How to build high performance 5G networks with vRAN and O-RANQualcomm Research
5G networks are poised to deliver an unprecedented amount of data from a richer set of use cases than we have ever seen. This makes efficient networking in terms of scalability, cost, and power critical for the sustainable growth of 5G. Cloud technologies such as virtualization, containerization and orchestration are now powering a surge of innovation in virtualized radio access network (vRAN) infrastructure with modular hardware and software components, and standardized interfaces. While commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware platforms provide the compute capacity for running vRAN software, hardware accelerators will also play a major role in offloading real-time and complex signal processing functions. Together, COTS platforms and hardware accelerators provide the foundation for building the intelligent 5G network and facilitate innovative new use cases with the intelligent wireless edge.
Getting to the Edge – Exploring 4G/5G Cloud-RAN Deployable SolutionsRadisys Corporation
View these slides, presented by Prakash Siva, VP, Technology & Strategy, hosted by Intel Network Builders, around the subject of Mobile Edge Computing.
If you missed my presentation at the SDN World Congress this week, here it is !
It explains how we analyzed the use of SDN based within an NFV environment. We picked the ITU model of Network resources, SDN controller and SDN applications and mapped those elements to the ETSI NFV architecture. Then we studied some design patterns, typical design of a network architecture with SDN and NFV, many different models. We also described SDN hierarchy and federation and collected lessons learnt from ETSI NFV POC using SDN and NFV. Finally we looked into few specific use cases such as Transport Network, or vCPE, but also policy. and last we looked into opensource SDN controller. We ended up with 35 recommendations that we are reviewing now in ETSI NFV to decide upon next steps. Comments welcome !
And if you want to see real life implementations, go and see HP NFV POC #34 and #38 in the POC Zone on site in Dusselfdorf this week Oct 8-16 2015 !
This presentation covers an industry perspective and a roadmap towards 5G with open and democratized interfaces. It covers examples of open reference platforms and how open source communities can complement standard bodies such as 3GPP and IEEE. It characterizes RAN and user and control plane core micro services and discusses opportunities for embedded network telemetry for emerging machine learning applications.
Speaker: Tom Tofigh, Principal Member of Technical Staff (Architect) at AT&T
How to build high performance 5G networks with vRAN and O-RANQualcomm Research
5G networks are poised to deliver an unprecedented amount of data from a richer set of use cases than we have ever seen. This makes efficient networking in terms of scalability, cost, and power critical for the sustainable growth of 5G. Cloud technologies such as virtualization, containerization and orchestration are now powering a surge of innovation in virtualized radio access network (vRAN) infrastructure with modular hardware and software components, and standardized interfaces. While commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware platforms provide the compute capacity for running vRAN software, hardware accelerators will also play a major role in offloading real-time and complex signal processing functions. Together, COTS platforms and hardware accelerators provide the foundation for building the intelligent 5G network and facilitate innovative new use cases with the intelligent wireless edge.
Getting to the Edge – Exploring 4G/5G Cloud-RAN Deployable SolutionsRadisys Corporation
View these slides, presented by Prakash Siva, VP, Technology & Strategy, hosted by Intel Network Builders, around the subject of Mobile Edge Computing.
If you missed my presentation at the SDN World Congress this week, here it is !
It explains how we analyzed the use of SDN based within an NFV environment. We picked the ITU model of Network resources, SDN controller and SDN applications and mapped those elements to the ETSI NFV architecture. Then we studied some design patterns, typical design of a network architecture with SDN and NFV, many different models. We also described SDN hierarchy and federation and collected lessons learnt from ETSI NFV POC using SDN and NFV. Finally we looked into few specific use cases such as Transport Network, or vCPE, but also policy. and last we looked into opensource SDN controller. We ended up with 35 recommendations that we are reviewing now in ETSI NFV to decide upon next steps. Comments welcome !
And if you want to see real life implementations, go and see HP NFV POC #34 and #38 in the POC Zone on site in Dusselfdorf this week Oct 8-16 2015 !
This presentation covers an industry perspective and a roadmap towards 5G with open and democratized interfaces. It covers examples of open reference platforms and how open source communities can complement standard bodies such as 3GPP and IEEE. It characterizes RAN and user and control plane core micro services and discusses opportunities for embedded network telemetry for emerging machine learning applications.
Speaker: Tom Tofigh, Principal Member of Technical Staff (Architect) at AT&T
Enabling 5G with NFV: New Joint White Paper Outlining Network Operator Perspe...Open Networking Summit
In October 2012, a group of 13 global network operators published an influential white paper describing their vision for the future of telecommunications networks based on technology which they called “Network Functions Virtualisation” or simply “NFV”. Simultaneously they launched the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group which is the central body converging requirements for NFV and developing specifications which enable standards and open source communities to use NFV in a common framework. This latest NFV white paper co-authored by 23 network operators - including members of the original founding group, outlines what they see as the priorities for NFV to support 5G. This session will overview this paper and describe the rationale for the main proposals.
This presentation is from Open Networking Summit 2017.
Juha Oravainen, Nokia, Tapio Tallgren, Nokia
In the future factory robots will communicate wirelessly and cars on the highways will exchange the information with each other. This requires extremely low latency mobile networks, known as 5G. This network will run on telco grade cloud platforms of which OPNFV is one example.
The first cloud radio access networks have already been deployed to operators. More is needed with future technologies/networks as more functionalities will be moved to the cloud. This talk tells what is needed to overcome low latency and high availability challenges with cloud platforms. At Nokia we are continuously evaluating the latest OPNFV SW on Nokia HW with radio VNFs to guarantee interoperability with open source components.
Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Cloud Computing in 5G Wireless Technologiesspirit conference
Dr. Masoud Olfat, director of RAN Technology & Global Standards, focused on "Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Cloud Computing in 5G Wireless Technologies" during the spirit conference 2014.
NFV and SDN: 4G LTE and 5G Wireless Networks on Intel(r) ArchitectureMichelle Holley
The Presentation will outline the KPIs and key optimizations at the platform, NFVi and Stack level in implementing wireless base station stack and Telco Edge cloud on Intel Architecture. The presentation will use the FlexRAN LTE Reference PHY and NEV SDK for MEC to outline the NFV and 5G use cases like network slicing.
Radisys and Wind River joined together to present: Cloud RANs - an NFV Evolution or Revolution? The presenters discuss the options available for architecting the mobile network for virtualization success.
The Internet of Things is bringing a massive surge of smart, connected devices that will enable new services and efficiencies across industries. This requires wireless technologies to scale up or down depending on the application performance needs—to connect virtually anything. And now, LTE is evolving for low-throughput, delay-tolerant IoT use cases. The new narrowband LTE technologies (eMTC & NB-IoT) will deliver lower complexity, longer battery life, and deeper coverage for wide-area IoT applications.
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.
Introduction to FG IMT-2020 network softwarization work and demo of softwariz...ITU
The presentation and demo shows how to slice eNodeB (eNB) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC) on our FLARE node, highly programmable network node, as proof of concept of network softwarization and network slicing for IMT-2020. In our PoC demo, we softwarize both eNB and EPC using modified OpenAirInterface and implement LTE network in a slice on top of a FLARE node, where signaling related EPC entities (e.g., MME) and eNB is implemented in a control-plane while user data forwarding and processing (e.g., SGW and PGW) is implemented in a data plane. In the data plane, we divide EPC into function elements and parallelize packet processing across on-chip many core processors. FLARE enables rapid deployment of data plane network functions with Click network-programming framework. In the control plane, we run signaling-related EPC, eNB and HSS in Docker instances within the same FLARE slice. Each LTE network slice is Dockerized (implemented in Docker), i.e., in minimal resource environment. LTE network slice instances are isolated without interfering one another. We demonstrate play back of YouTube movies on a smart phone (Nexus 5) connected to an OAI slice on FLARE.
Author : Akihiro Nakao, Ping Du, The University of Tokyo ; Masayuki Kashima, Yoshihiro Nakahira, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Presented at ITU-T Focus Group IMT-2020 Workshop and Demo Day, 7 December 2016.
More details on the event : http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/201612/Pages/Programme.aspx
Presentation by the Comarch Technologies division. Bluetooth Low-Energy devices and LORA are taking over the Telecommunications industry. How can the IoT environment best be integrated for Telecom operators?
Enabling 5G with NFV: New Joint White Paper Outlining Network Operator Perspe...Open Networking Summit
In October 2012, a group of 13 global network operators published an influential white paper describing their vision for the future of telecommunications networks based on technology which they called “Network Functions Virtualisation” or simply “NFV”. Simultaneously they launched the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group which is the central body converging requirements for NFV and developing specifications which enable standards and open source communities to use NFV in a common framework. This latest NFV white paper co-authored by 23 network operators - including members of the original founding group, outlines what they see as the priorities for NFV to support 5G. This session will overview this paper and describe the rationale for the main proposals.
This presentation is from Open Networking Summit 2017.
Juha Oravainen, Nokia, Tapio Tallgren, Nokia
In the future factory robots will communicate wirelessly and cars on the highways will exchange the information with each other. This requires extremely low latency mobile networks, known as 5G. This network will run on telco grade cloud platforms of which OPNFV is one example.
The first cloud radio access networks have already been deployed to operators. More is needed with future technologies/networks as more functionalities will be moved to the cloud. This talk tells what is needed to overcome low latency and high availability challenges with cloud platforms. At Nokia we are continuously evaluating the latest OPNFV SW on Nokia HW with radio VNFs to guarantee interoperability with open source components.
Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Cloud Computing in 5G Wireless Technologiesspirit conference
Dr. Masoud Olfat, director of RAN Technology & Global Standards, focused on "Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Cloud Computing in 5G Wireless Technologies" during the spirit conference 2014.
NFV and SDN: 4G LTE and 5G Wireless Networks on Intel(r) ArchitectureMichelle Holley
The Presentation will outline the KPIs and key optimizations at the platform, NFVi and Stack level in implementing wireless base station stack and Telco Edge cloud on Intel Architecture. The presentation will use the FlexRAN LTE Reference PHY and NEV SDK for MEC to outline the NFV and 5G use cases like network slicing.
Radisys and Wind River joined together to present: Cloud RANs - an NFV Evolution or Revolution? The presenters discuss the options available for architecting the mobile network for virtualization success.
The Internet of Things is bringing a massive surge of smart, connected devices that will enable new services and efficiencies across industries. This requires wireless technologies to scale up or down depending on the application performance needs—to connect virtually anything. And now, LTE is evolving for low-throughput, delay-tolerant IoT use cases. The new narrowband LTE technologies (eMTC & NB-IoT) will deliver lower complexity, longer battery life, and deeper coverage for wide-area IoT applications.
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.
Introduction to FG IMT-2020 network softwarization work and demo of softwariz...ITU
The presentation and demo shows how to slice eNodeB (eNB) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC) on our FLARE node, highly programmable network node, as proof of concept of network softwarization and network slicing for IMT-2020. In our PoC demo, we softwarize both eNB and EPC using modified OpenAirInterface and implement LTE network in a slice on top of a FLARE node, where signaling related EPC entities (e.g., MME) and eNB is implemented in a control-plane while user data forwarding and processing (e.g., SGW and PGW) is implemented in a data plane. In the data plane, we divide EPC into function elements and parallelize packet processing across on-chip many core processors. FLARE enables rapid deployment of data plane network functions with Click network-programming framework. In the control plane, we run signaling-related EPC, eNB and HSS in Docker instances within the same FLARE slice. Each LTE network slice is Dockerized (implemented in Docker), i.e., in minimal resource environment. LTE network slice instances are isolated without interfering one another. We demonstrate play back of YouTube movies on a smart phone (Nexus 5) connected to an OAI slice on FLARE.
Author : Akihiro Nakao, Ping Du, The University of Tokyo ; Masayuki Kashima, Yoshihiro Nakahira, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Presented at ITU-T Focus Group IMT-2020 Workshop and Demo Day, 7 December 2016.
More details on the event : http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/201612/Pages/Programme.aspx
Presentation by the Comarch Technologies division. Bluetooth Low-Energy devices and LORA are taking over the Telecommunications industry. How can the IoT environment best be integrated for Telecom operators?
More and more people in mega cities, more sensors, more apps, Smart is everywhere for smart living. but what's about security, what's about the people. How to deliver better living, happy living. HPE provides IoT solutions with connectivity management, processing at the edge and in the cloud, security, data management, etc to help industry verticals, telecom operators deliver secured trusted IoT solutions
Internet for all: Stratospheric solutions by Google loon and Facebook droneAbdullateef Abdulsalam
Internet for all: Stratospheric solutions by Google loon and Facebook drone
Course project for Wireless Technologies course at Northwestern University's MSIT program
with IoT, the set of new requirements on the communication infrastructure is growing, leading to re-engineering of the network, introducing new technologies such as NFV, SDN, MEC, Fog , towards a 5G highly distributed, programmatic and dynamic architecture
German Pavilion at the OFC 2017 in Los Angeles Convention CenterVolker Blaschke
Invitation to the German Pavilion reception on Wednesday March 22nd at the Optical Networking and Communication Conference (OFC 2017), Los Angeles Convention Center, 19 - 23 March 2017
Cisco Virtualized Multi-tenant Data Center solution (VMDC) is an architectural approach to IT which delivers a Cloud Ready Infrastructure. The architecture encompasses multiple systems and functions defining a standard framework for an IT organization. Standardization allows the organization to achieve operational efficiencies, reduce risk and achieve cost reductions while offering a consistent platform for business.
Synopsis: An introduction for software engineers to working with the fundamental data types and structures used by the ConfD C APIs. The confd_value_t structure is introduced. How to determine how YANG data model types map to confd_value_t types and the appropriate macros for manipulating a confd_value_t. Value arrays and tagged value arrays are also introduced.
Module 7: Installation and Getting StartedTail-f Systems
Synopsis: This module introduces the basics of working with ConfD hands-on. Topics covered include installation of ConfD, a tour of what is where in the installation (docs, examples, etc.), setting environment variables for working with ConfD, a high-level tour of ConfD documentation, where to get started in the examples set, and building and running a first example.
Data Acquisition and Control System for Real Time Applicationsijsrd.com
This paper proposes an Embedded Ethernet which is nothing but a processor that is capable to communicate with the network. This helps in data acquisition and status monitoring with the help of standard LAN. Currently device with processor is widely used in industrial field. The Embedded Ethernet provides web access to distributed measurement/control systems and provides optimization for instrumentation, educational laboratories and home automation. However, a large number of devices don't have the network interface and the data from them cannot be transmitted in network. A design of ARM Processor based Embedded Ethernet interface is presented. In this design, data can be transmitted transparently through Ethernet interface unit to remote end desktop computer. By typing the IP address of LAN on the ARM9 board, the user gets sensor values on the PC screen at remote station. This provides the status of the devices at remote field. The user can also control the devices interfaced to the ARM9 Board by pressing the button displayed on the GUI of the remote Desktop PC.
Industry 4.0: Building the Unified Namespace with Confluent, HiveMQ and Spark...confluent
Our talk will explore the transformative impact of integrating Confluent, HiveMQ, and SparkPlug in Industry 4.0, emphasizing the creation of a Unified Namespace.
In addition to the creation of a Unified Namespace, our webinar will also delve into Stream Governance and Scaling, highlighting how these aspects are crucial for managing complex data flows and ensuring robust, scalable IIoT-Platforms.
You will learn how to ensure data accuracy and reliability, expand your data processing capabilities, and optimize your data management processes.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from industry experts and take your business to the next level.
Open Ethernet: an open-source approach to modern network designAlexander Petrovskiy
The era of closed proprietary hardware platforms is coming to an end. Today, in the world of Web-scale IT, the industry is starting to adopt new approach, based on the principles of openness, scalabilty and customizability. However, in more conservative networking industry, traditional equipment and proprietary technologies from a single vendor are often being used, which limits the flexibility, prevents innovation and narrows down the choice.
The "Open Ethernet" initiative from Mellanox brings open source principles into the world of modern networking and allows customers to select the best hardware and software to design network infrastructure, based on open and standard protocols and technologies, also opening the way for broad adoption of SDN.
Internet of Things Innovations & Megatrends Update 12/14/16Mark Goldstein
Mark Goldstein, President, International Research Center (http://www.researchedge.com/) presented an Internet of Things Innovations & Megatrends Update to the IEEE Computer Society Phoenix Chapter (http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/phoenix/compsociety/) on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 bringing up to date his presentation to the Chapter a year earlier. His long-form presentation explores the next Internet wave, the Internet of Things (IoT), expected to connect tens of billions of new sensors and devices in the coming years. Waves of change will roll through home, business, government, industrial, medical, transportation, and other complex ecosystems. This presentation examines how IoT will be implemented and monetized creating new business models from pervasive sensor deployments and data gathering, accompanied by new privacy and security risks. And it explores IoT’s roadblocks and operational challenges, emerging standards and protocols, gateway and wireless integration, and big data strategies and opportunities.
A NETWORK-BASED DAC OPTIMIZATION PROTOTYPE SOFTWARE 2 (1).pdfSaiReddy794166
The International Journal of Engineering and Science and Research is online journal in English published. The aim is to publish peer review and research articles without delay in the developing in engineering and science Research.The International Journal of Engineering and Science and Research is online journal in English published. The aim is to publish peer review and research articles without delay in the developing in engineering and science Research.
Presentation of the Mainflulux team held In Portland at Embedded Linux Conference & OpenIoT Summit North America March 14 2018.
IoT middleware platforms have become necessary building blocks of every complex vertical IoT solution. Traditionally, the platforms have been built to run in the cloud; wide availability and rich capabilities have driven the first wave of IoT adoption. As the scale and complexity of IoT projects have grown, however, the need to provide solutions that move to process to the network edge has also grown. Down-scaling cloud capabilities is complex in part because of the more modest capabilities of edge computing in typical deployment models. As a result, there are few open solutions that address this need.
We introduce Mainflux (https://github.com/Mainflux/mainflux) - a IoT Platform for cloud and edge that can simultaneously scale-out to hundreds of nodes in the cloud but can also scale down to a modest RaspberryPi computer without changing a single line of code. This scalability is achieved thanks to careful architecture, the effectiveness of the Go programming language, and technology choices used in the implementation.
We will discuss the platform, its use and application, and our work to bring core concepts from it to various open source projects including EdgeX.
Repository for Mainflux open source and royalty-free IoT platform published under Apache-2.0 license, free download https://github.com/mainflux/mainflux
Mainflux company official website: https://www.mainflux.com/
Presentation of the Mainflulux team held In Portland at Embedded Linux Conference & OpenIoT Summit North America March 14 2018.
IoT middleware platforms have become necessary building blocks of every complex vertical IoT solution. Traditionally, the platforms have been built to run in the cloud; wide availability and rich capabilities have driven the first wave of IoT adoption. As the scale and complexity of IoT projects have grown, however, the need to provide solutions that move to process to the network edge has also grown. Down-scaling cloud capabilities is complex in part because of the more modest capabilities of edge computing in typical deployment models. As a result, there are few open solutions that address this need.
We introduce Mainflux (https://github.com/Mainflux/mainflux) - a IoT Platform for cloud and edge that can simultaneously scale-out to hundreds of nodes in the cloud but can also scale down to a modest RaspberryPi computer without changing a single line of code. This scalability is achieved thanks to careful architecture, the effectiveness of the Go programming language, and technology choices used in the implementation.
We will discuss the platform, its use and application, and our work to bring core concepts from it to various open source projects including EdgeX.
Repository for Mainflux open source and royalty-free IoT platform published under Apache-2.0 license, free download https://github.com/mainflux/mainflux
Mainflux company official website: https://www.mainflux.com/
Edge Computing Platforms and Protocols - Ph.D. thesisNitinder Mohan
Introductory presentation for Ph.D. thesis of Nitinder Mohan titled "Edge Computing Platforms and Protocols". The defense took place at the University of Helsinki, Finland on 8th November 2019.
The video of the presentation is available at https://youtu.be/dDVZozTwreE
The thesis can be found on https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/306041
IEEE CS Phoenix - Internet of Things Innovations & Megatrends 12/2/15Mark Goldstein
Mark Goldstein, President, International Research Center (http://www.researchedge.com/) presented on the Internet of Things Innovations & Megatrends exploring the next Internet wave, the Internet of Things (IoT), expected to connect tens of billions of new sensors and devices in the coming years. Waves of change will roll through home, business, government, industrial, medical, transportation, and other complex ecosystems. This presentation examines how IoT will be implemented and monetized creating new business models from pervasive sensor deployments and data gathering, accompanied by new privacy and security risks. And it explores IoT’s roadblocks and operational challenges, emerging standards and protocols, gateway and wireless integration, and big data strategies and opportunities.
Analysis and Survey of FPGA Based PROFIBUS BoardIJAEMSJORNAL
Fieldbus system has been established as a communication network, used to connect field devices such as sensors, transduser,controller,man machine interface.Currently a large number of global fieldbus standards are available for consumers.Citation of different types of field bus present an analytical review of various fieldbus systemthat how to gather the data from various equipment distributed far away from each other in the field with reduced wiring and cabling requirement, those are the basic components of communication system. This work also discuss about FPGA based PROFIBUS communication board. It proposes the alternative solution to complexity of communication system and devise it more reliable, high integral and transmission efficient.
Open Source Edge Computing Platforms - OverviewKrishna-Kumar
IEEE 11th International Conference - COMSNETS 2019 - Last MilesTalk - Jan 2019. This talk is for Beginner or intermediate levels only. Kubernetes and related edge platforms are discussed.
Path to 6G Environmental Sustainability … the UrgencyMarie-Paule Odini
Keynote IEEE 5G World - Telecom and ICT impact is increasing due to exponential traffic growth. The urgency now is to reduce environmental footprint for a sustainable new generation of telecom , GreenG
VIRTUALIZATION, AI & ZERO TOUCH FOR MORE EFFICIENT & SUSTAINABLE NETWORKMarie-Paule Odini
CNSM 2021 - Keynote - VIRTUALIZATION, with NFV and Cloud Native, complemented with AI in the assurance OSS stack but also in the core with NWDAF help implement closed loop automation & ZERO TOUCH and contribute to deploy and operate MORE EFFICIENT & SUSTAINABLE NETWORK - IEEE sponsored event
This presentation is focused on Automotive and 5G, the drivers, the current status and the challenges including network slicing and management and orchestration
This presentation is highlighting the architecture of 5G network and the need for a very efficient Management and Orchestration environnement, very automated and autonomous that monitors the network and services and trigger actions to optimize resources and meet quality of service.
With 5G comes slicing that will greatly benefit to the Automotive Industry to have virtual dedicated networks for different traffic, from Safety highly reliable to entertainment or less critical sensor data collection
5G will connect billions of devices, things and people and bring an Ocean of new opportunities to cope with continuous traffic growth, low latency service expectations, energy efficiency, urban density and many other requirements demanding more and more innovation in the CMOS, MEMS and Protonics space but also many other areas.
Smart Energy Management moving from Smart metering management to Smart Grid management, leveraging IoT platforms and ecosystem of application vendors, and smart connectivity
7. July 2016 – facebook Open Cellular
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https://code.facebook.com/posts/1754757044806180/introduc
ing-opencellular-an-open-source-wireless-access-platform/
access platform that can support a wide variety of wireless network
standards, from 2G and LTE to Wi-Fi access points. Anyone can
customize the platform to meet their connectivity needs and set up
the network of their choosing, in both rural and urban areas
Sofar able to send and receive SMS
messages, make voice calls, and use basic
data connectivity using 2G implementation …
working with TIP on next steps
8. Nov 2016 – Facebook announce Voyager
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https://code.facebook.com/posts/1977308282496021
Based on facebook Wedge100 ToR switch
working with a few partners on Open Packet DWDM
— a packet transponder and open line transport
system with open optical specifications that enable
any interested party to contribute systems,
components, or software.
Voyager, a networking solution for Open Packet
DWDM networks —announced as the industry’s first
“white box” transponder and routing solution.
The open line system will include Yang software data
models of each component in the system, and an
open northbound software interface (NETCONF,
Thrift, etc.) to the control plane software. This allows
multiple applications to run on top of the open
software layer, enabling software innovations in
DWDM system control algorithms and network
management systems.
9. Facebook Voyager (2)
The Voyager transponder includes the same switch ASIC as Wedge 100 for aggregating the 100 GbE client
signals (Broadcom Tomahawk).
In addition, Voyager implemented the DSP ASIC and optics module (AC400) from Acacia Communications
for the DWDM line side with their open development environment.
Facebook worked with Lumentum to develop a terminal amplifier specification so that multiple applications
can run on top of the open software layer to enable software innovations in DWDM system control
algorithms and network management systems.
Voyager's optical capabilities cover applications from metro to ultra-long-haul reaches.
We successfully tested the packet-optical transponders in field trials with Equinix in the U.S. and MTN in
South Africa, and we plan to open-source the Voyager software, similar to the FBOSS software for Wedge
100
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10. Nov 10, 2016 – mmwave data rate record
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Millimeter Wave Point-to-Point:
record data rate of nearly 20 Gbps over 13 km with MMW
technology. Using a set of custom-built components, the team
achieved this milestone with only 105 watts of total direct
current (DC) power consumption at the transmitter and
receiver. The transmission used a bandwidth of 2 GHz,
resulting in an overall spectral efficiency of 9.8 bits per
second per Hertz.
Test performed in southern California between a mountain in
Malibu and a building 13.2km down
enough data to stream almost 1,000 ultra-high-definition videos at the same time. But still many technical
challenges to solve …
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1197678800270377/facebook-demonstrates-record-breaking-
data-rate-using-millimeter-wave-technology/
The team is currently flight testing its first generation air-to-ground bidirectional link capable of 20 Gbps in each
direction. The aerial payload is mounted on a Cessna aircraft and is being flown at altitudes up to 20,000 ft.
The next generation air-to-ground communication system capable of supporting 40 Gbps each on uplink and
downlink between an aircraft and a ground station will be flight-tested in early 2017
12. 2002 – WindMill
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Windmill, open sourced in 2012:
The Server V2 design, also known as “Windmill,” was a
power-optimized, bare-bones motherboard for Intel Xeon
processors designed to provide lowest capital and
operating costs. It did away with many features that
vendors usually include in servers but that aren’t
necessary for Facebook’s needs.
13. March’15 – Facebook Open Compute “Yosemite”
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first open source modular chassis for high-powered microservers
Contributed to OCP (Open Compute Project)
applies to two-socket (2S) computing platforms, which have become
scale-up systems. 2S has been the mainstream server architecture
for a long time for good reason. With multiple high-performance
processors, it's strong and versatile, but it's also bulky and power-
hungry. In other words, it's not optimized for scale-out uses.
•A server-class SoC with multiple memory channels, which provides high-performance computing in 65W TDP for
SoC and 90W for the whole server card.
•A standard SoC card interface to provide a CPU-agnostic system interface.
•A platform-agnostic system management solution to manage the system and these 4 SoC server cards, regardless
of vendor.
•A multi-host network interconnect card following OCP Mezzanine Card 2.0 specification, which connects up to 4
SoC server cards through a single Ethernet port.
•A cost-effective, flexible, and easy-to-service system structure.
This system will be fully compatible with Open Rack, which can accommodate up to 192 SoC server cards in a
single rack. Already supported by Mellanox
14. FBOSS – FaceBook Open Switching System
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https://code.facebook.com/posts/843620439027582/facebook-open-switching-system-fboss-
and-wedge-in-the-open/
project on GitHub: https://github.com/facebook/fboss
FBOSS consists of a number of Linux user-space
applications, libraries, and utilities.
The initial open source release of FBOSS consists
primarily of the agent daemon, but Facebook is working
on releasing additional pieces and functionality as well.
One of the central pieces of FBOSS is the agent daemon,
which runs on each switch, and controls the hardware
forwarding ASIC. The agent daemon sends forwarding
information to the hardware, and implements some control
plane protocols such as ARP and NDP.
The initial FBOSS agent release is targeted for the Broadcom StrataXGS series of Ethernet switch ASICs
(specifically the Trident and Trident II chips) using Broadcom opensource OpenNSL APIs.
•Programming various tables within the Broadcom ASIC, such as L2, L3, and VLAN
tables.
•Handling low-level control packets for host and neighbor learning (ARP, IPv6 NDP,
DHCPv4/v6 relay, LLDP).
•Packet parsing/construction of ICMP/UDP packets.
15. Facebook OpenBMC
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Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) software stack
a BMC is a specialized controller embedded in servers. It often comes in the form of a system-on-chip
(SoC), with its own CPU, memory, and storage and lots of IO. A BMC connects to sensors to read
environmental conditions and to fans to control temperature. It also provides other system management
functions, including remote power control, serial over LAN, and monitoring and error logging of the server
host CPU and memory.
BMC hardware is a computer system.
Compared with modern computer
systems, the hardware resources in a
BMC are very limited. A slow CPU, less
than 32 MB flash as storage, and less
than 256 MB RAM are common in BMC
hardware. Because of this, OpenBMC is
designed as a complete Linux
distribution, with flexibility to be
customized to support different BMC
SoC or boards.
Ex: “OpenBMC” packages running on the BMC inside “Wedge.”
16. Facebook and Open Source Security - osquery
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https://osquery.io/
https://code.facebook.com/projects/658950180885092/osquery/
osquery allows you to easily ask questions about your Linux, Windows, and OS X infrastructure.
Whether your goal is intrusion detection, infrastructure reliability, or compliance, osquery gives you
the ability to empower and inform a broad set of organizations within your company.
osquery gives you the ability to query and log things like running processes, logged in users,
password changes, USB devices, firewall exceptions, listening ports, and more.
You can perform ad-hoc queries or schedule them, optionally enable FIM and process accounting
too
CentOS, Ubuntu LTS, Windows, and OS X are supported with no dependencies. osquery powers
some of the most demanding companies, including Facebook.
17. Facebook ToR Switch (Top of the Rack Switch) Wedge100
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https://code.facebook.com/posts/1802489260027439/wed
ge-100-more-open-and-versatile-than-ever/
Facebook Wedge 100 specification has been accepted into OCP
(Open Compute Project)
18. May’16 - Terragraph
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Facebook Terragraph is a 60 GHz, multi-node wireless
system focused on bringing high-speed internet connectivity
to dense urban areas. Utilizing commercial off-the-shelf
components and leveraging the cloud for intensive data
processing, the Terragraph system is optimized for high-
volume, low-cost production.
Radios are based on the WiGig standard and are designed
for consumer electronics, which allows to create nodes that
are inexpensive relative to traditional telecom infrastructure.
Given the limited range of the 60 GHz signal, these nodes
are placed across a city at 200-250 meter intervals.
Terragraph implements a phase array antenna to retain the
highly directional signal required for 60 GHz, but makes it
steerable to communicate over a wide area.
Terragraph implements IPv6-only nodes, an SDN-like cloud compute controller, and a new modular routing
protocol for fast route convergence and failure detection. We also re-architected the MAC layer to solve the
shortcomings of TCP/IP over a wireless link. By implementing a high performance TDMA-TDD MAC, we saw
up to 6x improvement in network efficiency and at the same time made TCP/IP predictable compared to the
existing Wi-Fi/WiGig standard.
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1072680049445290/introducing-facebook-
s-new-terrestrial-connectivity-systems-terragraph-and-project-aries/
19. May’16 - Arries
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Project ARIES is a proof-of-concept effort to build a test
platform for incredibly efficient usage of spectrum and
energy:
- Spectral efficiency: total number of bits transmitted per
unit of radio spectrum bps/Hz, allowing for higher
throughput in even the smallest bandwidths
- Energy efficient : total number of bits transmitted per unit
Joule energy spent b/J
A base station with 96 antennas, it can support 24
streams simultaneously over the same radio spectrum. It
is able to demonstrate 71 bps/Hz of spectral efficiency,
and when complete ARIES will demonstrate an
unprecedented 100+ bps/Hz of spectral efficiency.
So far, Aries demonstrated 1.05 Gbps bidirectional (2.1 Gbps total throughput per distribution node) in P2P
mode, up to 250 meters away. This means up to 8.4 Gbps of total traffic per installation point assuming 4 sectors.
Facebook think this number can be as high as 12.8 Gbps in the future. In P2MP mode, the system is able to
autodiscover the location of the client nodes, and has been able to demonstrate electronically beam-forming the
signals between 2 client nodes in 8 microseconds, or about 125,000 times per second.
20. May’16 - Facebook deploying Fiber
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May 2016 – Facebook, Microsoft & Telefonica join
forces to deploy Fiber across Atlantic
The new project, called Marea, will span the more than
4,000 miles between Virginia and Spain with eight pairs
of fiber optic strands, which would make it the highest
capacity link across the Atlantic - roviding up to 160
terabits per second of bandwidth—about 16 million
times the bandwidth of your home Internet connection
Oct 2016 – Facebook and Google team up to deploy a
8000 miles Fiber between Los Angeles and China
The fiber-optic cable will have a bandwidth of 120
terabits per second, which Google says makes it the
highest-capacity route between the US and Asia
21. Facebook Machine learning –AI Project
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Facebook formed the Applied Machine Learning team
last September 2015. The group runs a company-wide
internal platform for machine learning called FBLearner
Flow. The platform is the artificial-intelligence equivalent
of the Open Compute project with one key difference: It’s
not something that will be offered to the world through
open source hardware. Without the data that Facebook
has on tap, the company says, its platform is essentially
useless.
FBLearner Flow combines several machine-learning
models to process several billion data points, drawn from
the activity of the site’s 1.5 billion users, and forms
predictions about thousands of things: which user is in a
photograph, which message is likely to be spam. The
algorithms created from FBLearner Flow’s models &
500,000 workflows help define what content appears in
your News Feed and what advertisements you see.
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela is director of Applied
Machine Learning at Facebook.
22. Facebook research in AI , Artificial Intelligence
Facebook runs its own AI research lab as well as a Brain-like team known as the
Applied Machine Learning Group. Its mission is to push AI across the entire family
of Facebook products, and according chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer, it’s
already working: one in five Facebook engineers now make use of machine
learning. Schroepfer calls the tools built by Facebook’s Applied ML group “a big
flywheel that has changed everything” inside the company. “When they build a new
model or build a new technique, it immediately gets used by thousands of people
working on products that serve billions of people,” he says.
“We’re trying to build more than 1.5 billion AI agents—one for every person who
uses Facebook or any of its products,” says Joaquin Candela, the head of the newly
created Applied Machine Learning group.
http://for.tn/1XvzKcZ
As of March 2016, about 750 Facebook engineers and 40 different product teams
were using the FBLearner Flow platform. By the end of June, the company hopes
that 1,000 engineers will use it. Facebook ultimately aims to build machine learning
tools that are easy enough to use for non-engineers, though that’s a far-off goal.
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23. Facebook AI – FBLearner Flow
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1072626246134461/introducing-fblearner-flow-facebook-s-ai-backbone/
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– Core concepts:
– Workflows: A workflow is a single pipeline defined within FBLearner Flow and is the entry point for all machine
learning tasks. Each workflow performs a specific job, such as training and evaluation of a specific model.
Workflows are defined in terms of operators and can be parallelized.
– Operators: Operators are the building blocks of workflows. Conceptually, you can think of an operator like a
function within a program. In FBLearner Flow, operators are the smallest unit of execution and run on a single
machine.
– Channels: Channels represent inputs and outputs, which flow between operators within a workflow. All channels
are typed using a custom type system that we have defined.
The platform consists of three core components:
• an authorship and execution environment for custom distributed workflows,
• an experimentation management UI for launching experiments and viewing results, and
• numerous predefined pipelines for training the most commonly used machine learning algorithms at Facebook
All workflows and operators in FBLearner Flow are defined as functions in Python and apply special decorators to
integrate with the platform
24. June’16 - Facebook Internet Drone 1st flight – Aquila Project
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https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-
zuckerberg/the-technology-behind-
aquila/10153916136506634/
goal is to have a fleet of Aquilas flying together at
60,000 feet, communicating with each other with
lasers and staying aloft for months at a time
=> June 2016 – the drone stayed up 96mn
Target: weight < 1000 pounds
power < 5000 W (= 3 hair dryers)
Speed – 80mph
25. Facebook Population Distribution Study
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Applying techniques from computer vision on DigitalGlobe
high-resolution satellite imagery
Created a population data set with 5-meter resolution for 20
countries
Analyzed 23 countries, which amounts to 21.6 million
square kilometers and 350 TB of imagery. For one pass of
our analysis we processed 14.6 billion images with our
convolutional neural nets, typically running on thousands of
servers simultaneously.
Facebook Open Population Data Set project is in
collaboration with Columbia University and the World Bank.
It is starting to share data, globally and per countries.
https://code.facebook.com/posts/596471193873876/open-population-datasets-and-open-challenges/
44% of the population lives in urban areas, while 99% of the population lives within 63 km of the nearest city.
26. Facebook Open/R – open routing
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Open/R generalizes the concept of a replicated state database found in well-known link-state routing protocols
such as OSPF and ISIS. It uses this as an underlying message system upon which we can build multiple
applications. Distributed routing is just one of the applications that leverages this message bus.
Uses mature open source ZeroMQ library for all message exchange, whether it's intra-process or inter-process.
Used as baseline routing technology for facebook Terragraph network
Will be opensourced at some point
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1142111519143652/intro
ducing-open-r-a-new-modular-routing-platform/
27. Facebook DHCP Load Balancer
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https://github.com/facebookincubator/dhcplb
Dhcplb is written in Go and can be fetched from GitHub
How it’s used in facebook:
TORs (top-of-rack switches) at Facebook run DHCP
relayers, which are responsible for relaying broadcast
DHCP traffic (DISCOVERY and SOLICIT messages)
originating within their racks to anycast VIPs, one for
DHCPv4 and one for DHCPv6.
Facebook uses ISC KEA opensource DHCP servers
Kea is an open source DHCPv4/DHCPv6 server being
developed by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).
28. Nov 8, 2016 – Backpack Switch, 100Gb Switch
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Backpack has a fully disaggregated architecture that uses simple building blocks called switch elements,
and it has a clear separation of the data, control, and management planes. It has an orthogonal direct
chassis architecture, which enables better signal integrity and opens up more air channel space for a better
thermal performance. Finally, it has a sophisticated thermal design to support low-cost 55C optics.
29. Facebook Company
– Created in 2004
– Revenues: $17.9B, net income: $3.7B
– Employees: 15,724
– Users of Facebook social network: $1.79B (Sept 2016)
– Products: facebook, messenger, whatsapp, oculus
– Revenue model: advertising via 3 million advertisers
– Facebook is both a consumer of and contributor to free and open source software. Facebook's
contributions include: HipHop for PHP, Fair scheduler in Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Apache
Cassandra, Open Compute Project, and TIP (Telecom Infra Project)
– Facebook Data Centers include: Prineville/Oregon, Forest City, North Carolina, Lulea, Sweden,
and Altoona, Iowa. The company is also building data centers in Fort Worth, Texas - Clonee, Ireland - and
Los Lunas, New Mexico. And is aiming Singapore and Danemark
– Facebook signed an agreement with Greenpeace on environment
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31. 31
HPE is a member of both
Telecom Infra Project (TIP)
&
Open Compute Platform (OCP)
32. HPE and Open Compute
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HPE is an active member of OCP (Open Compute Project) with a complete available product line (HPE Cloudline)
HPE is also a member of TIP (Telecom Infra Project)