OpenDaylight Summit 2014

Locator ID Separation Protocol (LISP) provides a flexible map-and-encap framework that can be used in overlay network applications. LISP decouples network control plane from the forwarding plane by providing: (1) a data plane that specifies how the virtualized network addresses are encapsulated in addresses from the underlying physical network, and (2) a control plane that stores and serves the mappings of the virtual-to-physical address spaces and the associated forwarding policies. Network programmability is achieved by programming forwarding policies such as mobility, service chaining, and traffic engineering in the mapping system, where the data plane elements can fetch these policies on demand as new flows arrive. This presentation will explain how the LISP Flow Mapping project in ODL can be used to enable advanced SDN and NFV use cases including Mobile Core and Gi-Cloud use cases.