Heard about OpenDaylight and SDN? Ready to get your feet wet and start kickingthe tires with an OpenDaylight installation? This session provides a briefintro to Software Defined Networking (SDN) in general, and more specificallyto OpenDaylight, an open source platform for programmable SDN. After providinga high level overview of the architecture, the session goes on to show you howto deploy OpenDaylight and interact with it through the CLI and graphicaltools. You will learn how to configure various options and enable/disablevarious features, and how to check the logs to verify things are working asplanned and trouble shoot things when they are not. Lastly we show you how tointeract with OpenDaylight through its northbound APIs for network awareapplications and southbound plugins to physical and virtual network elements.