Open Networking Summit 2017

Economics and Organizational Impact of Open Networking – The evolution of IT; from mainframe to client-server and now into the cloud, has changed the way organizations invest in Networking technologies. This evolution has also had a direct impact on IT organizations and talent pools as new architectures and technologies have been introduced. In this session, Dell EMC will explore how Open Networking, through both open standards and open source technologies, is transforming the IT industry, redefining the fundamental economics and reshaping organizational landscapes. Particular emphasis will be placed on trends in Networking spend, and the evolution of Networkingcredentials.

Dis-agregration is real… This trend started with SDN and the separation of Data plane and Control plane. The scope has expanded to include separate of hardware and software and created a whole new industry of white boxes, general purpose X86 commodity hardware. All three markets - Cloud, Enterprise and Carriers are now engaged in various solutions inside the Data Center. The disaggregation is impacted all parts of the network including Access and Edge layers. 

Panel covers latest advances in OS, Hardware and Software to enable a full interoperable ecosystem. 

In today’s world we are moving towards a world where things are connected and automated. We are trying to ease our daily living with the help of technology through Internet. One such thing is Assisted Living where technology provides long term senior care in terms of Health, Food, Transportation, Hospitality, etc.,. It also helps physically challenged persons. The session provides how to build a system for Assisted Living with the architecture of Internet of Things (IoT). The speaker will demonstrate few IoT hardware platforms, sensors technologies related to Assisted Living such as Moisture, Gas, and Buttons, Temperature sensors, Seeeduino Arch Pro and IoT cloud platform. At the end presenter will share few business cases of Assisted Living projects for elderly care  including: Smart Locking System, Vibration Alert for Hearing Impaired, Smart Helmet, Smart Help, Vision Band. 

SDN is at the foundation of all large scale networks in the public cloud, such as Microsoft Azure - at past ONSes, Microsoft has detailed how all of Azure's virtual networks, load balancing, and security operate on SDN. But how do we make a software network scale to an era of 40, 50, and 100 gigabit networks on servers, providing great performance to end customers with ever increasing VM and container scale and density?

In this presentation, Daniel Firestone and Gabriel Silva will detail Azure Accelerated Networking, using Azure's FPGA-based SmartNICs. They will show how using FPGAs, we can achieve the programmability of a software network with the performance of a hardware one. They will detail how this and other host SDN advances have led to huge performance increases for Linux VMs in particular, and Linux-based NFV appliances, giving Azure industry-leading network performance.

Open source adoption is quite mature at the application level, often to the point of invisibility. The use of open source in infrastructure is far newer, and subject to many myths and much confusion, from expected cost savings to technical investment required. In the absence of understanding how to evaluate and consume open source options, many enterprises have  defaulted to wholly proprietary solutions from their existing vendors, in spite of their desire for greater purchasing flexibility. In this talk, Lisa Caywood, OpenDaylight Director of Ecosystem Development, will discuss:

- How to evaluate the health and outlook of an open-source infrastructure project

- What "free" means?

- Acquisition options, from download/compile to shrink-wrapped solutions

- How and why to work with vendors

- What to look for in commercial open source solutions

- Advantages of upstream involvement

Cloud adoption is driven by the need to provide fast business response to competitive pressures, changing market conditions. More & more enterprises are realizing their survival depends on focusing their funding, cloud strategy on achieving business agility, fast delivery of applications to market.Cloud native, micro-services based methodology was adopted to speed up delivery of new application features. Still micro-services architecture introduced distributed system challenges where a number of service nodes using multiple logical compute units (containers/VMs) must communicate with each other or to the outside world based on rules specified by devops teams.This presentation discusses how one can bridge the gap between current “infrastructure networking/security” and micro-services logical infrastructure to address their challenges and automate, hide networking & security components.

SD-WAN is a hot technology that is moving from the drawing board to production. It has changed the WAN equation forever and resulted in enterprises looking at the Connectively and Carrier Services quite differently. 

It is an SDN use case to connect enterprise locations over large distances. It promises to reduce enterprises’ IT expenses by using broadband connections and running managed services in the cloud. 

It simplifies the management and operation of a WAN by decoupling the networking hardware from its control mechanism. Panel will discuss details of use cases that standards and Operators are deploying e.g. including major multi-operator MEF reference implementation of Orchestrated L3VPN. 

Virtual Reality is a new technology used for building realistic experiences for games, environments, content display as well as marketing. In this session we will talk about Web Virtual Reality and the present state of it. We will talk about different use cases and the state WebVR is at present. The session will start with present state of affairs of WebVR, it's support in different browsers and then will roll into different use cases of WebVR and its applicability. We will then introduce aframe,a declarative entity-component-system framework. In this talk we will talk about what we can do with aframe and webvr right now with live demos and roll over to some experimental technologies and future roadmap and whats on the plate for enar future. 

Global organizations are adopting programmable networks as a first step towards network automation, but this can be advanced more quickly with machine learning. Machine learning applications span a wide variety of use cases, including perceptual tasks such as image search, object and scene recognition and captioning; voice and natural language recognition and generation; self-driving cars and automated assistants such as Siri; as well as various engineering, financial, medical, and scientific applications. The recent progress of machine learning and deep learning in particular has been nothing short of spectacular. It’s a new area for networking, but one that is growing incredibly fast. This presentation will provide insight into the intersection of machine learning, networking and DevOps as well as an overview of recent advances in machine learning with an eye toward network.