Packet Processing, Hardware and Containerization for Next Gen SDN/NFV Networks


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Please pre-register on the EventBright site - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/packet-processing-hardware-and-containerization-for-next-gen-sdnnfv-networks-tickets-44580241703 - and, as a thank you, you'll be entered into a drawing for a Google Home Mini
Agenda:
09.30 am Tea/Coffee/Scones, with the chance to network!
10.00 am ‘Welcome By Stace Hipperson, Meetup Organiser, Hyperglance
10.10 am ‘Ligato - an open-source platform for cloud-native network functions’ By Giles Heron, Principal Engineer, CISCO
Ligato is an open-source platform for cloud-native network functions. It leverages the fd.io VPP (Vector Packet Processing) open-source packet processing stack, is implemented in the Go programming language and relies on cloud-native tools such as the etcd distributed data-store. In this presentation we will provide an overview of the Ligato project, its architecture and implementation, and our future plans.
10.40 am ‘Addressing challenges in container networking in a Kubernetes Bare Metal environment’ By Haidee McMahon, Technical Solutions Marketing Manage, Intel
Learn how Intel and partners addressed barriers to adoption for container networking in a Kubernetes Bare Metal environment by the introduction of new technologies and the container experience kits.
11.10 am 'Pain of real-world open networking project deployments’ By Mayur Channegowda, Zeetta
The talk will detail Zeetta's experience of developing and deploying open networking kit clubbed with open source network products. Will briefly explain the lessons learnt of deploying a OpenDaylight based controller over a infrastructure based on bare-metal hardware catering high density (>25000 hosts) stadium services.
11.40 am ‘Software Network Data Planes - Satisfying the Need for Speed’ By Maciek Konstantynowicz, CISCO
Many open-source projects develop software for network data planes targeting a number of use cases for VM and cloud-native deployments. The challenge is validating and demonstrating their performance in an open and consistent manner across many deployment combinations. This talk explains how FD.io VPP and CSIT projects address this by combining market-leading native data plane performance of VPP with continuous performance benchmarking, validation, performance trending and regression detection. Founded on multi-vendor collaboration, FD.io leverages multi-platform knowledge and telemetry tools to analyse and correlate benchmarking results leading to consistent, repeatable and reliable performance validation the user base can rely on.
12.15 pm Lunch, with more networking!
13.15 pm Panel discussion with Q & A
14.15 pm ‘Skip the Anxiety Attack when Building Secure Containerized Apps’ By Lewis Evans, IBM
In this talk, experts from the IBM Cloud Container Service (ICCS) team will discuss what it means to build and run a secure application and how Kubernetes-as-a-service is the ideal platform. We will discuss how to achieve a secure Kubernetes cluster, how to handle network security, how to build security awareness into your CI/CD pipeline, and how IBM is building trust to the hardware level using Intel.
14.45 pm Afternoon break with Tea/Coffee & biscuits, and networking!
15.05 pm ‘Edge Cloud and Network Edge Virtualisation – Towards 5G ready applications’ By Anurag Ranjan, Intel
Edge Cloud opens up the network for the Communication Service Providers and the Cloud Service Providers to new revenue opportunities by unlocking the edge network. Shifting applications and analytics closer to the end user provides a better customer experience while also allowing the right applications to be pushed to the edge. Edge Cloud is one way that the CoSPs and the CSPs can create and capture value in their networks and data-centers on the path to 5G which will be a more agile and flexible infrastructure.
15.45 pm Wrap Up

Packet Processing, Hardware and Containerization for Next Gen SDN/NFV Networks