Enhancing Campus Network Control with OpenFlow/SDN
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Discover how Georgia Tech's campus network leverages OpenFlow/SDN technology for better control, policy management, security, and capacity monitoring across multiple campuses. Explore the goals, achievements, and benefits of this innovative networking approach.
Enhancing Campus Network Control with OpenFlow/SDN
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OpenFlow/SDNat Georgia Tech • Russ Clark • in collaboration with • Ron Hutchins, Nick Feamster, • and Matt Sanders • July 7, 2011
Campus Network Highlights • 3 campuses • main campus in Atlanta • remote in Savannah, GA • Metz, France • 120,000 ports, 160 buildings, 1,800 fiber miles • 2,500 Wireless APs (4,100 radios) • campus-wide layer 2 mobility • Internet 2, National Lambda Rail (NLR), Southern Light Rail (SLR), Southern Crossroads (SoX) • 2,100 centrally managed switches
Goals For OpenFlow/SDN More Control Of Our Network! • Policy Management • better than VLANs, Subnets, Firewalls, IDS, IPS, etc • VLAN blunt instrument -> blunted further by Wi-Fi SSID • working on policy language efforts • Network Access Control • built a captive portal system - Resonance • Capacity Monitoring and Management • Simplified Configuration • Security • better monitoring, finer-grained active control