DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT PROGRAMMABLE DATA PLANE TESTBED WITH SONIC OS AND P4STUDIO FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORK AT BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

• Main Author: Hilmi Fawwaz, Muhammad
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/82486
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

This research focuses on the development of a high-throughput programmable data plane testbed using SONiC OS and P4Studio to support the Research and Education Network (REN) at Institut Teknologi Bandung. The main objective of this project is to create a high-speed network testbed that can be used by many researchers for experiments and research in a realistic environment. This testbed consists of several main components such as two Netberg Aurora 710 bare-metal switches, eight ASRock DeskMeet B660 PCs as testbed nodes, one Controller PC, and one VPN PC. The testing method involves the use of P4Studio and SONiC software for bare-metal switch programming, Ansible for deployment automation, and the Wireguard protocol for secure VPN connections. The test results show that this testbed is capable of achieving a throughput of 100Gbps, thus simulating high network speed conditions and reliable availability for experiments by computer network researchers. The contributions of this research include increasing flexibility, accessibility, and efficiency in computer network research in the Asia Pacific research community in general and Bandung Institute of Technology researchers in particular, as well as democratizing access to research resources for the academic and scientific community.