Software defined flow-mapping for scaling virtualized network functions

  • Authors:
  • Sharon Barkai;Randy Katz;Dino Farinacci;David Meyer

  • Affiliations:
  • ConteXtream, Mountain View, CA, USA;University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;Cisco, San Jose, CA, USA;Brocade, Milpitas, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Hot topics in software defined networking
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Network functions such as subscriber-management, content-optimization, security and quality of service, are typically delivered using proprietary hardware appliances embedded into the network as turn-key service-nodes. Next generation functions are being implemented as pure software instances running on standard servers - unbundled components of capacity and functionality. Location-Identity-Separation Overlays enable SDN flow-mapping to dynamically assemble these components to whole solutions by steering the right traffic in the right sequence, of mobile users, to elastic apps & functions.