~/talk

Orion: Google's Software-Defined Networking Control Plane

on YouTube 12m
Talkat NSDI ’21 · 2021-04-12..04-14· [networking, distributed-systems]

speakers

name:Andrew D. Ferguson
links:none on file
name:Steve Gribble
links:none on file
name:Chi-Yao Hong
links:none on file
name:Charles Killian
links:none on file
name:Waqar Mohsin
links:none on file
name:Henrik Muehe
links:none on file
name:Joon Ong
links:none on file
name:Leon Poutievski
links:none on file
name:Arjun Singh
links:none on file
name:Lorenzo Vicisano
links:none on file
name:Richard Alimi
links:none on file
name:Shawn Shuoshuo Chen
links:none on file
name:Mike Conley
links:none on file
name:Subhasree Mandal
linkedin:subhasreemandal34422216a
name:Karthik Nagaraj
links:none on file
name:Kondapa Naidu Bollineni
links:none on file
name:Amr Sabaa
links:none on file
name:Shidong Zhang
links:none on file
name:Min Zhu
links:none on file
name:Amin Vahdat
linkedin:vahdat

resources

video:https://youtu.be/W_tSOj6hDKU
slides:none on file

summary

Orion runs Google’s second‑generation SDN control plane across Jupiter and B4, built as microservices around a pub-sub Network Information Base (NIB) and shipped bi-weekly; it claims up to 40x faster convergence, handles 1.16 million updates/sec, scales 16x, and cuts unavailable time by 50x (Jupiter) and 100x (B4). A continuous reconciliation loop and a capability reconciliation protocol rebuilds controller state from device ground truth, with a fail-static mode for large control-plane partitions and a 2019 blast‑radius incident that withdrew routes despite intact data‑plane forwarding.

AI-written summary · about

chapters (5)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:50What is Orion
  3. 2:00Software Principles
  4. 3:52Continuous Reconciliation
  5. 9:18Blast Radius

related talks

~/search
type to search 6,249 conferences, 138,987 speakers and 185,172 talks
~/help
cmdctrl k
search every conference, speaker and series
/
focus the filter search
h
home
c
conferences
s
speakers
e
series
t
light / dark — the status bar button does the same
?
this help
esc
close this, then clear every filter — or just the search, while you are typing in it

Ignored while you are typing. Pages without a filter rail have no search to focus.