Morning everyone,
<div><br></div><div>You all remember the NZIX OpenFlow project I&#39;ve been posting about of late.</div><div>Well we&#39;ve just ticked off Phase 3, and as far as we can tell it&#39;s another world first.</div><div>Phase 3 was to implement a distributed SDN controlled fabric and pass production traffic over it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Today, with considerable support from Citylink, REANNZ and others in the SDN community. �We have managed to extend our existing fabric across the city, provision our first customer link and pass their production traffic across the fabric and onto the WIX.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I&#39;ll be giving some of the technical details at the NZNOG conference this week, but�suffice�to say that we&#39;re not about to stop here.</div><div>We&#39;ve got a distributed fabric now, and we&#39;re looking to extend this even further.</div>
<div><br></div><div>1) �More locations. �I still want Auckland and we&#39;re very close to having this be a reality</div><div>2) �Look at further services this enables at Layer3 (going to working closely with Citylink on developing this)</div>
<div>3) �Look at the auto-provisioning options this can provide at Layer2</div><div><br></div><div>So a couple of things to take away from this.</div><div><br></div><div>. Remember that if you have a WIX peering session currently, I&#39;ve already configured you a test session on my route server for you.</div>
<div>Turn up a test session and convince yourself that it works</div><div><br></div><div><div>router bgp 9483</div><div>�bgp router-id 202.7.0.119</div></div><div><br></div><div>. If you have any suggestions of things we can be working on in the future then now&#39;s the time to get in touch and let us know your thoughts.</div>
<div>What are the things that you always wished you could do on the exchange but couldn&#39;t? �We can build those tools.</div><div><br></div><div>. Thank you to all the people who made this success possible. �If you&#39;ve been a supporter since the beginning then we know who you are and thanks.</div>
<div><br></div><div>See you that the conference!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Dean</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>