SDNRG (Software Defined Networking Research Group)

ITB First Meetup

10-minutes introAffan Basalamah (affan@itb.ac.id)

SDNRG

Welcome

• All speakers

• SDNRG ITB

• All organizers

• ARC ITB

• All local audiences

• All remote attendances

Some intro

• Affan Basalamah

• IT Infra Manager

• Unit Sumber Daya Informasi

• Institut Teknologi Bandung

• affan@itb.ac.id

• @affanzbasalamah

ITB Campus Core Network

So what is SDNRG?

• It is initiative

• Community for collaborative knowledge sharing

• Discussing SDN (Software Defined Networking) technology in Indonesia

• ITB for starting point

SDNRG ITB presence

• Website & blogs: http://sdnrg.itb.ac.id

• Twitter: @sdnrgitb

• Slideshare: http://slideshare.net/sdnrgitb

What is Software Defined Networking?

Thomas D. Nadeau & Ken Gray, SDN - Software Defined Networking, O’Reilly Media, 2013

Software-defined networks (SDN): an architectural approach that optimizes and simplifies network operations by more

closely binding the interaction (i.e., provisioning, messaging, and alarming) among applications and network services and devices,

whether they be real or virtualized.

But why?

• There’s big gap between network research/edu community and network practitioners community

• SDN technology is standing between these community

• They need each others

• Network practitioners need help for their problems

• Research/edu need real use case for their research

Bridging the gaps - Networkers

• SDN right now is hot topics in network practitioners community

• But they cannot easily comprehend it

• Or even apply it in their place (Enterprise, SP/ISP/DC)

• Vendors has all its definition on SDN

• Make it harder to choose which tech to use

• Interoperability became big issue

Bridging the gaps - Research/Edu community

• Research edu community can help

• They have all the time they need

• Their testbed can fail without causing financial loss

• But they need real use case from practitioners

• SDN technology offer simpler and cheaper testbed

• Simulating entire campus network on single laptop

Bridging the gaps - Vendors & SI

• Vendors has its own SDN definitions

• But let’s throw all SDN definitions in this group

• Educate networkers & researcher about vendor tech

• Opportunity to interop between vendors

• Tech understanding leading to the sales lead

SDNRG ITB can bridge the gaps

• Researcher can get real use case from practitioners

• Practitioners can get help understanding SDN tech

• Vendors can promote SDN tech to educated community

After the gaps is small, whats next?

• Educated researchers can build SDN tech solutions for practitioners that fit to the real use case

• Educated practitioners can architect better SDN solutions that leads to better network, with help from researchers & vendors

• Educated vendors can propose SDN solutions to the right customers

Thank You!

• All speakers

• SDNRG ITB

• All organizers

• ARC ITB

• All local audiences

• All remote attendances

Let’s make it happen!