The document discusses considerations for deploying virtual network functions and services using network function virtualization (NFV). It describes the key concepts of NFV including separating network functions from dedicated hardware, increasing network elasticity, and addressing heterogeneity. It outlines the main business drivers for NFV including reducing costs, simplifying network management, and shortening time to market for new services. Finally, it discusses carrier Ethernet use cases, virtual network function deployment models, and options for deploying functions at customer premises.
Javier Benitez's talk from the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Colt is transforming the way they do business and offer network services to customers through the adoption of SDN & NFV as part of a company-wide transformation program called Novitas. Javier Benitez will focus in this presentation on active Colt’s Novitas developments, sharing with the audience their experience in deploying SDN & NFV solutions in production both for Ethernet and IP services, the learning associated as well as their future plans. In particular, Javier Benitez will cover Colt developments around Ethernet & IP on Demand, SD VPN, SDN controlled MPLS packet core and SDN/NFV NNI standardization.
Ken Ko's presentation from the 2017 Open Networking Summit discussing recent innovation and activity in the NFV and SDN space among broadband providers.
In this presentation, the SDN-Based Enterprise Connectivity Service Architecture of China Unicom will be introduced. And the four use cases will be discussed, including: “Flexible access for enterprise, Cloud access and resource centralized, High efficiency, elastic transport for DCI, Extensible VAS deployment for services”. Finally, some commercial experience in China Unicom will be shared.
Traditional carriers' transport networks consist of vertically-integrated devices with vendor-proprietary interfaces, that causes "vendor lock in" environment and interferes with adopting software based control and configuration for carriers' transport networks. NTT Communications are trying to adopt disaggregation approach for them to transform our operations by integrating commoditized multi-vendor components and SDN technology.
In this presentation, we will talk about our expectations for disaggregated transport networks and its controller architecture with multiple SDN controllers including open source software. Furthermore, we will show our internal evaluation result of disaggregated transport network feasibility and discuss future development plans.
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.
Javier Benitez's talk from the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Colt is transforming the way they do business and offer network services to customers through the adoption of SDN & NFV as part of a company-wide transformation program called Novitas. Javier Benitez will focus in this presentation on active Colt’s Novitas developments, sharing with the audience their experience in deploying SDN & NFV solutions in production both for Ethernet and IP services, the learning associated as well as their future plans. In particular, Javier Benitez will cover Colt developments around Ethernet & IP on Demand, SD VPN, SDN controlled MPLS packet core and SDN/NFV NNI standardization.
Ken Ko's presentation from the 2017 Open Networking Summit discussing recent innovation and activity in the NFV and SDN space among broadband providers.
In this presentation, the SDN-Based Enterprise Connectivity Service Architecture of China Unicom will be introduced. And the four use cases will be discussed, including: “Flexible access for enterprise, Cloud access and resource centralized, High efficiency, elastic transport for DCI, Extensible VAS deployment for services”. Finally, some commercial experience in China Unicom will be shared.
Traditional carriers' transport networks consist of vertically-integrated devices with vendor-proprietary interfaces, that causes "vendor lock in" environment and interferes with adopting software based control and configuration for carriers' transport networks. NTT Communications are trying to adopt disaggregation approach for them to transform our operations by integrating commoditized multi-vendor components and SDN technology.
In this presentation, we will talk about our expectations for disaggregated transport networks and its controller architecture with multiple SDN controllers including open source software. Furthermore, we will show our internal evaluation result of disaggregated transport network feasibility and discuss future development plans.
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.
Ildikó Váncsa, Chris Price, and Carsten Rossenhövel's presentation at the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Communications service providers (CSPs) have a wide range of options when building virtualized services from the ground up including multiple choices for each functional block in the ETSI NFV reference architecture. CSPs prefer heterogeneous systems with building blocks from different vendors including open source software; for such deployments interoperability becomes a crucial requirement.
OpenStack, as the NFVI and VIM, serves as a widely used cloud platform for telecom and NFV use cases. As a common base, OpenStack offers the means for vendors and other open source projects to ease the interoperability challenge by providing a set of open API’s while focusing on upgradeability and backward compatibility.
However, when it comes to productization, interoperability testing often falls short and is sometimes left to the carrier as shown by the testing programs actively run by no fewer than 10 organizations today.
Join Carsten Rossenhövel from the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) and the rapporteur (editor) of ETSI’s NFV interoperability standards, Ildikó Váncsa from the OpenStack Foundation, and Chris Price, Ericsson and OpenStack board director to learn more about
The ETSI NFV Release 2 interoperability testing activities - standardization and recently completed ETSI PlugTest. Over 40 commercial and open source implementations were tested for interoperability, including 20 virtual network functions, 10 management and orchestration solutions and 10 NFV platforms.
The New IP Agency (NIA) interoperability testing campaigns of commercial NFV implementations executed by EANTC, focusing on results, lessons learned and recommendations.
How vendors and open source projects are stepping up to the challenge, realizing they must work together.
How to stay up-to-date with OpenStack releases and the community.
How to get involved to ensure you are aware of the latest developments and contribute what you need to OpenStack.
What will I learn from attending this session?
CSPs, open source projects and vendors alike will learn more about the recent ETSI PlugTest and NIA-commissioned interoperability testing, their results and how to architect full NFV solutions that will work together. Interoperability API tests and associated marks from OpenStack will be covered, as well as features to help stay current on OpenStack releases. Attendees will also hear from Ericsson about a vendor’s point of view, and how other projects such a OPNFV are evolving and expanding in scope to address this challenge.
Open Source Approach to Design and Deployment of Microservices-based VNFOpen Networking Summit
Prem Sankar's presentation from the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Microservice is gaining increased adoption in the Telco NFV world. It is key to understand the design and deployment methodologies involved in developing Microservice based VNF. This talk provides an opensource practitioner approach to building and deploying a Microservice based VNF and includes the following: - Design patterns, workflow models - Design models for VNF placement, capacity management, scale-in/out and resiliency - Deployment considerations that includes handing of scale and fault tolerant VNF using well known Opensource tools
Lisa Caywood and Colin Dixon's presentation at the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
OpenDaylight has become a nexus for open source integration, creating a new open networking stack and enabling a new generation of open source, agile IT infrastructure. The fifth “Boron” release provides new tooling and documentation to support application developers, as well as greater integration with industry frameworks from OPNFV and OpenStack to CORD and Atrium. Boron also brings a practical focus on two leading types of deployments: (1) direct control of virtual switches to provide network virtualization and NFV and (2) management and orchestration of existing networks to provide new features and automation. This talk will cover trends in open SDN and cloud networking, with a focus on Boron milestones. In particular, it dives into the architecture across OpenStack and OpenDaylight to enable OpenStack service function chaining support in OpenDaylight.
As SDN & NFV services become commercially available, the industry needs to approach once again the reach issue. There is not a single service provider with complete reach; that is why we build NNIs and need a wider SDN/NFV Ecosystem.
SDN and NFV Value in Business Services - A Presentation By Cox CommunicationsCisco Service Provider
Joint presentation on behalf of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) between Cox Communications (Mazen Khaddem) and Cisco Systems (Dr. Loukas Paraschis). Presentation covers different SDN categories, NFV examples in business services, and use cases for WAN SDN.
Introducing ONAP for OpenStack St Louis Meetupdjzook
An introduction to the Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) a new Linux Foundation Project for SDN/NFV, as presented to the OpenStack St Louis Meetup on June 20, 2017
Keynote presentation by Amin Vahdat on behalf of Google Technical Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform. Presentation was delivered at the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
A key tenant of moving NFV from a Proof of Concept (Poc) to deployment is testing. NFV solutions that pull from open source projects such as OPNFV, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and others must be integrated and tested in an environment that fully supports the performance and availability requirements of service provider networks. Testing criteria and solutions are also required to ensure NFV interoperability between hardware and software systems that comprise NFV. In this tutorial, you’ll learn best practices for open source NFV testing, including: methodology; mapping to ETSI NFV use-case/s; open source project integration; testing dashboards; Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD); and testing acceleration.
Ildikó Váncsa, Chris Price, and Carsten Rossenhövel's presentation at the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Communications service providers (CSPs) have a wide range of options when building virtualized services from the ground up including multiple choices for each functional block in the ETSI NFV reference architecture. CSPs prefer heterogeneous systems with building blocks from different vendors including open source software; for such deployments interoperability becomes a crucial requirement.
OpenStack, as the NFVI and VIM, serves as a widely used cloud platform for telecom and NFV use cases. As a common base, OpenStack offers the means for vendors and other open source projects to ease the interoperability challenge by providing a set of open API’s while focusing on upgradeability and backward compatibility.
However, when it comes to productization, interoperability testing often falls short and is sometimes left to the carrier as shown by the testing programs actively run by no fewer than 10 organizations today.
Join Carsten Rossenhövel from the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) and the rapporteur (editor) of ETSI’s NFV interoperability standards, Ildikó Váncsa from the OpenStack Foundation, and Chris Price, Ericsson and OpenStack board director to learn more about
The ETSI NFV Release 2 interoperability testing activities - standardization and recently completed ETSI PlugTest. Over 40 commercial and open source implementations were tested for interoperability, including 20 virtual network functions, 10 management and orchestration solutions and 10 NFV platforms.
The New IP Agency (NIA) interoperability testing campaigns of commercial NFV implementations executed by EANTC, focusing on results, lessons learned and recommendations.
How vendors and open source projects are stepping up to the challenge, realizing they must work together.
How to stay up-to-date with OpenStack releases and the community.
How to get involved to ensure you are aware of the latest developments and contribute what you need to OpenStack.
What will I learn from attending this session?
CSPs, open source projects and vendors alike will learn more about the recent ETSI PlugTest and NIA-commissioned interoperability testing, their results and how to architect full NFV solutions that will work together. Interoperability API tests and associated marks from OpenStack will be covered, as well as features to help stay current on OpenStack releases. Attendees will also hear from Ericsson about a vendor’s point of view, and how other projects such a OPNFV are evolving and expanding in scope to address this challenge.
Open Source Approach to Design and Deployment of Microservices-based VNFOpen Networking Summit
Prem Sankar's presentation from the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Microservice is gaining increased adoption in the Telco NFV world. It is key to understand the design and deployment methodologies involved in developing Microservice based VNF. This talk provides an opensource practitioner approach to building and deploying a Microservice based VNF and includes the following: - Design patterns, workflow models - Design models for VNF placement, capacity management, scale-in/out and resiliency - Deployment considerations that includes handing of scale and fault tolerant VNF using well known Opensource tools
Lisa Caywood and Colin Dixon's presentation at the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
OpenDaylight has become a nexus for open source integration, creating a new open networking stack and enabling a new generation of open source, agile IT infrastructure. The fifth “Boron” release provides new tooling and documentation to support application developers, as well as greater integration with industry frameworks from OPNFV and OpenStack to CORD and Atrium. Boron also brings a practical focus on two leading types of deployments: (1) direct control of virtual switches to provide network virtualization and NFV and (2) management and orchestration of existing networks to provide new features and automation. This talk will cover trends in open SDN and cloud networking, with a focus on Boron milestones. In particular, it dives into the architecture across OpenStack and OpenDaylight to enable OpenStack service function chaining support in OpenDaylight.
As SDN & NFV services become commercially available, the industry needs to approach once again the reach issue. There is not a single service provider with complete reach; that is why we build NNIs and need a wider SDN/NFV Ecosystem.
SDN and NFV Value in Business Services - A Presentation By Cox CommunicationsCisco Service Provider
Joint presentation on behalf of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) between Cox Communications (Mazen Khaddem) and Cisco Systems (Dr. Loukas Paraschis). Presentation covers different SDN categories, NFV examples in business services, and use cases for WAN SDN.
Introducing ONAP for OpenStack St Louis Meetupdjzook
An introduction to the Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP) a new Linux Foundation Project for SDN/NFV, as presented to the OpenStack St Louis Meetup on June 20, 2017
Keynote presentation by Amin Vahdat on behalf of Google Technical Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform. Presentation was delivered at the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
A key tenant of moving NFV from a Proof of Concept (Poc) to deployment is testing. NFV solutions that pull from open source projects such as OPNFV, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and others must be integrated and tested in an environment that fully supports the performance and availability requirements of service provider networks. Testing criteria and solutions are also required to ensure NFV interoperability between hardware and software systems that comprise NFV. In this tutorial, you’ll learn best practices for open source NFV testing, including: methodology; mapping to ETSI NFV use-case/s; open source project integration; testing dashboards; Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD); and testing acceleration.
Demystifying Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Service AssuranceZenoss
Presented by SOPRIS Technologies and Zenoss by SOPRIS' David Stevenson (CSO), and Zenoss' Kent Erickson (Senior Manager, Channel Marketing) and Laszlo Bojtos (Staff Sales Engineer).
Access the full presentation recordings for GalaxZ17 here: http://ow.ly/WyBu30cakk0
Cloudify: Open vCPE Design Concepts and Multi-Cloud OrchestrationCloudify Community
See how open vCPE can be achieved in the real world and in action, while integrating other VNFs into the service chain, while easily instantiating and managing on any cloud, leveraging open orchestration design concepts. More and more vendors are looking to not only easily onboard their VNFs to the cloud, but also build a stack that is versatile and not locked into one cloud provider or vendor. Join this webinar and learn how Datavision and Cloudify are helping deliver this end-to-end solution across the globe
Research Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of the Internet of Everythin...Stenio Fernandes
Currently there is increasing interest in scientific research on network traffic management for advanced scenarios (e.g. Internet of Everything (IoE), Everything as a Service (XaaS), Smart Cities, and the like) and their respective demands for novel network services. Such networked applications bring massive amounts of traffic data to be processed in real-time, thus driving researchers to develop affordable yet efficient network management systems. In fact, new paradigms, services, and architectures, such as Network Virtualization (NV), Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Distributed Cloud Computing, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Service Function Chaining (SFC), etc, will require robust and dynamic capabilities to support a myriad of possibilities for applications from the IoE and XaaS concepts. For example, there is a need for an in-depth understanding of the composition and the dynamics of Internet traffic to perform accurate capacity planning, deploy efficient management policies and pricing strategies, assess protocol performance, and detect abnormalities in such scenarios. Research on measurement, modeling, and analysis of network traffic and infrastructure always face new challenges as new applications are continuously deployed.
In this talk, I will discuss the rise of IoE and XaaS as well as the demand for advanced networking services, paradigms, and architectures (e.g., SDN, NFV). I will give an overview of some challenges, opportunities, and directions in these research topics.
Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that uses the technologies of IT virtualization to virtualized entire classes of network node functions into building blocks that may connect, or chain together, to create communication services.
ACG Research Paper: Business Case for Cisco Evolved Services Platform and NFVCisco Service Provider
Read this research paper to see what ACG Research's findings are on the Cisco Evolved Services Platform (ESP) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
To learn about Cisco's recent announcement of the Cisco ESP, please visit http://cs.co/virb
Net-Ace - Vendor-Agnostic Service Orchestration platformyurid79
Vendor-Agnostic Service Orchestration platform for CSP & Enterprise market. Using this "no hardcoded parameters for service or device" approach, Net-ACE is truly an open platform unifying traditional network management and open, SDN-style network programmability and Service Lifecycle Orchestration while eliminating management silos.
Demystifying Orchestration and Assurance Across SDN NFV CE2.0WebNMS
Service providers worldwide are moving toward the dream goal of service automation from the front end of customer ordering and service monitoring to the back end of service provisioning, network monitoring, and active service-level agreement (SLA) enforcement.These are explored in depth with expert opinions. Also explored are a customer self-service portal for on-demand ordering and monitoring of Ethernet services, intelligent customer premises equipment for provisioning and monitoring, and testing and monitoring software for ensuring workability across physical and virtual networks.
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) BoF, by Santanu Dasgupta.
A presentation given at the APNIC 40 APNIC Network Function Virtualization (NFV) BoF session on Tue, 8 Sep 2015.
Dr. Christos Kolias – Senior Research Scientist
Keynote Title: “NFV: Empowering the Network”
Keynote Abstract: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) envisions and promises to change the service provider landscape and has emerged as one of one of today’s significant trends. Although less than two years old, NFV has garnered the industry’s full attention and support. Moving swiftly, a number of key accomplishments have already taken place, and a lot more work is currently under way within ETSI NFV while we are embarking on its future phase. Various proofs-of-concepts (ranging from vEPC to vCPE, vIMS and vCDN) are being developed while issues such as open source and SDN are becoming key ingredients as the can play a pivotal role.
Dr. Christos Kolias' Bio: Christos Kolias is a senior research scientist at Orange Silicon Valley (a subsidiary of Orange). Christos is a co-founder of the ETSI NFV group and had led the formation of ONF’s Wireless & Mobile working group. He has lectured on NFV and SDN at several events. Christos has more than 15 years of experience in networking, he is the originator of Virtual Output Queueing (VOQ) used in packet switching. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA.
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Linaro Connect USA - #LCU14
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Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
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Tech Talk by John Casey (CTO) CPLANE_NETWORKS : High Performance OpenStack Ne...nvirters
OpenStack is HOT! No doubt about it. A recent survey by The New Stack and The Linux Foundation shows OpenStack as the most popular open source project ahead of other hot projects like Docker and KVM. OpenStack is now taking its rightful place as the open source cloud solution for enterprises and service providers.
To date OpenStack networking has not yet achieved the performance, scalability and reliability that many large enterprises demand. CPLANE NETWORKS solves that problem by delivering secure multi-tenant virtual networking that overcomes the limitations of the standard Neutron networking service. By making all networking services local to the compute node and achieving near line-rate throughput, CPLANE NETWORKS Dynamic Virtual Networks (DVN) delivers mega-scale networking for the most demanding application environments.
In this session John Casey will cover the basics of DVN and explain how CPLANE NETWORKS achieves "at scale" network performance within and across data centers.
About John Casey
John Casey has over 20 years of deep technology leadership. His proven success with a variety of technical leadership roles in Telecom, Enterprise and Government and in software design and development provide the foundation for the system architecture and engineering team.
Previously John led worldwide deployment teams for both IBM’s Software Group and Narus, Inc. His work in large scale, high performance system design at Transarc Labs and Walker Interactive Systems brings leadership to the CPLANE NETWORKS product suite.
This presentation focuses on the networking requirements using open source to treat diseases through cell-based analysis at the molecular level. Transporting this knowledge across devices and centers requires a whole new structure and networking. Terabits per second with high-availability and guaranteed delivery is required to meet the needs. Shared knowledge is the critical for real-time analysis. This will discuss data flows, open networking, and databases that are all open source and have been optimized for this problem.
Disaggregated Networking - The Drivers, the Software & The High AvailabilityOpen Networking Summit
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.
amounts of IoT data from connected devices and building infrastructure while simultaneously guaranteeing sensitive information remains private. To do this many factors need to be considered: policy for traffic prioritization, techniques for network partitioning, common APIs and standards, and shared data and security models. Should a smart city network be a shared infrastructure following a public utility model? To what extent do smart city networks need to be open while remaining secure? What open network initiatives do we need to enable building large scale networks for smart cities?
Martin Šuňal's presentation from Open Networking Summit 2017.
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Service Function Chaining (SFC) have been hot topics for some time, but many users are still finding it difficult to adopt these concepts in the real world. Since network functions are getting virtualized/containerized and service chaining is a requirement in many NFV use cases, there is a need for container service chaining. This presentation discusses problems with existing approaches, potential solutions and benefits of container service chaining.
Arachne: How does Uber check the health of its Network Infrastructure every 1...Open Networking Summit
One of the major challenges and requirements in achieving a very high (>99.99%) reliability of operation of any major network infrastructure (i.e. data center, enterprise, campus, etc.) is the ability to design and deploy an always-on active system that performs end-to-end functional testing of all the network-connected infrastructure components and, as a result, monitors the infrastructure and its dependent external services with high accuracy and granularity (down to the packet level) in the most efficient way; consuming the least amount of computational or network resources.
When it comes to packet loss detection, metrics reported by the original manufacturers cannot be relied upon; their tools may either be buggy or, in most cases, do not provide APIs for extracting measurements. Therefore, we needed to create our own tool; this is the gap Arachne is filling.
In this talk, we present Arachne. Arachne is a packet loss detection system and an underperforming path detection system. It provides fast and easy active end-to-end functional testing of all the components in Data Center (DC) and Cloud infrastructures. Arachne is able to detect intra-DC, inter-DC, DC-to-Cloud, and DC-to-External-Services issues by generating minimal traffic.
Joon-Myung Kang and Mario A. Sánchez's presentation at the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Intent-based networking has gained a lot of interest in recent years with several different open source communities (including ONF, OpenDaylight and ONOS). However, network diagnosis and troubleshooting remain two essential aspects of network management that still require massive manual effort and extensive expert knowledge. So far, no approach has focused on troubleshooting the network at the intent level. We argue that providing reasoning capabilities about why an observed network state happens according to specified input policies can help simplify this complexity. In this talk, we present our work on network troubleshooting at the intent level. Our solution provides capabilities to enable posing what-if type questions at the policy level –e.g. when a new input policy is introduced– to help answer reachability questions both at the policy and infrastructure level.
Ed Warnicke's talk at Open Networking Summit.
All Open Source Networking project depend on having access to a Universal Dataplane that is:
Able to they deployment models: Bare Metal/Embedded/Cloud/Containers/NFVi/VNFs
High performance
Feature Rich
Open with Broad Community support/participation
FD.io provides all of this and more. Come learn more about FD.io and how you can begin using it.
Gaetano Borgione's presentation from the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Networking is vital for cloud-native apps where distributed computing and development models require speed, simplicity, and scale for massive number of ephemeral containers. Two of the most prevalent container networking models are CNI and CNM for developers using Docker, Mesos, or Kubernetes. This session will present an overview of distributed development, how CNI and CNM models work, and how container frameworks use these models for networking. Gaetano will also discuss the additional functions users need to consider in the control plane and data plane to achieve operational scale and efficiency.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
From Siloed Products to Connected Ecosystem: Building a Sustainable and Scala...
Considerations for Deploying Virtual Network Functions and Services
1.
2. Considerations for Deploying Virtual
Network Functions and Services
Rami Yaron, Co-chair, Global Marketing and Education Committee, MEF
VP, Strategy and Business Development, Telco Systems
3. The NFV Concept
• Separate functionality from capacity
• Increase network elasticity
• Address heterogeneity
DPI
BRAS
GGSN/
SGSN
Firewall
CG-NAT
PE Router
VIRTUAL NETWORK
FUNCTIONS
COMMON HW
(Servers & Switches)
FUNCTION
CAPACITY
Source: ETSI
4. The Business Drivers
• Build the infrastructure as a pool of general
resources
• Functionality is provided on-demand
wherever it is needed
• The infrastructure can be updated in a much
easier way
• New functions can be added or improved by
just updating a software image
• Management and operation can be
performed by means of software image
configuration and orchestration
• Flatten network CAPEX by simpler
procurement and reuse
• Lower network OPEX by reducing complexity
and unifying operation mechanisms
• Shorten time to market and address long-tail
services
Source: ETSI
5. CE and NFV – Building Blocks and Deployment
Considerations
• Carrier Ethernet Use Cases – Present Mode of Operation
(PMO)
• Virtual Network Function (VNF) Deployment Models
• Deployment Options at Customer Premises
• Considerations for Different Deployment Models and Options
6. Carrier Ethernet Use Cases – Present Mode of
Operation (PMO)
• Carrier Ethernet used in many retail and wholesale applications:
• Internet Access
• Multi-Site L2 VPNs
• Mobile Backhaul (MBH)
• Off-Net E-Access services
• Data Center Access (DCA) and Data Center Interconnect (DCI)
7. Carrier Ethernet Use Cases – Present Mode of Operation
(PMO)
• Carrier Ethernet used in many retail and wholesale applications:
• Internet Access, Multi-Site L2 VPNs, Mobile Backhaul (MBH)
• Off-Net E-Access services,
• Data Center Access (DCA) and Data Center Interconnect (DCI)
• Ethernet NID commonly deployed at customer premises
• NID provides Carrier Ethernet service demarcation
• Carrier Ethernet services provide the fundamental connectivity
• How do you leverage this widespread infrastructure to deliver new services?
CSP Network
Customer
Premises
Customer
Premises
EVC
9. Virtual Network Function (VNF)
Deployment Models
• Model 1: Centralized
• Resources are shared among customers and applications
• Not suitable for some network services
(e.g. Security, WAN optimization, SD-WAN, high local capacity services)
• initial investment
• Simplifies the operation
• Short TTM for new services activation
CSP NetworkCustomer
Premises
VNFs
EVC
10. Virtual Network Function (VNF)
Deployment Models
• Model 2: Decentralized
• Resources are shared only among and applications
• Invest as you grow model
• Short time to first service, show results immediately
• Moderate initial investment (DC investment is not required)
• Short TTM for new services activation
• Solution is dedicated to a customer
CSP Network
Customer
Premises
VNFs
Customer
Premises
VNFs
vCPE vCPEEVC
11. Virtual Network Function (VNF)
Deployment Models
• Model 3: Distributed
• Optimize VNF placement based on the VNF requirements and network topology
• Service chaining between CP and DC may create complications
CSP NetworkCustomer
Premises
VNFs
EVC
VNFs
vCPE
12. Deployment Options at Customer
Premises
• Option 1: NID at Customer Premises
• Supports CE 2.0 as PNFs
• Used with Centralized VNF Model
CSP NetworkCustomer
Premises
VNFs
EVC
PNF
15. Considerations for Different VNF Deployment Models
• Location of VNFs directly dependent on use cases and functionality
• Example Use Cases / Functionality
• SD-WAN / WAN Optimization
• Requires deep packet inspection and performs traffic steering over different WANs
• Such functions must be performed at the customer premises
• Encryption
• Encryption must be performed at the customer premises to be effective
• WiFi Controller
• Functionality can be performed either centrally or on customer premises
16. Operational Considerations for CE
and NFV deployment
• The following are
important operational
considerations when
comparing
virtualization options:
Established
procedures
MTTR
Troubleshooting
Skills
Scalability
ServiceVerification
Tests
Security
SLAPerformance
Requirements
17. Summary
• NFV will transform how CSPs deliver network functions and services
• Carrier Ethernet provides the foundational connectivity providing
performance and security assurances
• NFV enables additional virtual network functions and services to be
layered onto the foundational CE 2.0 network
• CE and NFV will help service providers offer, enhance, and expand
their offerings with new and innovative services
Download MEF’s Carrier Ethernet and NFV paper
19. New Network Functionality -
Agile/Dynamic, Assured and
Orchestrated Services: Top
Drivers and Challenges
What do you believe are the most important drivers and challenges for
deploying agile/dynamic, assured and orchestrated services?
Source (Joint MEF-Vertical Systems Group): Emerging Third Network Services Enabled by LSO, SDN and NFV Study (January 2017)
Survey of MEF Community – October 2016
20. Orchestrated On-Demand
Connectivity Services
Orchestration over Own Network
• 69% of Service Providers
surveyed say that the ability to
deliver on-demand CE 2.0 Retail
Ethernet connectivity over their
own network is highest priority.
Orchestration over Multiple
Networks
• 59% say the delivery of
orchestrated, on-demand CE 2.0
Wholesale E-Access connectivity
services over multiple provider is
top priority
Source (Joint MEF-Vertical Systems Group): Emerging Third
Network Services Enabled by LSO, SDN and NFV Study (January
2017)
Survey of MEF Community – October 2016
22. LSO Reference
Architecture and
Capabilities
EMS: Element Management System
PNF: Physical Network Function
SOF: Service Orchestration Function
• Fulfillment
• Performance
• Control
• Assurance
• Usage
• Analytics
• Security
• Policy
CAPABILITIES
25. MEF Development Model
Liaisons to SDOs
Open Source Projects
Collaboration
MEF Agile
Development LifecycleMEF Committees
SPECIFICATIONS
CERTIFICATIONS
& MARKETING
Services
Operations
Orchestration
Accelerator
MEF Open
Initiatives
PlatformMEF Dev.
Community
26. • Accelerate pace and relevance of MEF APIs and standards
• Validate APIs/standards
• Provide feedback into technical committees
• Create open source reference implementations, libraries, toolsets
• Collaboration across SDOs and Open Source communities
• Increase awareness, open discussions
• Support for LSO APIs in relevant open source projects
• Upstream contributions
• More running code!
27. Spirit of the Hackathon
• Collaborative, friendly competition
• Break down silos
• Share insights, tips, ideas
• Shared goals
• Increase of pace and quality of LSO APIs and implementations
• Non-MEF members can participate
• Free
29. Euro17 Hackathon – April 24-26, Frankfurt
• Projects for Euro17 Hackathon are being determined now
• For reference, here is the list of projects from previous hackathon
• Micro-services enabling a pre-order marketplace for wholesale Carrier
Ethernet services
• Inter-carrier automated product ordering
• MEF Legato YANG models exposed using Cisco NSO
• Automated inter-carrier L2 and L3 service fulfillment and change
• Carrier Ethernet service fulfillment using OpenDaylight and PNFs/VNFs
via LSO Presto
• Join us in Frankfurt!
30. LSO-Orchestrated
Multi-Operator L2VPN
• To develop and
demonstrate reference
implementations of agile,
assured and
orchestrated services
across three network
domains to connect with
a Cloud Operator in
another country, using
Third Network services.
31. LSO and Open
API initiative
• To start the respective agile sprints to
develop two sets of APIs to be used for
orchestrating MEF-defined services (like
E-Line, E-Access etc) at LSO Sonata and
LSO Presto respectively that will
culminate in publication of these open
APIs during the course of 2017, and to
ensure that they enable certification of
orchestrated MEF-defined services.
33. Summary
• Today’s services need to be orchestrated across multiple network
domains, as well as, across different service providers’ footprint.
• MEF, Service Providers members and industry partners are leading the
work to define the requirements and deliver common APIs between SPs.
• This is achieved through MEF’s Projects and Open Initiatives
• Will you be joining us, through MEF’s multiple activities, to deliver on the
Lifecycle Service Orchestration promise?
34. SD-WAN Tutorial:
Service Components, Functionality, MEF
Reference Architecture and Use Cases
Ralph Santitoro, Distinguished Fellow and Director, MEF
Head of SDN/NFV Solutions Practice, Fujitsu
35. • Concept: Overlay vs. Underlay Network
• What is an SD-WAN ?
• SD-WAN Service Components and Functionality
• Why an SD-WAN Service ?
• SD-WAN Service using MEF LSO Reference Architecture
• SD-WAN Service Use Cases
Contents
36. • Underlay Network
• The physical transport network
• Overlay Network
• Virtual Network abstracted from the transport network (underlay network)
• Overlay networks are tunneled over Underlay networks
• Using an encapsulation protocol, e.g., VxLAN, NVGRE, IPSec tunnel, etc.
• Overlay/Underlay terminology used in DC Networking
• Terminology usage more recent with WAN (SD-WAN)
• Although, MEF has defined Carrier Ethernet as a virtual overlay service
Concepts: Overlay and
Underlay Networks
37. Internet
VPN
SD-WAN
• Currently no industry standard definition but described as follows:
• Specific application of an SDN applied to WAN connections
• A Virtual (Overlay) Network that runs on top of public Internet and VPNs
• Operates over existing wireline or wireless networks
• Has no interaction with the (underlay) network over which it operates
What is an SD-WAN?
MEF is working to create a standardized SD-WAN Service Definition
38. SD-WAN Service
Components
• SD-WAN Edge
• Performs Traffic steering, Application classification,
QoS and Security policy enforcement
• SD-WAN Controller
• Centralized control of SD-WAN Edge devices
• SD-WAN Orchestrator
• Service orchestration and policy management
for traffic routing and QoS over different WANs
• Interfaces to customer web portal, OSS apps
and SD-WAN Controller
Subscriber
Web Portal
OSS Apps
SD-WAN Orchestrator SD-WAN Overlay Network
SD-WAN Service Components
Internet
SD-WAN
Edge
SD-WAN
Edge
SD-WAN Controller
MPLS VPN
CSP or MSP Network
39. • Traffic steering over secured tunnels between SD-WAN Edges
• Encryption over all WANs: Internet (broadband), MPLS VPN, LTE, WiFi, etc.
• SD-WAN service can operate over different CSP / ISP WANs
• Real-time QoS performance measurements over each WAN
• QoS PMs used to determine which WAN to steer packets based on QoS Policies
• Application-based traffic steering based on QoS or Security Policies
• Send Skype for Business traffic over Internet if packet loss < 1% and packet delay <70ms
• Block all sites from accessing cloud-based storage, e.g., box.com
• Zero Touch Provisioning
• Making a business service installed with the automation of a residential service
Fundamental SD-WAN
Service Functionality
40. • Large OpEx Savings
• Steer traffic from expensive MPLS VPN to
Internet when QoS policies met
• Application-based QoS Management
• QoS Policies/Metrics per Application used to
steer traffic over different WANs
• Quickly add temporary or remote Sites
• Over ubiquitous Internet using wired or wireless
connections
• Achieve High Availability & Path Diversity
• Run SD-WANs over different ISPs plus VPN
Subscriber Benefits
• Lower OpEx via Automation
• Zero-touch provisioning of SD-WAN Edges
• Self-Service Customer Portals
• Faster Time to Service Revenue
• Quickly add off-net sites via Internet or LTE
• No need for inter-provider peering with off-net
access network providers
• Enter Competitor or Incumbent Markets
• Deliver SD-WAN service to subscribers even if
you don’t provide network access to the site
Why an SD-WAN Service ?
Service Provider Benefits
41. SD-WAN Service using MEF LSO
Reference Architecture (RA)
CSP or MSP
Self-service
Web Portal
LSO Cantata
LSO Allegro
Business
Apps
Service Orchestration
Functions (SOF)
LSO Legato
LSO Presto
SD-WAN
Controller
Site
LSO Adagio
SD-WAN
Edge
SD-WAN
Edge
WANs
Site
WANs
Presto Interface
• Enables a Service Orchestrator to manage
different vendor SD-WAN Controllers
• SD-WAN Controllers manage SD-WAN
Edges in their domain
• MEF OpenCS SD-WAN Project focusing on
functionality (SOF) at the Presto Interface
43. Cloud
Service
Provider
SD-WAN Service with
Virtual SD-WAN Edge
CSP or MSP
Self-service
Web Portal
LSO Cantata
LSO Allegro
Business
Applications
Service Orchestration
Functions (SOF)
LSO
Legato
LSO
Presto
SD-WAN
Controller
Site
LSO Adagio
SD-WAN
Edge CPE
WANs WANs
SD-WAN
Edge VNF
NFV Resource
Orchestrator
LSO
Adagio
Virtual SD-WAN Edge
• SD-WAN Edge VNF which terminates
SD-WAN connection runs inside of server
44. SD-WAN Service with
SD-WAN Edge vCPE
CSP or MSP
Self-service
Web Portal
LSO Cantata
LSO Allegro
Business
Applications
Service Orchestration
Functions (SOF)
LSO
Legato
LSO
Presto
SD-WAN
Controller
Site
LSO Adagio
SD-WAN
Edge CPE
WANs WANs
SD-WAN
Edge vCPE
NFV Resource
Orchestrator
LSO
Adagio
SD-WAN Edge vCPE
• SD-WAN Edge VNF which
terminates SD-WAN connection
runs on vCPE
• Ability to add more virtual network
services as new VNFs on vCPE
Site
45. SD-WAN Service Using Multiple
Vendor SD-WAN Controllers
Self-service
Web Portal
LSO Cantata
LSO Allegro
Business
Applications
Service Orchestration
Functions (SOF)
LSO
Legato
LSO
Presto
SD-WAN
Controller
{Vendor B}
LSO
Adagio
SD-WAN
Edge
WANs WANs
SD-WAN
Edge
LSO Adagio
SD-WAN Edge
Site Site
SD-WAN Edge
SD-WAN
Controller
{Vendor A}
Presto Interface
• Each SD-WAN Controller supports
Presto Interface
• SD-WAN Controllers manage SD-WAN
Edges in their domain
• Using Presto, Service Orchestrator can
setup SD-WAN across each SD-WAN
domain
46. • SD-WAN provides a virtual overlay service
• Does not interact with the underlay (transport) network
• SD-WAN provides tremendous benefits to SPs and Subscribers
• Service Agility, Time to Service Velocity, OpEx, Application-level awareness
• MEF work on SD-WAN Services will help industry move forward
• Standard MEF LSO Reference Architecture
• OpenCS SD-WAN Project Reference Implementation of Presto Interface
• Standardized SD-WAN Service Definition
Key Takeaways…