Deploying SDN in G\'EANT production network
Pier Luigi Ventre, Jordi Ortiz, Alaitz Mendiola, Carolina Fern\'andez,, Adam Pavlidis, Pankaj Sharma, Sebastiano Buscaglione, Kostas Stamos, Afrodite, Sevasti, David Whittaker

TL;DR
This paper demonstrates the deployment of SDN in GÉANT's production network, showcasing how virtualization and automation improve service provisioning, fault management, and operational efficiency in a large-scale research network.
Contribution
It introduces the SDX-L2 and BoD SDN-ization of GÉANT services, highlighting their deployment, operational testing, and automation capabilities in a real-world production environment.
Findings
Successful pilot deployment of SDN services in GÉANT
Automated network management during faults
Enhanced service provisioning and operational resilience
Abstract
Since the demand for more bandwidth, agile infrastructures and services grows, it becomes challenging for Service Providers like G\'EANT to manage the proprietary underlay, while keeping costs low. In such a scenario, Software Defined Networking (SDN), open hardware and open source software prove to be key components to address those challenges. After one year of development, SDX-L2 and BoD, the SDN-ization of the G\'EANT Open and Bandwidth on Demand (BoD) services, have been brought to the pilot status and G\'EANT is now testing the outcomes on its operational network. In this demonstration, we show BoD and SDX-L2 "going live" at the G\'EANT production infrastructure. The pilots run on the same underlay infrastructure thanks to the virtualization capabilities of the network devices. Provisioning of the services is covered during the demo. In the final steps of the demonstration, we…
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