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.
SDN and NFV Value in Business Services: Innovations in Network Monetization a...Alan Sardella
White paper submitted to the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) by Mazen Khaddem of Cox Communications and Dr. Loukas Paraschis of Cisco Systems. Paper covers technical reference design in SDN including the role of open source, orchestration and control, and the importance of a hybrid control plane for legacy, multivendor networks.
Javier Benitez's talk from the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Colt is transforming the way they do business and offer network services to customers through the adoption of SDN & NFV as part of a company-wide transformation program called Novitas. Javier Benitez will focus in this presentation on active Colt’s Novitas developments, sharing with the audience their experience in deploying SDN & NFV solutions in production both for Ethernet and IP services, the learning associated as well as their future plans. In particular, Javier Benitez will cover Colt developments around Ethernet & IP on Demand, SD VPN, SDN controlled MPLS packet core and SDN/NFV NNI standardization.
Ken Ko's presentation from the 2017 Open Networking Summit discussing recent innovation and activity in the NFV and SDN space among broadband providers.
In this presentation, the SDN-Based Enterprise Connectivity Service Architecture of China Unicom will be introduced. And the four use cases will be discussed, including: “Flexible access for enterprise, Cloud access and resource centralized, High efficiency, elastic transport for DCI, Extensible VAS deployment for services”. Finally, some commercial experience in China Unicom will be shared.
SDN and NFV Value in Business Services: Innovations in Network Monetization a...Alan Sardella
White paper submitted to the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) by Mazen Khaddem of Cox Communications and Dr. Loukas Paraschis of Cisco Systems. Paper covers technical reference design in SDN including the role of open source, orchestration and control, and the importance of a hybrid control plane for legacy, multivendor networks.
Javier Benitez's talk from the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Colt is transforming the way they do business and offer network services to customers through the adoption of SDN & NFV as part of a company-wide transformation program called Novitas. Javier Benitez will focus in this presentation on active Colt’s Novitas developments, sharing with the audience their experience in deploying SDN & NFV solutions in production both for Ethernet and IP services, the learning associated as well as their future plans. In particular, Javier Benitez will cover Colt developments around Ethernet & IP on Demand, SD VPN, SDN controlled MPLS packet core and SDN/NFV NNI standardization.
Ken Ko's presentation from the 2017 Open Networking Summit discussing recent innovation and activity in the NFV and SDN space among broadband providers.
In this presentation, the SDN-Based Enterprise Connectivity Service Architecture of China Unicom will be introduced. And the four use cases will be discussed, including: “Flexible access for enterprise, Cloud access and resource centralized, High efficiency, elastic transport for DCI, Extensible VAS deployment for services”. Finally, some commercial experience in China Unicom will be shared.
As SDN & NFV services become commercially available, the industry needs to approach once again the reach issue. There is not a single service provider with complete reach; that is why we build NNIs and need a wider SDN/NFV Ecosystem.
Keynote presentation by Amin Vahdat on behalf of Google Technical Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform. Presentation was delivered at the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Traditional carriers' transport networks consist of vertically-integrated devices with vendor-proprietary interfaces, that causes "vendor lock in" environment and interferes with adopting software based control and configuration for carriers' transport networks. NTT Communications are trying to adopt disaggregation approach for them to transform our operations by integrating commoditized multi-vendor components and SDN technology.
In this presentation, we will talk about our expectations for disaggregated transport networks and its controller architecture with multiple SDN controllers including open source software. Furthermore, we will show our internal evaluation result of disaggregated transport network feasibility and discuss future development plans.
How will virtual networks, controlled by software, impact OSS systems?Comarch
Presentation from the OSS side of the story. How will the network change in the futur when entering the Zettabyte era? SDN/NFV explanations for the future of Telcos.
How network operators improve their efficiency and prepare for market consoli...Comarch
Case study presentation of Comarch's projects with KPN and Telefonica. How can the operational efficiency be improved and how can Telco strategies be improved and synchronized from the business side?
OVNC 2015-THE NEW IP - Open Networking Architecture with SDN & NFVNAIM Networks, Inc.
[Open & Virtual Networking Conference 2015]
- THE NEW IP - Open Networking Architecture with SDN & NFV (Brocade Orcun Tezel 시스템 엔지니어링 아태지역 수석이사)
- 2015.02.05 (목) 09:10~17:50
- 양재동 엘타워
As SDN & NFV services become commercially available, the industry needs to approach once again the reach issue. There is not a single service provider with complete reach; that is why we build NNIs and need a wider SDN/NFV Ecosystem.
Keynote presentation by Amin Vahdat on behalf of Google Technical Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform. Presentation was delivered at the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Traditional carriers' transport networks consist of vertically-integrated devices with vendor-proprietary interfaces, that causes "vendor lock in" environment and interferes with adopting software based control and configuration for carriers' transport networks. NTT Communications are trying to adopt disaggregation approach for them to transform our operations by integrating commoditized multi-vendor components and SDN technology.
In this presentation, we will talk about our expectations for disaggregated transport networks and its controller architecture with multiple SDN controllers including open source software. Furthermore, we will show our internal evaluation result of disaggregated transport network feasibility and discuss future development plans.
How will virtual networks, controlled by software, impact OSS systems?Comarch
Presentation from the OSS side of the story. How will the network change in the futur when entering the Zettabyte era? SDN/NFV explanations for the future of Telcos.
How network operators improve their efficiency and prepare for market consoli...Comarch
Case study presentation of Comarch's projects with KPN and Telefonica. How can the operational efficiency be improved and how can Telco strategies be improved and synchronized from the business side?
OVNC 2015-THE NEW IP - Open Networking Architecture with SDN & NFVNAIM Networks, Inc.
[Open & Virtual Networking Conference 2015]
- THE NEW IP - Open Networking Architecture with SDN & NFV (Brocade Orcun Tezel 시스템 엔지니어링 아태지역 수석이사)
- 2015.02.05 (목) 09:10~17:50
- 양재동 엘타워
Software Innovations and Control Plane Evolution in the new SDN Transport Arc...Cisco Canada
Loukas Paraschis, Technology Solution Architecture at Cisco presents software innovation and control plane evolution in the new SDN transport at Cisco Connect Toronto 2015.
How to Become a Thought Leader in Your NicheLeslie Samuel
Are bloggers thought leaders? Here are some tips on how you can become one. Provide great value, put awesome content out there on a regular basis, and help others.
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.
Research Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of the Internet of Everythin...Stenio Fernandes
Currently there is increasing interest in scientific research on network traffic management for advanced scenarios (e.g. Internet of Everything (IoE), Everything as a Service (XaaS), Smart Cities, and the like) and their respective demands for novel network services. Such networked applications bring massive amounts of traffic data to be processed in real-time, thus driving researchers to develop affordable yet efficient network management systems. In fact, new paradigms, services, and architectures, such as Network Virtualization (NV), Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Distributed Cloud Computing, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Service Function Chaining (SFC), etc, will require robust and dynamic capabilities to support a myriad of possibilities for applications from the IoE and XaaS concepts. For example, there is a need for an in-depth understanding of the composition and the dynamics of Internet traffic to perform accurate capacity planning, deploy efficient management policies and pricing strategies, assess protocol performance, and detect abnormalities in such scenarios. Research on measurement, modeling, and analysis of network traffic and infrastructure always face new challenges as new applications are continuously deployed.
In this talk, I will discuss the rise of IoE and XaaS as well as the demand for advanced networking services, paradigms, and architectures (e.g., SDN, NFV). I will give an overview of some challenges, opportunities, and directions in these research topics.
Dr. Christos Kolias – Senior Research Scientist
Keynote Title: “NFV: Empowering the Network”
Keynote Abstract: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) envisions and promises to change the service provider landscape and has emerged as one of one of today’s significant trends. Although less than two years old, NFV has garnered the industry’s full attention and support. Moving swiftly, a number of key accomplishments have already taken place, and a lot more work is currently under way within ETSI NFV while we are embarking on its future phase. Various proofs-of-concepts (ranging from vEPC to vCPE, vIMS and vCDN) are being developed while issues such as open source and SDN are becoming key ingredients as the can play a pivotal role.
Dr. Christos Kolias' Bio: Christos Kolias is a senior research scientist at Orange Silicon Valley (a subsidiary of Orange). Christos is a co-founder of the ETSI NFV group and had led the formation of ONF’s Wireless & Mobile working group. He has lectured on NFV and SDN at several events. Christos has more than 15 years of experience in networking, he is the originator of Virtual Output Queueing (VOQ) used in packet switching. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA.
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Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
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Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging trend in the networking and communication industry and promises to deliver enormous benefits, from reduced costs to more efficient network operations. It is a new approach that gives network operators and owners more control of the infrastructure, allowing optimization, customization and virtualization that enable the creation of new types of network services. This is done by decoupling the management and control planes that make decisions about where traffic is sent from (the control plane) the underlying hardware that forwards data traffic to the selected destination (the data plane).
SDN 101: Software Defined Networking Course - Sameh Zaghloul/IBM - 2014SAMeh Zaghloul
Sameh Zaghloul
Technology Manager @ IBM
+2 0100 6066012
zaghloul@eg.ibm.com
SDN: Technology that enables data center team to use software to efficiently control network resources
SDN Overview
SDN Standards
NFV – Network Function Virtualization
SDN Scenarios and Use Cases
SDN Sample Research Projects
SDN Technology Survey
SDN Case Study
SDN Online Courses
SDN Lab SW Tools
- OpenStack Framework
- OpenDayLighyt – SDN Controller
- FloodLight – SDN Controller
- Open vSwitch – Virtual Switch
- MiniNet – Virtual Network: OpenFlow Switches, SDN Controllers, and Servers/Hosts
- OMNet++ Network Simulator
- Avior – Sample FloodLight Java Application
- netem - Network Emulation
- NOX/POX - C++/ Python OpenFlow API for building network control applications
- Pyretic = Python + Frenetic - Enables network programmers and operators to write modular network applications by providing powerful abstractions
- Resonance - Event-Driven Control for Software-Defined Networks (written in Pyretic)
SDN Project
Cloud computing and Software defined networkingsaigandham1
This is my Graduate defense presentation. I have interest in various topics like cloud computing and software defined networking. This slides includes the research of various researchers on cloud computing and SDN, presented their work as my comprehensive exam.
Radisys/Wind River: The Telcom Cloud - Deployment Strategies: SDN/NFV and Vir...Radisys Corporation
Radisys and Wind River present on the evolution to the Telecom Cloud and how cloud technology and network virtualization will provide both big opportunities and challenges for operators. Important details and insights are shared on Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Network (SDN) and Virtualization.
Turbocharge the NFV Data Plane in the SDN Era - a Radisys presentationRadisys Corporation
On October 8, 2014, Karl Wale (Director of Product Management) and James Radley (Architect) presented: Turbocharge the NFV Data Plane in the SDN Era. This expert duo discussed the evolution of the network and service provider objectives around the challenges of deploying SDN/NFV solutions. They take you through some application use cases and introduce the new Radisys FlowEngine data plane software technology.
SDN and Photonics for Dynamic Cloud Connectivity ADVA
Check out Achim Autenrieth's slide set from his OFC workshop entitled "SDN and Photonics for Dynamic Cloud Connectivity. This is all about SDN, Cloud Connectivity and the optical network Hypervisor.
Introduction to SDN: Software Defined NetworkingAnkita Mahajan
SDN is the next big thing in networking. It focuses on separating the intelligence from the hardware. OpenFlow is one of the ways (currently the open standard followed by all Datacenters) to implement SDN.
Similar to SDN and NFV Value in Business Services - A Presentation By Cox Communications (20)
Cisco will be at OFC, the world’s premier optical event again showcasing our industry leading Packet Optical Convergence innovations and solutions. We encourage you to be part of the experience by visiting our Exposition booth (#3109) where you can interact with Cisco demonstrations, technical experts and Cisco Service Provider executives.
[Infographic] Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI): Mobile-Connected Devices p...Cisco Service Provider
This Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast infographic provides some of the global and regional highlights from the updated study that covers forecast for 2014 to 2019.
For more information, please tweet us @CiscoVNI and follow our hashtag #VNI, and visit: http://cs.co/vnilpss.
[Infographic] Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI): Mobile Users GrowthCisco Service Provider
This Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast infographic provides some of the global and regional highlights from the updated study that covers forecast for 2014 to 2019.
For more information, please tweet us @CiscoVNI and follow our hashtag #VNI, and visit: http://cs.co/vnilpss.
Operating costs decrease and agility increases, allowing you to react quickly to new market opportunities.
http://www.cisco.com/web/offers/sp04/simplifying-operations/index.html?KeyCode=000947566
Service creation is simpler and delivery is faster, allowing you to react quickly to new market opportunities.
http://www.cisco.com/web/offers/sp04/entering-new-markets/index.html?KeyCode=000947734
What if the orchestrator could also automate the deployment and configuration of an accompanying service assurance solution, tailored to the specific services being delivered? This is now becoming a reality using a concept called Orchestrated Assurance.
Operator Drives Bandwidth Efficiency and Optimizes Satellite Link PerformanceCisco Service Provider
Providing network connectivity and services, such as data, voice, live TV, high- definition (HD) on-demand video, and mobile services, EMC caters to customers with operations in some of the most remote corners of the planet. Managing satellite bandwidth requires sophisticated monitoring tools to ensure consistent performance of voice, video and data during events, such as rain, that can affect the quality. This telecommunications leader prides itself on delivering carrier-class services through its global mobility platform, using its hybrid satellite and terrestrial broadband network.
The EMC network features fully meshed, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) enabled and interconnected teleports in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia. With EMC’s proprietary tools, it can manage and optimize every megabyte delivered. Its customer-facing tools further maximize every bit delivered over each customer’s WAN and LAN.
Application Engineered Routing Segment Routing and the Cisco WAN Automation ...Cisco Service Provider
The Cisco® Application Engineered Routing solution provides end-to-end control over how the network infrastructure transports applications. In the past, dedicated clusters of servers would deliver specific applications, but the number and diversity of applications continue to increase as the infrastructure becomes more converged.
Traffic patterns are dynamically changing and new applications come with specific transport requirements. Combining Segment Routing (SR) with the Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) provides the necessary intelligence to optimize network resources and make informed decisions dynamically, helping to ensure a consistent, high-quality customer experience.
This white paper describes SR and the Cisco WAE and highlights how they work together to deliver an intelligent, dynamic, highly optimized network.
Research Highlight: Independent Validation of Cisco Service Provider Virtuali...Cisco Service Provider
Service providers want to know how they can build and run programmable, intelligent, responsive, efficient, flexible, and highly secure yet open networks with a high degree of automation. They want to be able to configure and activate new services quickly, utilize emerging cloud capabilities, and meet customer needs. Nimble, smart innovators in the global communications and networking industry are working on the answers and coming up with solutions every day. But providers need to know if these next-generation technologies can already meet their requirements today
In the world of service providers and networks, the demand for new and better services continue to grow, while the networks must expand and quickly adapt to these demands. One way that operators are evolving their network is to adopt some of the latest technologies like NFV (network functions virtualization). Infonetics recently found that 35 percent of the worldwide telecom carriers they surveyed are planning to deploy NFV in 2015. They are doing this because they believe that NFV and its SDN (software-defined networking) architecture will deliver benefits in service agility and new revenue, operational efficiencies and capex savings. Finding new ways to build revenue paths out of the network is critical for operators today as they innovate to find new sources of revenues.
Operators have been looking to Policy to help them find new ways to find value in their network. Specifically, they need a policy platform which can help them quickly adapt to build new services and even new networks for other operators or enterprises. We are now announcing the availability of Cisco Policy Suite version 7.5 for download. With it, operators will benefit from NFV-based policy enforcement and new access selection technologies. These new capabilities are enabling service providers to not only use policy software to open new services and markets, but they are also providing policy to the handset to ensure the best access method for the end user.
Deploy New Technologies Quickly with Cisco Managed Services for Service Provi...Cisco Service Provider
Service providers’ businesses and operations are undergoing major changes. New initiatives, like IP convergence, cloud, software-defined networks and network virtualization, are driving new business models. These initiatives are also creating opportunities for new revenue streams and greater efficiencies. Speed, agility and flexibility are required for fast access to IT and new applications. Now is the time to invest effort and resources in figuring out how to make this opportunity work for you. You have a chance to disrupt rather than being disrupted.
Segment routing is a network technology focused on addressing the pain points of existing IP and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks in terms of simplicity, scale, and ease of operation. It’s a foundation for application engineered routing because it prepares the networks for new business models where applications can direct network behavior.
Segment routing seeks the right balance between distributed intelligence and centralized optimization and programming. It was built for the software-defined networking (SDN) era.
Segment routing enables enhanced packet forwarding behavior. It enables a network to transport unicast packets through a specific forwarding path, other than the normal shortest path that a packet usually takes. This capability benefits many use cases, and you can build those specific paths based on application requirements.
Segment routing uses the source routing paradigm. A node, usually a router but it can also be a switch, a trusted server, or a virtual forwarder running on a hypervisor, steers a packet through an ordered list of instructions, called segments. A segment can represent any instruction, topological or service-based. A segment can have a local semantic to a segment-routing node or global within a segment-routing network. Segment routing allows you to enforce a flow through any topological path and service chain while maintaining per-flow state only at the ingress node to the segment-routing network. To be aligned with modern IP networks, segment routing supports equal-cost multipath (ECMP) by design, and the forwarding within a segment-routing network uses all possible paths, when desired.
Cisco Virtual Managed Services: Transform Your Business with Cloud-based Inn...Cisco Service Provider
Service providers face big challenges along with tremendous opportunities. Maturing technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), cloud, and open-source software are enabling exciting business innovations and market disruptions. To keep up with the pace of change today, you need to rethink how to engage with your customers to meet their business needs. At Cisco, we have the right approach to harness the transformative power of the cloud, SDN, and NFV. The Cisco® Virtual Managed Services Solution portfolio provides a rich set of secure cloud-based network services with prepackaged software capabilities over any access technology. The Cisco Virtual Managed Services solution makes it easy for you to deploy, manage, and sell new premium cloud managed services while reducing current operating expenditures (OpEx) and accelerating time to revenue.
Imagine if you could deploy highly secure new services at web speed on demand to customers and partners - complete with personalized capabilities. With this environment you’re creating innovative new services in minutes, not months, accelerating your time-to-revenue while reducing operational costs on an open platform. You have pre-packaged software service solutions that help you transform your business and the businesses of your customers. And you’re letting your customers use their existing customer premises equipment (CPE), to connect to virtual services from the cloud, reducing capital costs and business risk associated with rolling out new services.
It’s all possible with the Cisco Virtual Managed Services Solution based on the combination of the complementary Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) and the Cisco Evolved Services Platform (ESP). This open infrastructure and software combined with industry leading service orchestration, software-defined networking (SDN), and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies automate the delivery of business services tailored to your customers from the cloud.
Cisco cBR-8 Evolved CCAP: Deliver Scalable Network and Service Growth at a Lo...Cisco Service Provider
An explosion of new over-the-top (OTT) video services and consumer devices is placing huge demand on cable access networks. To compete for new customers and retain the loyalty of existing ones, multiple system operators (MSOs) will need to expand capacity substantially, rolling out new services and gigabit tiers.
As they strive to meet insatiable market demand and stay competitive, MSOs are looking at significant access network capital expenditures (CapEx) increases over the next 5 years - and steadily rising operating expenses (OpEx) due to higher power costs and a larger network footprint. But current integrated Cisco® Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) solutions are limited to supporting only 24 to 32 channels per service group, and they are not designed to support DOCSIS® 3.1 at scale. Using these platforms, MSOs would need to significantly increase CapEx spend in order to compete with gigabit billboard rates and keep pace with growth.
Alternatively, MSOs can use the Cisco cBR-8 Converged Broadband Router, a full-spectrum CCAP-compliant platform that is designed to support DOCSIS 3.1. The Cisco cBR-8 enables cable operators to offer multigigabit broadband and Internet of Everything (IoE) services, and provide a path to virtualization. It empowers MSOs to scale economically to deliver more capacity and best-in-class services with much lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
This white paper examines the consumer trends affecting cable access networks and the projections for how the network and services will evolve in the coming years. It provides a long-term economic analysis of an evolved access network using the Cisco cBR-8, compared with competitive Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) platforms. And it demonstrates how MSOs will be able to meet capacity and service demands over the next several years at a 40-percent savings in hardware, space, and power costs.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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.
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SDN and NFV Value in Business Services - A Presentation By Cox Communications
1. SDN and NFV value in Business Services.
Innovations in Network Monetization and Optimization.
* Mazen.Khaddam@cox.com, Loukas@cisco.com
Network Architecture Groups
M. Khaddam*, L. Paraschis
2. SDN & NFV
SDN = Control Plane Programmability
NFV = Data Plane Programmability
Service Plane Programmability?
3. Current State of Network Plumbing
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Cox Packet Layer Network The current state of network technology is:
Expensive
• Traffic will continue to increase &
network will experience failures
• All service providers network is 2x –
3x overprovisioned to handle failures
• The Backbone experiences on
average 3 fiber cuts per month
Inflexible
• It is hard to change the number of
logical paths and their speeds
dynamically based on services
• It is difficult to delete logical paths
when not needed
• Lack of programmability
Complex
• Network complexity is increasing
• The maintenance of the network is
complicated by using different network
operating systems
• Lack of coordination between network
layers & services
4. Layers in an IP/Transport Network
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IP Traffic Flows
Layer-2 Links (Ethernet, DS1/DS3, etc.)
Layer-2/3 VPN and Carrier Ethernet Services
IP Routing Topology (OSPF,etc.)
MPLS/Virtual Link/Tunnel Layer
VPN A
VPN B
VPN A
VPN B
Transport Layers
Digital Channels
(SONET/SDH/OTN)
Source: Designing Multi-Layer Carrier Networks for Capacity and
Survivability, OPNET Technologies, Inc., OPNETWORK 2012.
Layer 0
< Data Plane abstractions Only -- where are the control plane abstractions?>
Layer 1
5. SDN Defined
Source: ONF
According to ONF SDN is a
network in which the control plane
is physically separate from
forwarding plane. The SDN
architecture must open,
programmable & standard.
SDN Proposition value
– Network automation
– Optimization
– Flexibility & efficiency
The Benefits of SDN
– Provides more control
– Enable programing
– Better Guarantees
SDN as defined by Open Network Foundation
Traditional
control
control
control
control control
coordination primitivesprotocols
Source: Bruce Davie , Principle Engineer VMware , ONS 2013
SDN
6. NFV based on ETSI: Separate network function
from Hardware : Source ETSI
• Move functions from hardware to software
• Leverage COTS
• Reduced equipment costs and reduced
power consumption
• Increased speed of Time to Market
• Scale up/down dynamically
• Purpose hardware to support defined
functions
• Difficult to scale to handle
unscheduled events
• Expensive
8. Hydrogen Release: OpneDaylightt
Source: SDN Hub
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Base Network Service Functions
Management
GUI/CLI
Controller Platform
Southbound Interfaces
& Protocol Plugins
OpenDaylight APIs (REST)
DOVE Mgr
Data Plane Elements
(Virtual Switches,
Physical Device
Interfaces)
Service Abstraction Layer (SAL)
(plug-in mgr., capability abstractions, flow programming, inventory, …)
OpenFlow
1.0 1.3
LISP
Topology
Mgr
Stats
Mgr
Switch
Mgr
Host
Tracker
Shortest
Path
Forwarding
VTN
Coordinator
Affinity
Service
Network Applications
Orchestration & Services
OpenStack
Neutron
OpenFlow Enabled
Devices
VTN
Manager
VTN: Virtual Tenant Network
DOVE: Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet
DDoS: Distributed Denial Of Service
LISP: Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol
OVSDB: Open vSwitch DataBase Protocol
BGP: Border Gateway Protocol
PCEP: Path Computation Element Communication Protocol
SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
LISP
Service
NETCONF BGP-LS
Additional Virtual &
Physical Devices
SNMP
DDoS
Protection
Open vSwitches
OVSDB PCEP
OpenStack Service
Network
Config
Main difference from other OpenFlow-centric
controller platforms
9. Core
Long Haul DWDM
Service Provider SDN use cases
Data CentreMetro and AccessCPE
Metro DWDM
Data Centre
Virtualized n/w
Virtual 2 virtual n/w
interconnect
Service chaining
appliances
Analytics collection
Core Infrastructure
Bandwidth calendaring
Demand engineering / PCE
Single/multi layer optimization
Analytics collection
Agg and access
Infrastructure
Automated set-up
Analytics collections
Service definition
Optimization
CPE
NFV
Services
provisioning
Analytics
Edge
Edge
NFV
Services
Provisioning
Analytics
10. Control Program/
Manager A
Control Program/
Manager B
Example: Network
Virtualization
Virtualization Associated SDN/
Network Function Virtualization
OF-Agent
App App App
Example: Open Flow - centric
Controller & Agent
Flow based SDN
Example: Path
Computation
PCC PCC PCC
PCEP
Applicability to market segment
Metros BBData Centre
Applicability to market segmentApplicability to market segment
Infrastructure Controller based SDN
SDN and NFV
Categorizing current SDN/NFV ModelsSDN & NFV Use Cases
OF Agent OF Agent
14. Microsoft SWAN: Software-defined networking
Source: Stanford University networking Seminar – Tested-Based Evolution
Hong
Kong
Seoul
Seattle
Los
Angeles
New
York
Miami
Dublin
Barcelon
a
WAN
Network
Agent
Service broker
Traffic demand
BW allocation Network, Config
Topology, traffic
Rate limiting
16. WAN Controller - Use-Case example
Bandwidth Scheduling (On-Demand)
Controller
NB API
WAN
R1
R2
R3
1
4
Data Center #1
Data Center #2
① Network conditions reported to
collector
② Cust requests DC #1 – DC #2
bandwidth asap
③ Demand admission request:
<R1-R3, B/W, NOW!!>
④ SDN WAN returns option and
cust confirms
⑤ R1-R3 LSP Tunnel Programmed
via PCEP
2
Web
Portal
Congested!!
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PCEP
5
Collector &
modelling
Programming
17. NFV use cases - vPE to VPN mapping
SP WAN
SP Data Center
WAN Controller
Collector
Program
ming
Cloud
Controller
DC WAN
Gateway
DC
Fabric
Server
Server
Tenant 1 VM
Tenant 2 VM
Tenant 1 VM
Tenant 1 VM
vPEF
VRF1
vPEF
VRF2
VRF1
VRF1
VRF2
VRF1
VRF2
VRF3
Server
Tenant 2 VM
Tenant 3 VM
vPEF
VRF3
VRF2
VRF3
BGP MPLS VPNs
extended into the DC