The RIT SDN Testbed and GENI
Bruce Hartpence · RIT Scholar Works (Rochester Institute of Technology) · 2015
Abstract—Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an innovative approach to network construction, configuration and monitoring. While it is relatively new (most of the ground work was completed in Stanford circa 2008) it is transforming our thinking regarding communication architectures. SDN leverages several other technologies such as virtualization and integrates virtual and traditional networks. It is critical that researchers in the communication and networking spaces understand, utilize and finally experiment with SDN based topologies, whether they be local testbeds or remote general computing facilities. RIT does not possess many non-production switches or routers capable of communicating via OpenFlow, the devices must be virtualized. As with many compute resources, the RIT systems are typically geared towards providing processing power, not experimentation with connection technologies. For this reason, and because it