Bridging the Gap: Open Networking from Data Center to Camp... - Markus Kittenberger & S Kamran Naqvi

Bridging the Gap: Open Networking from Data Center to Campus Edge - Markus Kittenberger, FH Technikum Wien & S Kamran Naqvi, Broadcom

The FH Technikum Wien is a large University of applied sciences in Vienna Austria with over 4700 students enrolled in 34 Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs. The University embarked on the Open Networking journey in 2020 with Open Networking hardware and open-source network operating system, SONiC in the Data Centre. With the success of this deployment, FHTW decided to take the next step and replace their Campus core and edge switching from traditional OEM based solution to Open Networking with Open-Source Network Operating System SONiC. This presentation aims to highlight reasons for moving away from a traditional three-tiered Architecture and adopting a modern VXLAN EVPN Fabric based Campus Architecture. Presenters from FHTW and Broadcom will also talk about University’s new Campus Core and Edge Architecture, role of network automation, FHTW’s approach to secure access control & monitoring and how Broadcom’s contributions to SONiC and SAI enabled this.