specification.rst

Specifications
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SDN Features
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  - ONOS cluster of all-active N instances affording N-way redundancy and scale, where N = 3 or N = 5.
  - Unified operations interface (GUI/REST/CLI)
  - Centralized configuration – all configuration is done on controller instead of each individual switch
  - Centralized role-based access control (RBAC)
  - Automatic host (end-point) discovery – attached hosts, access-devices, appliances (PNFs), routers, etc.
  - based on ARP, DHCP, NDP, etc.
  - Automatic switch, link and topology discovery and maintenance (keep-alives, failure recovery)

L2 Features
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Various L2 connectivity and tunneling support
  - VLAN-based bridging

    - Access, Trunk and Native VLAN support
  - VLAN cross connect

    - Forward traffic based on outer VLAN id
    - Forward traffic based on outer and inner VLAN id (QinQ)
  - Pseudowire

    - L2 tunneling across the L3 fabric
    - Support tunneling based on double tagged and single tagged traffic

      - Support VLAN translation of outer tag

L3 Features
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IP connectivity
  - IPv4 and IPv6 unicast routing (internal use of MPLS Segment Routing)
  - Subnetting configuration on all non-spine facing leaf ports; no configuration required on any spine port
  - IPv6 router advertisement
  - ARP, NDP, IGMP handling
  - Number of flows in spines greatly simplified by MPLS Segment Routing
  - Further reduction of per-leaf flows with route optimization logic

DHCP Relay
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DHCP L3 relay
  - DHCPv4 and DHCPv6
  - DHCP server either directly attached to fabric leaves, or indirectly connected via upstream router
  - DHCP client directly either attached to fabric leaves, or indirectly connected via LDRA
  - Multiple DHCP servers for HA

vRouter
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vRouter presents the entire Trellis fabric as a single router (or dual-routers for HA), with disaggregated control/data plane
  - Uses open-source protocol implementations like Quagga (or FRR)
  - BGPv4 and BGPv6
  - Static routes
  - Route blackholing
  - ACLs based on port, L2, L3 and L4 headers

Multicast
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Centralized multicast tree computation, programming and management
  - Support both IPv4 and IPv6 multicast
  - Dual-homed multicast sinks for HA
  - Multiple multicast sources for HA

Troubleshooting & Diagnostics
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  - Troubleshooting tool – T3: Trellis Troubleshooting Tool
  - Diagnostics one-click collection tool `onos-diags`

Topology
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  - Single leaf (ToR) or dual-ToR (dual-homing)
  - Supports typical leaf-spine topology, 2 to 4 spines, up to 10 leaves
  - Multi-stage leaf-spine fabric (leaf-spine-spine-leaf)
  - Can start at the smallest scale (single leaf) and grow horizontally

Resiliency
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Provides HA in following scenarios
  - Controller instance failure (requires 3 or 5 node ONOS cluster)
  - Link failures
  - Spine failure
Further HA support in following failure scenarios with dual-homing enabled
  - Leaf failure
  - Upstream router failure
  - Host NIC failure

Scalability
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  - (in production) Up to 50k routes, 110k flows, 8 Leaf, 2 Spines, with route optimization enabled
  - (in pre-production) Up to 120k routes, 250k flows, 8 Leaf, 2 Spines, with route optimization enabled

Security
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  - TLS-secured connection between controllers and switches (premium feature)
  - AAA 802.1x authentication
  - MACSec (L2 encapsulation)

P4-ready
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  - Support for Stratum, P4Runtime and gNMI and P4 programs
  - Innovative services enabled by programmable pipeline

    - BNG – PPPoE, anti-spoofing, accounting and more
    - GTP encap/decap

Overlay Support
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  Can be used/integrated with 3rd party overlay networks (e.g. OpenStack Neutron, Kubernetes CNI)

Orchestrator Support
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  Can be integrated with external orchestrator, logging, telemetry and alarm service via REST apis and Kafka events

Controller Server Specs
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Recommended (per ONOS instance)
  - CPU: 32 Cores
  - RAM: 128GB RAM. 65GB dedicated to ONOS JVM heap (based on 50K routes)

Whitebox Switch Hardware
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  - Multi-vendor: Edgecore, QCT, Delta, Inventec
  - Multi-chipset

    - Broadcom Tomahawk, Trident2, Qumran
    - Barefoot Tofino
  - 1/10G, 25G, 40G to 100G
  - Refer to :doc:`Supported Hardware <supported-hardware>` for the most up-to-date hardware list

Whitebox Switch Software
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  - Open source ONL, ONIE and Indigo OF client
  - (in production) OF-DPA software commercial version – contact Broadcom
  - (in labs/trials) OF-DPA software community version available from ONF (for switch models based on Trident and Tomahawk, not Qumran)
  - (in labs/trails) Stratum available from ONF