Join Cisco's SDN product managers as they discuss their controller products, followed by a panel discussion on SDN and cisco's SDN controllers with them and some of our SDN technical team.

2. An Open Discussion of
Cisco's Network
Infrastructure Software
Strategy
Moderator - Nathan Sowatskey – SDN and Network
Programming Developer Enablement – Cisco DevNet

3. •Introductions
•Q&A
Agenda

4. • Christine Bakan
• Senior Director Product Management Cloud and Virtualization Group
• Carl Moberg
• Technical Director Tail –f NSO
• Giles Heron
• Principal Engineer, OpenDaylight Controller, Chief Technology And Architecture Office
• Mike Cohen
• Director of product management, Insieme Business Unit
• Phil Casini
• Director Product Management APIC-EM
The Panel

5. Infrastructure
Cisco Orchestration and SDN Strategy
High Level View
• Model-driven end-to-end service
lifecycle and customer experience
in focus
• Seamless integration with existing
and future OSS/BSS environment
• Loosely-coupled and modular
architecture leveraging open APIs
and standard protocols
• Orchestration across multi-domain
and multi-layer for centralized
policy and services across entire
network
RFS
Orchestrator
DC & NFV Controllers
Multi-layer
WAN SDN
CFSBSS
OSS
Metro and Access WAN Data CenterCPE
Configuration-based
Provisioning

6. • What are the main elements of our controller and orchestration
strategy?
• Which PINs and use cases are we focusing those systems on?
• What are our plans for API consistency across those platforms?
• What are the main elements of our device API and programming
strategy for IOS-XR, IOS-XE, NXOS and IOS classic?
• What are our plans for API consistency across IOS-XR, IOS-XE, NXOS
and IOS classic?
• What have we observed about how customers are using our APIs so
far?
Some Questions for the Panel