[AusNOG] [CAIA Seminar] 10:30am, 12th Nov 2015, EN615 - The Australian Wide-Area SDN Testbed

[Jason But]

Hello all

People who happen to be in Melbourne on Thursday November 12 may be 
interested in attending the following Seminar by David Wilde of AARNET.

Swinburne University is part of a 9 University (plus CSIRO and AARNET) 
project led by Vijay Sivaraman of UNSW to deploy a nation-wide SDN/OpenFlow 
based Research Testbed.

David and AARNET have kindly agreed to allow the seminar to be recorded and 
made available online however I encourage anybody who is available on the 
day to feel free to attend.

Seminar details below.

Regards

Jason

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CAIA Seminar Notice
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For more information, please visit http://caia.swin.edu.au/seminars

Title:    The Australian Wide-Area SDN Testbed

Speaker:  David Wilde, AARNET

Time:     10:30am, 12th Nov 2015

Location: EN615, Level 6, EN Building

Abstract:

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is rapidly emerging as a technology with
potential to improve network flexibility via software-based management and
control.
A consortium of researchers from nine Universities and the CSIRO, led by
UNSW and including Swinburne, has been awarded a LIEF grant by the
Australian Research Council to deploy SDN equipment within each of their
labs.  These sites are being interconnected by AARNet to create a national
wide-area SDN testbed environment, with the potential to peer
internationally with testbeds in the USA, Europe and elsewhere.
This testbed is helping us better understand the SDN ecosystem -
Openflow-enabled hardware (Noviflow, Pica8, Corsa), controller software
(Floodlight, Ryu, ONOS), application development APIs, and SDN applications
themselves.  Building this wide-area testbed is helping us learn the
complexity, maturity, performance, and scalability aspects of carrier SDN
deployment, as well as identify current gaps. The intended result is a
growing store of knowledge and experience, to be shared with network
operators who are potentially interested in exploring SDN solutions.
In this presentation, the architecture of the SDN testbed will be
presented, along with examples of the planned research experiments and
potential use-cases.

Biography:

David Wilde joined AARNet, Australia's Academic and Research Network, in
2010.  The AARNet network serves more than one million end users and
enables academics, researchers and students throughout Australia.
His primary focus has been on driving the rollout of 'AARNet4', Australia's
next-generation research and education network providing ultra-high
bandwidth and leading edge applications to the research and education
sector throughout Australia.  More broadly, he is responsible for AARNet's
future technology roadmap, to ensure that AARNet continues to ride at the
forefront of technology.
David brings 20 years of experience to his role at AARNet, across a variety
of technical and executive positions within telecommunications operators
and service providers.  Prior to joining AARNet he spent several years in
France, where he founded a boutique network integration company, building a
European customer base including IBM, Alcatel-Lucent and Loreal.
David holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) and a Bachelor of Science
(Applied Maths, Physics) from Monash University, and presents regularly at
conferences in Australia and internationally.

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Dr. Jason But
Deputy Chair, Department of Telecommunications, Electrical and Robotics 
Engineering
Deputy Academic Director (Education Quality & Accreditation)
Course Co-Ordinator, Bachelor of ICT (Network Design and Security)

Department of Telecommunications, Electrical and Robotics Engineering
School of Software and Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology
Swinburne University of Technology
CRICOS Provider 00111D

Phone:  +61 3 9214 4839
Email:  jbut at swin.edu.au
www:    http://caia.swin.edu.au/cv/jbut
Office: EN606e