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    Network Architecture

    There exist three primary networks that are accessible by experimenters in COSMOS. Device connections to these networks are determined by the number of interfaces and their maximum bandwidth. Every device has at least a connection to the Control Plane. Then depending on the number of additional interfaces, the device may have a connection to either one or both of the Data Planes. Please see the device specific pages for more detailed information.

    Control Plane

    The control plane is a physically separate network designed to facilitate infrastructure control and user access to end devices. The control plane network runs on top of Dell S4048-ON switches providing up to 10G connectivity between devices. Please note that performance on the control plane is not guaranteed or deterministic and the network is only meant for experiment coordination and debugging.

    Data Plane

    There exist two parallel data plane networks that are available to experimenters. The data plane networks are interconnected with Dell Z9100-ON switches providing up to 100G connectivity between devices. The switches are built on the Broadcom Tomahawk chipset and support Openflow 1.3 as well as ONIE. The data planes are meant for latency and bandwidth sensitive experiment traffic where performance is intended to be deterministic.

    Isolation and infrastructure

    We enforce a split between "Control", "Data", and "Infrastructure" networks. Control and Infrastructure share common physical hardware (Switches, cables, etc.), using VLANs to provide isolation. Together these provide services and user access to the testbed.

    The Data networks operate on physically separate hardware, to preserve repeatability of experiments, and to prevent experiments from interfering with testbed services.

    L2 Networks do not span sites, with access being done via L3 tunnels, or via public internet.

    The Instrumentation network is special, in that it is accessible to experiments, but is managed by infrastructure services. This provides, for example, optical or RF devices that need direct L2 access to multiple domains. Access to this network is granted on a case by case basis to experiments. This is also the only L2 network that spans sites, via L2 Tunnel.

    Consoles give users access from outside and communicate with services on the DMZ network, and access to the testbed devices over control.

    Network Roles

    Each Domain has a control network, that is statically configured, as well as two configurable data plane networks. Imaging and other configuration tasks is done via the control network, while experiment and radio traffic is passed on the data networks.

    In addition, each "site" has some infrastructure networks.

    • CM: used for power control of nodes, not directly accessible to users, instead is managed by services
    • Inside: Private network for service traffic, VM Storage traffic, etc.
    • DMZ: User accessible network for service traffic
    • MGMT: Private network for control of network devices, VM Cluster synchronization, etc.

    Logical Sites

    Currently, there are two logically distinct sites.

    • The NYC COSMOS Deployment
      • bed.cosmos, including exterior radios and optical underlay
      • sb2.cosmos
    • WINLAB, 671 Rt 1 South, North Brunswick, NJ
      • sb1.cosmos
      • grid.orbit
      • outdoor.orbit
      • sb1 - sb10.orbit

    Vlan Assignment

    vlan id subnet name location
    101 10.101.0.0/16 mgmt_win winlab
    102 10.102.0.0/16 inside_win winlab
    103 10.103.0.0/16 cm_win winlab
    104 10.104.0.0/16 dmz_win winlab
    105 10.105.0.0/16 mgmt_nyc nyc
    106 10.106.0.0/16 inside_nyc nyc
    107 10.107.0.0/16 cm_nyc nyc
    108 10.108.0.0/16 dmz_nyc nyc
    109 10.109.0.0/16 instrument both
    110 10.110.0.0/16 bed_ctrl nyc
    111 10.110.0.0/16 bed_data1 nyc
    112 10.110.0.0/16 bed_data2 nyc
    113 10.110.0.0/16 sb1_ctrl winlab
    114 10.110.0.0/16 sb1_data1 winlab
    115 10.110.0.0/16 sb1_data2 winlab
    116 10.110.0.0/16 sb2_ctrl nyc
    117 10.110.0.0/16 sb2_data1 nyc
    118 10.110.0.0/16 sb2_data2 nyc

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