GENI Workshop on Layer2/SDN Campus DeploymentJuly 7, 2011

Larry LandweberGENI Project Office

John P. Morgridge Professor, EmeritusUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison

The Post-Internet Era• Why?

– TCP/IP is broken at gigabit speeds– IP is not the protocol of choice for

• Data centers / clouds• Wireless and mobile networks and applications• Gigabit applications and data-intensive science

– Scaling is a problem – e.g., routing– Quality-of-service generally not available– Security remains unsolved

• A New Approach– Built on Layer 2– Software-defined (SDN), programmable, sliceable– New Protocols - OpenFlow, WiMAX– Already used in R&E backbones and on 14 campuses

ASSERTIONS

We are at the same stage with respect to exploration of this new technology as we were in 1984 for the Internet technology.

The NSFNET in 1985 provided a testbed for developing the Internet to where it could become a commercial system.

Campus IT organizations were leaders in this effort.

GOAL

• National scale, programmable, sliceable SDN spanning campuses, regional and national backbones

• Support wide range of research– Network and other computer science– Data intensive science– Gigabit application development and use

• Efficiently support campus IT operations/services• Build on GENI experience, infrastructure and technology• Support U.S. Ignite• Prototype for the future non-Internet (name TBD)?

Campuses – The Missing Piece• OpenFlow / WiMAX deployment on

production campus networks• Build on experience of 14 “GENI-enabled”

campuses• Extend beyond CS/Engineering• Partnership between CIO organizations and

researchers is critical

Today’s Workshop

• 22 campuses represented• NSF (CISE, OCI), Internet2, GENI, EDUCAUSE• Agenda– GENI update– OpenFlow, WiMAX technologies– Campus case studies – Discussion– Next steps - planning for collaborative efforts– NSF CISE perspective

Next Steps

• Campus planning – architecture / financial– Assistance from exemplar campuses– Collaboration between CIO organization and CS– Output needed by GPO to prepare solicitation

• GENI Development and Prototyping Solicitation 4

• Additional funding in 2012• Goal: ~30 campuses GENI-enabled by end of

2012

Larry LandweberLarry.landweber@gmail.com608-239-6263

• Boston University• Case Western University • Clemson University • Duke University • Georgia Institute of Technology • Harvard University • Indiana University• Louisiana Optical Network

Initiative (LONI) • Purdue University• Rutgers University • Stanford University• University of Chicago • University of Colorado

• University of the District of Columbia• University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign • University of Kansas, Lawrence• University of Massachusetts – Amherst• University of Michigan• University of Tennessee - Chatanooga • University of Utah • University of Washington• University of Wisconsin - Madison • EDUCAUSE• Internet2• NSF – CISE and OCI

Today’s Participating Institutions