Description

This seminar offers a complete state of the art of the emerging field of network virtualization and the impacts on the digital transition and Cloud Networking. After an introduction presenting the market and the changes in virtualization in the Cloud, the seminar offers an in-depth study of SDN (Software Defined Network) software networks as well as the current NFV (Network Function Virtualization) standardization. It shows a presentation of the OpenFlow protocol as well as existing solutions on the market and their deployment.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

IT or production managers. Operations, relationship and application managers. System or network administrators. Project managers, users...

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Define the fundamental principles of network virtualization

Understand and evaluate the main aspects of software networks

Identify the problem and the inherent technical solutions

Discover and implement existing solutions

Understand the economic and innovation opportunities brought by the SDN

Training program

• Virtualization and networks
  • The market and virtualization needs.
  • The transition from the internalized information system model to outsourced.
  • The impact of broadband technologies on network virtualization (Optical Fiber, High-speed Cellular Networks).
  • From supercomputers to data centers.
  • Academic and industrial research projects precursors of SDN.
  • Virtualization: concept, models and principles.
  • Hypervisors (Xen, VMware/vSphere, OpenVZ, Linux VServer, Hyper-V, KVM).
  • The different solutions of Cloud (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
  • Network integration in the Cloud: Neutron in OpenStack.
  • Virtualized equipment.
  • Characterization of Quality of Service (QoS), the mechanisms which guarantee it.
  • Examples of virtualization of network functions (Firewalls, Switch, Router, PC.).
• Architecture and its standardization
  • Standardization organizations.
  • Standardization in progress with NFV (Network Functions Virtualization).
  • ONF (Open Network Foundation) architecture.
  • North, south, east and west interfaces.
  • Cloud architectures (Central Cloud, Cloudlet).
  • Uses (Infrastructure, Service, Mobile.).
  • Constraints for hosting sensitive data and regulation.
• Techniques and applications of SDN (Software Defined Networking)
  • SDN network architectures.
  • Transmission plane-control decoupling.
  • Abstraction layers.
  • Physical controllers and virtual.
  • SDN in local networks.
  • LAN controllers, applications.
  • SDN players: Open Networking Foundation, IETF, operators .
  • Control of the infrastructure (centralized or distributed).
  • Automation of network management.
  • The coexistence of virtualized and traditional networks .
  • The migration of virtual networks.
  • The virtualization of security (virtual firewalls), what is possible to achieve.
  • The management of access control (Authentication, identity management).
  • High Availability, load balancing (Load Balancing).
  • Energy consumption management , how can we reduce this consumption?
• OpenFlow networks
  • The controller-transfer node coupling.
  • OpenFlow functionalities and frames.
  • OpenFlow switches, Open vSwitch.
  • The controllers compatible with OpenFlow, NOX, FlowVisor.
  • Open Source developments, OpenDaylight, OpenContrail.
• Protocol levels
  • The frame and packet level.
  • Advantages and Disadvantages.
  • Interconnection solutions for data centers.
  • Compatibility with Ethernet .
  • Level 2 routing.
  • QoS: MPLS/GMPLS.
  • Overlays: NaaS.
  • Technologies levels 3: NVGRE, VXLAN.
  • VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN) encapsulation protocols.
  • Trends: STT, NVGRE, SPB.
• Wireless network virtualization
  • Virtualization in mobile networks: HLR, VLR, virtual antennas.
  • The coexistence of virtualized and non-virtualized mobile networks, Cloud-RAN.
  • Virtualization of the IMS (IP multimedia Subsystem).
  • Passpoint virtual access points.
  • Migration of virtual access points.
• New network paradigms
  • The limits and disadvantages of the current architecture.
  • SDN and the support of new network paradigms.
  • SDN in the Internet of Things.
  • The TRILL (TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) protocol.
  • The LISP (Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol) protocol.
  • The ICN (Information Centric) model Network).
• SDN equipment manufacturers, new trends
  • Standard products from OEMs.
  • ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) from CISCO.
  • NSX from VMware, FlexNetwork from HP.
  • Other proposals: Brocade, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent/Nokia.
  • Performance: hardware accelerators.
  • Trends among operators, first deployments: Google, Orange.
  • The maturity of SDN solutions.
  • The positioning of Cloud Networking.
  • The convergence of networks (Mobile and Cloud).
  • The impact of virtualization on applications and services.
  • Deployment forecasts.
  • The chances of success of new generations of protocols.
  • Market trends.