Introduction to

Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

and Network Programmability

Jason Davis, Distinguished Engineer (Services)

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Abstract

SDN is an exciting new approach to network IT Service Management. You may have questions about SDN,
Controllers, APIs, Overlays, OpenFlow and ACI. You may also be wondering what products and services are SDN-
enabled and how you can solve your unique business challenges and enhance your differentiated services by
leveraging network programmability.

In this introductory session we will cover the genesis of SDN, what it is, what it is not, and Cisco's involvement in this
space. Cisco's SDN-enabled Products and Services will be explained enabling you to consider your own
implementations. Since SDN extends network flexibility and functionality which impacts Network Engineering and
Operations teams, we'll also cover the IT Service Management impact.

Network engineers, network operation staff, IT Service Managers, IT personnel managers, and application/compute
SMEs will benefit from this session.
Agenda

• What is SDN & Network Programmability

• What are the Use Cases and Problems Solved with SDN?
• An Overview of OpenFlow
• What Are Cisco's solutions?
• An Overview of Network Controllers
• An Overview of ACI
• The Impact to IT Service Management
• How to Get Ready
What is Software-Defined Networking (SDN)?

• An approach and architecture in networking where control and data planes

are decoupled and intelligence and state are logically centralized
• Enablement where underlying network infrastructure is abstracted from the
applications [network virtualization]
• A concept that leverages programmatic interfaces to enable external
systems to influence network provisioning, control and operations

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SDN is…
…an approach to network transformation*
…empowering external influencers to network design and operations
…impacting the networking industry - challenging the way we think about
engineering, implementing and managing networks
…providing new methods to interact with equipment/services via controllers, APIs
…normalizing the interface with equipment/services
…enabling high-scale, rapid network and service provisioning/management
…generating a LOT of ‘buzz’ and attention
…providing a catalyst for traditional Route/Switch engineers to branch-out

* […not the first attempt!]

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SDN is not…
…an easy button… [but is intending to make things easier for all!]
…a panacea or end-state
…narrowly defined
…meaning the death of network engineers
…a mandate for all network engineers to become C and Java programmers
…a new ISDN service from Apple called iSDN 

I Wants
…a new attempt at network evolution… SDN

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 Overlays / Encapsulations
Have We Seen This Before?
MPLS
VPLS
VPN
GRE Tunnels
LISP
Control Plane / Data Plane
Separation –
Centralized Control

SS7 Management and

ATM LANE Programmatic Interfaces
Wireless LAN Controller
GMPLS
SNMP
NETCONF
EEM

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Where Did SDN Come From?
2008
Have you tried rebooting
the Internet yet?

http://cleanslate.stanford.edu/
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The Traditional Network…
Control Plane (CP)
Control and Data
Plane resides CP DP CP DP
within Physical
Device
Data Plane (DP)

CP DP CP DP

CP DP CP DP CP DP CP DP

Control plane learns/computes forwarding decisions

Data plane acts on the forwarding decisions
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The Network As It Could Be…to an SDN ‘Purist’

CP DP CP DP

CP
CP DP CP DP

CP DP CP DP CP DP CP DP

Control plane becomes centralized

Physical device retains Data plane functions only
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The Network As It Could Be…In a ‘Hybrid SDN’

CP DP CP DP

CP CP DP CP DP
Controller

CP DP CP DP CP DP CP DP

A Controller is centralized and separated from the Physical Device,

but devices still retain a localized Control plane intelligence
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What are the Use Cases and
Problems Solved with SDN?
Why Change?
• Familiar Manual, CLI-driven, device-by-device approach is inefficient
• Increased need for programmatic interfaces which allow faster and
automated execution of processes and workflows with reduced errors
• Need for a ‘central source of truth’ and touch-point

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Your Challenges
• Pace of Change – Technology & Competition
• Globalization of the Marketplace
• Proliferation of Social Networking
• IT Budgets, Staffing and Resources
• Accelerated Pace of Consumerization, Virtualization and XaaS Options
• Consumption Economics

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 Customer Needs: Network Programmability

Research/ Massively Scalable Service

Cloud Enterprise
Academia Data Center Providers
Experimental Customize with Automated Policy-based control Virtual workloads, VDI,
OpenFlow/SDN Programmatic APIs to provisioning and and analytics to Orchestration of
components for provide deep insight programmable optimize and security profiles
production networks into network traffic overlay, OpenStack monetize
service delivery

Network Network Flow Scalable Private Cloud

“Slicing” Management Multi-Tenancy Agile Service Delivery Automation

Diverse Programmability Requirements Across Segments

(Automation & Programmability)
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SDN Addresses Needs for…

• Centralized configuration,
management/control, monitoring of
network devices (physical or virtual)
• Ability to override traditional
forwarding algorithms to suite unique
business or technical needs
• Allowing external applications or
systems to influence network
provisioning and operation
• Rapid and scalable deployment of
network services with life-cycle
management

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 !
Weather-Based Routing

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Get IMs From Routers/Switches

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 Business Metrics Influencing Routing
Controller

Class API GUI

Schedule

Staff Directory
WAN1 (MPLS)

WAN2 (EPL)

WAN3 (Internet)

UNIVERSITY

Main Campus Remote

Classroom

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An Overview of OpenFlow
What is OpenFlow?

API
Application

OF
OF Controller AGENT

…a Layer 2 communications protocol that gives access to the

forwarding plane of a network device,
…a specification for building switches conforming to the protocol
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 Deutsche Telekom : Facebook : Goldman Sachs : Yahoo
Google : Microsoft : NTT Communications : Verizon
OPEN NETWORK FOUNDATION Stanford : UC Berkeley ONF Board

ONF Members
3TEN8 Cisco Systems Hitachi Metaswitch Networks Samsung
6WIND Citrix Systems HP Midokura Sanctum Networks Ltd
A10 Networks Colt Technology Services Huawei MRV Communications SDN Essentials
Active Broadband Networks Coriant IBM NAIM Networks SDN Solutions
ADVA Optical Networking Corsa Technology Infinera NCL Communication SK Telecom
Alcatel-Lucent Criterion Networks (I) Pvt Ltd Infoblox NEC Spirent
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Cyan Institute for Information Industry (III) Netgear Swisscom
Applied Micro Circuits Dell/Force10 Networks Intel Netronome Tail-f Systems
Aricent Group Digital China Networks Ltd (DCN) Intelliment Security NetScout Tallac Networks
Arista Networks ECI Telecom Intune Networks NoviFlow Inc. Tata Communications
Aruba Networks Equinix IP Infusion NSN Tekelec (Acquired by Oracle)
ATTO Research Korea Ericsson Itential NTT Data Telecom Italia
Auvik Networks EstiNet Technologies Inc. ITRI (Industrial Technology Research OKI Electric Industry Telefonica
Baidu Online Network Technology Co ETRI (Electronics and Institute) Optelian Telekom Malaysia - TM Research &
Ltd. Telecommunications Research Ixia Oracle Development
Barefoot Networks Institute) Juniper Networks Orange Telesoft
Beijing Internet Institute (BII) Extreme Networks KDDI Overture Networks Tellabs
Big Switch Networks F5 Kemp Technologies PCCW Global Ltd. Tencent, Inc.
BISDN Fiberhome Technologies Konodrac Pertino Texas Instruments
Blue Ocean Networks Pty LTD FishNet Security KT Corp. (Korea Telecom) Pica8 Thales
Broadcom Freescale Semiconductor Inc L3 Communications Systems - East Plexxi Inc Tilera
Brocade Communication Systems Friesty Lancope, Inc. PMC-Sierra Inc. Transmode
BTI Systems Fujitsu Level 3 Procera Networks TW Telecom
Centec Networks Gencore Systems LSI Corporation Qosmos UBIqube Solutions
Ceragon Networks Gigamon Luxoft Rackspace Vello Systems
China Mobile Research Center GlimmerGlass Marvell Radware Verizon
China Telecom GuardiCore Ltd. MediaTek Riverbed Technologies
Ciena H3C Technologies Mellanox Technologies Saisei Networks

http://opennetworking.org
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 OF v1.0
What Makes OpenFlow Different? Example
Flow Table
Ingres Source Dest Ether VLAN VLAN IP IP IP IP TCP/U TCP/U Action Priority Counter
s Port MAC Priorit Protoco
MAC Type ID SRC DEST l
TOS DP DP
y SRC DEST

Fwd Port 100

* * * *
Switching * * * * * * * 10
3c:07:54:*
Fwd Port 100
* * *Routing* * * * * * * * 12
192.168.1.*
Port 1 Fwd Port 100
* * * *
Replication/SPAN * * * * * * * 14…24

25 Drop 100
* * Firewall/Security
* * * * * * * * *
0x0800 Controller 100
* * * * *
Inspection * * * * * *
Vlan10 80 Fwd Port 8 200
* 00:01:E7:*
* * * * *
Combinations * * *
80 Rewrite 200
* * *
Multi-action *
; NAT * * * 192.168.1.*
* * * 10.1.2.3;
Fwd port 9

10.* Local 200

*Local handling
* * * * * * * * * *
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 OF v1.0
What Makes OpenFlow Different? Example
Actions
OPENFLOW CONTROLLER
Required Actions
Forward out all ports
1
except input port

2 2
Redirect to OpenFlow
Controller
FLOW
CPU 3
Forward to local
TABLE Forwarding Stack (CPU)

Perform action in flow

4
table
4 3
7
5 Forward to input port
SWITCH FORWARDING
5 ENGINE 6
Forward to destination
port

7 Drop Packet

1 6

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 OF v1.0
What Makes OpenFlow Different? Example
Counters

FLOW TABLE
HEADER FIELDS COUNTERS ACTIONS

… … … FLOW ENTRY

… … …

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OpenFlow Introduced Notable Features Flow-spec
Version Tuple
1.0 2009-12 Initial Specification 12

1.1 2011-02 Support for multiple flow tables; Added support for MPLS 15
Defined two operating modes – Hybrid | Pure OpenFlow
1.2 2011-12 Support for IPv6 34
Multiple Controller support
1.3 2012-06 Support for Rate Limiting; IPv6 Extensions, GRE 38
Version increasingly used by customers/manufacturers
1.3.1 2012-09 Support for Negotiation TLVs 38

1.3.2 2013-04 Support for controller-initiated connections 38

1.4 2013-10 Support for Rule change ‘transactions’ 40

1.3.3 2013-12 Update with IANA registered TCP port : 6653 40

Clarify multipart segmentation rules, clarify use of empty multipart messages
Specify the normal fragment handling is mandatory, drop/reasm optional

1.3.4 2014-03 Clarify table feature wildcard list should not include fields that are mandatory in some context 40
Only
Add section about control channel maintenance
Push MPLS should add a MPLS header before the IP header and before MPLS tags, not
before
VLAN which is not valid

1.5 2014-12 Egress Tables; Packet aware pipeline (IP, PPP); flexible encoding - OpenFlow 44
1.5.1 2015-03 eXtensible Statistics (OXS); set-field action wildcard; Controller connection status

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 OF v1.3
Example
Input Switch Intra- Etherne Ethernet Ethernet Input Input IP IP ECN IP IPv4 IPv4
Switch Physical Table t Dest Source Frame VLAN VLAN DSCP Protocol Source Dest
Input Addr Addr Type
Port Metadata id Priority Addr Addr
Port

. . .
TCP TCP UDP UDP SCTP SCTP ICMP ICMP ARP ARP ARP IPv6 IPv6
Source Dest Source Dest Source Dest Type Code Opcode Source Target Source Dest
Port Port Port Port Port Port IPv4 IPv4 Addr Addr
Addr Addr

. . .
. . . IPv6 ICMPv ICMPv Target Source Target MPLS MPLS MPLS PBB- Logical
Port
IPv6
Extension
Flow 6 type 6 code Addr link- link- label TC BoS bit ISID Header
Metadata
Label for ND layer layer pseudo-
field
for ND for ND

. . .

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OpenFlow is one Fish in the Sea of SDN

PCEP

APIs

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SDN Protocols in Internet
Application Frameworks, Management Systems, Controllers, ...

“Protocols” OpFlex OpenFlow I2RS PCEP BGP-LS/FS Neutron OMI Puppet NETCONF …

Management OMI Puppet NETCONF …

Agent Agent Agent
Orchestration OpenStack
Agent
Network Services PCEP BGP-LS/FS
BGP Agent Agent
Control Diameter I2RS
Radius Agent
Forwarding SNMP OpenFlow
… Agent

Cisco API & Agent Infrastructure (YANG)

Device
Operating Systems – Cisco IOS / NX-OS / IOS-XR

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 Industry Communities, Projects and
Standards Bodies
Cisco Innovations:
FEX Architecture
Technical Advisory
802.1 Overlay
Board seat Open Network Research
Networking Project
Center at Stanford
University

Puppet Agent
Modules
Puppet Labs
Initiatives:
investor
Contributor - Neutron API
Technical Advisory Group Technical Committee Donabe
Chair, Management Area Cisco Innovations:
Working Groups: Projects OpenStack API for Nexus
Config, Hybrid, Extensibility, OpenStack Extensions
Futures/FPMOD/OF2.0

Founding Platinum member

Catalyzed initial Open Source
offering

Overlay Working Groups:

NVO3, L2VPN, TRILL, L3VPN, LISP, PWE3
Working Groups:
NETCONF, ALTO, CDNI, XMPP, SDNP,
Open Source Cloud I2AEX
Computing project PCE, FORCES
I2RS – Interface to Routing System
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SD-WAN
• Software-defined Wide Area Network (WAN) approaches the design and
implementation of an enterprise WAN using principles of software-defined
networking to determine the most effective way to route traffic
• Traffic monitoring, service assurance and management shifts from physical
devices to (virtualized) applications
• Intelligence is abstracted into a virtual overlay -- enables the use of both private
and public connections while permitting automation, centralized network control,
and agile, real-time traffic management over multiple links securely
• Enables administration of remote device via a central controller, reducing
provisioning times and minimizing or eliminating the need to manually configure
traditional routers in branch locations
• Enables network programmability through broad availability of APIs
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 Network Functions Virtualization
Network infrastructure Services to run on Virtualized compute platforms

Key Enabler: using cloud technology to support

network functions
Hypervisor and cloud computing technology
x86 compute hardware
Network automation / orchestration
Benefits: Apps & Open
SDN
Innovation
Reduction in CAPEX and OPEX
Faster service provisioning
Service agility

SDN is complementary, but not mandatory – APIs, NFV

Controllers

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Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Service provisioning
from days to minutes dDOS
VM
SBC
VM
Firewall
VM
NAT
VM

From Cabling to Service CGN

VM
DPI
VM
IPS
VM
Virus Scan
VM

Chaining
DHCP DNS PCRF Portal
VM VM VM VM
Simple Logistics &
Common Sparing WLC
VM
RaaS
VM
SDN Ctrl.
VM
BRAS
VM

Dynamic & Elastic NMS Caching CDN WAAS

Scale VM VM VM VM

Seamless Integration with IP

NGN
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Virtualizing Network Functions
x86 vs. Custom NPU
Better fit for NPU
• e.g. IPv6/v4, MPLS, VPNs, Optical
• High throughput / BW
Network • Stateless functions
Forwarding • Mostly predictable traffic Compute
• Many flows needing isolation, significant traffic
(L0-3) management needed Bandwidth
• Interface-specific functions (2-stage forwarding)

• e.g. DPI, FW, CGN, BNG, Mobility S/PGW, AAA, Better fit for x86
DNS, DDOS (Virtualization)
Network • Low to Med Throughput
Services • Stateful functions
• Unpredictable traffic Compute
(L4+) • # of flows (traffic management) – varies
• No interface-specific functions Bandwidth

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 Better fit for x86

NFV – #1 Use-case Compute

Bandwidth

• Virtual Route Reflector

Primary Secondary
RR RR

IPv4 Primary Secondary

IPv6 Server Server
IPv IPv
VPNv4 4 IPv6 4 IPv6
VPNv4 VPNv4
VPLS IPv6
VPLS

Wide Area Network Wide Area Network

2 Server Chassis
8 RR chassis
1 RR per VM
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What Are Cisco's SDN solutions?
SD-WAN / NFV Solutions
• Hardware
– Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Router (ISR)
– Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router
– Cisco Integrated Services Virtual Router (ISRv)
– ASAv, vWLC, vWAAS

• Software
– Enterprise Service Automation (ESA) – a module to APIC-EM that automates Virtual
Network Functions (VNFs) across multiple sites
– Cisco Enterprise Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) -
provides the Linux-based virtualization layer allowing addition of VNFs to the network
with an integrated hypervisor and graphical user interface

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 Cisco Enterprise NFV Architecture

Orchestration, Provisioning, and Management

Cisco Enterprise Service Automation (ESA)
and other apps

Virtual appliances:
Routing, firewall, WAN VNFs and Apps
acceleration, WLAN control, other Cisco and third-party network functions and apps

Linux-based OS, APIs, hypervisor,

Virtualization Layer GUI, PHP agent
Cisco Enterprise NFC Infrastructure Software (NFVIS)

Host Platform
Cisco ISR 4000 with UCS E-series compute module
Cisco UCS C-series server
Generic x86 server

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 Highlights CP  DP
• Physical Networking Consistency – NX-OS
Nexus 1000V • Multi Hypervisor Consistency
NetVirt
• Innovative Security and Monitoring Solutions API
Network
Admin

Virtual
Supervisor
Module
VSM
VSM
VEM:
Virtual Ethernet
Module

VEM-1 VEM-2 VEM-N

SCVMM,
OpenStack, vCD Server 1 Server 2 Sever 3
Cloud/Server
Admin
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Overlays
Overlay / Virtual Network
• Mobile
• Scalable
• Supports Segmentation / multi-tenancy
• Programmable & Manageable

Underlay / Fabric
• High Capacity
• Resilient
• Intelligent Traffic Handling
• Programmable & Manageable

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Layer-2 Overlays
+ Emulate L2 LAN Segment
+ Transport Ethernet Frames (IP and non-IP)
+ Can emulate physical topologies
- Single Subnet Mobility (L2 domain)
- Exposure to L2 Flooding

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Layer-3 Overlays
+ Abstract IP-based connectivity
+ Transport IP Packets
+ Can emulate physical topologies
+ Full Mobility regardless of subnet
+ Contain Network Failures/Flooding
+ Useful in abstracting connectivity and policy

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 Tunnel End-Point
The Edges of Overlays
Network Overlays Host Overlays Integrated Overlays

VM VM VM VM VM VM
Physical Physical Physical
Virtual Virtual Virtual

Router/Switch end-points Virtual end-points only Physical and virtual end-points

Protocols for Resiliency & Loops Single administrative domain Resiliency & Scale; Cross-org &
Federation
Traditional VPNs Open Standards
OTV, VXLAN, VPLS, LISP VXLAN, NVGRE, STT ACI
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Some Network Overlay/SDN Humor
Credit to Sean McGee

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Cisco’s Solutions in Overlays
• VXLAN • LISP
• MPLS • Nexus 1000V
• OTV • ACI
• VPLS
BRKDCT-1301 VXLAN Deployment – Use Cases and Best Practices

BRKDCT-2328 Evolution of Network Overlays in Data Center Clouds

BRKDCT-2049 Overlay Transport Virtualization

BRKDCT-3103 Advanced OTV - Configure, Verify and Troubleshoot OTV in Your

Network
BRKDCT-2131 Mobility and Virtualization in the Data Center with LISP and OTV

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An Overview of Network Controllers
What Is OpenDaylight?
• …an open source project formed by industry leaders and others under the
Linux Foundation with the mutual goal of furthering the adoption and innovation
of Software Defined Networking (SDN) through the creation of a common
vendor supported framework.
• Focus: Customers with some programming resources that desire a free,
community-supported SDN controller, especially if focus is on OpenFlow

Platinum Gold Silver

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OpenDaylight (ODL)
Network Applications Cisco Sourced Customers 3rd Parties

OpenDaylight Controller Web UI

OSGI Northbound APIs RESTful

Java Bundle
H/A

Basic Operation Infrastructure

Stats Manager Host Tracker ARP Handler
Dijkstra SPF
Physical and Logical
Forwarding Rules Manager Topology Manager
Device Manager

Service Abstraction Layer (SAL)

NETCONF OVSDB Southbound APIs OpenFlow (1.0 or 1.3)

NETWORK DEVICES
Cisco or Other OpenFlow-enabled Devices

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OpenDaylight Architectural Model
Hydrogen
• Released February 2014

Helium
• Released October 2014
• 1.87M+ lines of code
• 28 Projects
• 256 Contributors

Lithium
• June 2015

Helium
• August 2015

Beryllium
• Feb 2016

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OpenDaylight

OpenFlow-enabled
devices that are
configured to this
controller
automatically show
up in the topology

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OpenDaylight

Hosts can be added

or learned
Flow-specifications
can be defined or
reviewed

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OpenDaylight Membership
Platinum Members
23 29
1
13 15
4

1.9M lines of code since

projects launch

10,411
total

Continuous Growth to 41 Members

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OpenDaylight Contributions

Source: http://spectrometer.opendaylight.org/?metric=loc
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What Is OSC?
• Cisco’s reinvestment from the previous Extensible Network Controller
(XNC) to a new ‘Open SDN Controller (OSC)’
• Based on OpenDaylight “Helium”
• Includes Cisco value-added functions: installation helpers, log and metrics
aggregation, plug-in clustering, and monitoring
• http://cisco.com/go/opensdn or
https://developer.cisco.com/site/openSDN
• Focus: Customers with some programming resources that desire a
commercially supported edition of a free, community-supported SDN
controller, especially if focus is on OpenFlow

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Cisco Commercial Distribution of OpenDaylight

Cisco Open SDN Controller

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Open SDN Controller vs Cisco XNC
Re-bases XNC on OpenDaylight Helium Release

Hydrogen Helium Lithium

XNC 1.x Open SDN Controller

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Open SDN Controller vs OpenDaylight

“HELIUM” Open SDN Controller

Community Support Cisco Supported
OpenContrail DLUX Log
Plugin Aggregation
LISP Flow AAA MD-SAL Metrics
Mapping Aggregation
Group Policy BGP-LS
OVA Distribution
Defense4all Basic
L2 Switch Controller
Precluded Clustering Incremental
OpenDaylight Common Content Cisco
Content Value
VTN Project OVSDB Yang Tools PCEP One Click Install
Secure Network
SNMP4SDN Openflow Monitoring
Bootstrap Infra
Plugin
PacketCable Central Admin
PCMM Service Function
Plug-in Clustering
AD-SAL Chaining
Sample Apps To be contributed back
SDNi to the “open community”

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Deployment Options
Standalone 3 Node Cluster

Southbound plug-in clustering to be contributed to OpenDaylight Lithium

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Native Applications

OpenFlow Manager

OpenFlow topology
visualization

Advanced flow management

Flow based troubleshooting

JSON body preview

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Native Applications (cont’d)

Inventory

Augmented OpenDaylight “Nodes”

user interface

Device vendor

Platform IDs

Series numbers

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Native Applications (cont’d)

BGPLS Manager

Visualize network
topology based on
Border Gateway (BGP)
Protocols

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Native Applications (cont’d)

PCEP Manager

Auto-create Label-
Switched Paths (LSPs)

Manually create LSPs

Delete LSPs

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Native Applications (cont’d)

Model Explorer

OpenDaylight YANG
User Interface

Call functions

Parameters

JSON body preview

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APIs

RESTCONF and Java APIs

For provisioning, checking
configuration and operational
states and fault management

List of exposed Northbound APIs

available via DevNet and on
platform

SAL Binding, Common,

Connector and Core APIs
provided

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What Is APIC-EM?
• A purpose-built, easy to use SDN controller
• Does NOT require programming experience [but does have REST NBI]
• Does NOT require HW/SW upgrades to take advantage of controller model
• Has specific applications built-in to address common network needs:
Policy Management, QoS Management, Zero-Touch Deployment and iWAN
• Available to SmartNet customers without charge

• Focus: Enterprise Customers with Few to No Programming Resources

that desires a Commercially-supported solution that preserves existing
investment and doesn’t require HW/SW upgrades
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Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller –
Enterprise Module (APIC-EM)

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Network Information Base Provides “One Source of Truth”

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Topology View

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APIC-EM @ Cisco Live (San Francisco 2014)

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Application:
QoS Classification Management

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Application:
Policy Analysis (ACL Trace Example)

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 APIC-EM ZTD: Site – Add Devices
Site Workflow
 Serial # and PID based
device matching on server
 Operational Config and/or
IOS image for each device
 Bootstrap config optional

 Import/Export to use table

driven data entry

 Or use REST for import !

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 APIC-EM IWAN
 Cisco's APIC-EM focuses on
policy-based management
using business language in
a simple GUI.
 Plug and Play

 Centralized policy
automation
 Public-key-infrastructure
certificate
 QoS/DMVPN deployment
and change management
 Network wide visibility and
segmentation with AVC

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What Is APIC?
• The SDN controller which is the unifying point of automation and
management for the Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric.
• Offers services for managing System, Tenant(s), Fabric, VM(s), L4-7
Services in the Nexus 9K datacenter fabric
• NBI: REST, Python
• SBI: OpFlex ACI, REST, L4-7 Scripting API/VTY

• Focus: Data Center Customers that desire a Commercially-supported

solution that leverages a centralized controller for the Nexus 9k product
family
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 Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)
Network Applications Cisco Sourced Customers 3rd Parties

Advanced GUI
with Extended
Features

Cisco APIC-DC Controller Web UI

Python Northbound APIs RESTful

Controller Applications/Feature

System Tenant Fabric L4-7 Services

VM Manager
Manager Manager Manager Manager
OpFlex
Cisco’s proposal
to IETF to
standardize a SBI OpFlex/ACI Agent Southbound APIs REST L4-7 Scripting API / VTY
for policy
management

NETWORK DEVICES

Cisco Nexus 9k Family

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Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller
Centralized Automation and Fabric Management

• Unified point of data center network automation System Storage Orchestration

and management: Layer 4 - 7 Management Management Management
Puppet Labs CloudStack
− Application-centric network policies Citrix NetApp
VMware Red Hat
Python KVM
− Data model-based declarative provisioning F5 OpsCode OpenStack
Cisco EMC
CFEngine Corporation Microsoft
− Application, topology monitoring, and troubleshooting XenServer

− Third-party integration (Layer 4 - 7 services, storage,

compute, WAN, etc.) Open RESTful API

− Image management (spine and leaf)

Storage SME Server SME Network SME
− Fabric inventory

• Single Cisco® APIC cluster supports

one million+ endpoints, 200,000+ ports, and Policy-Based Security SME App. SME OS SME
64,000+ tenants Provisioning
• Centralized access to all fabric information -
GUI, CLI, and RESTful APIs
• Extensible to computing and storage
management

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APIC
Unified API

Unified Information Model

RESTFul over HTTP(s)

Object Oriented
• JSON + XML
• Unified: automatically delegates request to corresponding • Comprehensive access to underlying information model
components • Consistent object naming directly mapped to URL
• Transactional • Supports object, sub-tree and class-level queries
• Single Management Entity yet fully independent components

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APIC Architecture Overview
Multithreaded, Distributed & Clustered Fabric Controllers

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Management Access
GUI
CLI
Any APIC
Web
R
Object E
Browser S
Python T
SDK

API Tools

https://apic.local/api/mo/uni/tn-common.xml

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APIC

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APIC GUI – System Topology

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APIC

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API Inspector in GUI

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Cisco SDN: Providing Choice in Automation and Programmability
Application Centric Programmable Fabric Programmable Network
Infrastructure

DB DB

Web Web App Web App

Turnkey integrated solution with VxLAN-BGP EVPN Modern NX-OS with enhanced
security, centralized management, standard-based NX-APIs
compliance and scale
3rd party controller support Automation Ecosystem
Automated application centric-policy (Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc.)
model with embedded security VTS for software overlay
provisioning and management Common NX-API
Broad and deep ecosystem across N2K-N9K across N2K-N9K

Mass Market
Service Providers Mega Scale Datacenters
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NX-API Support Across Nexus 2K-9K
Application Centric Programmable Fabric Programmable Network
Infrastructure

DB
DB

Web Web App Web App

ACI Release for Nexus 9000 Virtual Topology System (VTS) Unified Open NX-OS Release for Nexus
• Microsoft Azure and System Center for software overlay 3000 and Nexus 9000
Integration provisioning and management • Enhancements to NX-API – object store
• Programmability examples: vCenter plug- across for Nexus 2K-9K and model driven
in, ACI toolkit etc. • Standards-based fabric • Native 3rd party RPM applications
• Simplified operations support on Nexus 5600/7x00 integration (tcollector, Nagios, Ganglia,
• Stretched fabric, multiple destinations with VXLAN BGP EVPN Puppet / Chef etc.)
from 30KMs to 150KMs (shipping with Nexus 9000 • Linux utilities support for seamless tool
• Group-based policy on Openstack today) integration across compute and network
• New ACI ecosystem partners (CliQr) • SDK for custom application integration

Common NX-API across N2K-N9K

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Programmable Fabric
NX-API, VXLAN BGP EVPN Fabric, and Virtual Topology System (VTS)
VTS

NX-API

Operations /
Programmability
& Automation
BGP-EVPN VXLAN Fabric
Physical Virtual DCI/WAN

VM VM

OS OS
Automated
DCI / WAN
Bare Metal Virtualized

VTS for software overlay provisioning and management across

Nexus 2000 – Nexus 9000
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Virtual Topology System (VTS)
Overlay Provisioning & Management System

vCenter GUI

REST API
Flexible Overlays Automated
Seamless integration with Orchestrators
Physical and virtual overlays
Overlay provisioning and DCI/WAN integration
Bare-metal and Virtualized workloads

VTS
Open and Programmable Scalable VXLAN Management
REST Northbound APIs MP-BGP EVPN control plane
Multi-protocol and Multi-hypervisor support High performance virtual forwarding

Programmable Fabric

Across Nexus Portfolio

Nexus 2K – 9K

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Unified Open NX-OS Release for Nexus 3000 and Nexus 9000
Delivering Operational Flexibility and Lower OPEX
Programmable 3rd Party DevOps Custom Application Managing Switch with
Open APIs Automation Tools Development Linux Tools

DC
Repository

3rd party/custom apps

integration

Nexus

Open, Modular Toolset Integration in Extensible Leverage Linux Toolchain for

Operating System Open NX-OS Open NX-OS Switch Management

Enhancements to existing New SDK enables custom

Pre-developed RPMs from
NX-API to support object- application development with Leverage tcpdump, ifconfig
Cisco and Partners
based, model driven APIs option for secure lxc ethtool, iproute, BASH shell
(RESTful XML/JSON) containers commands for config and
Leverage same software tools
troubleshooting
and expertise across different
CPU, memory, priority controls
IT departments

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Cisco Prime Interlock with SDN/NP
Management CIAC
Operational Intelligence
PRIME INFRASTRUCTURE 3rd Party
and UCSD & NAM Apps Automated Service Provisioning
Orchestration Dynamic Service Assurance
Layer Catalog/ Fault/ User / Data Performance Reporting / Visualization and Analytics
Provisioning Events Management Monitoring Analytics

REST API

Control Network Intelligence

APIC Controller
Layer Device Layer Abstraction

Data Center Module Enterprise Module Network Control

Policy Enforcement and Network
Change
CLI, OpenFlow, OpFlex API

Device Cisco Devices

Layer Data Center, Enterprise Networks

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How to Get Ready
 Controller Deployment
Start by asking/acknowledging the
Branch Campus business problem/opportunity you’re
trying to address with SDN/NP

Carefully track the device support you

have or need for any function/API
support as it will dictate what you
can/can’t do

Gauge the programming/development

Data Center Teleworker effort needed to achieve your goals

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SDN/Network Programmability Impact to ITSM
• External Programs (and App Developers) have access to traditional network
devices – You Good with that!?
• Change Control – Now more Real-Time – Programs/Apps need to participate
• You MUST have Focused, Intentional monitoring of the controllers – they are
the brains!
• You MUST have a Robust backup/redundancy plan for controllers
• You MUST implement Good RBAC, security and accounting – lock-down the
controllers and APIs!
• The Uncle Ben Principle - “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”

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So…Are All Network Engineers Becoming
Programmers?

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Remember This Inflection Point?
Telephony in 1998

• IP Telephony struggled until we got ‘hybrid engineers’ to translate between the

Circuit Switch ‘Tip & Ring’ and Packet Switch ‘Bits & Bytes’ camps
• Likewise, now, we need the next generation of ‘hybrid engineers’ to translate between
traditional network domain engineers and software/application developers

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What Skills Would Be Helpful for a
Network Engineer Branching Out?
• Basic Programming constructs
(conditionals, loops, functions/procedures)
• Basic Python / Perl
• REST / Web Services
• Regular Expression
• XML / XSLT
• Basic SQL
• Basic shell scripting - grep
• #1 - Communicating Effectively with Programmers

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Job Roles: Cisco Network Programmability Evolution
Business Application
Business Application
Developer — Network
Developer
Programmability Aware

System Engineer/ Network

Network Designer Programmability
Developer

Network Engineer
Development Network
Programmability
Curriculum Designer

Network
Support Engineer Programmability
Engineer

Traditional Networking
Open Infrastructure
Infrastructure

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Network Programmability Cisco Education Offerings
Course Description Cisco Certification
Integrating Business Applications with Network Learn networking concepts, and how to deploy and troubleshoot Cisco Business Application
Programmability (NIPBA); programmable network architectures with these self-paced courses. Engineer Specialist Certification
Integrating Business Applications with Network
Programmability for Cisco ACI (NPIBAACI)

Developing with Cisco Network Programmability Learn how to build applications for network environments and effectively Cisco Network Programmability
(NPDEV); bridge the gap between IT professionals and software developers. Developer Specialist Certification
Developing with Cisco Network Programmability
for Cisco ACI (NPDEVACI)

Designing with Cisco Network Programmability Learn how to expand your skill set from traditional IT infrastructure to Cisco Network Programmability
(NPDES); application integration through programmability. Design Specialist Certification
Designing with Cisco Network Programmability
for Cisco ACI (NPDESACI)

Implementing Cisco Network Programmability Learn how to implement and troubleshoot open IT infrastructure Cisco Network Programmability
(NPENG); technologies. Engineer Specialist Certification
Implementing Cisco Network Programmability
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Cisco Services

SMART
SERVICE
CAPABILITIES

Services from Cisco Together with Cisco Certified Partners

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Driving Catalyst 6500 Migration To Nexus 9000
Catalyst Environments Migration Nexus 9000 Deployment
Tools
• Automate Nexus
VSS 9000 deployment
and configuration
• Migrate any
Cat6500 topology to
any Nexus 9000
topology
• Advanced Services
best practices
• Catalyst IOS to
NX-OS config
conversion

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Cisco Quick Start Service For Nexus 9000
Overview Deliverables Outcomes

• N/A • Share best practices and

• Technical advice and knowledge
guidance for smooth
• Increase competency and
integration of Nexus
speed to optimize ACI in
9000 your environment
• Technical consultant 3-
• Gain valuable expertise by
day on-site having direct access to
• High-level use Cisco consultants
case/design discussion

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Cisco Accelerated Deployment Services For Nexus 9000
Overview Deliverables Outcomes

• Define business and • Design document • Blueprint for ACI

technical objectives, use • Configuration migration • Accelerate time-to-value
case alignment, current and attainment and production
future state • Operations guideline
• Assess data center • Custom script development
ecosystem (server, network, • Knowledge transfer
storage, and virtualization)
• Functional specs, design,
test plan, acceptance
criteria
• Support customer team
during validation
• Knowledge transfer

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Technical Assistance From Cisco TAC
Resolve Issues Quickly

Direct Access to Cisco Technical Experts

• Highly trained network and application software engineers worldwide

• Expertise and best practices across data center technologies

• Computer science/electrical engineering degrees

24x7

• Engineering staff averages 5 years' industry experience

• CCIE professionals

• 24x7 global access by phone, web, or email

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DevNet

http://
https://developer.cisco.com
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Cisco SDN: Providing Choice in Automation and Programmability
Application Centric Programmable Fabric Programmable Network
Infrastructure

DB DB

Web Web App Web App

Turnkey integrated solution with VxLAN-BGP EVPN Modern NX-OS with enhanced
security, centralized management, standard-based NX-APIs
compliance and scale
3rd party controller support Automation Ecosystem
Automated application centric-policy (Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc.)
model with embedded security VTS for software overlay
provisioning and management Common NX-API
Broad and deep ecosystem across N2K-N9K across N2K-N9K

Mass Market
Service Providers Mega Scale Datacenters
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Continue Your Education
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Please join us for the Service Provider Innovation Talk featuring:
Yvette Kanouff | Senior Vice President and General Manager, SP Business
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Thursday, July 14th, 2016

11:30 am - 12:30pm, In the Oceanside A room

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Thank you
Acronym Decoder Ring [Aka Glossary]
• SDN -- Software Defined Networking

• BGP-LS – Border Gateway Protocol – Link State

• onePK – one Platform Kit

• NFV – Network Functions Virtualization

• SS7 – Signaling System No. 7

• ATM LANE – Asynchronous Transfer Mode LAN Emulation

• GMPLS – Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching

• VPLS – Virtual Private LAN Service

• VPN – Virtual Private Network

• GRE – Generic Routing Encapsulation

• LISP – Locator/ID Separation Protocol

• SNMP – Simple Network Management Protocol

• NETCONF – Network Configuration Protocol [IETF Standard]

• EEM – Embedded Event Manager

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Acronym Decoder Ring [Aka Glossary]
• CP – Control Plane

• DP – Data Plane

• CLI – Command-Line Interface

• API – Application Programmatic Interface

• GUI – Graphical User Interface

• OF – OpenFlow

• NAT – Network Address Translation

• TLV – Type-Length-Value

• PCEP – Path Computation Element (PCE) Communication Protocol

• I2RS – Interface To Routing System

• OTV – Overlay Transport Virtualization

• VXLAN – Virtual Extensible LAN

• REST – Representational State Transfer

• IDE – Integrated Development Environment

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Acronym Decoder Ring [Aka Glossary]
• CA – Controlled Availability

• GA – General Availability

• EFT – Early Field Trial

• NVGRE – Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation

• STT – Stateless Transport Tunneling

• ODL – OpenDaylight

• OSGi – Open Service Gateway Initiative

• NBI – North-Bound Interface

• SBI – South-Bound Interface

• iWAN – Intelligent Wide Area Network

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Basic Definitions
What Is Software Defined Network (SDN)? What Is OpenFlow?

“…In the SDN architecture, the control and data “…open standard that enables researchers
planes are decoupled, network intelligence and to run experimental protocols in campus networks.
state are logically centralized, and the underlying Provides standard hook for researchers to run
network infrastructure is abstracted from the experiments, without exposing internal working of
applications…” vendor devices…”

Note: SDN is not mandatory for network programmability or automation Note: OpenFlow is not mandatory for SDN
Source: www.opennetworking.org Source: www.opennetworking.org

What is OpenStack? What is Overlay Network?

Open source software for building public

Overlay network is created on existing network
and private Clouds; includes Compute (Nova),
infrastructure (physical and/or virtual) using a network
Networking (Quantum) and Storage (Swift)
protocol. Examples of overlay network protocol are:
services.
MPLS, LISP, OTV and VXLAN
Note: Applicable to SDN and non-SDN
Source: www.openstack.org Note: Applicable to SDN and non-SDN

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OpenFlow Platform Support
Platform Available Now

IOS Catalyst 6K (CA)

IOS-XE Catalyst 3850

Catalyst 4K (CA)

IOS-XR ASR9K (CA)

NX-OS Nexus 3000, 3100

Nexus 5K
Nexus 6K
Nexys 7K (CA)

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 Example Please…
Java ‘HelloWorld’ from a Router via Syslog
/**
* Copyright (c) 2010-2012, Cisco Systems, Inc.
*
* THIS SAMPLE CODE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY BY CISCO SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE of
* PROVIDING PROGRAMMING EXAMPLES. CISCO SHALL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY USE OF THE SAMPLE CODE IN ANY APPLICATION.
*
* Redistribution and use of the sample code, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following
* conditions are met: Redistributions of source code must retain the above disclaimer.
*
*/
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.cisco.onep.core.exception.OnepConnectionException;

import com.cisco.onep.core.exception.OnepDuplicateElementException;

import com.cisco.onep.core.exception.OnepIllegalArgumentException;

import com.cisco.onep.core.exception.OnepInvalidSettingsException;
...

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. . .

try {
/**
** Connect to the network element.
**/
connect();
logger.info("Connect to element = " + elementAddress);

networkElement.createSyslogMessage(NetworkElement.OnepSyslogSeverity.ONEP_SYSLOG_NOTICE, "Hello World");

logger.info("Sending 'Hello World' message via Syslog event message\n");

} catch (Exception e) {
logger.error(e.getLocalizedMessage(), e);
}

networkElement.disconnect("Exit");
logger.info("\n**************** End ****************\n");
}
}

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 Result
NE100#sh logg
Syslog logging: enabled (0 messages dropped, 12 messages rate-limited, 0 flushes, 0 overruns, xml disabled,
Console logging: level debugging, 48 messages logged, xml disabled,
filtering disabled
Monitor logging: level debugging, 0 messages logged, xml disabled,
filtering disabled
Buffer logging: level debugging, 57 messages logged, xml disabled,
filtering disabled
Count and timestamp logging messages: disabled

Trap logging: level informational, 56 message lines logged

Logging Source-Interface: VRF Name:

Log Buffer (4096 bytes):

*Aug 23 12:43:58.821: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console
*Aug 23 12:51:53.535: %ONEP-5-HELLOWORLD: Hello World
NE100#

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 Infrastructure SDN Reference Architecture for NFV
Apps
MATE Bandwidth TE Tunnel DC-WAN
Design/Live Services Manager Orch

Java/REST/Thrift APIs
Quantum WAVE Orchestration Platform

Visualization & Bandwidth

Analytics WAVE Orchestration

Collector &
Programming
Modeling
Collector API Deployer API

Collector/
DEPL
ODL API
Collector Server CDL/ODL
NETCONF/
agents agents BGP-LS PCEP CLI
YANG

Network
(Network Elements)
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 Overview of Cisco SP Virtualization offerings
Routing Security Mobility Video Others
Cloud Virtual Route Virtual Virtual EPC
Virtual EPC Virtual
Services Reflector Firewall (QvPC
Router (CSR) (XRv) (ASAv)
(QvPC SSI)
SCALE)
Cloud DVR WLC
FCS Q2 CY14
Shipping Shipping FCS Q2 CY14 FCS Q4 CY14

Web/Email
Virtual PE
Virtual BNG Security
Router Virtual GiLAN
(X-Star) Appliance vCDN Virtual SCE
(Sunstone) (Project Tenmile)
Pre-CC (WSA/ESA)
Pre-CC
FCS 2H CY14

Orchestration
HERO
Mozart Quantum WAVE
Cloud Services Orchestration WAN Orchestration
FCS Q2 CY14 FCS Q2 CY14

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Business Transformation Cisco Education Offerings
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For IT and Network Professionals:
Building Business Specialist Skills • Builds non-technical skills key to ensure business impact and influence. Cisco Enterprise IT
Topics include: business analysis, finance, technology adoption and Business Specialist
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• Bridges IT and business impacts of mature and emerging solutions

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For Technology Sellers:

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R&S Related Cisco Education Offerings
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Self Assessments, Workbooks & Labs for the CCIE R&S practical exam.

• Implementing Cisco IP Routing v2.0 Professional level instructor led trainings to prepare candidates for the CCNP® Routing & Switching
• Implementing Cisco IP Switched CCNP R&S exams (ROUTE, SWITCH and TSHOOT). Also available in
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• Troubleshooting and Maintaining
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Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices: Configure, implement and troubleshoot local and wide-area IPv4 and IPv6 CCNA® Routing & Switching
Part 2 (or combined) networks. Also available in self study eLearning format with Cisco Learning
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Design Cisco Education Offerings
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Data Center / Virtualization Cisco Education Offerings
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Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Unified Computing
(DCUCT)
Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric (DCUFT)

Product Training Portfolio: DCNMM, DCAC9K, DCINX9K, Gain hands-on skills using Cisco solutions to configure,
DCMDS, DCUCS, DCNX1K, DCNX5K, DCNX7K deploy, manage and troubleshoot unified computing, policy-
driven and virtualized data center network infrastructure.

Designing the FlexPod® Solution (FPDESIGN); Learn how to design, implement and administer FlexPod Cisco and NetApp Certified
Implementing and Administering the FlexPod® Solution solutions FlexPod® Specialist
(FPIMPADM)

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Cloud Cisco Education Offerings
Course Description Cisco Certification
Understanding Cloud Fundamentals Learn how to perform foundational tasks related to Cloud computing, and the essentials
(CLDFND) of Cloud infrastructure
CCNA Cloud
Introducing Cloud Administration Learn the essentials of Cloud administration and operations, including how to provision,
(CLDADM) manage, monitor, report and remediate.

Implementing and Troubleshooting the Learn how to implement and troubleshoot Cisco Cloud infrastructure: compute,
Cisco Cloud Infrastructure (CLDINF) network, storage.

Learn how to design private and hybrid Clouds including infrastructure, automation,
Designing the Cisco Cloud (CLDDES)*
security and virtual network services
CCNP Cloud
Automating the Cisco Enterprise Cloud Learn how to automate Cloud deployments – provisioning IaaS (private, private with
(CLDAUT)* network automation and hybrid) and applications, life cycle management
Building the Cisco Cloud with Application Learn how to build Cloud infrastructures based on Cisco Application Centric
Centric Infrastructure (CLDACI)* Infrastructure, including design, implementation and automation

Learn how to manage physical and virtual infrastructure using orchestration and
UCS Director Foundation (UCSDF)
automation functions of UCS Director.

* Available Q2CY2016

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Deployment Experience

One Click Installation

Open Virtualization (OVA) Format

VMware ESXi and Oracle Virtual

Box support

Single “click” to select standalone

vs clustered installation

Seamless software upgrades

Launched by Cisco Platform BU

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Web Based User Interface
Centralized Management and
Administration

Installed applications

System management

System monitoring

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System Management
Feature Administration

Provision

Enable / disable

User Administration

Provision

Role assignment

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System Monitoring

Services Status

Details on each node in a cluster

System status

Controller status

Metrics status

Logs status

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System Monitoring (cont’d)

Real Time Event Logging

Event visualization

Adhoc queries

Filtered queries

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System Monitoring (cont’d)

Real Time Metrics

CPU utilization

Memory usage

System load

Controller heap size

Network usage

Free disk space

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