1. SDN / SDX Update Darrell Newcomb darrell@cenic.org 16 October 2015 PRP Workshop

2. Pacific Wave is … Collaboration of CENIC and PNWGP 3 metro regions – Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle A “Distributed Exchange” – Interconnections between participant networks – In Global Lamba Integrated Facility(GLIF) parlance three GOLEs operated under single domain/operations

3. Western Region R&E Exchange Points – PacificWave exchange points in the Western United States at Seattle, SF Bay Area (Sunnyvale), Los Angeles, Denver, Albuquerque and El Paso – Includes a diverse ring fabric to allow participating networks to interconnect across that fabric with other participants 22 major R&E networks directly connect to the Pacific Wave fabric

4. CENIC/Pacific Wave NSF Award Pacific Wave Expansion Supporting SDX & Experimentation (ACI-1451050, September 2015) – Continued enhancement, upgrade and evolution of Pacific Wave to support more 100G connections – Additional 100G capacity between exchanges points along West Coast – SDN/SDX deployment on parallel infrastructure to enable experimentation while maintaining production use of the Pacific Wave exchange – Collaboration with other IRNC awardees on SDX development, measurement and monitoring.

6. SEA SVL LA ELP ABQ DEN CHI Hawaii SDX Pacific Wave SDX – Future SDX

7. PacificWave SDX Technical Control Plane Abstraction Layer (FlowSpace Firewall) OpenFlow Switches On-ramp Locations (Ethernet / virtual circuits) OSCARS / Network Testbeds circuit building (NSI) SDX middleware OpenFlow Controllers (plural) Testbed Resources / Other Uses (DTNs) Science Group Applications/Uses

8. Thank You all! Looking forward to further collaboration on PRPv2 and other activities. Darrell Newcomb darrell@cenic.org 16 October 2015 PRP Workshop