarios)
- Other Network policies like MCS threshold settings for better QoE &
Service discovery
- Wi-Fi Telemetry,
Apart from WLAN specific interface, the Wi-Fi AP also has networking setup
(bridges, tunnels etc.)
that are also common to non-Wi-Fi capable branch switches .
Finally, Wi-Fi APs also require to have a branch IP router capability that
includes other networking stacks that are not present in DC switches e.g.
UPnP (DLNA), PCP etc.
We could create a SAI equivalent for Branch {in this case i have
called it *A-SAI
i.e. AP SAI*) ; Such SAI would be common to all Wi-Fi SoCs e.g. from
Broadcom , Qualcomm, Intel etc.
If the group agrees to move it forward, we (Benu) would be happy to
facilitate the process as well as contribute user land components mentioned
above.
BR
Rajat Ghai
CTO
Benu Networks
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Jeff Catlin <jeff_cat...@edge-core.com>
wrote:
> That will work for Accton / Edgecore
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> Jeff
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> Jeffrey D Catlin
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> Associate Vice President of Technology
>
> Accton Technology Corporation
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> jeff_cat...@accton.com
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> 603-531-1286
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>
> *From:* opencompute-networking-boun...@lists.opencompute.org [mailto:
> opencompute-networking-boun...@lists.opencompute.org] *On Behalf Of *Carlos
> Cardenas
> *Sent:* Monday, March 21, 2016 1:01 PM
> *To:* opencompute-networking@lists.opencompute.org
> *Subject:* [Opencompute-networking] Record # of hardware submissions
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> Howdy,
>
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>
> Well, I hope everyone has fully recovered from the OCP Summit a couple
> weeks ago, because we got some serious work ahead.
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> In the weeks preceding/during/after summit, we received 12 new hardware
> submissions representing 16 different SKUs across: data center, edge
> routing, access/campus!!!
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> Now it's time that we review them as a community and this is where the rub
> is. Prior to the summit, our process was to present submission during the
> monthly project call allotting 10min for presentation and 5+ min for Q/A.
> To review the 12 hardware submissions would take us about 3 - 4 months; by
> then, we would have started to receive more submissions therefore staying
> in a backlog.
>
>
>
> This is a good problem to have since it only validates the open networking
> model is not only thriving in data center but expanding into other areas of
> networking.
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> I would like to propose the following: over the next couple of weeks, we
> hold 3 hardware submission meetings prior to the next project call (which
> is April 11) and present a summary then.
>
>
>
> If this is acceptable, the following vendors and submissions will need to
> be scheduled (
> http://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Networking/SpecsAndDesigns#Shared_hardware_specifications_still_under_review
> ):
>
> * Agema - POE switch
>
> * Alpha - 10GT and 100G (revisit with updated specs)
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> * Edgecore - chassis, edge router, POE switch, wireless APs
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> * Facebook - Wedge100 and 6pack40
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> * Nephos - 10G with Nephos ASIC (this is our first contribution that is
> based on an accepted switch design: AS5712)
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>
>
> Does this work for everyone?
>
>
> +--+
>
> Carlos
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