Author: Brent Salisbury

I have over 20 years of experience wearing various hats from, network engineer, architect, ops and software engineer. More at Brent's LinkedIn

OpenFlow Starter Tutorial Lab #1

[fancy_header3 variation=”slategrey”]OpenFlow Starter Tutorial Lab #1[/fancy_header3] [fancy_numbers variation=”slategrey”] [info_box]For a more up to date tutorial as anything more then 6 months old is outdated in the world of SDN Please see: [download_link link=”http://networkstatic.net/opendaylight-openstack-integration-devstack-fedora-20/” variation=”red”]OpenDaylight OpenStack Integration with DevStack on Fedora 20[/download_link][/info_box] Lab 1: Add static destination MAC addresses to each node. Match: DstMac: , Action:DstPortX… Continue reading OpenFlow Starter Tutorial Lab #1

Cisco Networkers Live CLUS or whatever we call it now SDN Predictions

I was emailing with my buddy Roy at SDN Central http://www.sdncentral.com/ about it would be fun to see a poll for people to guess what Cisco will do with their big SDN announcement. I jotted down four options that are all in the realm of possibility, or at least the same realm of if SDN makes sense and… Continue reading Cisco Networkers Live CLUS or whatever we call it now SDN Predictions

The Northbound API- A Big Little Problem

The Northbound API- A Big Little Problem : What is a Northbound API (Application Programming Interface) in SDN? The Northbound API is available on a SDN controller that allows for applications to interact with the controller. The controller in turn, interacts with the network hardware through the OpenFlow protocol to manipulate the flow tables and send instructions… Continue reading The Northbound API- A Big Little Problem