DPDK, 5G, Service Mesh & More by Orange, Nokia, Intel, ONF, and Netsia

Speakers from Orange, Nokia, Netsia, and Intel will be sharing their knowledge on DPDK, OPNFV Edge and Multi-Access Edge Computing. There will be good conversations and good food, too!

12:30 PM Check-in [To expedite check-in, please register now at http://www.cvent.com/d/06q20k/4W ]

1:00 PM DPDK & Network Design Choices for Latency (M Jay)
A network design is measured by its performance parameters – be it Throughput, Latency, Jitter to mention top key metrics. For most part, fundamentally, improving consistently latency improves Throughput and jitter. In this session, we will visit inside almost every components of the network – NIC, queues, BIOS, configuration to pick and focus on design choices and decisions.
Lab: We will showcase an open software tool – memory latency checker – to show 1 core running a probe application with all other (71) cores injecting deterring environment and do a hands-on observing the metrics.

3:00 PM Network Service Mesh (hands-on lab) (Frederick Kautz)
Network Service Mesh is a novel approach solving complicated L2/L3 use cases in Kubernetes that are tricky to address with the existing Kubernetes Network Model. Inspired by Istio, Network Service Mesh maps the concept of a service mesh to L2/L3 payloads.

4:35 PM Accelerated Container Networking Using DPDK (Sujata and M Jay)
DPDK leverages the underlying modern hardware architecture to optimize packet processing on Software. Kubernetes as an orchestration system for containers focuses on service velocity, simplicity and scalability. With the demand of 5G and edge it is becoming more and more critical to implement Container Network Functions. DPDK plug-ins are vital in filling this gap in containers using Container Network Interface, CNI. In this presentation, we will learn how the DPDK plug-ins help in features like Node Feature Discovery, Support for CPU core pinning for K8 pods, Support for Service Chaining aka East West traffic , SR-IOV and control of VNF level – with 100s or 1000s of VNFs.

6:00 PM Private LTE Network (Christos Kolias, Orange Networks)
Private Mobile Networks and in particular Private LTE Networks have recently achieved a lot of attention due to their potential to provide dedicated, high-capacity, often short-range (local) wireless connectivity and relatively low-cost deployment . They are aimed at serving enterprise networks e.g. campus, factory or extended facilities such as ports and airports. Private LTE networks can use licensed or unlicensed (such as CBRS) spectrum and can be operated by mobile operators or third party network providers. With the emergence of 5G it is expected that such Private Mobile Networks will gain higher traction.

6:50 PM OPNFV Edge Cloud - Thinking on Edge (Gergely Csatari, Nokia & Trevor Cooper, Intel)
The OPNFV Edge Cloud project focuses on design and development of reference platforms for Telco Edge. The primary goals are to understand requirements, architecture, test cases and related upstream projects for Edge scenarios including NFVI, VIM and MANO components. This session will introduce the OPNFV Edge Cloud project and current work including Edge requirements, test cases and upstream cooperation plan.

7:30 PM Multi-Access Edge Cloud with Multi-Cloud Connectivity (Oguz Sunay, Open Networking Foundation)
The interest in the edge is due to its promise of creating new business verticals and associated new value chains around them. The edge means different things to different people. In this talk, we will present ONF’s open source, cloud-native, multi-access edge cloud platform that enables the distribution of service graphs across edge and central clouds. We will provide the architectural details of the platform and illustrate its operation via a screen capture of a recent demonstration at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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