CEO of US Research Institute: Big Data Science needs SDN

Internet2 's chief executive, Dave Lambert, says the universal Internet does not accommodate new research applications and huge volumes of data streams, and today's software-defined networking in universities is like the early Internet decades ago, Large data researchers in the genome and other disciplines need to use the network to preserve their latest research results.

Internet2 runs a nationwide network of link research institutions that have applied the various elements of SDN to the production infrastructure. SDN is a technology that has been a major concern at all stages of development, with the aim of transferring network control from specialized devices such as switches and routers to software that can be run on standard computing platforms and virtualized. There are a number of benefits to this, such as lower costs, faster service deployment, and the promotion of network innovation.

Internet2 's president and CEO David Lambert a speech at the Open Networking summit in Santa Clara, Calif., in Wednesday.

The internet itself is a tool that can help researchers from all walks of life to share data and ideas. Internet2 's president and Ceodavid Lambert said at the open networking summit in Wednesday, but now many scientists need to deal with a lot of data and they need to communicate in a new way. Today, the technology used on the internet is not flexible enough to support the new requirements of scientists such as large file transfers, large datasets and content caching and distribution.

"The genome community finds that our current Internet does not meet their needs at all," he said. He said SDN will help developers to develop new networking technologies that meet the needs of different applications.

Internet2 is running a SDN real-time production navigation system and high-speed main chain, which can provide a lot of bandwidth for new applications of scientific research users. The organization has deployed OpenFlow-enabled routers on 100-gigabit Ethernet, including many of Juniper NX and Brocade's devices. There are now 29 top universities that have applied to provide 100-gigabit high-speed networking services to their campuses and allow them to use Internet2 based OpenFlow services.

Lambert says SDN represents a huge opportunity in the networking area, just as the Ethernet and IP protocols faced when IBM's SNA eminence. "I find that the problems we are dealing with are the same as many of the problems of the year," he said. He added, but the industry will use faster networking this time around.

Just as the 1986 NSFNet is the first generation of the Internet, Internet2 is also the first generation of new internet, it will inspire more innovation.

"The services we will provide on this network will be very different from the current Internet, as the Internet is very different from the Internet 25 years ago," Lambert said. ”

Openness, Lambert says, is important to ensure the freedom of innovation that is taking place in Sdn. Networking technology vendors have focused on selling products over the past few decades rather than pursuing the most fundamental innovations in the Internet software hierarchy.

"Businesses need to create economic benefits, so they build a system that is too closed," says Lambert. ”

The result is a universal system, but it does not apply to a variety of new data streams, such as data streams needed for large data research. Lambert says SDN can allow developers to freely let the Web operate in a completely new way. ' It's important not to let vendors prematurely lock down the fundamental rules of SDN, ' he said.

Lambert said: "The most exciting thing about the development of OpenFlow and SDN is that we have a chance to have an open network, people can really feel it and use it to do a lot of pioneering work." ”

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