OPNFV Summit 2015: Full Schedule

9:00am PST

OpenDaylight Hackfest Unconference

Please refer to the OpenDaylight Hackfest wiki page (below) for details. If there is a topic that you would like to cover and it is not already listed, please feel free to add it. Time slots and meeting location will be decided onsite during the morning of each day.

https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Events/Beryllium_HackFest

Monday November 9, 2015 9:00am - 5:30pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

ODL Hackfest

9:00am PST

OpenDaylight Hackfest Unconference

Tuesday November 10, 2015 9:00am - 5:00pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

ODL Hackfest

11:30am PST

Session Group: Security Design Patterns to Provide Inherent Security to NFV Networks - John McDowall, Palo Alto Networks

Speakers

John McDowall

SDN Architect, Palo Alto Networks

John McDowall is SDN/Virtualization Architect at Palo Alto Networks where he is working on the dynamic insertion of security policy into virtual environments and clouds. Previously he was at Cisco where he developed the programmable network architecture that played a key role in Cisco’s... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 11:30am - 11:55am PST
Grand Peninsula E

Session Group: Security Technical Track - OPNFV in Depth

11:55am PST

OPNFV Security Panel - Luke Hinds [Chair], Nokia Networks; Rana Pratap Sircar, Ericsson; Nir Halachmi, Huawei; John McDowall, Palo Alto Networks

Speakers

Nir Halachmi

Network Research Product Management, Huawei

Nir Halachmi is leading Network Research Product Management at Huawei European Research Center (ERC).Nir is a subject matter expert for innovative SDN and NFV solutions, carriers and cloud technologies as well as Service Providers enterprise services and mobile backhaul (LTE 5G and... Read More →

Luke Hinds

Principle Security Architect, Nokia Networks

Principle Security architect in NFV / SDN working at Nokia Networks.

John McDowall

SDN Architect, Palo Alto Networks

Rana Pratap Sircar

GM, Ericsson

Rana is General Manager in Consulting & Systems Integration (CSI) Group of Ericsccon Global Services. He is based out of Gurgaon in India. He is a globally experienced, techno-business leader with deep cross domain orientation having 21+ years experience in Telecom – from ideation... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 11:55am - 12:55pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Session Group: Security Technical Track - OPNFV in Depth

1:50pm PST

Community Anti-Patterns - Dave Neary, Red Hat

In the OPNFV project, we are building on a large body of existing work, and have the opportunity to take advantage of some best practices which have arisen through trial and error in 40 years of free and open source software development. And anywhere we find best practices, we find projects who have diligently avoided them and seem to do things the Wrong Way.

The Cookie Licker, the Bikeshed, Broken Window Syndrome, the Big Reveal, the Alpha Male - this is an irreverent look at some of the worst anti-patterns that have arisen on open source community projects, and (hopefully) some actionable ideas on how to address or avoid them in OPNFV.

Speakers

Dave Neary

Open Source and Standards, Red Hat, Red Hat

Dave Neary works on SDN and NFV community strategy as a member of Red Hat’s Open Source and Standards team. He is active in OPNFV, a project whose goal is to promote NFV as a core use-case to upstream projects such as OpenStack, and to engage directly with the projects to ensure... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 1:50pm - 2:10pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Nature of OPNFV: Community Technical Track - OPNFV an Introduction

2:10pm PST

Doctor Project - Ryota Mibu, NEC; Gerald Kunzmann, DOCOMO; Carlos Goncalves, NEC

Doctor is an OPNFV project focusing on fault management and maintenance of Network Services on top of a virtualized infrastructure. Failure awareness is a key to achieve high reliability. Adopting virtualization technologies adds a new layer in the infrastructure separating applications from the underlying hardware. Thus, network services as an application may lose promptness and accuracy of the failure awareness. In Doctor, we started from identifying requirements for fault management, aligned the specifications between OSS and SDO, and finally got our proposed features implemented in the upstream OSS.
In this talk, we'll present an overview of the Doctor project including the technical requirements for NFV in a fault management and maintenance context, a demo of an integrated Doctor framework, and lessons learned on how we successfully got our features implemented in the upstream OSS.

Speakers

Carlos Goncalves

Software Specialist, NEC Laboratories Europe

Carlos Goncalves is a Software Specialist on the 5G Networks team at NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg, Germany. He works in the areas of Network Functions Virtualization and Carrier-Cloud Operation & Management, developing novel technologies and tools for the design, deployment... Read More →

Gerald Kunzmann

Manager, DOCOMO

Gerald is leading DOCOMO Euro-Labs' standardization team which is active in the areas of Machine-Type-Communications (MTC), Software-defined Networking (SDN), 5th Generation Mobile Networks (5G), and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). In the latter topic, Gerald is participating... Read More →

Ryota Mibu

Assistant Manager, NEC

Ryota Mibu has been working on integrating cloud technologies to telecommunication platform form 2012 in NEC. He has been contributing OpenStack projects, including Neutron, Ironic, Ceilometer and Aodh. He is the former Project Lead of OPNFV "Doctor" which is focusing on building... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 2:10pm - 2:30pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Nature of OPNFV: Community Technical Track - OPNFV an Introduction

2:30pm PST

The Role of Open Reference Platforms - Marc Cohn, ClearPath

NFV & SDN are in the process of transforming telecommunications, cable, and networking. One key factor has been the open source movement, which has dramatically altered the technology adoption lifecyle. As network operators have become increasingly powered to drive the industry, the open source reference platform has emerged as a critical driver that is redefining the standards process.

In this presentation, we will examine the role of OPNFV on NFV's rapid evolution, by examining the implications on each phase of the technology adoption lifecycle, including use case formulation, architecture definition, requirements analysis, initial implications, and standardization.

Speakers

Marc Cohn

ClearPath

Marc Cohn is the Senior Vice President of Marketing for ClearPath Networks based in San Jose, and responsible for ClearPath’s marketing, branding, and strategic messaging. ClearPath isleveraging NFV/SDN to enable operators to deliver customized and cost-effective managed services... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 2:30pm - 2:50pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Nature of OPNFV: Community Technical Track - OPNFV an Introduction

2:50pm PST

Is There a Big Bang Going On? - Ildiko Vancsa, Ericsson; Dave Neary, Red Hat

OPNFV is a young open source community, but its scope already started to explode. What are the impacts of moving the borders? Should we let it? How far the hands of governance can reach?

This tendency is not new, many other open source communities like OpenStack, OpenDaylight and so forth, experienced it in the past and handled it in different ways. Can we learn from their lessons?

This presentation will walk the audience through the history of growing pains in successful open source projects, and the lessons we can learn in OPNFV. We will outline the impacts of project growth in OPNFV, and compare to how other projects have addressed similar issues.

Speakers

Dave Neary

Open Source and Standards, Red Hat, Red Hat

Ildikó Váncsa

Software Developer, Ericsson

Ildikó is a Software Developer, working in the O&M area of cloud development at Ericsson. She has been contributing to OpenStack since November 2013, her main focus area is Ceilometer, but she is contributing to other projects too, like OpenStack Manuals, Nova or Oslo. She joined... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 2:50pm - 3:15pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Nature of OPNFV: Community Technical Track - OPNFV an Introduction

3:35pm PST

Network Slicing, Use Case of OPNFV - Sivakolunthu A., Alcatel-Lucent

With varied network needs in the new connected world, the end user application needs would vary from Low Latency Connected Cars to Low Speed IoT Connections to high throughput premium video streaming capabilities. In the Next Gen Hyper Connected World (5G to Term So) with highly varied use case needs, it becomes imminent that the Network is Sliced for each family of application type.
Orchestration and aggregation of VNFs based on application needs, becomes a necessity to achieve the above goal. All Layers of MANO– VIMs,VNF Manager and Orchestrator needs to work in tandem based on an application policy to achieve a specific Network Slice.
The talk would discuss the challenges involved and possible extensions to OPNFV Promise and Copper in VIM layer and identify first steps in Orchestrator and VNF Manager layers, which may eventually lead to new projects, to achieve the desired end goal.

Speakers

Sivakolunthu A.

Alcatel-Lucent

Currently employed with Alcatel Lucent. Working on NMS of Fixed Networks in Systems Engineering Role. Architecting products towards an End User Defined Network Cloud Framework. Have a rich and diverse experience in Wireless, IP, Fixed Access and Virtualisation domains. Current Research... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 3:35pm - 3:55pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Business Track-Use Cases-Requirements Session Group: User Stories & Use Cases

3:55pm PST

OPNFV as Cloud VPN Provider - Ahmed Maged, Cisco and Peter Bandzi, Cisco

Today, we will show how OPNFV can be easily used to create a VPN in the Cloud service offering, for home networks. A VPN in the Cloud is capable of giving home networks, a simple platform to securely communicate over a VPN, where Consumers can automatically leverage the trust relationships built on Social Media platforms, to share the VPN meta-data with OPNFV and start the VPN.

Speakers

Ahmed Maged

Cisco

Ahmed helps customers design and deploy Data center and NFV solutions, As well as, evangelizing automation and programmability across Cisco, In a previous Life, Ahmed was part of the Service provider products Engineering Escalation team.

Wednesday November 11, 2015 3:55pm - 4:15pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Business Track-Use Cases-Requirements Session Group: User Stories & Use Cases

4:15pm PST

Killer App for OPNFV: Next Generation Mobile Core - Anthony Soong, Huawei

Find out how wide spread acceptance of the smart phones is transforming mobile communication networks. This presentation will discuss technology trends that will become paramount in the next generation mobile core: NFV and SDN. Together they represent the biggest advancement in the mobile communication network architecture in the last 20 years.

Speakers

Anthony Soong

Huawei

Anthony C. K. Soong (S’88-M’91-SM’02-F”14) received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta. He is currently the Chief Scientist for Wireless Research and Standards at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, in the US. His research group... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 4:15pm - 4:35pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Business Track-Use Cases-Requirements Session Group: User Stories & Use Cases

4:35pm PST

CDN Use Case Revisited - Marc Fiuczynski, Akamai

The explosion of OTT style on-demand and live video traffic experienced by network operators implicitly motivated the ETSI NFV CDN Use Case. The dynamic placement of CDN caches on virtual machines at strategic network locations offers a viable approach to managing this explosion. A CDN is a major, distributed traffic data source, rather than a bump in the wire, that depending on workload also requires terabytes of high performance I/O storage. As such it is different from the more conventional network functions explored in the context of NFV. In this presentation, Marc Fiuczynski revisits the CDN Use Case by outlining both technical and deployment challenges that should be addressed by the NFV and SDN community at large to arrive at the desired efficacy network operators are seeking by deploying CDNs within their networks.

Speakers

Marc Fiuczynski

Principal Architect, Akamai

Marc Fiuczynski works as a Principal Architect at Akamai Technologies in the Network Operator Solutions business unit. His architecture focus there is on projects related to bringing Akamai's CDN offering to 3rd party Virtualized Platforms (NFV, OpenStack, SDN). Fiuczynski hails from... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 4:35pm - 4:55pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Business Track-Use Cases-Requirements Session Group: User Stories & Use Cases

4:55pm PST

Cable Operators Panel - Kevin Luehrs, CableLabs (Moderator); Jeff Finkelstein, Cox Cable; Edwin Mallette, BrightHouse Cable; and Douglas Jones,Comcast

Cable Operator Panel (Kevin Luehrs - CableLabs)- This panel will include major Cable service providers . In this session you will learn about Cable's unique and not so unique challenges in creating a virtual infrastructure including NFV on their evolving platforms. The experts on the panel will share their experiences developing NFV solutions and new services. They will highlight the challenges and opportunities they see and how to move.

Moderators

Kevin Luehrs

Director, CableLabs

My name is Kevin Luehrs. I am a Director at CableLabs, and a member of the Virtualization and Network Evolution team led by Chris Donley, which is within CableLabs R & D/Network Technologies department. The Virtualization and Network Evolution group runs several projects investigating... Read More →

Speakers

Jeff Finkelstein

Douglas Jones

Edwin Mallette

Wednesday November 11, 2015 4:55pm - 5:35pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Business Track-Use Cases-Requirements Session Group: User Stories & Use Cases

11:10am PST

From Arno to Brahmaputra, sailing the ocean of Open Source - Chris Price, Ericsson

This presentation will outline key community activities and technologies under development in Brahmaputra that provide value to the OPNFV project and community. The presentation will highlight key trends and activities in the community as they emerge as OPNFV transitions from a constrained Arno development cycle to an inclusive Brahmaputra release project. The presentation will cover interactions and touch points with other communities and the importance of these relationships.

The presentation will provide a glimpse of where we are as a community, what to expect of the Brahmaputra release and where the community is heading for future releases.

Speakers

Chris Price

Director, Ericsson

Christopher Price heads the network architecture and standardization team for Ericsson's IP and Broadband division where he focuses on the development of technology and innovation. Across his career he has worked as an integrator, verification engineer, developer and technical leader... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 11:10am - 11:30am PST
Grand Peninsula E

Session Group: Futures Technical Track - Looking Ahead & Getting Real

11:30am PST

Running VNFs in Docker Containers with Auto-Scale & Auto-Heal Out of the Box - Uri Cohen, GigaSpaces

Most VNF use cases are designed and presented around VMs, but what about Docker containers? Many VNFs can run as applications in user space, as though run in Docker containers. This provides resource reduction, cost reduction, easier manageability, along with the ability to place or co-locate VNFs of the same tenant on one or several VM instances. This presentation will bring a real world example of an IMS system, based on the open source Clearwater from MetaSwitch, which will demonstrate a way to deploy, monitor, auto-heal and auto-scale Clearwater on Docker containers.

Speakers

Uri Cohen

EVP Product Management, GigaSpaces Technologies

Uri leads the product team at GigaSpaces, and is interested in everything cloud, scalability and devops. He’s a spare time coder and proud father of 3. During the weekend, Uri masquerades as an all-mountain and occasionally downhill bicycle rider, trying his best to keep his body... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 11:30am - 11:50am PST
Grand Peninsula E

Session Group: Futures Technical Track - Looking Ahead & Getting Real

11:50am PST

Envision OPNFV Beyond Telco Cloud - Sheng-Ann Yu, Ericsson

OPNFV (Open Platform for NFV) has defined a common infrastructure for Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) which, as this talk will describe, can be successfully used for a wide range of demanding enterprise applications as well, primarily in highly regulated and strong SLA focused segments. In this talk we will describe the vision and trigger the discussion on how OPNFV and other open source initiatives can jointly benefit all workloads, telco and beyond.

Thursday November 12, 2015 11:50am - 12:10pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Session Group: Futures Technical Track - Looking Ahead & Getting Real

12:10pm PST

VNFs at the Edge using Docker Containers - Michael Kloberdans, CableLabs

While little discussed, there is a solid case in placing some VNFs at the edge of the network, but this notion implies a distributed model that VNFs were not originally created to address. One of the problems in placing VNFs at the network edge is that the edge equipment may be very cost sensitive and in many cases, consumer grade.

These consumer-grade devices cannot support a virtual container such as a KVM because of the huge memory requirements of an additional OS. A Docker container has been proposed and implemented with great success.

Speakers

Michael Kloberdans

Lead Architect of Home Networking, CableLabs

Recently transitioned to the Cable industry, Michael is the Lead Architect of Home Networking at CableLabs and leading the home Virtualization project. Michael has authored many white papers, holds two patents, with four more pending and has been researching NFV in the newer areas... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 12:10pm - 12:35pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Session Group: Futures Technical Track - Looking Ahead & Getting Real

1:25pm PST

System-level Testing and Integration - 'Test Strategy for B-release' - Ana Cunha, Ericsson; Morgan Richomme, Orange; Trevor Cooper, Intel

Testing and performance characterization are key capabilities being developed by the OPNFV community towards deployable NFV solutions. In this presentation, representatives from Orange, Ericsson and Intel will review test strategy for the OPNFV B-release describing scope and work flow of test projects. Experiences from the initial release as well as existing infrastructure and aspects common to all test projects will be discussed, including tooling and relation to continuous integration. In addition, details of how the overall OPNFV test framework shall be enhanced and extended, will also be covered. The presentation will also explain how new OPNFV developers can approach testing new features and interact with other test projects.

Speakers

Trevor Cooper

Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation

As a Principal Engineer at Intel, I drive development of Edge and Cloud architectures for NFV and Cloud Native transformation. I also contribute to Industry organizations and Open-Source software communities through technical and strategic leadership positions.

Ana Cunha

Lead Architect, Ericsson

Ana is a lead architect at Ericsson Business Unit Networks. Her main focus is the development of cloud-native radio network functionsfor the network edge and next generation technologies forvirtualization. She has 20 years experience in the Telecom industry,driving system architecture... Read More →

Morgan Richomme

Morgan Richomme works as Network architect for innovative services in Orange. He is Orange Network open source evangelist and OPNFV representative. Primarily involved in IMS deployment for Orange affiliates, he has 10 years' experience in managing open source solutions. He is... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 1:25pm - 1:45pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Session Group: Testing Technical Track - Looking Ahead & Getting Real

1:45pm PST

Achieving Telco Grade NFV: Benchmarking Real World Workloads - Clive D'Souza, Intel

While the construct of Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined Networking has graduated from a conceptual to a viable technology phase, real world deployments are still proving to be a challenge. Telecom Equipment Manufacture’s (TEM’s) have to find a reliable, deterministic manner to benchmark their wares to specific virtual network functions. Benchmarks which are interoperable, repeatable, based on open standards supporting plug & play modular architectures, to accommodate multi-vendor VNF support will be needed.
Intel has a deep experience in stemming from the successful adoption of virtualization in the data centers; Learnings from the virtualization of the data center journey are directly applicable to standardizing and accelerating the benchmarking for NFV, all with the aim to vastly accelerate the adoption curve of virtualization in networking.

Speakers

Clive D'Souza

engineer, Intel

Clive D’Souza is an engineer with Intel Corporation with a deep passion for Enterprise Computing spanning Server/Storage/Networking. In his 15 years tenure, 10 of which have been at Intel, Clive has had stints in the FAB, Manufacturing, Product groups at Intel. Clive also worked... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 1:45pm - 2:10pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Session Group: Testing Technical Track - Looking Ahead & Getting Real

2:10pm PST

Interoperability: Is it just a dream? - Moderator: Wenjing Chu, Dell; Anthony C.K. Soong, Huawei; Iben Rodriguez, Spirent; Christopher Price, Ericsson; Dave Neary, Red Hat; Chris Donley, Cable Labs; Bryan Sullivan, AT&T; and Pierre Lynch, IXIA

In this panel discussion, we explore a critical aspect of the OPNFV ecosystem: Interoperability. Is it just a dream, or is it something the community can build it around as a differentiating feature of this ecosystem? What are the goals of interoperability, how to balance these goals and what roles different organizations and OPNFV in particular may play? Panelists from open source communities, standard organizations, service operators, software developers, and conformance and certification specialists come together to discuss how to best achieve interoperability.

Moderators

Wenjing Chu

Distinguished Technologist, Dell

Wenjing Chu is a Distinguished Technologist at Dell Research, where he drives Dell’s technology vision and strategy for NFV. He also leads Dell’s research and innovation projects on High Velocity Cloud, including High Velocity Data Flows, Services, and Real-Time Big Data Analytics... Read More →

Speakers

Chris Donley

Pierre Lynch

Lead Technologist, Ixia

- ETSI NFV ISG TST working group chair- Lead Technologist, Ixia- In the test industry for the past 20 years- Working at Ixia for the past 11 years, always in the product management team for wireless test products- Most of my experience has been with mobility testing: GSM, UMTS, LTE... Read More →

Dave Neary

Open Source and Standards, Red Hat, Red Hat

Chris Price

Director, Ericsson

Iben Rodriguez

Anthony C.K. Soong

Bryan Sullivan

AT&T

With 32 years experience in the telecom industry, Bryan has a broad background in software development, system engineering, and standards for private and public switching, data communications, and wireless data services. As part of the team that launched the first mobile web service... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 2:10pm - 2:45pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Session Group: Testing Technical Track - Looking Ahead & Getting Real

2:45pm PST

Evolution of NFV-Federated Test Bed - Trevor Cooper, Intel; Morgan Richomme, Orange

The objective of the OPNFV Pharos project is to develop a federated test-bed capability across geo's to be hosted by OPNFV community members. In this presentation, representatives from Intel, Orange and Ericsson will review progress, explain the vision and give an update on plans for B-release. Topics will include a description of existing community and Linux Foundation infrastructures as well as governance and policy, lab specifications and tooling. OPNFV certification and compliance will also be discussed.

Speakers

Trevor Cooper

Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation

Morgan Richomme

Thursday November 12, 2015 2:45pm - 3:05pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Session Group: Testing Technical Track - Looking Ahead & Getting Real

3:05pm PST

Test Results Management - Jose Lausuch, Ericsson; Morgan Richomme, Orange

Testing is a key challenge for OPNFV. Many projects are dealing with test and generating results on different testbeds relying on different hardware. All these differences lead to a need of a management framework. The goal is to collect, display, analyze and compare heterogeneous sources and provide ultimately a unified user experience.

This presentation will detail this architecture within OPNFV continuous integration environment. An early version of the test dashboard will be shared with the community.

Speakers

Jose A. Lausuch

Senior Systems Designer, Ericsson

Jose Lausuch is a telecommunications engineer, working as a Senior Systems Designer at Ericsson in Germany. He has been mainly focusing on designing, developing and integrating cloud systems and infrastructures in the NFVI area. He is actively contributing to OPNFV since March 2015... Read More →

Morgan Richomme

Thursday November 12, 2015 3:05pm - 3:25pm PST
Grand Peninsula E

Session Group: Testing Technical Track - Looking Ahead & Getting Real