What is the state of OpenFlow as we transition into 2013? Router Analysis, Inc. will be taking the last few weeks of 2012 to put together a comprehensive report on the state of OpenFlow. Our goal is to work with as many analysts and academics to understand where OpenFlow was expected to be vs where OpenFlow is. While we will do OpenFlow testing, if anyone is expecting a b … [Read more...]
This post has been sitting in my queue since October, I felt it was time to let it go. It's all about fit and features in Software Defined Overlay Networks Midokura MidoNet: What is it? Midokura's MidoNet creates a fully-meshed overlay network built on top of your current IP network. MidoNet's defining feature is the claimed ability to fully process a packet at the edge of … [Read more...]
Network APIs and their impact on Network Architecture In Network Architecture there are a many small decisions that go along with the one big one, mainly which vendor(s) to use. Some architects have their favorite, the vendor that has earned the architects trust. Other architects make a new decision each time, trying to base their vendor decision on both the clients wishes a … [Read more...]
Network Function Virtualization or NFV for short is a call to action that looks to aggregate resources across networking, compute and storage. A collaboration of many of the large players in the telecommunications space, the original NFV call to action focused on lowering the amount of proprietary hardware necessary to launch and operate services. The solution as discussed in t … [Read more...]
Analyzing and Testing Vyatta Subscription Edition 6.5 R1 A Router Analysis, Inc. independent report. *** Note *** The report has been updated to clarify questions that I have received. The new report # is RA-111812-02. Router Analysis, Inc. has released the full testing report on Vyatta Subscription Edition 6.5 R1. The report contains data on traffic forwarding, routin … [Read more...]
Here is the two page test summary as displayed in the Vyatta booth at the 12th Annual Cloud Computing Expo November 4-7th 2012 in Santa Clara, CA We want to thank Vyatta for all of their assistance and congratulate them again on their acquisition by Brocade. We expect the full report to be out in the next week or so. Vyatta Testing Summary for Cloud Computing Expo … [Read more...]
What Overlay Networks are being sold for today. Overlay Networks are being sold as the solution to scaling issues, be it VLAN, routes, MAC tables or other network limitations. Overlay Networks are built by using tunneling protocols such as GRE or IPinIP. The main customers for overlay solutions are those with older equipment that has not been refreshed in the past five or m … [Read more...]
Testing Vyatta Subscription Edition 6.5 R1 We here at SDN Testing have been working with Router Analysis, Inc. our parent company doing testing of Vyatta Subscription Edition 6.5 R1 under VMWare. Testing of Vyatta on hardware is located on Router Analysis. For the VMWare setup we ran VMWare Hypervisor v5.1 on our spec setup as built by IXSystems: SuperMicro … [Read more...]
Testing Vyatta's 6.5 R1 Subscription Edition For the last two weeks Router Analysis has been working with it's software testing site SDN Testing to do some cross over testing of Vyatta's latest release of Software, 6.5 R1. Vyatta has created a product that can fit in multiple spots of your network both as a physical router running on bare metal and as a virtual router … [Read more...]
Commodity Hardware is not the old machine you found under a desk.. You will often see "runs on commodity hardware" on a SDN product website. What does it really mean? Sometimes when Router Analysis gets a new piece of SDN software to test the results come out much better or worse than what the vendor claims. The most recent occurrence of lower performance happened as we st … [Read more...]