[Sdnp] Example Use Case - Bandwidth on Demand for Hybrid Cloud

[Anton Ivanov]

On 09/08/11 15:04, Thomas Nadeau wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2011, at 11:33 AM, David Meyer wrote:
>
>    
>> Hey Dave,
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Mcdysan, David E
>> <dave.mcdysan at verizon.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I mentioned in the IETF SNDP Bar-Bof  a potential use case. Attached are a
>>> few slides on this providing more detail on this potential use case for
>>> SDNP -- Bandwidth On Demand (BOD) for Hybrid Cloud for your review and
>>> comment.
>>>
>>>
>>> OpenFlow could be used in some cases, but I believe much more is needed. I
>>>        
>> I was under the impression that OF was out of scope here.
>>      
> 	To be precise in answering Dave McDysan's question, since this is still
> an informal effort, what is in and out of scope is up to the people in the discussion.
> I think from my end, I personally don't think it is worth distracting things with
> discussions of replacing Openflow; IMHO OF might be a subset of the
> architectural picture we are drawing here, but that isn't completely set in
> stone, so we don't know. What I would like to do is narrow down that picture so
> we know precisely what components it is were are trying to make
> work together first.
>    

+1. I do not see a reason why a SDN  controller cannot control  a 
compatible OF instance.


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