5. NEC SDN Portfolio - Controller
PFC (ProgrammableFlow Controller) PF6800
First generally-available OpenFlow controller
OpenFlow 1.0.0
Linux appliance
PF6800
ProgrammableFlow Controller Appliance
Benefits
Dramatically reduces network operation costs through
simplified network management
Increases service agility by providing network control
through a single pain of glass
Improves return on investment by Increasing network and
server utilization
Reduces power and space requirements verses chassis
deployments
Achieves greater resiliency to network equipment failures
Foundation for multi-vendor network hardware
environment OpenFlow Control (Trema)
Physical Topology Manager
Path Control
L2L3 Stack
Topology
Discovery,
Self Repair
Multitenant
Networks
Flow Table Entry
Management
Flow allocation
based on Policy
Policy
Management
VTN VTN VTN
API
6. NEC SDN Portfolio - Switch
PFS (ProgrammableFlow Switch) PF5240
48 10/100/1000 ports + 4 1000/10000 ports
176Gbps fully non blocking switching
OpenFlow Support - Flow Entries capabilities of
64,000-160,000
Hybrid OpenFlow
Connects OpenFlow Networks to L2/L3
Networks
Virtual switch instance for running
OpenFlow and distributed protocols on the
same equipment
PF5240
ProgrammableFlow Switch
Benefits
ProgrammableFlow OpenFlow technology delivers
chassis like capabilities with fixed ports economics
NEC OpenFlow capability delivers enterprise
class performance with dramatic reductions in network
complexity and configuration
High-availability location free networks
with hitless fail-over and hot insertion/removal of units
Layer 2 / Layer 3
OSPF,BGP, RIP,VRRP, PIM, MLD
STP, RSTP, MSTP, PVST, IGMP, Rate limiting,
bandwidth control
Data Center Ready
- Modular design with internal redundant hot
swappable power supplies and fan
- 4 sfp+ ports supporting cost effective SFP+ SR
- Front to Back/Back to Front Airflow
7. NEC SDN Portfolio - Switch
PFS (ProgrammableFlow Switch) PF5820
10GbE(SFP/SFP+) x 48 ports + 40GbE(QSFP+) x 4 ports
OpenFlow based flow handling with hardware at full wire
rate (1.28Tbps)
Support Layer 2 (MAC) forwarding table manipulated
through OpenFlow
Layer 2 (MAC) Table max 96K entries
12-tuple flow table max 750 entries
Redundant hot swappable power supplies
Rack-mountable in standard 19" racks. Dimensions17.3"
wide, 19.0" deep, 1U high
PF5820
ProgrammableFlow Switch
New ProgrammableFlow Switches
PF5248
- 10G * 8 ports
- Functionally equivalent to PF5240
PF5220 (Japanese market, US market : TBD)
- 10G * 2 ports + 1G * 24 ports
- Functionally equivalent to PF5248
PF1000(Japanese market, US market : TBD)
- Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V virtual SW with OpenFlow
8. 1. Management and Design : Drag and Drop Network Design
2. Security : Network isolation and access control (ACL)
3. Automation: VM Mobility and Traffic Steering
Mobility support of physical hosts and VMs
Routing / Path management
Layer 2 multipath routing (N=8 )
Operational Rerouting of flows (without any packet loss)
Automatic detour of all flows through nodes
Redirection
Redirect matched flows with specified 12 tuple flow entries
(exact match, wild card match, and its any mix)
4. Reliability
Controller: Active-Standby Redundancy
Switches: N Active Redundancy
Links : Link Aggregation, Multi-Chassis LAG (N Active)
Automatic network failure recovery (for all failure modes)
5. Openness
Services independent from hardware
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NEC SDN Unique Features
Awards
9. Q1. Numbers of flow in switch?
OpenFlow is based on flow switching architecture and requires a lot of flow entry in switches
Answer From NEC:
NECs switch has extra TCAM to accommodate up to 160K flow entry
(commercial chip has only 2K to 4K flow entry)
Q2. Multi-layer forwarding?
OpenFlow 1.0 specifies 12 tuple (L1/L2/L3/L4) based matching condition and header rewriting
Answer From NEC:
NEC PFS provide hardware based (not software!) 12 tuple matching condition and rewriting
(mac rewriting, strip VLAN, IP header and etc.)
SDN Answer From NEC
10. SDN Answer From NEC
Q3. Network virtualization
OpenFlow is just a protocol and doesnt provide network virtualization.
Answer From NEC:
NEC provide VTN (Virtual Tenant Network) which completely separate physical and logical
network resource.
User can fully design and configure network only logical views
Q4. Broadcast
OpenFlow is controller based architecture. Controller need to manage all broadcast traffic as single point.
Answer From NEC:
NEC has wire rate broadcast/multicast solution, In-band BC/MC as vender extension.
11. NEC SDN Virtualized Network
Automated Deployment on Physical Network
Virtualized Physical Network
Hides physical switches, ports, network topology, protocols
Zero switch/port level configuration on deployment
Automatically optimizes underlying network resources
Virtual Router
Virtual Bridge
Physical Network
Virtualized Network
23. 1. No Local VLAN setting
- PFC directly configure VLAN settings instead of local setting to PFS
2. Quick Failure recovery
- Reducing failure recovery time by re-routing a group of flows
(not re-routing individual flows)
3. IPv6 Routing Function
- Full IPv6 routing by vBridge(L2) and vRouter (L3)
4. OpenStack support
- Essex : GA
- Folsom : RC (POC quality and functionality)
Overview of PFlow V4.0