so, I reached the point where I should start searching for my thesis for my master’s degree in networking,

am currently an intern at a major company in my country and am learning and searching for a thesis idea.

so far am interested in SDN and SD-Wan or probably something regarding 5G cores, I’ve looked into VOIP and implementing it with an open-source solution, but they told me it’s a repeated subject.

am all over the place to be honest, I think SDN alongside some NVF’s with a sparkle of containers would be an interesting topic, what do you think?

I would appreciate all suggestions since I have plenty of time to learn new things,

Thank you.

  • osiris64@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    that’s an interesting topic, but I have no idea what an enterprise could automate with the help of SDN/SD-WAN, can you give me an example to start with and advance through it? thank you!

    • Lunchbox05@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Well look at a SD data center fabric like Cisco aci or cumulus supported by Ansible. The following could be automated.

      • switch backup and restoral in event of rma
      • new switch deployment
      • front end webpage for data center or server techs to input their new server port requirements can programmatically push interface programming down to the switch with little or no network engineer oversight

      Day 2 operations user stories

      • endpoint discovery
      • endpoint to endpoint path discovery
      • fault auto healing. Example, monitoring detects errors on interface or protocol flap, script can detect redundant links, confirm health, then shutdown the problem link for repair.