OpenFlow Deep Dive
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This 6-hour deep dive webinar describes the technical details of OpenFlow, the protocol heavily promoted by Open Networking Foundation (ONF) as the cornerstone of next-generation controller-based networking.
If you're responsible for developing, designing or evaluating SDN solutions, you simply have to attend this webinar to understand the capabilities, limitations and scalability challenges of OpenFlow.
Contents
The OpenFlow Deep Dive webinar covers the following topics:
Introduction to OpenFlow
- OpenFlow principles of operation
- Control/data plane separation
- Out-of-band control-plane network
- Protocol evolution
OpenFlow protocol details
- OpenFlow messages
- Forwarding model
- Flow classifiers
- OpenFlow actions
- Punting to normal forwarding and controller
OpenFlow deployment models
- OpenFlow-only deployments
- Ships-in-the-night
- Hybrid (integrated) OpenFlow
Real-life OpenFlow implementations
- Market overview
- OpenFlow support in data center switches
Scalability challenges
- Forwarding limitations
- Proactive and reactive flow setups
- Hop-by-hop versus path-based forwarding
- Single-table state explosion
- Control-plane scalability
- Lack of shared fate
- Fast convergence
About the Author
Ivan Pepelnjak (CCIE#1354 Emeritus) has been analyzing OpenFlow technology and SDN ideas (and being pretty vocal about their shortcomings) since March 2011, resulting in a number of high-impact events, on-site SDN workshops for large enterprises and service providers, and vendor-sponsored webinars.
Ivan is the author of several SDN-related books, highly praised webinars, and dozens of OpenFlow and SDN-related technical articles published on his blog.