SDN-enabled Programmable Optical Packet/Circuit Switched Intra Data Centre Network

All-Optical Programmable Disaggregated Data Centre Network Realized by FPGA-Based Switch and Interface Card

“…To fulfil the controlling mechanism enabled SDN framework, we extended the Openflow library with proposed extensions and also developed our own OpenDayLight agent to communicate with the optical devices and our SIC [16]. The OpenDayLight agent is capable of translating the information between the SDN controller and the optical devices.…”

“…Moreover, nine spools of HC-PBGF [16] were used for interconnection purposes in the different scenarios. In order to maintain single-mode propagation within the generally multi-moded HC-PBGF, each spool was first of all spliced with Large Mode Area (LMA) fiber and then with single mode fiber (SMF) pig-tails (as seen in inset of Fig.…”

Multi-Tenant Software-Defined Hybrid Optical Switched Data Centre

“…The current DC control and management plat-61 forms are mostly based on rigid and slow human-driven resource 62 provisioning procedures, resulting in a costly operation of DC 63 infrastructure. In [13], a software-defined networking (SDN) 64 [13] control platform is developed, which is based on the Open-65 Daylight (ODL) controller [15] but with some key functional 66 modules (e.g., Forwarding Rules Manager) extended to support 67 the control of optical network devices. OpenFlow (OF) [13] 68 agents are built for the non-OpenFlow enabled devices, while 69 the OpenFlow protocol is extended to enable communication 70 between the SDN controller and DCN devices.…”

“…In [13], a software-defined networking (SDN) 64 [13] control platform is developed, which is based on the Open-65 Daylight (ODL) controller [15] but with some key functional 66 modules (e.g., Forwarding Rules Manager) extended to support 67 the control of optical network devices. OpenFlow (OF) [13] 68 agents are built for the non-OpenFlow enabled devices, while 69 the OpenFlow protocol is extended to enable communication 70 between the SDN controller and DCN devices. This SDN con-71 trol platform enables on-demand, flexible, and programmable 72 optical DCN connectivity services [13].…”

“…OpenFlow (OF) [13] 68 agents are built for the non-OpenFlow enabled devices, while 69 the OpenFlow protocol is extended to enable communication 70 between the SDN controller and DCN devices. This SDN con-71 trol platform enables on-demand, flexible, and programmable 72 optical DCN connectivity services [13].…”