Faucet: Enterprise OpenFlow in production

Remember OpenFlow? It was the media and marketing darling for the better part of 5 years as “the machine” conflated OpenFlow with SDN and SDN with - almost literally - everything. “Still Does Nothing” was a common phrase uttered around those of us that had run large scale, complex networks for a long time. Quietly, and mostly , out of the fickle media and blogosphere eye, a scrappy little SDN project called faucet has been diligently plugging away – making easy to use, production quality, well documented, and very stable code that runs OpenFlow networks quite happily in production and at scale.

SDN across domains in the WAN – a novice look

There has been a flurry of discussion on SDN in the WAN lately, specifically, why and how. Brent Salsbury laid out a few use cases here . The why seems pretty straightforward. I do believe it will happen, however, the **how **is the interesting part. Admittedly, I’m a tad of a greenhorn in the SDN space, I’ve made it work in a lab, I participate as much as I can in the working groups and I attempt (poorly) to keep up.