1. Switches – routers in disguise
Software router accelleration using OpenFlow hardware
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Kaunas university of technology
LITNET
2017

2. Border gateway routers are expensive
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3. Free software!
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4. Can we route using switches?
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5. Switches – routers in disguise
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6. SDN Internet router from Spotify
Concept proven to work
Supports linux switches only
Image taken from David Barroso’s presentation on Spotify’s SDN internet router
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7. Switches – routers in disguise
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9. Advantages of our proposed idea
Vendor independence
No software licensing fees
Scalability
Reduced deployment costs
Legacy border router integration into an SDN infrastructure
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10. Proof of concept… it sort of works?
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11. Tested on real, low end hardware
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12. Traffic load on the switch
Traffic load on the software router

13. What’s next?
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14. https://gitlab.com/N0rbertas
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