Spirent TestCenter OpenFlow Switch Emulation
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Spirent's OpenFlow switch emulation helps test OpenFlow controllers at scale by emulating thousands of switches. It can generate packet-ins from every emulated switch to the controller to validate that the controller can maintain connections while processing high packet rates. The emulation allows testing topologies, flows, and the limits of controllers before release.
Spirent TestCenter OpenFlow Switch Emulation
- 1. Spirent TestCenter OpenFlow Switch Emulation Spirent’s OpenFlow switch emulation helps overcome many testing challenges for OpenFlow Controller testing at scale. Large-scale testing can be difficult because of the need to assemble many switches, activate and interconnect many virtual Switches. OpenFlow switch emulation stress-tests the Controller by emulating various topologies, real Switches with real links. With OpenFlow switch emulation you can quickly and easily setup one to thousands of Switches. Once you create your network, Spirent OpenFlow switch emulation will display all the Flows on all Switches and save them to a file. It can also generate OpenFlow “Packet-Ins” from every Switch to the OpenFlow Controller to validate that it can maintain all its connections to all Switches while processing a high rate of Packet-Ins. Spirent TestCenter, C1, Virtual Master controller Slave controller S-3 S-1 S-2 TGen Applications ƒƒ Validate if your OpenFlow Controller can maintain connection to its network under heavy load at large scale, understand what happens when scale is exceeded ƒƒ Perform Packet-In test from every switch to the Controller at a fixed rated to test your Controller stability over time at high-packet rates from a large number of switches ƒƒ Find the limits of the OpenFlow Controller before release. Understand how many packets per second your Controller can handle while still maintaining OpenFlow channels to each and every switch Features ƒƒ Test thousands of real OpenFlow Switches at high scale – number of Switches in network, number of networks, number of Packet-Ins ƒƒ Test various topologies, Packet-In stability and Flow validation ƒƒ Supported on virtual and hardware for 1G to 100G Ethernet ƒƒ View all Flows on all Switches and save them to a file ƒƒ Packet-In Test at a fixed rated to test controller stability over time at high-packet rates from a large number of switches ƒƒ Results for every Switch and Controller connected with additional views for not connected devices Benefits ƒƒ Accelerate OpenFlow SDN Controller testing at scale by defining millions of flows and exercising them with traffic patterns and behavior ƒƒ Reduced CapEx with no physical Switches needed and lower OpEx with quick setup time of the testbed ƒƒ Easy to setup tests at any scale with realistic test environments
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