Introduction to SDN and OpenFlow

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome

Lecture 1: Welcome

Lecture 2: Part 1: What is SDN? OpenFlow? Automation?

Lecture 3: Part 2: What is the NBI? SBI? Abstraction?

Chapter 2: Practical Example of SDN

Lecture 1: Important: Please read

Lecture 2: Docker, Open vSwitch, SDN and OpenFlow Part 1: GNS3 Switching Part 7

Lecture 3: Docker, Open vSwitch, SDN and OpenFlow Part 2: GNS3 Switching Part 8

Lecture 4: Docker, Open vSwitch, SDN and OpenFlow Part 3: GNS3 Switching Part 9

Lecture 5: Docker, Open vSwitch, SDN and OpenFlow Part 4: GNS3 Switching Part 10

Lecture 6: Docker, Open vSwitch, SDN and OpenFlow Part 5: GNS3 Switching Part 11

Lecture 7: Docker, Open vSwitch, SDN and OpenFlow Part 6: GNS3 Switching Part 14

Lecture 8: Docker, Open vSwitch, SDN and OpenFlow Part 7: GNS3 Switching Part 15

Lecture 9: SDN Part 1: Ubuntu Docker Container, OpenDaylight, Python,

Lecture 10: SDN Part 2 Ubuntu Docker Container, OpenDaylight, Python,

Lecture 11: SDN Part 3 Ubuntu Docker Container, OpenDaylight, Python,

Lecture 12: SDN Part 4 OpenDaylight installation: Ubuntu Docker Container, OpenDaylight, Pyt

Lecture 13: GNS3 Talks: Create a Docker based network using OVS and Linux Containers

Lecture 14: GNS3 Talks: OpenFlow captures using Wireshark, Docker containers, OpenDaylight,

Lecture 15: GNS3 Talks: OpenFlow FLOW MOD, PACKET IN, PACKET OUT and more captures using Wir

Chapter 3: Introductory Course: What is SDN?

Lecture 1: What do the inventors say it is?

Lecture 2: Open SDN, SDN via overlays, White box SDN

Lecture 3: SDN via APIs, Cisco ACI (ASICs), OpenStack, NFV

Chapter 4: Is this actually real?

Lecture 1: Real World SDN -Google

Lecture 2: Real Word- Microsoft

Lecture 3: Real World SDN – NSA

Lecture 4: Real World SDN – Facebook

Lecture 5: Linux on switches

Lecture 6: Which SDN Controller should you use?

Chapter 5: Open SDN and OpenFlow

Lecture 1: Control and Dataplane overview

Lecture 2: Control and Dataplanes continued

Lecture 3: David's Dodgy Routing Protocol

Lecture 4: Server Virtualization

Lecture 5: Network Abstraction and virtualization

Lecture 6: SDN Architecture

Lecture 7: SDN Architecture (continued)

Lecture 8: North, South, East, West

Chapter 6: Demo-Applications & Controller & Infrastructure

Lecture 1: Mininet Introduction

Lecture 2: Mininet using OpenFlow 1.3

Lecture 3: Mininet with 50x OpenFlow switches

Lecture 4: OpenFlow Tables

Lecture 5: SDN Architecture

Lecture 6: SDN App Store, App install and Network flow update

Lecture 7: REST API – SDN Application

Lecture 8: OpenFlow ACL

Chapter 7: Basic Traffic Engineering using a script- if you are interested

Lecture 1: Basic TE using a bash script Part 1

Lecture 2: Basic TE using a bash script Part 2

Lecture 3: Basic TE using a bash script Part 3

Lecture 4: Basic TE using a bash script Part 4

Lecture 5: Basic TE using a bash script Part 5

Lecture 6: Basic TE using a bash script Part 6

Lecture 7: Basic TE using a bash script Part 7

Lecture 8: Basic TE using a bash script Part 8