First field demonstration of cloud datacenter workflow automation employing dynamic optical transport network resources under OpenStack and OpenFlow orchestration
Thomas Szyrkowiec, Achim Autenrieth, P. Gunning, Paul B. Wright, Andrew Lord, Jörg-Peter Elbers, Alan Lumb · Optics Express · 2014
For the first time, we demonstrate the orchestration of elastic datacenter and inter-datacenter transport network resources using a combination of OpenStack and OpenFlow. Programmatic control allows a datacenter operator to dynamically request optical lightpaths from a transport network operator to accommodate rapid changes of inter-datacenter workflows.