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Deployment of SDN Controller and configuring Cisco devices using NETCONF
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Traditional networking concepts demand a lot of manual operations and high operational cost simultaneously. Therefore, the biggest challenge for large organizations and entities is implementing the complete network manually, along with monitoring and troubleshooting operations. Moreover, as the network grows, the organization has to go through the change implementations, and if it is a manual process referring to traditional networking, then the organization has to spend a lot in terms of time and operational costs. Software-defined networking can solve the above-discussed problem and enable the implementation of automation in the network. It leads to the one-touch provisioning of devices and automated monitoring. It also makes the network scalability easily achievable with less cost of operations and fast compared to traditional networking. SDN refers to implementing software and automation integrated with the traditional network, making its features more flexible and scalable. The SDN controller is the central part of the SDN architecture. In this project, the challenge is to develop a MINT SDN controller in the MINT lab.
Furthermore, to overcome this challenge, we will use an open-source SDN controller ODL to integrate the Cisco devices with the SDN controller in the MINT lab. Testing the compatibility of the YANG models of Cisco devices with the current version of the ODL is also a challenge. We will use the NETCONF protocol to communicate between the Cisco device and the ODL controller. There are multiple features and plugins in the ODL to enable SDN capabilities. We will test and implement those plugins in our MINT SDN lab as per the requirements. This will set the base for integrating cisco devices in the MINT SDN lab environment. -
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- 2023-04-01
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