Network Application Testing Platform using Openstack and OpenDaylight

Abstract

The networking environment today is increasingly complex. The convergence of data center, business
expansion and new service deployments need to combine several different technologies - including physical and virtual
devices - into a single network infrastructure. These networks must handle massive amounts of traffic with critical
applications on both issues to the point and multicast network strategies. You need high-capacity network devices to
route and switch huge amounts of traffic. Network equipment manufacturers are positive that their equipment can not
only handle the needs of a complex network infrastructure, but also easily expand - often at massive scales. suppliers and
network service companies must be able to highlight their infrastructure to see if they can handle the traffic volumes and
provide the best quality service.
With our project, we will make an assessment and gather the requirements to provide our developers, multi-node
OpenStack test environments on demand where they can, in a whiteboard like fashion, configure different network
functions, edit them in all different types of distributions. The main objectives are the ease and speed of the test lab
configuration,safety, repeatability and cost.
Our benchmarks conduct functional and performance testing and probing the weaknesses and vulnerabilities. As such,
we have to push the changes to a variety of environments with multiple physical and virtual components.