OPNFV Summit 2015: Full Schedule

9:00am PST

Opening & Welcome

Speakers

Heather Kirksey

Vice President of NFV, The Linux Foundation

Heather Kirksey works with the community to advance the adoption and implementation of open source NFV platforms.Before joining The Linux Foundation, she led strategic technology alliances for MongoDB. Earlier in her career she held various leadership positions in the telecom industry... Read More →

Monday November 9, 2015 9:00am - 9:30am PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Design Summit

9:30am PST

OPNFV 101 - Ildiko Vancsa, Ericsson

OPNFV is a very young community and very unique at the same time. It consists of several Telecom vendors and service providers along with IT companies to work on a platform that is suitable for NFVs and the puzzle is built from large open source projects as pieces. Many of us is not completely new to open source, but most of us is still learning how it works. OPNFV is a good example of how the mindset is changing to adapt to a new way of working. The road is full of turns, but we are learning our lessons and moving forward. The presentation will guide you through the changes in the projects’ structure, life cycle and way of working. You will get an overview about our current project structure in OPNFV including co-operation, our processes including tools and best practices and areas that need further improvements.

Speakers

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 →

Monday November 9, 2015 9:30am - 9:50am PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Design Summit

9:50am PST

Orchestrator Panel

Monday November 9, 2015 9:50am - 10:50am PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Design Summit

11:05am PST

Programmable Data Planes and the Role of IO Visor in NFV (Panel) -Moderator: Margaret Chiosi, AT&T; Panelists: Chris Price,Ericsson; Yunsong Lu, Huawei; Bob Monkman, ARM; Pere Monclus, PLUMgrid; and Keith Burns, Cisco

The telecom industry is being transformed by NFV, enabling faster time to market and flexible services through virtualization, programmability, and automation. Underpinning NFV deployments, programmable data planes are paramount to achieving agile service provisioning, management, and scalability. As a new open source collaboration project under the Linux Foundation, IO Visor offers a Linux based, in-kernel programmable data plane that is independent of hardware systems and silicon. In this panel, join the discussion on programmable data planes and hear from some of the most forward-thinking technology leaders around the world.

Moderators

Margaret Chiosi

Distinguished Network Architect, AT&T

Margaret Chiosi, Distinguished Network Architect AT&T Labs, has been involved in data networking for 30+ years. Margaret is currently focused on implementing the virtualization platform for network functions as well as SDN in the L1-L3 and mobility space (D2.0 Architecture). She has... Read More →

Speakers

Burns, Keith

Technical Leader, Engineering, Cisco

YunSong Lu

Chief Architect, Networking & Virtualization, Huawei

As the Principal Architect and Director of Virtual Networking Group, Yunsong and the team have designed and delivered crucial virtual networking technologies, including EVS(Elastic Virtual Switch) and S-DNA(Software-Defined Network Acceleration) framework, which have been the... Read More →

Pere Monclus

CTO and Co-Founder of PLUMgrid, PLUMgrid

Before co-founding PLUMgrid, Pere was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems in the Research and Advanced Development team, where he led innovation in the areas of cloud, security and converged infrastructure. Prior to that, he was responsible for the architecture and technology... Read More →

Bob Monkman

Director Networking Software Ecosystem, Arm

Bob Monkman is part of the Infrastructure Business Line at Arm, based in San Jose, CA and focused on networking software strategy and ecosystem programs. Bob oversees Arm’s participation in the Linux Foundation Networking projects, ensuring multi-architecture support with the Arm... Read More →

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 →

Monday November 9, 2015 11:05am - 12:05pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Design Summit

5:15pm PST

Wrap Up

Monday November 9, 2015 5:15pm - 5:30pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Design Summit

9:00am PST

Kick Off & Opening Remarks

Tuesday November 10, 2015 9:00am - 9:10am PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Design Summit

1:30pm PST

Unconference

Tuesday November 10, 2015 1:30pm - 4:30pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Design Summit

4:30pm PST

Design Summit Closing Remarks

Tuesday November 10, 2015 4:30pm - 5:00pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Design Summit

11:30am PST

Diary of an Infra Guy - Fatih Degirmenci, Ericsson

OPNFV is focusing on accelerating the evolution of NFV products and services through creating an integrated platform that consists of components like OpenStack, OpenDaylight and so forth. In order to build a system that fulfills the requirements of VNFs, it also collaborates with the underlying upstream projects to fill the gaps.
Apart from addressing the telecom needs, the activities cover the end-to-end flow of integrating, deploying and verifying the platform, which gives the diverse and complex nature of the project.
You will get an inside view about the challenges we were facing from the early days to the Arno release and beyond and also outlines our lessons learnt and future plans. We will show how the different deployment tools, test frameworks and lab infrastructures became the parts of one big picture along with a demo of the Continuous Integration Machinery.

Speakers

Fatih Degirmenci

Principal Developer, Ericsson

Fatih Degirmenci is a Principal Developer at Ericsson Product Development Unit 5G. He is specialized in automation, CI/CD, and DevOps, and currently involved in several large scale CI/CD activities across Ericsson. He is a member of the OPNFV Technical Steering Committee and Project... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 11:30am - 11:50am PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Technical Track - OPNFV an Introduction The Nature of OPNFV: Technology Status and Evolution

11:50am PST

Art of Assembling the OPNFV - Frank Brockners, Cisco

OPNFV set out to perform systems integration as an open community effort. Systems integration for NFV not only translates to a continuous composition and test effort, but also commonly requires custom feature extensions and additions. While system integration means “choosing”, open source projects typically “create choice” – where the created merit determines success or failure in the market.
This presentation explores how OPNFV is composed out of many components. We’ll take a look at the “engine room” of OPNFV and see how the OPNFV community combines “choosing” and “choice”. By reviewing the current status, we’ll address how the platform composition was done for the 1st release, how things evolve towards the 2nd release, as well as how users can not only use OPNFV but also impact and influence OPNFV’s direction moving forward. And yes, we’ll share some of the fun, joy, and pitfalls.

Speakers

Frank Brockners

Distinguished Engineer, Cisco

Frank is Distinguished Engineer in Cisco's Outshift division, driving software and architecture development for network AI/ML related solutions. He is involved in several open source projects and is a Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) board member. Frank is an active IETF member and... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 11:50am - 12:15pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Technical Track - OPNFV an Introduction The Nature of OPNFV: Technology Status and Evolution

12:15pm PST

PoC Overview - Bin Hu, AT&T

OPNFV is a carrier-grade, open source platform intended to accelerate the introduction of new products and services using NFV. A set of Proof-of-Concepts of the multivendor, interoperable NFV solutions is being coordinated and developed to demonstrate the intended features of NFV infrastructure platforms such as consistency, performance and interoperability. The subject of PoCs may range from IPv6 integration to service abstraction and/or other features of OPNFV, although the specific subjects and user stories of PoCs are still to be determined.
This presentation will review those PoCs developed for OPNFV Summit, discuss the current state of OPNFV platform and its potentials of deployment, operation, and new use cases and business scenarios enabled by OPNFV platform, the challenges it faces, and look forward to how OPNFV platform is expected to evolve and address those challenges.

Speakers

Bin Hu

AT&T

Bin Hu is a PMTS of AT&T, focusing on network virtualization, SDN and edge cloud computing. He was the Winner of OPNFV 2015 Annual Award. His previous speaking experience includes Linux Foundation Collaborative Summit (2016), OPNFV Summit (2015 and 2016), OpenStack Summit (2015, 2016... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 12:15pm - 12:50pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Technical Track - OPNFV an Introduction The Nature of OPNFV: Technology Status and Evolution

1:50pm PST

SFC with OPNFV - Chris Price, Ericsson; Brady Johnson, Ericsson; Keith Burns, Cisco

This presentation will walk through the values and benefits of using service chaining technologies in OPNFV for service composition. The presentation will talk through and demonstrate, in real time, platform service chaining features and capabilities.

Speakers

Brady Johnson

Principal Software Engineer, Ericsson

Brady Johnson is a Principal Software Engineer at Ericsson working as Project lead for the Open Daylight SFC (Service Function Chaining) and OPNFV SFC projects.

Burns, Keith

Technical Leader, Engineering, Cisco

Chris Price

Director, Ericsson

Wednesday November 11, 2015 1:50pm - 2:05pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: SFC Technical Track - OPNFV in Depth

2:05pm PST

OPNFV and OpenDaylight SFC Integration - Reinaldo Penno, Cisco

This tutorial will cover the plans and interesting challenges as we integrate OPNFV and Opendaylight. We will start with an overview of the evolution of service function chaining, the components that are used to create a service function chain and the Network Service Header (NSH) architecture. We will then explore NSH in more detail, including data-plane, forwarding and metadata examples. Having covered the basic concepts we will go into the main topic of the presentation. We will give an overview of the Opendayight Service Function Chaining architecture and then delve in detail on the plans, progress and challenges of OPNFV and ODL SFC Integration.

Speakers

Reinaldo Penno

Software Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc

Reinaldo Penno is a Director within Cisco's CTO Office. He is currently working on Opendaylight SFC development, service chaining data plane implementation and standardization. Reinaldo Penno is the leading contributor to Service Function Chaining ODL project, having implemented the... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 2:05pm - 2:20pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: SFC Technical Track - OPNFV in Depth

2:20pm PST

Accelerate Service Function Chaining Vertical Solution with DPDK - Danny Zhou, Intel

Service Function Chaining (SFC) is one of top 5 NFV use case. Supporting SFC in provider and enterprise networks requires performance assurance. Specifically, the Classifier and the Service Function Forwarder which are typically implemented in software such as virtual switches need to match line rate requirement. DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) is an open source project comprising a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. In this presentation, we will discuss our experiences accelerating SFC with DPDK. In addition, Telco and Datacenter carriers demands dynamic SFC that requires new SFC wire protocols (e.g. VxLAN-GPE and NSH) support in both data and control planes. We intend to share our experiences and future works of a high performance, NSH-aware SFC vertical solution with open-source ingredients: Openstack, Opendaylight, OpenvSwitch with DPDK acceleration.

Speakers

Danny Zhou

Sr. SDN/NFV Software Architect, Intel Corporation

Danny Zhou is the Sr. SDN/NFV software architect from Intel. He led a engineering team focusing on networking relevant open source projects, such as DPDK, OpenvSwitch, OpenDaylight, FD.io and Open-O to build SDN/NFV reference architecture on x86 platform. He hold10 US patents and... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 2:20pm - 2:35pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: SFC Technical Track - OPNFV in Depth

2:35pm PST

Empower Your Cloud Through Neutron Service Function Chaining- Cathy Zhang, Huawei and Paul Carver, AT&T

This presentation will talk about how you can integrate the service function chaining feature, which is being developed as part of OpenStack Neutron, into your Cloud Platform to auto provision differentiated Cloud services in an agile and flexible way, and how to turbo-charge your cloud using service chaining. The following topics will be covered:
1. Overview of OpenStack Neutron Service Function Chaining Solution
2. How to define the service chains in a simple, prescriptive manner to create cloud services tailored to the needs of individual customers
3. How to ensure vendor independence and be agnostic of underlying network technology
4. How to achieve scalability and elasticity (scale-out and scale-in) of service functions on your cloud platform

Speakers

Paul Carver

Pure Storage

Cathy Zhang

Principal Architect, Huawei

Cathy has over 15 years of software design and development experience. She is currently a chief architect at Huawei’s USA Cloud Computing Lab. Her expertise includes Serverless Cloud Platform, Network Service and Virtualization, SDN, OpenStack, etc.. She is a key member of the Serverless... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 2:35pm - 2:50pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: SFC Technical Track - OPNFV in Depth

2:50pm PST

Configuration Policy in OPNFV - Bryan Sullivan, AT&T

The OPNFV Brahmaputra release will deliver basic mechanisms for Service Providers to ensure that VNF and service configurations are fulfilled "per plan", and that unexpected/invalid configuration changes are detected as quickly as possible, for corrective actions. This session will explain the features included in the Brahmaputra release which will fulfill these goals based upon upstream projects e.g. OpenStack Congress and ODL SFC. A demo of these features will be provided, in which a change to VNF and service deployment triggers a policy violation, with subsequent notification to a policy event dashboard, and policy engine corrective actions as applicable/supported.

Speakers

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 →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 2:50pm - 3:10pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: SFC Technical Track - OPNFV in Depth

3:35pm PST

Day in the Life of a VNF - Bryan Sullivan, AT&T

This talk will include a demo of the OPNFV platform as used to ingest, instantiate, and manage multiple VNFs through itheir lifecycle, including insertion into a Service Function Chain (SFC) and scaling in/out. It will demo the integration of projects such as OpenStack Tacker as a VNF Manager (VNFM) for the OPNFV platform, VNF Packaging including basic metadata descriptors as used by the VNFM to establish and manage VNF resources through OpenStack and ODL, and Network Service Descriptors (NSD) as used by the VNFM and/or NFV Orchestrators (NFVO) to establish and manage SFCs for services built from a collection of VNFs. All code and other demo assets will be open source and made available through the OPNFV git and artifact repositories as part of the OPNFV Brahmaputra release, or referenced open source projects.

Speakers

Bryan Sullivan

AT&T

Wednesday November 11, 2015 3:35pm - 3:55pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Hands-On Deployment Technical Track - OPNFV in Depth

3:55pm PST

OPNFV 101: How to get from Bare Metal to Cloud - Wenjing Chu, Dell; Dan Radez, Red Hat; Vinod Pandarinathan, Cisco

OPNFV has come a long way since inception with first a developer release Arno and then towards a "Lab Ready" release Brahmaputra. It's time to jump in, try it out in your lab, and develop some applications.

In this tutorial, Wenjing will lead a hands on tutorial on how to create an OPNFV cloud from bare metal to demonstrating an NFV application end-to-end. The topics include infrastructure design considerations, instantiation of OPNFV, live operation and validation, live demonstration of a VNF in the cloud and some hands-on experiments. If you are considering creating your own NFV lab, thinking about developing new software on top of OPNFV, or just curious about how it all works in real lab environment, join Wenjing on this fast paced ride from bare metal to an OPNFV cloud.

Speakers

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 →

Vinod Pandarinathan

Technical leader, Cisco Systems

Vinod is a Technical Leader at the Openstack Systems Engineering group at Cisco. Vinod is actively involved in customizing NFV infrastructure for high availability, performance and scale requirement imposed by the network applications. Vinod has worked on deployment and troubleshooting... Read More →

Dan Radez

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Dan Radez has worked for Red Hat for 7 years from the company's headquarters office in Raleigh, NC. With Red Hat he's worked in systems release engineering, product engineering and development operations. Dan has been extended invitations internationally to present and participate... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 3:55pm - 4:55pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Hands-On Deployment Technical Track - OPNFV in Depth

4:55pm PST

Upgrading Your System, a Telco User Perspective - Ulrich Kleber, Huawei

The presentation gives an overview about upgrade scenarios in an openstack/OPNFV based telco environment. The upgrade scenarios cover all layers of upgrade, i.e. hardware, base software on compute and control nodes, OpenStack services, SDN components, applications, both stateful and stateless. It shows OpenStack's role in such upgrade scenarios and the need of automation when doing such upgrades in a telco network.

Speakers

Ulrich Kleber

Chief Architect, Huawei

Ulrich Kleber is a Chief Architect Cloud Platform in Huawei’s European Research Center. During his 30 years of work experience he gained extensive experience as system architect in all areas of telecommunication systems developing technology and architecture strategies according... Read More →

Wednesday November 11, 2015 4:55pm - 5:15pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Hands-On Deployment Technical Track - OPNFV in Depth

5:15pm PST

OPNFV from the Trenches - Chris Donley, CableLabs

OPNFV from the Trenches (Chris Donley, CableLabs) - The Arno release provides an NFV development platform centered around OpenStack and OpenDaylight. Being the first release supported by a young and growing community provides additional challenges that are not as prevalent in more mature project. This talk will share experiences with standing up two development labs and supporting development on the shared platform. Highlighting the many positive experiences with participating early in the project will provide a balanced view of a successful deployment.

Speakers

Chris Donley

Wednesday November 11, 2015 5:15pm - 5:40pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Hands-On Deployment Technical Track - OPNFV in Depth

11:10am PST

Delivering on Promise - Peter Lee, Clearpath; Ildiko Vancsa, Ericsson; Gerald Kunzmann, DOCOMO

This talk will present a demonstration of the OPNFV Promise (Resource Management) capabilities, showcasing Resource Reservation, Capacity Management, and Resource Allocation workflows being realized on OPNFV Arno platform infrastructure. During the session, we will provide an overview of the OPNFV Promise project from inception to current implementation, as well as future roadmap plans for addressing additional requirements. We will also provide requirements alignment analysis between ETSI IFA and OPNFV Promise in closing the requirements gap while maintaining a tight feedback loop back upstream during implementation. In closing, we will highlight the importance of utilizing Model-driven implementation for describing and abstracting the myriad of Resource Elements for effectively transacting the Reservation and Allocation information message flows across the Virtualized Infrastructure.

Speakers

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 →

Peter Lee

ClearPath Networks

Peter Lee leads R&D at ClearPath Networks where he is responsible for driving technology innovation and strategic vision across the company's products and services. He is also serving as PTL for OPNFV Promise project dealing with Resource Management for the Virtualized Infrastructure... Read More →

Ildikó Váncsa

Software Developer, Ericsson

Thursday November 12, 2015 11:10am - 11:30am PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Telco Grade Requirements Technical Track - OPNFV Qualities

11:30am PST

Service VM as a vRouter - IPv6-Enabled OPNFV - Bin Hu, AT&T

IPv6-enabled OPNFV is a meta distribution of platform with de-facto provisioning and configuration of IPv6 including dual-stack support, upon which test harness, additional components and functional blocks and/or tools that need IPv6 functionality can be built and integrated.
This presentation will review the current status of IPv6-enabled OPNFV platform, a gap analysis with IPv6 features in OpenStack and Open Daylight, and a method of configuring a service VM as an IPv6 vRouter. Various aspects in deployment, operation, and the potentials of new use cases and business scenarios enabled by IPv6 platform will be described, as well as the challenges it faces, and the forward-looking of how it is expected to evolve and address those challenges.

Speakers

Bin Hu

AT&T

Thursday November 12, 2015 11:30am - 11:50am PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Telco Grade Requirements Technical Track - OPNFV Qualities

11:50am PST

What Multisite Means for Identity Management - Zhipeng (Howard) Huang, Huawei

Multisite is a requirement project in OPNFV that develops use cases and requirements for OPNFV deployment across multiple sites. With its unique feature about real world mass deployment, Multisite Project team always applies a trial-by-fire approach, and the use case of identity management is one such example in that it is one of the few OPNFV use cases to be "demo first, text later".

In this presentation, Multisite team member will illustrate the multisite identity management use case in detail, demonstrate the demo we did to verify our use case idea, and discuss the related work in upstream project: OpenStack Keystone

Speakers

Zhipeng Huang

Director of Open Source, Huawei

Zhipeng Huang currently serve as Director of Open Source for Huawei Compute Product line, in charge of openEuler, MindSpore and openGauss community operation. Zhipeng is now the TAC member of LFAI, TAC and Outreach member of the Confidential Computing Consortium, co-lead of the Kubernetes... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 11:50am - 12:10pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Telco Grade Requirements Technical Track - OPNFV Qualities

12:10pm PST

High Availability of NFV Platform, Requirements & Deployment - DENG Hui, China Mobile; Xinhui Li, VMware; and Qi Ming Teng, IBM

High availability (HA) is one of the key requirements for a NFV platform.
Among the many concerns from most Carriers, the basic building blocks to
support a highly available NFV solution and the proper procedure to deploy
a HA platform are always on the top of the list. This talk will present
several typical use cases in a highly available NFV setup and examine the
supports from the existing OpenStack cloud platform. We will demonstrate a
HA solution based on the chaining of OpenStack components/services. The talk
will also give an overview of the cluster service for OpenStack which can
be utilized to exploit the capability and potentials from OpenStack services
and to explore new opportunities and alternatives for provisioning a high
available NFV platform

Speakers

Hui Deng

Hui Deng is Principal Staff and is leading SDN/NFV technical strategy at China Mobile. He is the Treasurer and BoD member of OPNFV. He also serves as the chair of Platform & Ecosystem WG in SDN/NFV Industry Alliance (China). Hui Deng has chaired the NFV workshop 2015, NFV Workshop... Read More →

Xinhui Li

Qiming Teng

CTO, Sangfor

I have been working on virtualization technologies since 2005, though this is the first time I get myself involved in an open community. It has been an exciting experience so far where I can work with so many talents around the globe, all with different backgrounds, interests, ex... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 12:10pm - 12:35pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Telco Grade Requirements Technical Track - OPNFV Qualities

1:15pm PST

DPACC: Enabling VNF Portability via Data Plane Acceleration - Lingli Deng, China Mobile

The goal of Dpacc project is to specify a general framework for VNF data plane acceleration (or DPA for short), including a common suite of abstract APIs at various OPNFV interfaces, to enable VNF portability and resource management across various underlying integrated SOCs or SHV server platforms that may employ either software or hardware accelerators. This presentation will showcase live demos for the proposed Dpacc architecture, survey concurrent work threads within OPNFV and relevant upstream projects, and discuss remaining issues for ongoing work. The demos include several VNFs (IPSec GW, SFC, DPI) utilizing either software acceleration or integrated/attached hardware accelerators, implementations of proposed acceleration abstraction layers (enhanced DPDK/ODP/virtio) over X86 or ARM SoC servers, and an Openstack-prototyped VIM with Nova enhancements for acceleration management.

Speakers

Lingli Deng

Technical Manager, China Mobile

Lingli obtained her Doctorate in Computer Application Technology from the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences and joined China Mobile in 2009.She is a core member of the Novonet project which drives SDN/NFV strategy for China Mobile, and has been working on evaluation... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 1:15pm - 1:35pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Efficient Forwarding Technical Track - OPNFV Qualities

1:35pm PST

OPNFV DPACC Acceleration Progress and Demonstration - Keith Wiles, Intel

The session provides an update to on the DPACC project within the OPNFV with a brief discussion on APIs and implementation progress. This session will review the API definition progress and follow up with a demo highlighting a common application as the vNF running on top of the DPACC defined layers. The demo will highlight the use of both hardware and software acceleration utilizing the DPACC defined acceleration layers. The demonstrationIt will highlight the progress in optimizing performance and latency characteristics of a platform to realize the vision of NFV while meeting stringent requirements, particularly for certain workloads, required by carriers.

Speakers

Keith Wiles

Principal Engineer, Intel

Keith Wiles is a principal engineer at Intel Corporation working with DPDK and NFV acceleration technologies for accelerated networking performance. Wiles also authored Pktgen-DPDK, a network traffic generator running on DPDK. He wrote Pktgen-DPDK while working at Wind River to understand... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 1:35pm - 1:55pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Efficient Forwarding Technical Track - OPNFV Qualities

2:05pm PST

KVM Enhancements for OPNFV - Jun Nakajima, Intel

We are working on KVM enhancements for NFV as a collaborative development project in OPNFV, focusing on three key features: minimal Interrupt latency variation, inter-VM (Virtual Machine) communication, and fast live migration. In this presentation, we introduce and provide an update on the project, and how we plan to work with the upstream KVM project.

Minimal Interrupt latency variation is required for data plane VNFs to achieve deterministic execution. We present an update, demonstrating how hardware and software enhancements can help when reducing latency variations.

We evaluate and compare the options for inter-VM communication (e.g. ivshmem, vhost user, VMFUNC, etc.) in terms of performance, interface/API, usability/programing model, security, and maintenance.

Finally we provide and update on fast live migration, including improvements with time to co

Speakers

Jun Nakajima

Sr. Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation

Jun Nakajima is a Senior Principal Engineer at the Intel Open Source Technology Center, leading virtualization and security for open source projects. Jun presented a number of times at technical conferences, including LSS, KVM Forum, Xen Summit, LinuxCon, OpenStack Summit, and USENIX... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 2:05pm - 2:25pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Efficient Forwarding Technical Track - OPNFV Qualities

2:25pm PST

OpenStack & OVS: From Love-Hate Relationship to Match Made in Heaven - Chloe Ma, Mellanox and Erez Cohen, Mellanox

Many OPNFV developers building Openstack clouds at scale have a “love-hate” relationship with OVS. They love the flexibility and elasticity offered by a distributed virtual switch operating within each server, but hate the reality of first-gen OVS implementations well-known to be a bottleneck for cloud network performance and scalability. As performance-sensitive VNFs keep pushing for higher data forwarding performance across the NFV network infrastructure, it becomes critical to improve OVS performance without compromising flexibility, network programmability, and cost.

In this session, Mellanox will present a novel way to offload the entire OVS dataplane onto the embedded switch in the server NIC. This approach can not only boost server I/O performance to near line-rate, be it 10G, 40G, or 100G, but also doing so at a fraction of the CPU load needed by existing OVS implementation.

Speakers

Erez Cohen

Chloe Ma

Senior Director, Cloud Market Development

Chloe Jian Ma leads cloud market development at Mellanox Technologies, and she is passionate about building the right infrastructure to drive the efficiency of cloud computing, Big Data and cloud storage. Prior to Mellanox, Chloe was leading SDN solution marketing at Juniper Networks... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 2:25pm - 2:45pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Efficient Forwarding Technical Track - OPNFV Qualities

2:45pm PST

Benchmarking the Network Data Plane of NFV vdevices and vlinks (OPNFV VSPERF, Cisco) - Maciek Konstantynowicz, Cisco; Maryam Tahhan, Intel

Performance of virtual devices (vswitches, vforwarders, VNFs) and virtual connectivity (VNF-to-NIC, VNF-to-VNF, NIC-to-NIC), is a key consideration for any NFV design and infrastructure – both the methodology of benchmarking deterministic performance, as well as the actual test results and their understanding. The OPNFV VSPERF project addresses this important domain. This session reviews and combines VSPERF results with with the results of Cisco internal benchmarking project that evaluates best-of-breed NFV open-source and commercial technologies. The talk includes lessons learned in VNF benchmarking methodology, extended RFC2544 methodology, results highlights, runtime x86 resource analysis and what matters conclusions on the state of virtualize networking based on KVM.

Speakers

Maciek Konstantynowicz

FD.io CSIT Project Lead, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco

Maciek is project lead for Linux Foundation FastData.io open-source benchmarking, works in the Cisco Chief Technology and Architecture Office, focusing on software networking benchmarks, related analytics and HW/SW optimizations... Read More →

Maryam Tahhan

Network Software Engineer, Intel Corporation

Maryam Tahhan is a Network Software Engineer at Intel Corporation. Her focus has been on virtual switching, virtual switch performance and enabling service assurance features in DPDK. She leads 2 open source projects in OPNFV: VSPERF (vSwitch Performance Characterization) and SFQM... Read More →

Thursday November 12, 2015 2:45pm - 3:05pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Efficient Forwarding Technical Track - OPNFV Qualities

3:05pm PST

Software Fastpath Quality Metrics & DPDK Keep-Alive - Maryam Tahhan, Intel

In an age of Telecommunications Revolution, where evolving technology is completely changing the way we work, communicate, and even the way we live; data growth is exploding across the network. Although more users and devices are connected to the network than ever before, there is still an expectation that services are available whenever and wherever they are needed; and that those services meet a level of quality that is acceptable to the end user. Software Fastpath-service Quality Metrics (SFQM) is an OPNFV project that is focused on collecting and monitoring the Telco performance and traffic indicators of DPDK packet processing paths in the NFVI. This talk looks at the work undertaken by SFQM to expose DPDK performance metrics to OpenStack and the proposed feature that facilitates support for failover of DPDK enabled cores, which is referred to as DPDK Keep alive.

Speakers

Maryam Tahhan

Network Software Engineer, Intel Corporation

Thursday November 12, 2015 3:05pm - 3:25pm PST
Regency Ballroom B&C

Session Group: Efficient Forwarding Technical Track - OPNFV Qualities