Hands-on introduction to Software-Defined Networking (SDN), a networking paradigm that overcomes several limitations of traditional network infrastructure.
The development of this lab series was supported with funding from the National Science Foundation Award 1829698 “CyberTraining CIP: Cyberinfrastructure Expertise on High-throughput Networks for Big Science Data Transfers” at the University of South Carolina (UofSC). The labs provide hands-on training in the technologies used to build and configure high-speed networks.
These labs provide a hands-on introduction to Software-Defined Networking (SDN), a networking paradigm that overcomes several limitations of traditional network infrastructure.
| Labs |
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| Lab 1: Introduction to Mininet |
| Lab 2: Legacy Networks: BGP Example as a Distributed System and Autonomous Forwarding Decisions |
| Lab 3: Early Efforts of SDN: MPLS Example of a Control Plane that Establishes Semi-static Forwarding Paths |
| Lab 4: Introduction to SDN |
| Lab 5: Configuring VXLAN to Provide Network Traffic Isolation |
| Lab 6: Introduction to OpenFlow |
| Lab 7: SDN-Routing within an SDN network |
| Lab 8: Interconnection between legacy networks and SDN networks |
| Lab 9: Configuring Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) |
| Lab 10: Applying Equal-cost Multi-path Protocol (ECMP) within SDN networks |
| Exercises |
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| Exercise 01: SDN Network Configuration |
| Exercise 02: Configuring VXLAN |
| Exercise 03: OpenFlow Protocol Management |
| Exercise 04: Incremental Deployment of SDN Networks within Legacy Networks |
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