If you’re reading these lines between April 19 and 22, the guys are currently showcasing our traffic steering prototype in San Jose at Layer123 NFV World Congress. Keeping in mind the challenges and difficulties that network engineers face in their work, we have developed an effective load balancing solution aimed at providing easier and more flexible network management, reducing manual work, and accelerating traffic processing.
Major features include:
- Decoupled Load Balancer as VNF Element
- Intel® DPDK Acceleration for NGINX
- NFV Environment enables scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency
- TCP stack acceleration via Accelerated Network Stack (formerly known as netdp)
- SDN App (OpenDaylight) is a single point of control and configuration.
And here’s a diagram to illustrate the whole system:
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Here’s how PLVision’s prototype is working on each SDN stack plane to enable effective traffic steering:
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Data plane |
Control plane |
Application plane |
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SDN-enabled Edge Router Edge router running Open vSwitch on top of OpenWrt |
Open vMonitor Web UI to Open vSwitch – OpenDaylight’s extension |
KuPilot Traffic steering and network management SDN application |
| Gigabit SMB router platform empowered with Open vSwitch v2.4.0 enabling software-based datapath for OpenFlow v1.4 | Cross-platform, responsive web UI tool for Open vSwitch monitoring
Integrated with Opendaylight’s Topology Viewer |
Combines SDN and NFV technologies for VNF elements management
Establishes control of OF-based network on top of OpenDaylight |
Contact us if you have any questions!
- Demo & Download: Open Source SDN Solution for Dynamic Topology Switchover - August 17, 2017
- DPDK-NGINX vs NGINX: Tech Overview and Performance Testing - June 8, 2016
- OpenDaylight-Based Traffic Steering for Web Server Load Balancing: PoC - April 19, 2016
