OpenDaylight India Forum

Service chaining is a broad term that describes a new paradigm for service deployment and is predicated on several key concepts including topological independence for services and elastic scaling of service elements. Service Function Chaining provides the ability to define an ordered list of a network services (e.g. firewalls, NAT, QoS). These services are then "stitched" together in the network to create a service chain. These factors provide motivation for a simplified and flexible service insertion model that addresses many of the current shortcomings and provides new, much needed functionality to enable service deployments in modern network environments. In this presentation we propose to cover the design philosophy of Service Function Chaining and its usage in OpenDaylight architecture.