Ericsson and Netronome SDxCentral DemoFriday webinar featuring Nick Tausanovtich, VP of Solutions Architecture and Silicon Product Management at Netronome, and Patrick Jestin, SDN Strategic Product Manager at Ericsson, from June 3, 2016.
Our MicroMux™ module is the latest addition to our FSP 3000 CloudConnect™ solution. It’s been specifically designed for internet content providers and cloud service providers that need data center interconnect technology that can both support current service demands and effectively scale for future growth. Our FSP 3000 CloudConnect™ platform now offers 10GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE client ports with unmatched energy efficiency, density and openness.
Red Hat Summit 2017 – Telco Cloud TransformationEricsson
5G and IoT has opened up opportunities, but also put requirements on the network infrastructure to support key use cases, based on network slicing. It’s important to leverage on the telco cloud strategy to create value and make your network more agile and your operations more efficient, focusing on automation. Ericsson can help you define a telco cloud strategy based on your strategic objectives – and then plan, build and deploy the capabilities you need to compete in the digitalized marketplace.
Kazuya Hashimoto
Executive Vice President
NEC Europe Ltd.
Plenaries Session
ONS2015: http://bit.ly/ons2015sd
ONS Inspire! Webinars: http://bit.ly/oiw-sd
Watch the talk (video) on ONS Content Archives: http://bit.ly/ons-archives-sd
Mitigating Security Risk in Practical vCPE SolutionsADVA
Ulrich Kohn analyzes security risks associated with the vCPE use case with a special focus on the virtualization layer and the virtual infrastructure manager. He describes attack vectors and explains technical controls provided with OpenStack to counter the emerging risk.
Our MicroMux™ module is the latest addition to our FSP 3000 CloudConnect™ solution. It’s been specifically designed for internet content providers and cloud service providers that need data center interconnect technology that can both support current service demands and effectively scale for future growth. Our FSP 3000 CloudConnect™ platform now offers 10GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE client ports with unmatched energy efficiency, density and openness.
Red Hat Summit 2017 – Telco Cloud TransformationEricsson
5G and IoT has opened up opportunities, but also put requirements on the network infrastructure to support key use cases, based on network slicing. It’s important to leverage on the telco cloud strategy to create value and make your network more agile and your operations more efficient, focusing on automation. Ericsson can help you define a telco cloud strategy based on your strategic objectives – and then plan, build and deploy the capabilities you need to compete in the digitalized marketplace.
Kazuya Hashimoto
Executive Vice President
NEC Europe Ltd.
Plenaries Session
ONS2015: http://bit.ly/ons2015sd
ONS Inspire! Webinars: http://bit.ly/oiw-sd
Watch the talk (video) on ONS Content Archives: http://bit.ly/ons-archives-sd
Mitigating Security Risk in Practical vCPE SolutionsADVA
Ulrich Kohn analyzes security risks associated with the vCPE use case with a special focus on the virtualization layer and the virtual infrastructure manager. He describes attack vectors and explains technical controls provided with OpenStack to counter the emerging risk.
This presentation gives a summary of SDXCentral 2017 Report on NFV Industry and its trends. The presentation gives jump start for beginners to navigate through NFV forest by getting necessary details and expand understanding elaborating each piece of puzzle.
In his 2016 ACE SCHOOL & RUS SYMPOSIUM talk, Bill Nelson explained how NFV is particularly beneficial for those delivering broadband to rural areas. He showed how much rural communication service providers can achieve with the ability to quickly automate system management and move a network environment with a few keystrokes. And he revealed how providers can win new business by partnering with larger competitors or competing with them on price.
Polymorphic Attacks on Data-in-Motion Require a New Security Approach From Bo...ADVA
In his presentation at Merit Member Conference 2016, Bill Balmer demonstrated that a layered encryption strategy is the ultimate way to combat the latest cyberthreat: polymorphous attacks.
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.
Open Source and Cloud: Change Through CollaborationOPNFV
In recent years as virtualization and cloud became more and more mature an opportunity has been created for the industry to move towards an NFV networking methodology. In parallel with this phenomenon the role of open source has evolved to establish a fundamentally new paradigm for software development. The ICT industry has had to adapt to this change and move away from traditional ways of working.
During this presentation we will share some of our experience of the cloud market including SDN and NFV. We intend to shed light on some of the challenges faced and what lessons learnt on the path toward collaborative standardization and open source development. We will also highlight the importance of OPNFV and its role as an avenue to upstream communities for both investigation and cooperation
At Next Generation Optical Networking 2016, Prayson Pate used real-world examples to explain how service providers can dynamically orchestrate NFV-based services to provide new revenue and how they can deploy across both greenfield and brownfield scenarios.
Ulrich Kohn analyzes security risks associated with the vCPE use case with a special focus on the virtualization layer and the virtual infrastructure manager. He describes attack vectors and explains technical controls provided with OpenStack to counter the emerging risk.
Our Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) strategy is unique. We’ve worked closely with our customers and the industry to develop a truly open, secure and optimized NFV platform for the edge and the core of the network.
CloudVPN – A Programmable Platform for Service Providers to evolve their VPN offerings with Cloud integration with a lower TCO (agility, automation, simplification) and low marginal cost achieved through Virtualization and SDN enablement.
Drawing Customers North - Highlighting the Benefits of Nordic Data CentersADVA
In this presentation for Datacenter Forum 2016, Dieter Will reveals how Northern Europe's off-shore data centers have what it takes to win major customers from the south.
The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) conducted an evaluation of the performance and functionality of the ADVA FSP 150 ProVMe and confirmed its unique capabilities. The independent tests found that the ADVA Optical Networking edge NFV device succeeded in minimizing latency and that its hardware-assisted support functions, such as synchronization and service assurance, can be activated without requiring compute resources. This removes negative impact on revenue-generating VNFs and enhances performance.
NFV +SDN
(Network Function Virtualization + Software Defined Networking)
- What, Why and When NFV and SDN?
- Basic concepts and definition of NFV, SDN.
- Benefits of NFV.
- NFV Architecture
Advancing LTE architecture with NFV and SDNAlberto Diez
My presentation at LTE MENA 2015 in Dubai. It was the last one before some 5G discussions and after some good introductions to the NFV/SDN topics from the mobile operator perspective so I decided to do a remake of my NFV/SDN Orchestration presentation to address the maybe unwanted effects that NFV and SDN could have in the LTE network architecture. At the end I had to cut a couple of slides because I only had 20 minutes. Here is complete.
Disaggregation, automation and autonomy in optical networkingADVA
At this year's NYSERNet conference, Niall Robinson discussed the latest breakthroughs and field trials on the path to optical network automation and disaggregation.
SDN & Openflow World Congress 2016 – Ericsson keynote - How to Leverage SDN &...Ericsson
A 5G ready core - based on SDN, NFV, distributed cloud, network slicing and orchestration - allows people, enterprises, devices and applications to decide on their connectivity requirements automatically, enabling ICT to move into new markets and build new revenue streams. This presentation will explore with you the steps to drive the transformation that will lead to the promises of SDN/NFV. Ericsson is committed to foster collaborative development through open source initiatives such as OpenDaylight, OpenStack and OPNFV to power the transformation to the Networked society.
This presentation gives a summary of SDXCentral 2017 Report on NFV Industry and its trends. The presentation gives jump start for beginners to navigate through NFV forest by getting necessary details and expand understanding elaborating each piece of puzzle.
In his 2016 ACE SCHOOL & RUS SYMPOSIUM talk, Bill Nelson explained how NFV is particularly beneficial for those delivering broadband to rural areas. He showed how much rural communication service providers can achieve with the ability to quickly automate system management and move a network environment with a few keystrokes. And he revealed how providers can win new business by partnering with larger competitors or competing with them on price.
Polymorphic Attacks on Data-in-Motion Require a New Security Approach From Bo...ADVA
In his presentation at Merit Member Conference 2016, Bill Balmer demonstrated that a layered encryption strategy is the ultimate way to combat the latest cyberthreat: polymorphous attacks.
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.
Open Source and Cloud: Change Through CollaborationOPNFV
In recent years as virtualization and cloud became more and more mature an opportunity has been created for the industry to move towards an NFV networking methodology. In parallel with this phenomenon the role of open source has evolved to establish a fundamentally new paradigm for software development. The ICT industry has had to adapt to this change and move away from traditional ways of working.
During this presentation we will share some of our experience of the cloud market including SDN and NFV. We intend to shed light on some of the challenges faced and what lessons learnt on the path toward collaborative standardization and open source development. We will also highlight the importance of OPNFV and its role as an avenue to upstream communities for both investigation and cooperation
At Next Generation Optical Networking 2016, Prayson Pate used real-world examples to explain how service providers can dynamically orchestrate NFV-based services to provide new revenue and how they can deploy across both greenfield and brownfield scenarios.
Ulrich Kohn analyzes security risks associated with the vCPE use case with a special focus on the virtualization layer and the virtual infrastructure manager. He describes attack vectors and explains technical controls provided with OpenStack to counter the emerging risk.
Our Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) strategy is unique. We’ve worked closely with our customers and the industry to develop a truly open, secure and optimized NFV platform for the edge and the core of the network.
CloudVPN – A Programmable Platform for Service Providers to evolve their VPN offerings with Cloud integration with a lower TCO (agility, automation, simplification) and low marginal cost achieved through Virtualization and SDN enablement.
Drawing Customers North - Highlighting the Benefits of Nordic Data CentersADVA
In this presentation for Datacenter Forum 2016, Dieter Will reveals how Northern Europe's off-shore data centers have what it takes to win major customers from the south.
The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) conducted an evaluation of the performance and functionality of the ADVA FSP 150 ProVMe and confirmed its unique capabilities. The independent tests found that the ADVA Optical Networking edge NFV device succeeded in minimizing latency and that its hardware-assisted support functions, such as synchronization and service assurance, can be activated without requiring compute resources. This removes negative impact on revenue-generating VNFs and enhances performance.
NFV +SDN
(Network Function Virtualization + Software Defined Networking)
- What, Why and When NFV and SDN?
- Basic concepts and definition of NFV, SDN.
- Benefits of NFV.
- NFV Architecture
Advancing LTE architecture with NFV and SDNAlberto Diez
My presentation at LTE MENA 2015 in Dubai. It was the last one before some 5G discussions and after some good introductions to the NFV/SDN topics from the mobile operator perspective so I decided to do a remake of my NFV/SDN Orchestration presentation to address the maybe unwanted effects that NFV and SDN could have in the LTE network architecture. At the end I had to cut a couple of slides because I only had 20 minutes. Here is complete.
Disaggregation, automation and autonomy in optical networkingADVA
At this year's NYSERNet conference, Niall Robinson discussed the latest breakthroughs and field trials on the path to optical network automation and disaggregation.
SDN & Openflow World Congress 2016 – Ericsson keynote - How to Leverage SDN &...Ericsson
A 5G ready core - based on SDN, NFV, distributed cloud, network slicing and orchestration - allows people, enterprises, devices and applications to decide on their connectivity requirements automatically, enabling ICT to move into new markets and build new revenue streams. This presentation will explore with you the steps to drive the transformation that will lead to the promises of SDN/NFV. Ericsson is committed to foster collaborative development through open source initiatives such as OpenDaylight, OpenStack and OPNFV to power the transformation to the Networked society.
Netronome's Nick Tausanovitch, VP of Solutions Architecture and Silicon Product Management, Linley Data Center Conference in Santa Clara, CA on February 9, 2016.
Achieving Network Deployment Flexibility with Mirantis OpenStackEric Zhaohui Ji
This is the deck presented for Intel Network Builder.
No longer do we live in a world where you can build your networks around expensive, proprietary pieces of hardware and software. Technology moves so fast that you need to be able to keep up, and that means changing your network on demand. But how can you achieve that kind of flexibility while still maintaining the crucial aspects of performance and reliability?
In this webinar we'll look at the network agility provided by OpenStack, which enables you to gain all of the advantages of software defined networking and Network Functions Virtualization without having to compromise on basic requirements. We'll discuss:
•How Mirantis OpenStack enables enterprise and telecom networking
•The features your OpenStack distribution needs to enable NFV
•Using DPDK and SR-IOV to enhance Virtual Network Function performance
•Achieving a Highly Available OpenStack control plane with Multi-rack deployment
Telco Cloud How operators are using the Cloud to unlock the core network and ...Alan Quayle
Telco Cloud, How operators are using the Cloud to unlock the core network and drive innovation, by Adam Kalsey of Tropo. TADSummit 12-13 November 2014, Istanbul.
Ron Swartzentruber's (Senior Principal Engineer, Silicon Development at Netronome) presentation from IEEE SOCC 2016 "SoC Solutions Enabling Server-Based Networking" from September 8, 2016.
Ericsson Cloud SDN and Netronome Agilio CX - Taking NFV to the next level of ...Ericsson
The demonstration shows how an open approach using the OpenDaylight Controller and Open vSwitch with Ericsson Cloud SDN and Netronome Agilio-CX can seamlessly deliver high performance and server efficiency while maintaining flexibility. High performance packet throughput is achieved by accelerating the Open vSwitch data plane, freeing up to 90% of the server CPU cores from running OVS and become available to run more NFV applications.
In this talk we discuss the mechanisms of utilizing the eBPF language to perform hardware accelerated network packet manipulation and filtering. P4 programs can be compiled into eBPF scripts for offload in the Linux kernel using the Traffic Classifier (TC) subsystem. We demonstrate how, using eBPF as an intermediate language, it has been possible to extend the TC to either Just In Time (JIT) compile eBPF code to x86 assembler for software offload or to IXP byte code for execution in a trusted hardware environment within the Netronome Agilio intelligent server adapter. We finish by encouraging the audience to experiment with their own eBPF applications within the TC hardware accelerated system. The TC kernel patches are available on the Linux Kernel Networking mailing list as a Request For Comment (RFC) contribution.
Dinan Gunawardena, Director, Software Engineering, Netronome
Dinan Gunawardena is a Software Director focusing on running the driver team at Netronome. Previously, Dinan founded a software startup and was a Senior Research Engineer within the Operating Systems and Networking Group at Microsoft Research for 12 years, shipping technology in several versions of Microsoft Windows and the Bing Search Engine. Dinan has received over 20 patents and is a Chartered Software Engineer. Dinan has a Masters in Computer Science from University of Cambridge and a M.B.A. from WBS.
Jakub Kicinski, Software Engineering, Netronome
Jakub Kicinski is a Software Engineer specializing in the Linux Kernel drivers for Netronome SmartNICs. Jakub has previously worked as an intern for Intel Corporation. Jakub is also a researcher with expertise in Linux kernel. Experience in application development on complex multi-CPU and FPGA platforms. He is interested in high-performance software exploiting hardware capabilities and is passionate about networking. Jakub has a Masters in Computer Science from Gdansk University of Technology.
To learn more about the opportunities that 5G will create, Ericsson commissioned a detailed survey of more than 650
decision-makers from eight key industries. Here, we have gathered five glimpses into their 5G future.
Telcos are facing mounting pressure to dramatically increase speed to market and cut costs. But how?
What if you could go to market in half the time using prebuilt libraries of telco offerings—and leveraging the cloud to lower costs?
In this presentation, find out how Capgemini’s end-to-end solution for telcos uses a hybrid cloud and the Oracle Communications Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery (Oracle Communications RODOD) stack to provide a competitive edge in today’s tough, dynamic environment.
Learn how to accelerate digital transformation, increase agility, and simplify business to better respond to customer expectations and address growth opportunities. See a concrete demonstration of the solution and its best-in-class CX capabilities, processes, and deployment and run services.
First presented at Oracle OpenWorld 2015.
Lying, Cheating, and Winning with Containers in NetworkingSargun Dhillon
Containers have swept the world of datacenter computing over the past half-decade. They've simply revolutionized the way we deploy software. Unfortunately, we brought the blight of VMs with us. Checmate speaks to a new set of mechanisms to make container networking join the 21st century.
Summit 16: Experiences from the Trench: Bringing DOCOMO Multi Vendor NFV Solu...OPNFV
This talk is about the real life experiences and challenges of taking a multi-vendor NFV deployment into commercial operation. On the 9th of March NTT DOCOMO went live with a fully virtualized multi-vendor packet core solution running on an Ericsson provided cloud platform, utilizing COTS hardware. This talk will focus on the success and the areas that we see are in need of more attention from the community to achieve full interoperability across vendors. Beside, a few areas of enhancements to OPNFV to achieve a full carrier grade solution will be discussed as well, like Doctor and Promise.
How can you shorten your lead time in a dynamic market? Ericsson NFVi solution presentation starts with an overview of the opportunities & challenges with the Internet of Things (IoT). Then, it presents the requirements on the network infrastructure to support key 5G use cases, based on network slicing. It continues showing how Ericsson NFVi solution – a pre-integrated, open and verified platform – can enable rapid time to market for virtualization projects. It follows by sharing how to leverage telco cloud strategy to create value and make your network more agile and your operations more efficient. It concludes with key learnings from projects with early adopters, using the Ericsson telco cloud Target Operating Model, that lead our customers to a successful cloud adoption. Let Ericsson empower your digital transformation!
Ericsson Distributed Cloud goes beyond NFV and Edge Computing. It brings to operators the best of telecom and cloud capabilities, placing the application where it’s needed the most (centrally, distributed or at the edge). It’s an open platform, with end-to-end orchestration, that allows operators to prepare their infrastructure to unlock at least 25% of the business potential of 5G use cases. Visit our page: www.ericsson.com/distributed-cloud
How will we build the platform for 5G? How will NFV transform to 5G core and what is the status today? Here you can download the Key Note presentation form Ericsson CTO Erik Ekudden, from the SDN NFV World Congress 2017 in the Hague.
The Hitch-Hikers Guide to Data Centre Virtualization and Workload Consolidation:Cisco Canada
From Logical Partitions to Containers & SDN Overlays - This session will review the progression of consolidation & virtualization-centric infrastructure to containers, SDN overlays, application-centric microsegmentation and how these technologies are reducing complexity while improving security and reducing application deployment cycles.
SP Virtual Managed Services (VMS) for Intelligent WAN (IWAN)Cisco Canada
Many organizations anticipate significant growth in WAN bandwidth and Public Cloud usage. Leveraging the Internet to provide extra WAN bandwidth and to offload Public Cloud traffic is compelling, however network reliability, application performance and security are the primary roadblocks. Cisco IWAN transport solution is the most full featured architecture to support the Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) requirements that are emerging in standards bodies like the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) to address these issues. Many enterprises are looking for the benefits these technologies deliver, but without the costs associated with owning and operating those technologies. Here is where VMS for IWAN meets market need. Cisco VMS is a full featured management platform for both virtual and physical devices. This session will cover a full description of the VMS platform and how it can be used to deliver exceptional customer experience when supporting a managed offering of IWAN. The roles of Customer and Resource Facing Services will be covered, along with integration between the IWAN service and SP operations. This session will also cover the topic of how Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) can be placed optimally in the network from the CPE to SP datacenter, along with a demo of the end user and operator experience.
OpenDaylight Summit 2016 – Ericsson keynote - The journey to a DevOps FutureEricsson
The Telecommunications industry is in the midst of transformation with Service Providers looking to gain advantage from convergence of IT and Telecommunications. Software Defined Networking, and more importantly OpenDaylight SDN, brings the power of programmability and automation to networks. This presentation will take you on a journey together with Ericsson through our past decision to productize and base our SDN solutions on OpenDaylight, our activities that ensure current open source initiatives such as OpenDaylight, OpenStack and OPNFV power the transformation to Telecom Cloud and our plans for OpenDaylight and PaaS Integration.
This presentation explains the importance of SD-WAN technology as part of the Enterprise digital transformation strategy. It goes over the first wave of SD-WAN in a single vendor deployment, with Do-it-yourself (DIY) as the preferred model. Then continues with the importance of orchestration in the second wave of SD-WAN deployments in a multi-vendor ecosystem, turning to SD-WAN Managed Services as the preferred model. It ends up with some examples of use cases and the Verizon customer case. More information on Ericsson Dynamic orchestration - http://m.eric.sn/6rsZ30psKLu
IP for the Networked Society is about enabling service providers to grow their business in a profitable way. Being able to create and offer new and differentiating services in an agile and efficient manner. The constant development of new mobile devices, new cloud applications and new IP technologies enables great business opportunities for operators. However, to succeed, service providers need to focus on transforming their IP networks. It must be able to offer highly personalized and high performing services, regardless of devices, access and core networks.
Vish Nandlall
CTO
Ericsson North America
Plenaries Session
ONS2015: http://bit.ly/ons2015sd
ONS Inspire! Webinars: http://bit.ly/oiw-sd
Watch the talk (video) on ONS Content Archives: http://bit.ly/ons-archives-sd
Accelerated Network Build - Ericsson is introducing a new revolutionary way to build the networks of the future for our customers. This new method will enable our customers to reduce their working capital employed in building networks by over 50%.
Multilayer Transport SDN - In the Broader Context of Service Provider SDN Tra...Ericsson
This presentation talks about the role of SDN in driving innovation, agility and efficiency in the transport network. It covers a few use cases where this SDN capability in the IP/Optical domain can be combined with some already well talked about applications of SDN in Virtualization of Network Functions, Service Chaining and Enterprise IT services
Disaggregation a Primer: Optimizing design for Edge Cloud & Bare Metal applic...Netronome
From the Infra//Structure Conference May 2019 by Ron Renwick of Netronome
Disaggregation a Primer:
Optimizing design for Edge Cloud & Bare Metal applications
Hyperscalers and Edge Cloud providers have recognized economic value of disaggregated infrastructure. Netronome Agilio SmartNICs enable disaggregated architectures to perform with up to 30x lower tail latency while encrypting every session using KTLS security.
Using Network Acceleration for an Optimized Edge Cloud Server ArchitectureNetronome
With the rise of cloud-native principles, applications are increasingly able to take advantage of diverse, specialized and distributed infrastructure. The emergence of Edge Cloud solutions promises faster and more immersive application experiences, as well as infrastructure primitives for 5G, IoT, mobility, and more. However, this new resource comes with space and power constraints that can only be overcome by using new disaggregated architectures that leverage network acceleration and optimally sized CPUs. The session will highlight how the capabilities unleashed by hardware offload of eBPF in edge cloud microservers will enable developers to efficiently leverage the massive amounts of data on the edge and to create next-generation real-time applications.
The charter of the ODSA (Open Domain Specification Architecture) Workgroup is to define an open specification that enables building of Domain Specific Accelerator silicon using best-of-breed components from the industry made available as chiplet dies that can be integrated together as Lego blocks on an organic substrate packaging layer. The resulting multi-chip module (MCM) silicon can be produced at significantly lower development and manufacturing costs, and will deliver much needed performance per watt and performance per dollar efficiencies in networking, security, machine learning and other applications. The ODSA Workgroup also intends to deliver implementations of the specification as board-level prototypes, RTL code and libraries.
Flexible and Scalable Domain-Specific ArchitecturesNetronome
This talk introduces the concept of a domain-specific architecture (DSA) using the Netronome Flow Processor (NFP) as an example, it will cover the motivation, design and implementation. It will explore how this architecture’s flexibility has been leveraged in the past to handle unique platforms such as the Facebook Yosemite v2 Platform. Finally approaches for designing flexible chipsets in the future will be explored, including the value of system wide computational modeling.
Unifying Network Filtering Rules for the Linux Kernel with eBPFNetronome
At the core of fast network packet processing lies the ability to filter packets, or in other words, to apply a set of rules on packets, usually consisting of a pattern to match (L2 to L4 source and destination addresses and ports, protocols, etc.) and corresponding actions (redirect to a given queue, or drop the packet, etc.). Over the years, several filtering frameworks have been added to Linux. While at the lower level, ethtool can be used to configure N-tuple rules on the receive side for the hardware, the upper layers of the stack got equipped with rules for firewalling (Netfilter), traffic shaping (TC), or packet switching (Open vSwitch for example).
In this presentation, Quentin Monnet reviewed the needs for those filtering frameworks and the particularities of each one. Then focuses on the changes brought by eBPF and XDP in this landscape: as BPF programs allow for very flexible processing and can be attached very low in the stack—at the driver level, or even run on the NIC itself—they offer filtering capabilities with no precedent in terms of performance and versatility in the kernel. Lastly, the third part explores potential leads in order to create bridges between the different rule formats and to make it easier for users to build their filtering eBPF programs.
Massively Parallel RISC-V Processing with Transactional MemoryNetronome
In this talk, we discuss some of the background, and describe the example of a thousand RISC-V harts performing the processing required in a SmartNIC. We show how a RISC-V solution can be tailored with a suitable choice of instruction set features, privilege modes and debug methodology.
Offloading Linux LAG Devices Via Open vSwitch and TCNetronome
Converting Open vSwitch (OVS) kernel rules to TC Flower rules has become the standard way to offload the datapath to SmartNICs and other hardware devices. Binding such TC rules to 'offloadable' ports (such as SmartNIC representers) has been shown to enable the acceleration of packet processing while saving CPU resources on the hosting server. However, one scenario not yet well defined is the case where offloadable ports are bound to a higher level Link Aggregation (LAG) netdev, such as a Linux Bond or Team device, and where this netdev is added to an OVS bridge.
This talk describes an implementation that offloads rules that either ingress or egress to a LAG device. It highlights changes made to OVS (included in v2.9) as well as to core TC code and the driver layer in the Linux kernel. Rather than introduce new features into the kernel to handle LAG offload, the design expands upon recent, independently added kernel features including the concept of TC blocks. It is shown how, with slight modification, TC blocks can be used by OVS to represent LAG devices.
eBPF Debugging Infrastructure - Current TechniquesNetronome
eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter), in particular with its driver-level hook XDP (eXpress Data Path), has increased in importance over the past few years. As a result, the ability to rapidly debug and diagnose problems is becoming more relevant. This talk will cover common issues faced and techniques to diagnose them, including the use of bpftool for map and program introspection, the use of disassembly to inspect generated assembly code and other methods such as using debug prints and how to apply these techniques when eBPF programs are offloaded to the hardware.
The talk will also explore where the current gaps in debugging infrastructure are and suggest some of the next steps to improve this, for example, integrations with tools such as strace, valgrind or even the LLDB debugger.
eBPF has 64-bit general purpose registers, therefore 32-bit architectures normally need to use register pair to model them and need to generate extra instructions to manipulate the high 32-bit in the pair. Some of these overheads incurred could be eliminated if JIT compiler knows only the low 32-bit of a register is interested. This could be known through data flow (DF) analysis techniques. Either the classic iterative DF analysis or "path-sensitive" version based on verifier's code path walker.
In this talk, implementations for both versions of DF analyzer will be presented. We will see how a def-use chain based classic eBPF DF analyser looks first, and will see the possibility to integrate it with previous proposed eBPF control flow graph framework to make a stand-alone eBPF global DF analyser which could potentially serve as a library. Then, another "path-sensitive" DF analyser based on the existing verifier code path walker will be presented. We will discuss how function calls, path prune, path switch affect the implementation. Finally, we will summarize pros and cons for each, and will see how could each of them be adapted to 64-bit and 32-bit architecture back-ends.
Also, eBPF has 32-bit sub-register and ALU32 instructions associated, enable them (-mattr=+alu32) in LLVM code-gen could let the generated eBPF sequences carry more 32-bit information which could potentially easy flow analyser. This will be briefly discussed in the talk as well.
eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) has been shown to be a flexible kernel construct used for a variety of use cases, such as load balancing, intrusion detection systems (IDS), tracing and many others. One such emerging use case revolves around the proposal made by William Tu for the use of eBPF as a data path for Open vSwitch. However, there are broader switching use cases developing around the use of eBPF capable hardware. This talk is designed to explore the bottlenecks that exist in generalising the application of eBPF further to both container switching as well as physical switching.
eBPF Tooling and Debugging InfrastructureNetronome
eBPF, in particular with its driver-level hook XDP, has increased in importance over the past few years. As a result, the ability to rapidly debug and diagnose problems is becoming more relevant. This session will cover common issues faced and techniques to diagnose them, including the use of bpftool for map and program introspection, the disassembling of programs to inspect generated eBPF instructions and other methods such as using debug prints and how to apply these techniques when eBPF programs are offloaded to the hardware.
The first version of eBPF hardware offload was merged into the Linux kernel in October 2016 and became part of Linux v4.9. For the last two years the project has been growing and evolving to integrate more closely with the core kernel infrastructure and enable more advanced use cases. This talk will explain the internals of the kernel architecture of the offload and how it allows seamless execution of unmodified eBPF datapaths in HW.
This slide deck focuses on eBPF JIT compilation infrastructure and how it plays an important role in the entire eBPF life cycle inside the Linux kernel. First, it does quite a number of control flow checks to reject vulnerable programs and then JIT compiles the eBPF program to either host or offloading target instructions which boost performance. However, there is little documentation about this topic which this slide deck will dive into.
Netronome's half-day tutorial on host data plane acceleration at ACM SIGCOMM 2018 introduced attendees to models for host data plane acceleration and provided an in-depth understanding of SmartNIC deployment models at hyperscale cloud vendors and telecom service providers.
Presenter Bios
Jakub Kicinski is a long term Linux kernel contributor, who has been leading the kernel team at Netronome for the last two years. Jakub’s major contributions include the creation of BPF hardware offload mechanisms in the kernel and bpftool user space utility, as well as work on the Linux kernel side of OVS offload.
David Beckett is a Software Engineer at Netronome with a strong technical background of computer networks including academic research with DDoS. David has expertise in the areas of Linux architecture and computer programming. David has a Masters Degree in Electrical, Electronic Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast and continues as a PhD student studying Emerging Application Layer DDoS threats.
Netronome's half-day tutorial on host data plane acceleration at ACM SIGCOMM 2018 introduced attendees to models for host data plane acceleration and provided an in-depth understanding of SmartNIC deployment models at hyperscale cloud vendors and telecom service providers.
Presenter Bio
Jaco Joubert is a Software Engineer at Netronome focusing on P4 and its applications on the Netronome SmartNIC. He recently started investigating network acceleration for Deep Learning on distributed systems. Prior to Netronome he worked on mobile application development and was a researcher at Telkom SA focusing on the mobile core after completing his Masters Degree in Computer, Electronic Engineering in 2014.
Host Data Plane Acceleration: SmartNIC Deployment ModelsNetronome
SIGCOMM 2018: This tutorial introduces multiple models for host data plane acceleration with SmartNICs, provides a detailed understanding of SmartNIC deployment models at hyperscale cloud vendors and telecom service providers, and introduces various open source resources available for research and product development in this space.
Presenter Bio
Simon focuses on upstream open source activities at Netronome. He is working on allowing offload of OVS offload on the Agilio platform as well as the broader question of how best to enable programming hardware offload in the Linux kernel and other upstream open source projects.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
CSS is based on Open vSwitch with DPDK user path.
CSS has moderate to good performance, but has full SDN flexibility and networking capacity. The infrastructure handles the redundancy, thus, the VNF/application is independent of the infrastructure. However, the vSwitch is the bottleneck because the packet forwarding is done in the vSwitch.
SR-IOV has very high performance, but lacks support for SDN services beyond basic L2 and complicates Cloud management significantly. The VNF/application has to know the infrastructure and has to handle the redundancy.
Smart NIC has very high performance and full SDN flexibility and networking capacity. The OvS is handling full SDN but is not in the datapath because the switching is offloaded to the Smart NIC. The packet forwarding is handled it the Smart NIC and not in the vSwitch. The Smart NIC handles the infrastructure, thus, VNF/application is independent of the infrastructure.
Accelerates and Offloads Server Based Networking Data Path Functions
Supports virtual switching, overlay network tunneling, stateful security policies
Production firmware datapaths (e.g. OVS) provided, with options for user programming
The technical solution of the Netronome’s Smart NIC is based on a standard OvS with a modified linux kernel module. The main message is that it is seamlessly integrated with the control plane.
The ovs-vswitchd handles the complete openflow pipeline (slow path).
Whenever a packet has traversed the slow path, the vswitchd creates a flow cache entry in the kernel datapath for processing of subsequent packets of the same flow (via dpif).
Now, the modified kernel module off-loads the dpif flow cache entries into the Smart NIC for fast path acceleration (1:1). That means that no CPU load is needed for fast path acceleration.
Now, when a packet (for example for a physical – VM connection) is received, it is checked whether it’s in the flow cache. If yes, the OVS action handling is done on Smart NIC. If not, the packet handling is “swapped” to the kernel module – or even the slow path – for further processing. The red line shows the fastpath acceleration of packet which matches the flow cache in the offloaded OVS Datapath.
Note that SmartNICs and OVS can flexibly be mixed in a DC with Cloud SDN.
The current packet size is 64 bytes and the current number of packet flows is 10k. This can be modified.
We are slowly ramping up the traffic load for demonstration purpose.
The reference numbers for OVS 2.5 using 64 byte packets & 10k flows is:
1 core: 1.20 Mpps
2 cores: 2.63 Mpps
4 cores: 5.34 Mpps
8 cores: 9.13 Mpps
Netronome: 22.30 Mpps
Our SDN Controller has flexibility to control different data planes (vSwitch, SR-IOV, Smart NIC) to adapt to the different needs of VNFs
A Smart NIC datapath combines SR-IOV performance with the power, flexibility and simplicity of Cloud and Services SDN
Because our SDN solution is based on open-source (de-facto) industry standards ODL and OVS we were able to seamlessly integrate the Netronome Smart NIC within a few weeks. We expect the adoption of other Smart NICs to be similarly simple
SDN deployments with Smart NIC can even save TCO compared to vSwitch deployments for certain NFV use cases