Achieving Openness and Carrier Grade with

OpenDaylight

Marc Cohn, Ciena Corporation

February 5, 2014

Agenda

Ciena Corporate Overview

Market Trends

What Carriers expect from SDN?

Carrier Grade Controller Requirements

Why OpenDaylight?

R&D Status

Ciena Corporate Overview

Source: Dell’Oro Optical Networks, 1Q12 Report

#1 in combined WDM and switching in North America and #2 globally

#1 in coherent 40G and 100G transport globally

Source: Ovum, Ciena Executing on Plan Report

“Ciena remains on the leading edge in bringing next-gen packet/optical technology to market.”

Overall transport and switching supplier

Management software

Technology and R&D roadmap

Service and support

Source: Infonetics 2011 Global Service Provider Survey: Optical Equipment Leaders

#1 in Ethernet-over-Fiber Access in North America Source: CEAP Quarterly Market Tracker, July 2012

CAPACITY & CONNECTIVITY

REQUIREMENTS

CONNECTING

MACHINES

CONNECTING

PEOPLE

TRA

FFIC

TIME

CONNECTING

PLACES

ZONE OF SERVICE

UNCERTAINTY

DURATION

LOCATION

VERY LARGE DYNAMIC RANGE

OF SERVICE CHARACTERISTICS

*SERVICE

BA

ND

WID

TH

PROLIFERATION OF

OVER-THE-TOP SERVICES

CONSUMER

ENTERPRISE

The Nature of Connectivity is Changing

Subscriber Intelligence Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey (July 2013 )

Enter SDN What Service Providers expect from SDN?

Initial Carrier Use Cases for SDN

Subscriber Intelligence Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey (July 2013 )

Carrier Grade Control Layer Requirements

Abstracted

Distributed

Hybrid

Manageable

Virtualized

Implementation

Availability

Policy-based

Programmability

Scalability

Security

Platform

Agility

Openness

Simplification

Systems

SDN Controller vs. Carrier Management System Attribute

SDN Controller Management Systems

Primary goal Enable Programmability to applications

Provide FCAPs to the network

Control model Logically centralized Embedded into devices

Connectivity Flow Connection

Operations model Automation Manual

Object model Service-oriented Physical-oriented

Device interface Control forwarding Configure/monitor devices

Southbound protocols

OpenFlow TLI, SNMP, NetConf, etc.

Advantages Agile, flexible, intelligent, elastic Established interfaces and processes

Drawbacks Organizational impact Slow, unreliable, rigid

Deployment Integrated platforms Multiple tools

Infrastructure Layer

Control Layer

Application Layer

Business Applications

AP

I

Network Services

AP

I

AP

I

Network Services

Common APIs • Diverse applications • Open service data models

SDN and Openness

ONF/SDN Architecture

Standard Interface

Open Platform

• Common framework • Multi-vendor software • Abstraction from apps

AND underlying devices

• Standard, programmatic interfaces

• Open/common device data models

Network Functions Virtualization

• Why? • Accelerate time to new services

• Optimize resource utilization

• Improve operational efficiency

• What? • ETSI NFV Industry Spec. Group

(formed 4Q2012)

• How? • Collaboration to drive platform

requirements and standards

• Who? • 28 of the world’s leading carriers

Infrastructure Layer

Control Layer

Application Layer

Ciena OPn SDN Architecture

Network & Platform Services Modules

Business Apps

Service Abstraction Layer

Ciena Apps

Business Apps

OSS/BSS

OpenDaylight Adoption (Hydrogen)

Management

GUI/CLI

Ciena Network

Applications

Ciena Network

Applications

OpenDaylight APIs (REST)

Network Applications, Orchestrations, &

Services

Base Network Service Functions

Topology

Manager Stats Manager Switch Manager

Host

Tracker

Shortest Path

Forwarding

Service Abstraction Layer (SAL)

(Plugin Manager, Capability Abstractions, Flow Programming, Inventory, etc.)

Controller Platform

OpenFlow

1.0 1.3 NETCONF PCEP SNMP TL1 CORBA Southbound Interfaces & Protocol Plugins

OpenFlow Enabled

Devices

Ciena

Devices

Additional Virtual &

Physical Devices Data Plane Elements

(Virtual Switches, Physical Device

Interfaces)

Extensible (contribution-based) Model

Extended Network Service Functions

Traffic

Redirection

Ciena Network

Services Optical Extensions

- Ciena Device Models

Affinity Service

VTN

Manager

Network resource broker & scheduler Machine-driven REST APIs and User Portal for on-demand services

Comprehensive Visibility & Control

“Off-network” Path Computation Engine for calculating and specifying “best” routes across the network

Analytics-driven engine to calculate optimal price rating of connection requests Leverages current and predicted network resource supply, predicted future service demand and automated price-elasticity of demand learning to maximize revenue

Potential Network Services/Apps

PCE

Driven

Analytics-driven engine to optimize multi-layer designs and implementations Defragmentation as networks changes over time

One

Network

DWDM

Services

OTN

Services

Packet

Services

The Intelligent Network

Cloud Data Centers

Performance-on-Demand

$ AZ

+ params

Initial SDN Use Cases

Cloud Infrastructure

Private

DC

PrivateCloud

HybridCloud

Private

DC

Public

DC

Public

DC

Cloud Access, Inter-Data Center, Ethernet Services

Next Gen

Packet Optical

NetworkSDN

Ecosystem

10G UNI

10G UNI

On-demand services

Data Center OVPNOTN Mesh Network

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10

Pri

ce

Predicted Network Supply

Enterprise A

V-WAN Resource Broker & Scheduler

MyPortal app.

Enterprise A

Enterprise B

Cloud Data Center

SDN Controller

Dynamic Pricing Engine

API

client

e.g. MyAdapter + VMware, OpenStack, etc.

Real-time analytics maximizes profitability

Ciena OPn SDN Testbed Ottawa

Chicago

Baltimore

Questions?