Anthony Pike is a senior software engineer and QA engineer with over 30 years of experience developing complex systems across multiple operating systems and programming languages. He has extensive experience developing real-time systems including image processing, communications signaling, and embedded systems. His background includes roles leading teams, managing projects, and working closely with other teams on product strategy.
Learn why and how to use reference architectures to build
a scalable, reliable, safe, secure and future-ready network
infrastructure. This discussion provides an overview of the
Cisco and Rockwell Automation® Converged Plantwide
Ethernet (CPwE) architectures. Learn what defines a reference
architecture, why they’re important and how these architectures
combined with products, services and solutions support
successful deployment of The Connected Enterprise. A prior
understanding of general Ethernet concepts, or attendance of
the NS01 - Fundamentals of EtherNet/IP Network Technology
session is recommended.
Your Path to Edge Computing - Akraino Edge Stack UpdateLiz Warner
The Akraino community was proud to announce the availability of its release 1 on June 6th. The community has experienced extremely rapid growth over the past year, in terms of both membership and community activity. Before Akraino, developers had to download multiple open source software packages and integrate/test on deployable hardware, which prolonged innovation and increased cost. The Akraino community came up with a brilliant way to solve this integration challenge with the Blueprint model. An Akraino Blueprint is not just a diagram; it’s real code that brings everything together so users can download and deploy the edge stack in their own environment to address a specific edge use case. Learn more about the Akraino Edge Stack. In this talk, we will share details about R1 blueprints and their use, R2 goals, and how to engage and contribute to the Akraino Community.
Learn why and how to use reference architectures to build
a scalable, reliable, safe, secure and future-ready network
infrastructure. This discussion provides an overview of the
Cisco and Rockwell Automation® Converged Plantwide
Ethernet (CPwE) architectures. Learn what defines a reference
architecture, why they’re important and how these architectures
combined with products, services and solutions support
successful deployment of The Connected Enterprise. A prior
understanding of general Ethernet concepts, or attendance of
the NS01 - Fundamentals of EtherNet/IP Network Technology
session is recommended.
Your Path to Edge Computing - Akraino Edge Stack UpdateLiz Warner
The Akraino community was proud to announce the availability of its release 1 on June 6th. The community has experienced extremely rapid growth over the past year, in terms of both membership and community activity. Before Akraino, developers had to download multiple open source software packages and integrate/test on deployable hardware, which prolonged innovation and increased cost. The Akraino community came up with a brilliant way to solve this integration challenge with the Blueprint model. An Akraino Blueprint is not just a diagram; it’s real code that brings everything together so users can download and deploy the edge stack in their own environment to address a specific edge use case. Learn more about the Akraino Edge Stack. In this talk, we will share details about R1 blueprints and their use, R2 goals, and how to engage and contribute to the Akraino Community.
ONAP and the K8s Ecosystem: A Converged Edge Application & Network Function P...Liz Warner
The edge computing industry is increasingly using cloud technologies for seamless migration of workloads across edges and clouds. For seamless mobility workloads, K8s is a key requirement for all CSPs. Also, K8s is can be a good workload orchestrator for all deployment types (VMs, containers and functions). This panel will discuss existing work and novel ways of realizing a converged network function & edge computing application platform across distributed clouds using the extensibility of the K8s ecosystem. This work is currently happening in ONAP as part of the Edge Automation effort and we see this impactful to other open source efforts such as Akraino, K8s Edge WG etc.
CNTT is an Converged NFVi Telco Task force setup to standardize Reference Implementations (RI) and compliances for Service Providers to use common Models, Architecture and hence Deployments for their workloads. Given the NFVi proliferations in the past the limited set of RI chosen are one based on OpenStack and another Kubernetes. Tier 1 service providers and participating Tier2 & 3 providers in CNTT community welcome it. The incumbent vendors and emerging players in disaggregated workloads are watching as how they can participate without downside to their bottom-line. This is interesting and early adapters will gain as they can plan to align their products and solutions in this space. The evolution of Infrastructure demands the changes as you will see in next topic Airship.
Airship is a bunch of tools and software that will allow you to elevate your infrastructure, especially if you are a Communication Service Provider. We here bring you from Airship community all that has happened as part of Rebuilding the Data Center Infrastructure for next generation. With multi-layer, multi-node, multi-cluster, multi-tenant, multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud the only way is cloud native and that requires Open Infrastructure. This is then Followed by where (ONFV/ONAP/TUG) and how this Airship will migrate from 1.0 to 2.0 to enable scaling functions anywhere. Thus was born the Airship and now moving toward overlay cluster deployments for workloads. It can be engineered to support Any over Any (OoK, KoK,AoA) name it and we need plugins and drivers for k8s to deliver all the features. This will be engineering challenge as well a mindset change and will take few years to Get to NextGen workloads besides CNTT NFVi/VNF & CNF.
Improve Visibility and Diagnostics of Your Network with Network Management So...Rockwell Automation
In this session, learn about how the new Network Management
Software (NMS) from Rockwell Automation can help improve
your industrial network visibility and troubleshooting
procedures by providing intuitive network information within
context of the automation system designed for the non-IT
personnel. Easily discover plant floor assets, automatically create “as-built” topology of managed switches and devices, with live device centric views for real-time configuration. In addition, NMS can monitor the network for alarms, events and audits which are automatically captured and can provide for easy historical analysis. This session combines presentation with an instructor led demonstration of NMS.
Smart Devices - Design ,Operate and Maintainsoftconsystem
This is an official pdf of Rockwell Automation. Softcon Systems are the recogonised partner of Rockwell Automation company. Smart devices are the foundation for smart systems – and smarter machines. They are the gateway to the information you need to take immediate action, improve productivity, and start your journey for a digital transformation. Smart starts here.
Easing the Path to Network Transformation - Network Transformation Experience...Liz Warner
Network transformation takes many forms: open platforms, virtualized infrastructure, containers and cloud native practices—and often a mix of any of these. Regardless of choice, the path to transformation typically requires new tools and new skills. Network Transformation Experience Kits provide a library of best-practice architecture and development guidelines addressing Industry needs in automation, interfaces standardization, security, resources management and more. These Experience Kits offer developers, technical leads, and other audiences a variety of materials needed to enable adoption of the new technologies and service-enabling capabilities needed for next-generation, open, agile and efficient networks. In this presentation, we will focus on containers technology to augment ease of use with high performance.
Introduce a connected vehicle blueprint; a Linux Akraino Project. The presentation consists of general background introduction, application use cases, network/technical/deployment architecture and the future plan.
Fundamentals of Ethernet /IP Technologysoftconsystem
This is an official PDF of Rockwell Automation, Softcon Systems is an official recognised partner of Rockwell. Learn the capabilities and features of EtherNet/IP, including
an overview of networking technology and terminology.
Learn how the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) fully uses the
Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model and the
value of supporting standard Ethernet and Internet Protocol (IP)
network technology.
In an Industrial Internet of Things, is your aim to collect data or
to gain insight? Learn how FactoryTalk® Analytics tools speed
time to insight by connecting to and modeling processes, then
validating, calculating and presenting actionable insights to key
stakeholders at all levels of an organization and operation.
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) is a leading Linux Foundation Networking open source project that provides fully automated orchestration and lifecycle management of NFV, SDN, analytics and edge computing services. While ONAP can be used for any network service, it is particularly beneficial for 5G and edge computing use cases. In this talk you will learn:
* What is ONAP
* What use cases does ONAP support
* What are the 5G/edge computing workload automation requirements
* How does ONAP support these requirements
* How can you get involved
Deploy Secure Network Architectures for The Connected EnterpriseRockwell Automation
Protecting industrial control and automation system (IACS) assets requires a holistic defense-in-depth security approach, which addresses internal and external security threats. This discussion reviews the security design and implementation considerations within the Cisco and Rockwell Automation® CPwE reference architectures. Learn about the architectural security framework, identity services, IDMZ, Stratix® 5950 and Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewall solutions to help you improve the availability, integrity and confidentiality of your network architecture. Prior attendance of the NS05 - Building Converged Plantwide Ethernet Architectures session is recommended.
Using Eclipse MQTT & Sparkplug as your IIoT Digital Transformation Toolkit | ...Eclipse IoT
This presentation displays the combination of existing MQTT message transport technologies provided by the Eclipse Paho IoT technologies combined with the Eclipse Tahu technology in making this technology applicable to the OT sector by defining the MQTT semantics of Topic Namespace, Process Variable centric Payloads and State Awareness of MQTT but applying that to IT-centric requirements of OT tag metrics and context.
We need/must apply the same notions of the IoP to the IIoT. But we must satisfy the OT requirements of real-time, mission-critical aspects of the infrastructure first while embracing required IIoT hooks.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit:
https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2020/12/vitis-and-vitis-ai-application-acceleration-from-cloud-to-edge-a-presentation-from-xilinx/
For more information about edge AI and computer vision, please visit:
https://www.edge-ai-vision.com
Vinod Kathail, Fellow and Chief Architect at Xilinx, presents the “Vitis and Vitis AI: Application Acceleration from Cloud to Edge” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit.
Xilinx SoCs and FPGAs provide significant advantages in throughput, latency, and energy efficiency for production deployments of compute-intensive applications when compared to CPUs and GPUs. Over the last decade, FPGAs have evolved into highly configurable devices that provide on-chip heterogeneous multi-core CPUs, domain-specific programmable accelerators and “any-to-any” interface connectivity.
Today, the Xilinx Vitis Unified Software Platform supports high-level programming in C, C++, OpenCL, and Python, enabling developers to build and seamlessly deploy applications on Xilinx platforms including Alveo cards, FPGA instances in the cloud, and embedded devices. Moreover, Vitis enables the acceleration of large-scale data processing and machine learning applications using familiar high-level frameworks, such as TensorFlow and SPARK. This presentation provides an overview of the Vitis Software platform and the accelerated Vitis Vision Library, which enables customizable functions such as image signal processing, adaptable AI inference, 3D reconstruction and motion analysis.
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ONAP and the K8s Ecosystem: A Converged Edge Application & Network Function P...Liz Warner
The edge computing industry is increasingly using cloud technologies for seamless migration of workloads across edges and clouds. For seamless mobility workloads, K8s is a key requirement for all CSPs. Also, K8s is can be a good workload orchestrator for all deployment types (VMs, containers and functions). This panel will discuss existing work and novel ways of realizing a converged network function & edge computing application platform across distributed clouds using the extensibility of the K8s ecosystem. This work is currently happening in ONAP as part of the Edge Automation effort and we see this impactful to other open source efforts such as Akraino, K8s Edge WG etc.
CNTT is an Converged NFVi Telco Task force setup to standardize Reference Implementations (RI) and compliances for Service Providers to use common Models, Architecture and hence Deployments for their workloads. Given the NFVi proliferations in the past the limited set of RI chosen are one based on OpenStack and another Kubernetes. Tier 1 service providers and participating Tier2 & 3 providers in CNTT community welcome it. The incumbent vendors and emerging players in disaggregated workloads are watching as how they can participate without downside to their bottom-line. This is interesting and early adapters will gain as they can plan to align their products and solutions in this space. The evolution of Infrastructure demands the changes as you will see in next topic Airship.
Airship is a bunch of tools and software that will allow you to elevate your infrastructure, especially if you are a Communication Service Provider. We here bring you from Airship community all that has happened as part of Rebuilding the Data Center Infrastructure for next generation. With multi-layer, multi-node, multi-cluster, multi-tenant, multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud the only way is cloud native and that requires Open Infrastructure. This is then Followed by where (ONFV/ONAP/TUG) and how this Airship will migrate from 1.0 to 2.0 to enable scaling functions anywhere. Thus was born the Airship and now moving toward overlay cluster deployments for workloads. It can be engineered to support Any over Any (OoK, KoK,AoA) name it and we need plugins and drivers for k8s to deliver all the features. This will be engineering challenge as well a mindset change and will take few years to Get to NextGen workloads besides CNTT NFVi/VNF & CNF.
Improve Visibility and Diagnostics of Your Network with Network Management So...Rockwell Automation
In this session, learn about how the new Network Management
Software (NMS) from Rockwell Automation can help improve
your industrial network visibility and troubleshooting
procedures by providing intuitive network information within
context of the automation system designed for the non-IT
personnel. Easily discover plant floor assets, automatically create “as-built” topology of managed switches and devices, with live device centric views for real-time configuration. In addition, NMS can monitor the network for alarms, events and audits which are automatically captured and can provide for easy historical analysis. This session combines presentation with an instructor led demonstration of NMS.
Smart Devices - Design ,Operate and Maintainsoftconsystem
This is an official pdf of Rockwell Automation. Softcon Systems are the recogonised partner of Rockwell Automation company. Smart devices are the foundation for smart systems – and smarter machines. They are the gateway to the information you need to take immediate action, improve productivity, and start your journey for a digital transformation. Smart starts here.
Easing the Path to Network Transformation - Network Transformation Experience...Liz Warner
Network transformation takes many forms: open platforms, virtualized infrastructure, containers and cloud native practices—and often a mix of any of these. Regardless of choice, the path to transformation typically requires new tools and new skills. Network Transformation Experience Kits provide a library of best-practice architecture and development guidelines addressing Industry needs in automation, interfaces standardization, security, resources management and more. These Experience Kits offer developers, technical leads, and other audiences a variety of materials needed to enable adoption of the new technologies and service-enabling capabilities needed for next-generation, open, agile and efficient networks. In this presentation, we will focus on containers technology to augment ease of use with high performance.
Introduce a connected vehicle blueprint; a Linux Akraino Project. The presentation consists of general background introduction, application use cases, network/technical/deployment architecture and the future plan.
Fundamentals of Ethernet /IP Technologysoftconsystem
This is an official PDF of Rockwell Automation, Softcon Systems is an official recognised partner of Rockwell. Learn the capabilities and features of EtherNet/IP, including
an overview of networking technology and terminology.
Learn how the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) fully uses the
Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model and the
value of supporting standard Ethernet and Internet Protocol (IP)
network technology.
In an Industrial Internet of Things, is your aim to collect data or
to gain insight? Learn how FactoryTalk® Analytics tools speed
time to insight by connecting to and modeling processes, then
validating, calculating and presenting actionable insights to key
stakeholders at all levels of an organization and operation.
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) is a leading Linux Foundation Networking open source project that provides fully automated orchestration and lifecycle management of NFV, SDN, analytics and edge computing services. While ONAP can be used for any network service, it is particularly beneficial for 5G and edge computing use cases. In this talk you will learn:
* What is ONAP
* What use cases does ONAP support
* What are the 5G/edge computing workload automation requirements
* How does ONAP support these requirements
* How can you get involved
Deploy Secure Network Architectures for The Connected EnterpriseRockwell Automation
Protecting industrial control and automation system (IACS) assets requires a holistic defense-in-depth security approach, which addresses internal and external security threats. This discussion reviews the security design and implementation considerations within the Cisco and Rockwell Automation® CPwE reference architectures. Learn about the architectural security framework, identity services, IDMZ, Stratix® 5950 and Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewall solutions to help you improve the availability, integrity and confidentiality of your network architecture. Prior attendance of the NS05 - Building Converged Plantwide Ethernet Architectures session is recommended.
Using Eclipse MQTT & Sparkplug as your IIoT Digital Transformation Toolkit | ...Eclipse IoT
This presentation displays the combination of existing MQTT message transport technologies provided by the Eclipse Paho IoT technologies combined with the Eclipse Tahu technology in making this technology applicable to the OT sector by defining the MQTT semantics of Topic Namespace, Process Variable centric Payloads and State Awareness of MQTT but applying that to IT-centric requirements of OT tag metrics and context.
We need/must apply the same notions of the IoP to the IIoT. But we must satisfy the OT requirements of real-time, mission-critical aspects of the infrastructure first while embracing required IIoT hooks.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit:
https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2020/12/vitis-and-vitis-ai-application-acceleration-from-cloud-to-edge-a-presentation-from-xilinx/
For more information about edge AI and computer vision, please visit:
https://www.edge-ai-vision.com
Vinod Kathail, Fellow and Chief Architect at Xilinx, presents the “Vitis and Vitis AI: Application Acceleration from Cloud to Edge” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit.
Xilinx SoCs and FPGAs provide significant advantages in throughput, latency, and energy efficiency for production deployments of compute-intensive applications when compared to CPUs and GPUs. Over the last decade, FPGAs have evolved into highly configurable devices that provide on-chip heterogeneous multi-core CPUs, domain-specific programmable accelerators and “any-to-any” interface connectivity.
Today, the Xilinx Vitis Unified Software Platform supports high-level programming in C, C++, OpenCL, and Python, enabling developers to build and seamlessly deploy applications on Xilinx platforms including Alveo cards, FPGA instances in the cloud, and embedded devices. Moreover, Vitis enables the acceleration of large-scale data processing and machine learning applications using familiar high-level frameworks, such as TensorFlow and SPARK. This presentation provides an overview of the Vitis Software platform and the accelerated Vitis Vision Library, which enables customizable functions such as image signal processing, adaptable AI inference, 3D reconstruction and motion analysis.
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1. Anthony Pike
624, Kinvarra Place, (540) 338 1422 (home)
Purcellville, VA 20132 tpike01@gmail.com
Senior Software Engineer/Senior QA Engineer
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Proven track record in leading, delivering and managing complex systems/products
across multiple sites. Technical skills include experience in systems architecture
design, Image Processing, VoIP Communications Signaling, real-time systems,
Operating Systems, database applications, embedded systems, device drivers.
Business skills include close teamwork with marketing on product strategy, program
management, system test, solution test, & user documentation.
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Steuart Systems Jan 2015-Jul 2016
I developed on a Ubuntu Linux OS using C/C++ and OpenCL using an AMD GPU and NVIDIA Cuda
to do parallel processing for image processing to create a streoscopic 3D graphics system and a camera
scanner. The System using multiple cameras is able to create a 3D image of a room. The image processing
involved various unique smoothing algorithms, an unsharp mask and a de-mosaic algorithm. The camera
scanner was developed on a NVIDIA Jetson TK1 using a V4L2 interface to the camera.
Neustar Inc Nov 2011-Nov 2014
I worked on three systems, the Number Portabilty Administration Center (NPAC), PortPS (Power Search)
Numbering Portal and Pooling Administration System (PAS) as a Senior QA engineer programming in
Java and using Linux servers with various scripting languages like Perl and Ksh.
Using Agile Development Methodology for the last 18 months, using Jira and Confluence.
Steuart Systems May 2010-Nov 2011
I developed in C++ and NVIDIA's CUDA parallel processing model to create a streoscopic 3D graphics
system. The System using multiple cameras was able to create a 3D image of a room.
CSC May 2007 - May 2010
I wrote features in C for an IMS (IP Multimedia subsystem) that we set up as a testbed. The testbed would
be used to try out different vendors equipment for evaluation purposes. I also attended the IETF
conferences once a quarter to follow the developing trends of the industry.
Televate Dec 2006- May 2007
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I wrote an RFI ( Request for Information ) for a wireless based IMS for the DC government.
Cisco Systems, Inc., Herndon, VA 1998 to 2006
Software Development Manager (2001 to 2006)
Manager of a team of 12-14 engineers
Successfully demonstrated SIP Proxy-CSCF Blade running with the GGSN on the 7500 Chassis,
utilizing Voice and Video calls from Mobile and fixed endpoints.
Implemented and tested product ahead of time by partnering with different Business units.
Worked with architects, development teams, technical marketing to develop WiFi/GSM mobile
handset Roaming and Seamless Handoff.
Team worked closely on the requirements with a SIP Client vendor whose software ran on a HP IPAQ
Mobile Phone. The whole architecture supported roaming and seamless handoff between a Wi-Fi
Access Point and a GSM network.
Integrated and tested the whole configuration
Developed many processes and features running on the BTS10200 Class 5 Softswitch including
SIGTRAN, SS7 ISUP Variants, AIN & POTS Feature Server features eg, 800, LNP, CNAM. This Product
is targeted at the major cable companies for VoIP.
Developed and tested many features include On-net routing, Overload Control, Cable Security, CLI,
Status and control, shared memory database & the BTS upgrade process. Recently we have been
working on Multi Line Hunt Group for SIP endpoints using the SIP Dialog Package.
Developed many SS7 ISUP Variants and INAP, AIN services on the PSTN Gateway (PGW2200). Inter-
working with IP based protocols SIP, H.323, MGCP, E-ISUP, GTD. Over 1000 systems sold. This
system was transitioned to Shanghai China recently.
Technical Lead Engineering (1998 – 2001)
Responsible for developing a class 4 Softswitch, developing call control working on the PGW (PSTN
Gateway), SC (Signaling Controller) known as the PGW2200, interworking signaling protocols ie SS7
ISUP Variants, INAP, AIN & IP Based protocols SIP, H.323, MGCP, E-ISUP, GTD Generic
Transparency Descriptor, Overload Control, Billing interfaces.
Worked closely with Sprint working on the requirements and implementation of a routing protocol
interface to their ARS (Advanced Routing Server).
LightSpeed Inc, Sterling, VA 1997-1998
(Acquired by Cisco)
Senior Software Engineer
Designed and developed a digital signaling system converter between country specific SS7
Protocol Variants and DASS2, DPNSS, QSIG, PRI (ETSI, North American, Japanese).
Built Base protocols for ITU and ANSI and then using compiler Directives built many variants on
top of the base protocols.
Aspect Telecommunications, Heathrow, London UK 1993-1997
Senior Software Engineer
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3Net, Basingstoke, Surrey UK 1988-1993
Senior Software Engineer
Periphonics, Camberley, Surrey UK 1983-1988
Software Engineer
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Protocols:- ISDN ( multiple variants), ISUP (multiple variants), AIN, INAP, MAP, MGCP, SIP, H323
Languages:- C ( 10+ years) C++ ( 3 years), Pascal ( 4 years ), Assembler ( 4 years), Java ( 2 years)
Operating systems:- Linux/Unix (10+ years) , Windows NT ( 2 years ), PDP-11 ( 4 years )
Others:- Clearcase, CVS, Oracle, Informix, GIT, Git GUI, Jira & Confluence.
EDUCATION
HNC Computer Studies – Passed with Distinction, Middlesex Polytechnic, London, UK; 1983
PATENT PENDING
Arrangements for protocol independent transfer of control parameters across internetworks using
generic transparency descriptor objects.
Nationality: US Citizen
Looking for work in the Northern Virgina, DC and Maryland areas