Standardization Update: Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Brussels, 10th October 2012 Peter Feil, Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Labs

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1 Standardization Update: Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Brussels, 10th October 2012 Peter Feil, Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Labs Life is for sharing. Telekom Innovation Laboratories

2 The Open Networking Foundation (ONF): Software-defined networking based on open-source systems can bring the next leap towards the Future Internet. Technological open-source Pillars OpenFlow: Flow-based control protocol between switches and controller. OpenController: Control unit for network flows. OpenController OpenFlow Protocol OpenFlow Engine Network Switch The founding Consortium The Open Networking Foundation aims to accelerate innovation in the domain of IP networks. Endorsing the use of open-source systems more competition in the IP router and switch market is expected. Open interfaces can bring enhanced flexibility and new network-based applications The ONF officially started in March 2011 and took over the OpenFlow-related standardization/specification from Stanford University. Telekom Innovation Laboratories 2

3 The Open Networking Foundation: Current Members 7 Promoter Members Operators and service providers Represented in the board of directors Have voting rights 72 Adopter Members (as of October 2012) 6Wind, A10 Networks, Adva Optical Networks, Alcatel Lucent, Argela Sw./Turk Telekom, Aricent, Big Switch, Broadcom, Brocade, Centec Networks, Ciena, Cisco, Citrix, CohesiveFT, Colt, CompTIA, Cyan Optics, Dell, Elbrys, Ericsson, ETRI, Extreme Networks, Ezchip, F5 Networks, France Telecom/Orange, Freescale Semiconductors, Fujitsu, Gigamon, Goldman Sachs, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, Infinera, Infoblox, IP Infusion, Intel, Ixia, Juniper, KDDI, Korea Telecom, Level 3 Com., LineRate Systems, LSI, Luxoft, Marvell, Mellanox, Metaswitch, Midokura, NCLC, NEC, Netgear, Netronome, Netscout, NSN, NoviFlow, Oracle, Pica, Plexxi Inc., Radware, Riverbed, Samsung, South Korea Telecom, Spirent, Telecom Italia, Tencent, Texas Instruments, Vello Systems, VeriSign, VMware, Xpliant, ZTE Telekom Innovation Laboratories 3

4 The Open Networking Foundation. General Structure. Exec. Director Board of Directors Council of Chairs TAG WG1 WG2 WG3 Other WGs Bodies of the ONF Board of Directors: Decision making body 6 founding members + NTT Nick McKeown (Stanford Univ.) Scott Shenker (Berkeley Univ.) Chair: Urs Hölzle (Google) Technical Advisory Group (TAG): Strategic guidance Individual experts from members Executive Director: Dan Pitt Responsible for daily operations Council of Chairs WP leaders + Exec. Director As a nonprofit, mutual benefit corporation, the purpose of the Corporation is to promote the development and use of Software Defined Networking, starting with OpenFlow Telekom Innovation Laboratories 4

5 The Open Networking Foundation. Current Working Groups. Extensibility Responsible for OF main spec. OF Spec V1.2 publ. in Dec 11 (ext. re-expression of OF 1.1) OF V1.3.1 publ. in 08/2012 OFV1.4 ongoing discussions Config-Management Protocol & schema for basic configuration, config-interface logical switch to controller OF-Config 1.0 publ. (Jan 12) OF-Config nearly done OAM charter under discussion Testing & Interop Conformance test suites Performance benchmarking Interoperability plug fests next is happening this week with 20 participating ONF members at Indiana Univ. Hybrid Towards application in hybrid environments with dual/parallel use of legacy distributed control planes & OpenFlow controllers Working on different docs (use cases, terminology, arch., ) Market & Education WG in foundation External positioning of SDN/OF Market education, awareness, support adoption Architecture and Framework Just recently chartered Working on a framework and architecture document describing ONF s view on SDN modules and relationship with other SDOs Integration of previous discussion s around possible northbound APIs Forwarding Abstractions Just recently started Exploiting capabilities of hardware switches Looking at table types Telekom Innovation Laboratories 5

6 ONF Miscellaneous From R&D towards Standardization and Deployment RANDZ IPR Policy: Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Zero cost All members bring in their related IPR, other members can use this pool for free Participation of experts from academia: Possible for individuals, agreement ( NDA -style) has to be signed Reference Implementations: Ongoing discussions, working (open-source) code helps w.r.t. new features in specs Plugfest events regularly organized to test interoperability of implementations Upcoming Events: SDN World Congress (October 22-24, Darmstadt) Layer123-Event Co-located with European ONF member meetings EWSDN - European Workshop on SDN (October 25/26, Darmstadt) no ONF event ONF Member Workday (October 30, California) Presentations at many other conferences during the next months FP7 is co-funding some European contributions to the ONF via the CHANGE project Telekom Innovation Laboratories 6