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of SDN beyond data center silos—and between themselves—requires
considering the interaction and integration with legacy control planes
providing traditional switching; routing; and operation, administration,
and management (OAM) functions. Certainly, rip-and-replace is not a
viable strategy for the broad adoption of new networking technologies.
is chapter introduces the motivation and problem statement of
hybrid networking models in OpenFlow/SDN and discusses differ-
ent approaches to combine traditional control plane functions with
OpenFlow control (“Hybrid Networking in OpenFlow/SDN”). Hybrid
networking in an SDN scenario should allow deploying OpenFlow for
a subset of all flows only, enab ...