The document summarizes the journey of Aris Cahyadi Risdianto from a network beginner to a network programmer with the help of open source networking. It outlines his career path starting as a student learning networking fundamentals. It then details his roles as a network engineer, administrator, and current work exploring open source SDN and NFV technologies. The document also provides a basic introduction to open source networking, including common project forms and examples uses cases from Google, Facebook, and AT&T. It notes that while individuals may not have the scale of large companies, open source allows for collaboration and contributing solutions through testbeds and research.

1. From Network Beginner to Network Programmer
with the Help of Open Source Networking
Aris Cahyadi Risdianto
Bandung, October 18th 2017

2. Who am I?
• Bachelor degree from Tel-U (a.k.a. STT Telkom) in 2002
• System/Research Engineer at PT. NCI in 2003 – 2005
• System/Network Engineer at PT. DDI (a.k.a. DCI) in 2005 – 2007
• Network Administrator/Engineer at Ooredoo Telecom in 2007 –
2010
• Master degree from ITB in 2012
• PhD candidate and Research Assistant at GIST (Gwangju Institute of
Science and Technology) from 2013
• TBD

3. Outline
• Self Story - The journey from network beginner to
network programmer
• Open Source Networking - Basic Introduction and
example use cases
• OF@TEIN Project - Build the network and
“networking” through collaboration

4. Network Beginner (2000 - 2003)
The journey from network beginner
to network programmer

5. What I did?
• Joined senior member at C&C Laboratory in Tel-U
• Learn about operating systems (Redhat Linux, Windows NT,
SUN Solaris and FreeBSD)
• Learn basic networking (Ethernet BNC/UTP, Hub/Switch, and
PC Router)
• Maintain student servers (Web, mail, DNS, FTP, …)
• Linux and networking trainer at C&C
• Final Project about IPv6 implementation

6. What I learned?
“Do any trial and error for everything in the campus, no
chance if you we are out”
“RTFM (read the ****ing manual), it needs sacrifice to
make it”
“Learn something open is more useful, you can see all
manual, codes, comments, etc.”

7. Network Engineer (2003 - 2010)
The journey from network beginner
to network programmer

8. What I did?
• Joined IP network-focus company instead
telecommunication company
• CCNA in 3 months in work
• CCNP less than year in work
• Learn multiple networks (IP, Mobile networks, etc.)
• Bridge between the networks (Sigtrans = SS7 over IP)

9. What I learned?
“Learn the concept, never remember the command”
“Networking is important than the network itself”
“Trust the ‘Wireshark’, he will tell us the truth ”

10. Network Administrator (2007 - 2010)
The journey from network beginner
to network programmer

11. What I did?
• Maintain IP network for Mobile network
• Testing and verification amongst the vendors
• Operate and maintain complex network
• Work with multiple languages and time zones

12. What I learned?
“Automate our routine works to avoid wasting of our
valuable time”
“Work as team with other networks operators
(collaborations), we are are equal”
“Prepare the roll back plan and always has alternative
plans”

13. Network Programmer (2010 - TBD)
The journey from network beginner
to network programmer

14. What I did?
• Found something interesting or new about the
network (SDN, NFV, …)
• Explore the available and open solutions
• Join collaboration discussion or groups
• Try to contribute from the simple/basic things

15. What I learned?
“Collaborate or Die”
“Forget who we are and where we are from, the most
important is ‘where is our codes?’”
“Define our own applications/requirements, make our
unique network deployment/implementation”

16. Meet people !

17. Collaborate !

18. Speak up !

19. Contribute !

21. Basic Introduction and Use Cases
Open Source Networking

22. What is open source networking (OSN)?

23. Open Source Project Forms for OSN
• Components, narrowly addressed problem whose output may
consumed by atomic entity (OVS – OpenvSwitch)
• Platforms, encompass multiple components (framework) to
meet a range of user needs (OpenDaylight, ONAP, ONOS,
OpenStack, etc.)
• Open Reference Platforms, focus on integration of platforms
and components to test/demonstrate/ validate solutions
(OPNFV, CORD, OpenLSO, etc.)

24. OSN from Linux Foundation

25. Use Case: B4 SD-WAN (Google)
• Requirements/Problems
– Difficult to maintain a large G-Scale network (Internal)
– Economic WAN deployment with varying requirements
– Innovative and Flexibility
• Solutions
– Switch from Merchant Silicon with 100 of 10GE
– OpenFlow Support with OFA
– Customized SDN controller for site and global
controllers from Onix controller
– Open Source Routing stacks for BGP and ISIS with
Quagga

26. Use Case: OCP networking (Facebook)
• Requirements/Problems
– Deployed everything in a software
– Operations over features (upgrade every week)
– Fail fast over fail-proof
• Solutions
– Fboss (controllers, network analytics, …)
– NetNORAD (detect network interruption and
automatically mitigate them within second)
– Open Compute Project (OCP)
– OCP networking (Network Disaggregation)

27. Use Case: ECOMP(AT&T)
• Requirements/Problems
– Metadata-driven and policy-driven
architecture
– Enable sourcing best-in class components
– ‘developed’ once but ‘used’ many times
– Support many AT&T services
– Elastic scaling as needs grow and shrink
• Solutions
– ECOMP Architecture
– ECOMP Components (Portal, OA&M
Controller, Common Services, etc.)

28. What is main challenge for OSN?
We are not Google, Facebook, AT&T, … who has
hundred/thousand engineer/programmers.
We also not Google, Facebook, AT&T, … who need to
serve million/billion subscribers/customers.
Scale our network problems !!!

29. What we can do with OSN?
• Research to produce papers and journals
• Increase programming skills especially for
networking
• Collaborate/contribute to open source project
• Build a testbed as POC of OSN in real world
environment and scenarios

31. OF@TEIN Project under Asi@Connect Funding
Build the network and networking
through collaboration

33. Demo