Software Defined Networking (SDN) Group - Silicon Valley

Presentation by JR Rivers Co-Founder/CEO of Cumulus Networks

Feb 12, 2014 · 6:00 PM
Paul Allen Building, Auditorium 101

Agenda for the Meet up

6:00PM – Social hour

7:00PM - Word from our Sponsor - Digital-X (10 Mins)

7:10 - Feature Presentation from JR Rivers (CEO & CoFounder of Cumulus Networks)

JR will discuss and demonstrate how unbundled platforms allow "Software Defined Networking" to enable simple solutions to age-old problems.

You can follow JR on twitter (@JRCumulus) and Cumulus Networks as well (@CumulusNetworks)

Do NOT miss this great opportunity to meet and listen to JR Rivers, who once built networking hardware at Google. Now, he’s remaking the networking game for the rest of the world.

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Craig O.

JR Rivers is a good speaker, very engaging. Loved the crowd, the questions and the enthusiasm. Good mix of people from the industry. Interesting discussions. still wondering about their business model. Seems like other vendors are dropping different OS's onto the switches. Isn't Pluribus doing something similar. Understand that Cumulus OS adds flexibility, but any OS on the switch can provide this, right.

Can i get the presentation?

0 · February 13, 2014
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- Sridhar S.
  
  Yes.. the business model they adopt is going to be their linchpin. Technology wise, it does the decoupling of SW from HW and thats really it. Pluribus, on the other hand is selling a distributed Network-wide OS that will work on any (supposedly) merchant forwarding engine based white-box without needing even an SDK from the merchant. Cumulus on the other hand, based on what I could infer needs the HW supplier's SDK to be packaged into their OS.
  
  2 · February 13, 2014
- Craig O.
  
  Sridhar, thanks for the response. Oh, this is new for me. I didn't realize that Pluribus was now shipping the OS separate from their hardware bundle. Cool! Of course, I'm curious as to what the reality is in actual deployment of the Pluribus OS on white box ODM switches. The Cumulus example of ripping out the Cisco OS on the switches and dropping in their Linux OS really excites the imagination. Look forward to hearing more from you. Hope to chat with you at the next meetup.
  
  0 · February 14, 2014
- Craig O.
  
  Also, I totally missed that the Cumulus solution required the use of the HW supplier's SDK.
  
  0 · February 14, 2014
Craig O.

JR Rivers presentation here.

http://www.slideshare.net/CumulusNetworks/sdn-meetup-jr-rivers-presentation

That bash script example from slide 13 was fascinating to me. I would like to get other opinions on that. This was my first SDN meetup and I was really surprised by the level of enthusiasm.

0 · February 14, 2014
Gigi R.

Thanks for hosting, Joe and Shankar!

1 · February 13, 2014
Venugopal M.

Wonderful, invoked some new thoughts about SDN in a new dimension..

0 · February 12, 2014
Kesavan

Presentation was good and provided an orthogonal perspective.

0 · February 12, 2014
Kunal

Is the video gonna be uploaded anytime?

0 · February 12, 2014
Craig O.

Just saw that Open Daylight released Hydrogen. Was talking to some people at OpenContrail from Juniper. See that HP has it's own VAN SDN controller. I'm still trying to figure out how this space works together. Would love to know what companies compete over what pieces of the SDN architecture and which pieces of the most momentum.

0 · February 5, 2014
Craig O.

Used to manage an ISP datacenter 15 years ago, but have not managed datacenter network hardware since then. Much has changed. I'm primarily interested in the applications that SDN makes possible. Also, does anyone have extra free tickets to the OpenDaylight Summit, Feb 4th and 5th in Santa Clara?

0 · January 23, 2014
Sam K.

Looking forward to it !!!!

0 · January 22, 2014
Amit G.

Software architect

0 · January 22, 2014