Qcon: Much Faster Networking

Qcon: Much Faster Networking
David Riddoch talks about technologies that make very high performance networking possible on commodity servers and networks, with a special focus on kernel bypass technologies including sockets acceleration and NFV. These techniques give user-space applications direct access to the network adapter hardware, making possible sub-microsecond latencies and millions of messages per second per thread

SDN OpenDaylight Project

OpenDaylight Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:


The OpenDaylight Project is a collaborative open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation. The goal of the project is to accelerate the adoption of software-defined networking (SDN) and create a solid foundation for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The software is written in Java.

The Path to SDN

http://go.bigswitch.com/rs/974-WXR-561/images/The%20Path%20To%20SDN%20Final.pdf

Networking has seen more innovation in the past two years than in the past 20 years. This innovation is coming from the perfect storm of:

 • ‘Software-Defined Networking,’ a new architecture in networking 

• ‘White box’ and ‘brite box’ switching 

• The popularization of advanced datacenter designs pioneered by Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other hyperscale operators 

A Look Back at How It All Started

Bruce Davie,: Is SDN Necessary?

Is SDN Necessary?:

SDN != Network Virtualization SDN control control Network Virtualization != Virtualization layer control SDN alone doesn’t abstract away details of physical network SDN not required for network virtualization, but useful
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