OpenFlow interfaces

OpenFlow interfaces are interfaces of the overlay SDN that are automatically created at the same time as the SD-WAN interfaces. The SD-WAN Controller uses OpenFlow interfaces to control network traffic. Service interfaces and UNIs are created on top of the OpenFlow interfaces.

You can group OpenFlow interfaces and use the groups when creating M2M and P2M transport services. When you add a group of OpenFlow interfaces to a transport service, a service interface is automatically created on top of each interface in the group, which in turn is used by the transport service.

Using groups of OpenFlow interfaces eliminates the need to manually create service interfaces and add them to transport services.