SDN technology
has primarily been applied to all types and size of network ranging from
Ethernet services to large cloud environment. More recently, interest has
turned towards extending programmability of the OTN. In the SDN architecture,
SBIs are used to communicate between the SDN controller and the switches or
routers in the network. In this thesis we deploy two major protocols as SBIs in
managing BoD across the interconnected data centers
over the OTN. The OpenFlow and NETCONF are the two
SBIs deployed between the OpenDayLight controller and
the BTI7800 optical edge transponders. We present the OpenVSwitch
architecture modified for referencing the optical ports of the BTI7800 devices.
Experimental demonstration and performance of both BTI YANG-based NETCONF and OpenFlow protocols are presented. Our experiments show that
NETCONF is faster and efficiently handles the control message; whereas in a
fully loaded system, OpenFlow offers better bandwidth
utilization.