Soft switches in the Open Source NFV/Open Stack World
Details
With the advent of software defined networking and network functions virtualization, switching has moved from fixed-function ASICs to soft switches running on commodity hardware. There are various open source soft switches that do the function of forwarding traffic at line rate across VMs, including Open vSwitch, Berkeley Extensible Software Switch (BESS), FD.io, and Lagopus. Each one of these switches has a use case that motivated its advent.
This meetup will present the background and architectural overview of each of these switches and the problems they solve in the SDN/NFV space.
RSVP the meetup here and then register at the eventbrite page to attend: http://bit.ly/SoftSwitchNFV
SPEAKERS: Gerald Rogers, Robin Giller, Saikrishna Edupuganti
Tentative: Mark Gray, Ciara Loftus
- SCHEDULE -
5:30 - Robin Giller, 15 minutes, 10 min Q&A, Overview of Software Switches
6:00 - Saikrishna Edupuganti, 15 minutes 10 min Q&A, BESS
6:30 - Food
7:00 - Gerald Rogers, 15 minutes, 10 min Q&A, Lagopus
7:30 - Robin Giller, 15 minutes, 10 min Q&A, OvSwitch
8:00 - Mark Gray, 15 minutes, 10 min Q&A, FD.io
8:30 - Panel (Mark Gray , Robin Giller, Sai Krishna, Gerald)
9:00 - Mingle + Networking
9:30 - Close
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In order to be considered, all you need to do is sign up for Intel DevMesh (https://devmesh.intel.com/) and publish your Networking/SDN/NFV project. Intel will pick the Top 3 contributions and send the gift card of your choice straight to your email whether you attend the meetup or not! The more information you include in your project, like adding your code or a link to github, the better your chances.
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