NANOG Meeting Presentation Abstract

Migrating AmLight from legacy to SDN: Challenges, Results and Next Steps
Meeting:	NANOG63
Date / Time:	2015-02-04 12:00pm - 12:30pm
Room:	Salon I
Presenters:	Speakers: Jeronimo Bezerra, Florida International University Jeronimo is a network engineer at Florida International University, responsible for the AmLight project, project that connects all academic networks in Latin America to other academic networks in the world. Involved with computer's networks since 2002, Jeronimo has MSc degree in Mechatronics, Cisco and Juniper certifications. He has also been involved with commercial service providers in Brazil, specially with IPv6, MPLS and BGP deployments. Currently, Jeronimo is deeply involved with SDN to support network-aware applications.
Abstract:	In August 2014, AmLight distributed exchanged point was migrated from a VLAN+RSTP network to a SDN. This migration had two main motivations: improve provisioning and add programability support to AmLight network. But this migration wasn't simple, because with points of presence in the U.S, Chile and Brazil, peaks of 22Gbps of traffic per day, more than 300 VLANs and 1,000 universities and research centers connected to it, any change is complex and it has to be performed carefully. Multi-domain layer 2 provisiong was improved from days to seconds after the SDN deployment; network virtualization is available for interested users. This presentation will describe our experience in migrating a production layer two network to become the first SDN network connecting countries in Latin America. We will describe the steps we took, all tests and challenges, the results and next steps.
Files:	Migrating AmLight from legacy to SDN(PDF) Migrating AmLight from legacy to SDN
Sponsors:	None.

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