Enabling Virtualization in SDN and NFV world on IA

Networking has been traditionally entrusted to customized ASICs and vertically integrated software solutions on top of these customized boxes. Virtualizing network functions on commodity x86 based servers brings its own challenges. Sharing resources among virtual functions and added software layers of hypervisor, soft switches etc before the packet gets onto the Network Function are some of them. This meet up will focus on giving the attendee a flavor of some of the tools and technologies being to resolve some of these issues from the Industry and Intel

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Agenda:

09:30 Tea/Coffee and a chance to network

10:00 Welcome to our new meetup

By Haidee McMahon, Meetup Organizer, Intel

10:15 Intel Talk : Enhanced Platform Awareness for Openstack to increase NFV performance

By Andrew Duignan

Bio: Andrew Duignan is an Electronic Engineering graduate from University College Dublin, Ireland. He has worked as a software engineer in Motorola and now at Intel Corporation. He is now in a Platform Applications Engineering role, supporting technologies such as DPDK and virtualization on Intel CPUs. He is based in the Intel Shannon site in Ireland.

11:00 Iricent Talk : The Role of SDN within NFV

By Rory MacHale, CTO, Iricent

In this presentation, Rory will give a brief overview of SDN and NFV technologies. He will then explore the layers of the NFV model, examining the different ways SDN is applied to achieve the goals of NFV. He will look at some specific cases of SDN usage, drawing on examples from various NFV projects, including Iricent's own datacentre deployment.

Bio: Rory MacHale has more than thirty years of international experience in the telecommunications industry, working with companies as varied as Eigensolve, Ammeon, Logica/Aldiscon, Softech Telecom and Siemens AG in Munich. Rory's currently works as CTO for Iricent, a Dublin based SDN/NFV services provider. For more information, go to http://iricent.com/about/

11:45 Tea/Coffee and a chance to network

12:15 Openet Talk : How vendors on-board solutions and define their attributes in the VNFD such as DPDK

By Aidan Molloy, Senior Director, NFV Strategy at Openet Accelerate

Bio: Aidan Molloy joined Openet in 2012, and currently serves as our Senior Director NFV Strategy in Openet Accelerate, a BU dedicated to NFV adoption since 2016. He is responsible for Openet Products in the NFV framework and more specifically MANO layer with Openet Weaver® as a G-VNFM. Prior to this, Mr Molloy has served in a number of roles for Openet, including, Product Management, Technical Sales Support and Operations. More information can be found at: http://accelerate.openet.com/

13:00 Close

Looking forward to a great event and meeting you all there!