Software-Defined Networks: A Systems Approach

Peterson, Cascone, O’Connor, Vachuska, and Davie

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
  • Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Market Landscape
  • 1.2 Technical Landscape
  • 1.3 SDN: A Definition
• Chapter 2: Use Cases
  • 2.1 Network Virtualization
  • 2.2 Switching Fabrics
  • 2.3 Traffic Engineering for WANs
  • 2.4 Software-Defined WANs
  • 2.5 Access Networks
  • 2.6 Network Telemetry
• Chapter 3: Basic Architecture
  • 3.1 Software Stack
  • 3.2 Bare-Metal Switch
  • 3.3 Switch OS
  • 3.4 Network OS
  • 3.5 Leaf-Spine Fabric
• Chapter 4: Bare-Metal Switches
  • 4.1 Switch-Level Schematic
  • 4.2 Forwarding Pipeline
  • 4.3 Abstracting the Pipeline
  • 4.4 P4 Programs
  • 4.5 Fixed-Function Pipelines
  • 4.6 Comparison
• Chapter 5: Switch OS
  • 5.1 Thin Switch OS
  • 5.2 P4Runtime
  • 5.3 gNMI and gNOI
  • 5.4 SONiC
• Chapter 6: Network OS
  • 6.1 Architecture
  • 6.2 Distributed Core
  • 6.3 Northbound Interface
  • 6.4 Southbound Interface
  • 6.5 Scalable Performance
• Chapter 7: Leaf-Spine Fabric
  • 7.1 Feature Set
  • 7.2 Segment Routing
  • 7.3 Routes and Multicast
  • 7.4 Customized Forwarding
• Chapter 8: Network Virtualization
  • 8.1 Challenges
  • 8.2 Architecture
  • 8.3 Building Blocks
  • 8.4 Example System
  • 8.5 Microsegmentation
  • 8.6 Is Network Virtualization SDN?
• Chapter 9: Access Networks
  • 9.1 Background
  • 9.2 SD-PON
  • 9.3 SD-RAN
  • 9.4 Role of SD-Fabric
• Chapter 10: Future of SDN
• Hands-on Programming
  • Environment
  • Exercises
• About The Book
  • Read the Book
  • Releases and Editions
  • Build the Book
  • Contribute to the Book
• About The Authors