Model Driven APIs for the Network infrastructure Layer

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing amount of interest in the industry (Service APIs (NPF), I2RS (IETF) etc.) to create a standardized API at the ne …

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing amount of interest in the industry (Service APIs (NPF), I2RS (IETF) etc.) to create a standardized API at the network infrastructure layer. This layer may include components such as the RIB, Label Switch Database, BFD etc. and presents an opportunity to enable SDN controllers and network protocol augmentations to leverage lower layers of the vendor stack and achieve greater control and flexibility in the management and operationalization of networks. In this session we showcase a high performance, model-driven implementation of such an API over GRPC and discuss its implications through use cases in Service provider and Data center deployments.