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OpenFlow: Princeton Spiral 2 Year-end Project Review. Princeton University PIs: Michael Freedman, Jennifer Rexford, Larry Peterson Staff: Scott Karlin, Christopher Tengi August 25, 2010. Project Summary. Install new OpenFlow-capable Ethernet switches on Computer Science network:
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OpenFlow: PrincetonSpiral 2 Year-end Project Review Princeton University PIs: Michael Freedman, Jennifer Rexford, Larry Peterson Staff: Scott Karlin, Christopher Tengi August 25, 2010
Project Summary • Install new OpenFlow-capable Ethernet switches on Computer Science network: • Production areas (for researcher office connections) • Lab areas (for research servers and equipment) • Deploy OpenFlow Controller • Policy/mechanisms to support research on production network • Port existing (local) tools to OpenFlow • Participate in multi-campus demonstration at GEC9 • Aster*x demo led by Stanford 08/25/2010
Milestone & QSR Status 08/25/2010
Accomplishments 1: Advancing GENI Spiral 2 Goals • This work supports the Meso-scale deployment described in Section 7.4 • Specifically, we are upgrading key parts of our infrastructure to give researchers connectivity to OpenFlow-enabled switch ports. • At GEC8, we participated in the Aster*x demo from Stanford University. Stanford researchers were able to use OpenFlow-connected resources at Princeton as part of a multi-campus demonstration. 08/25/2010
Accomplishments 2:Other Project Accomplishments • Updated to FlowVisor version 0.6 (Java) and providing bug reports and feature requests to developers. 08/25/2010
Issues • Concern is the lack of long-term support and commitment to OpenFlow by mainstream vendors. • There is a great deal of interest in the vendor community • However, we still don't see OpenFlow in deployed product offerings • Current SNAC release only uses lower 48-bits of datapath ID. Consequence is only one OpenFlow entity per HP switch managed by a given instance of SNAC. • Developers are aware and working the issue 08/25/2010
Plans • What are you plans for the remainder of Spiral 2? • Continue to support the Aster*x demo for GEC9 • Continue to deploy additional OpenFlow-capable switching in our production infrastructure • Continue to develop expertise in OpenFlow so we can migrate existing home-grown tools to OpenFlow. • Continue to grow number of users on our OpenFlow network. • The GPO is starting to formulate goals for Spiral 3. What are your thoughts regarding potential Spiral 3 work? • For us, Spiral 3 work will be a continuation of Spiral 2: • Continued growth and deployment 08/25/2010