[Sdnp] Proposed SDN BOF charter

[Ping Pan]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Shane Amante <shane at castlepoint.net> wrote:
>
>
> Yes, but not necessarily on an _IP_ network.  Let's use an example that
> Ping provided during the BOF: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery (BCDR)
> across an optical network.  Application, inside DataCenter B, needs to
> quickly restore gobs of data from DataCenter A to DataCenter B, (say there
> was complete loss of disks in DataCenter B).  The application talks to an
> SDNP controller, find out that the IP network between them is normally
> provisioned to carry at most 1 Gbps of data, which isn't fast enough.
>  Application says "I need 10G" to the SDNP controller.  SDNP conductor sets
> up 10G Wavelength between DataCenter A and DataCenter.  In addition, SDNP
> conductor also verifies there is capacity and then sets up VLAN's on
> switches inside the respective DataCenters to get to the Optical ADM to
> allow the two servers to talk to each other.  Data restores.  When it's all
> done, Wavelength is released.  That is one definition of "reserving
> capacity".
>

Hmmm.... I wonder where I got that idea from? ;-) Maybe your shouting at me
in the middle of Prague street around midnight, while Craig waving an
OpenFlow spec at me, had something to do with it.... ;-)


> Let's not pigeon-hole ourselves in to thinking SDNP is strictly associated
> with IP/MPLS networks.  Lots of other components & layers comprise a
> "network" across which applications want to communicate.
>
>
Yes. MPLS is one of the vehicles interconnecting large user groups.All
applications want to do is to make a use of the "resource" to transport
data. Further, the applications do not care about the internal network
operation, such as routing, load balancing etc. They just want a pipe!

Ping
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lucidvision.com/pipermail/sdnp/attachments/20110922/86a42401/attachment.htm>