@Iben Rodriguez from @Spirent talks at the SDN World Congress about the importance of and issues with NFV VNF and SDN Testing in the cloud.
#Layer123 Dusseldorf Germany 20141016
Acclerating SDN and NFV Deployments with SpirentMalathi Malla
Learn how operators and service providers can validate SDN, virtualized network functions, NFV infrastructure, and network services to speed up commercial deployments.
Slides introducing NFV and what is done on the subject in OpenStack and explaining the benefits of 6WIND Gate in an NFVi setup with OpenStack. Presentation done with Vincent Jardin, CTO at 6WIND.
The document outlines topics to be discussed at an NFV BOF meeting at APRICOT 2015, including advanced NFV topics like data plane connectivity models for VNFs, overlay encapsulation for MPLS operators, NFV service assurance, service chaining, and the applicability of Linux containers. It also includes basics like an NFV introduction. The organizer seeks active participation from attendees on these and other topics.
The document discusses Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and OpenStack. It provides an overview of NFV, describing what NFV is and its key benefits. It also summarizes the work completed in Phase 1 of the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group, including published documents on NFV architecture, interfaces, and requirements. The document then presents examples of NFV proofs-of-concept involving virtualized network functions and orchestration using OpenStack. It concludes with a discussion of requirements for integrating NFV and OpenStack, such as support for multiple hypervisors, hardware acceleration, and security.
1) The document discusses network function virtualization (NFV) and how it relates to OpenStack. NFV aims to virtualize network functions through standard servers and storage to reduce costs and improve flexibility. (2) ETSI has defined NFV reference architectures, use cases, and an NFV management and orchestration framework. (3) The document outlines ongoing work by ETSI on NFV specifications and interoperability testing to advance the NFV ecosystem.
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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★ Resources ★
Zerista: http://lcu14.zerista.com/event/member/137765
Google Event: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cpeksim4hr4ghhuufv5ic4viirs
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFDnj_342n4&list=UUIVqQKxCyQLJS6xvSmfndLA
Etherpad: http://pad.linaro.org/p/lcu14-400a
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect USA - #LCU14
September 15-19th, 2014
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
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http://www.linaro.org
http://connect.linaro.org
This session will discuss MEF's Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) requirements from ordering through service activation, including supporting APIs. We will also discuss how MEF is working with open source communities including OPNFV and Open Daylight to make LSO a reality.
1. The document discusses the convergence of IT and telecommunications (CT) infrastructure through OpenStack and network functions virtualization (NFV).
2. It provides an overview of relevant industry trends like software-defined networking and computing. It also discusses the perspectives and interests of telco operators and NFV.
3. The document identifies challenges for deploying network functions on OpenStack clouds, such as the need for cross-data center resource scheduling and affinity scheduling to meet telco application requirements for high availability. It proposes solutions like service container-based resource allocation and an application-centric networking platform.
Acclerating SDN and NFV Deployments with SpirentMalathi Malla
Learn how operators and service providers can validate SDN, virtualized network functions, NFV infrastructure, and network services to speed up commercial deployments.
Slides introducing NFV and what is done on the subject in OpenStack and explaining the benefits of 6WIND Gate in an NFVi setup with OpenStack. Presentation done with Vincent Jardin, CTO at 6WIND.
The document outlines topics to be discussed at an NFV BOF meeting at APRICOT 2015, including advanced NFV topics like data plane connectivity models for VNFs, overlay encapsulation for MPLS operators, NFV service assurance, service chaining, and the applicability of Linux containers. It also includes basics like an NFV introduction. The organizer seeks active participation from attendees on these and other topics.
The document discusses Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and OpenStack. It provides an overview of NFV, describing what NFV is and its key benefits. It also summarizes the work completed in Phase 1 of the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group, including published documents on NFV architecture, interfaces, and requirements. The document then presents examples of NFV proofs-of-concept involving virtualized network functions and orchestration using OpenStack. It concludes with a discussion of requirements for integrating NFV and OpenStack, such as support for multiple hypervisors, hardware acceleration, and security.
1) The document discusses network function virtualization (NFV) and how it relates to OpenStack. NFV aims to virtualize network functions through standard servers and storage to reduce costs and improve flexibility. (2) ETSI has defined NFV reference architectures, use cases, and an NFV management and orchestration framework. (3) The document outlines ongoing work by ETSI on NFV specifications and interoperability testing to advance the NFV ecosystem.
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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★ Resources ★
Zerista: http://lcu14.zerista.com/event/member/137765
Google Event: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cpeksim4hr4ghhuufv5ic4viirs
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFDnj_342n4&list=UUIVqQKxCyQLJS6xvSmfndLA
Etherpad: http://pad.linaro.org/p/lcu14-400a
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect USA - #LCU14
September 15-19th, 2014
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
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http://www.linaro.org
http://connect.linaro.org
This session will discuss MEF's Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) requirements from ordering through service activation, including supporting APIs. We will also discuss how MEF is working with open source communities including OPNFV and Open Daylight to make LSO a reality.
1. The document discusses the convergence of IT and telecommunications (CT) infrastructure through OpenStack and network functions virtualization (NFV).
2. It provides an overview of relevant industry trends like software-defined networking and computing. It also discusses the perspectives and interests of telco operators and NFV.
3. The document identifies challenges for deploying network functions on OpenStack clouds, such as the need for cross-data center resource scheduling and affinity scheduling to meet telco application requirements for high availability. It proposes solutions like service container-based resource allocation and an application-centric networking platform.
NFV SDN Summit March 2014 D3 03 bruno_rijsman NFV with OpenContrailozkan01
This document discusses network function virtualization (NFV) using OpenContrail. It provides the following key points:
1) OpenContrail allows for network virtualization, tenant and application policies, service chaining, and rich analytics.
2) It enables the virtualization of network functions and dynamic service chaining through SDN.
3) OpenContrail provides logical abstraction of networks and policies from the physical implementation through its transformation engine and SDN compiler approach.
The document discusses SDN and NFV for carriers. It outlines challenges like network inflexibility and high costs, and opportunities like virtualization and software-defined networking. It provides an overview of NFV and SDN, including definitions and benefits. Use cases are presented that demonstrate how SDN and NFV can address challenges and enable new services. A phased approach is suggested for service providers to adopt NFV and SDN technologies.
This document provides an overview of SDN, NFV, and VNF technologies. It explains that network infrastructure is transitioning from proprietary hardware devices to software-enabled commodity hardware, similar to the earlier transition of servers to virtual machines. The document discusses the definitions and concepts of SDN, NFV, and VNFs, how they provide benefits like reduced costs, increased flexibility and scalability. It also addresses why these technologies are gaining adoption now due to improvements in software, hardware, and ecosystems that support them.
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) BoF, by Santanu Dasgupta.
A presentation given at the APNIC 40 APNIC Network Function Virtualization (NFV) BoF session on Tue, 8 Sep 2015.
The Next Step ofOpenStack Evolution for NFV DeploymentsDirk Kutscher
NFV is now a well-known concept and in an early deployment stage, leveraging and adapting OpenStack and other Open Source Software systems. In the OPNFV project, a large group of industry peers is building a carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform for the NFV community. The telco industry has successfully adopted Open Source Software for carrier-grade deployments. It is now time for taking the next steps and to extend the colloaboration with upstream projects -- by opening up previously proprietary developments, by contributing code and other artifacts in order to create a ecosystem of NFV platforms, applications, and management/orchestration systems.
This talk shares some insights on how Red Hat and NEC are working together to foster collaboration in the NFV ecosystem by actively working with OpenStack and other upstream projects.
NEC has pioneered the adoption of Linux, KVM, Open vSwitch, and OpenStack for their mobile network core product line (virtualized EPC) and has gained significant experience through development work and deployments. NEC's extensions for high efficiency and high availability have led to contributions of new features to OpenStack, such as DPDK vSwitch control and CPU allocation features. For NEC, it is very important to have those features integrated into the mainstream code base for building reliable infrastructure systems.
Red Hat, one of main contributors to OpenStack, leads the development of those functions to meet NFV requirements in OpenStack, making critical and demanding applications run of top of open platforms. The presentation explains how NEC and Red Hat are integrating and optimizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and NFV, along with contributions to open source communities, including OpenStack and Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV).
This document discusses Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and its relationship to OpenStack. It provides an overview of NFV and the ETSI NFV specifications. It describes how ETSI NFV defines the virtualization of network functions and services. It also discusses how OpenStack addresses some of the infrastructure requirements for NFV such as multi-hypervisor support, different virtualization models, and exposing network and resource functions. The document presents examples of how NFV would virtualize a media resource function and related descriptors. It concludes by discussing the relationship between ETSI NFV and OpenStack/OPNFV and their collaborative efforts.
This document introduces programmable virtual networks and discusses their advantages over traditional network slicing. It describes FlowVisor, an early network slicing tool, and its limitations in providing full network virtualization. The document then introduces OpenVirteX, a new system that aims to provide complete programmable virtual networks through topology, address, and policy virtualization. OpenVirteX maps virtual and physical network elements and allows independent control of virtual networks. While still in development, OpenVirteX has the potential to enable more flexible and innovative virtualized networks than previous solutions.
Pankur Agarwal and Muthurajan (M Jay) Jayakumar offered a hands-on lab for Network Service Benchmarking (NSB). NSB extends the yardstick framework to do VNF characterization and benchmarking in three different execution environments - bare metal i.e., native Linux environment, standalone virtual environment, and managed virtualized environment (e.g., OpenStack, etc.). This is part 1 - the introduction.
Faced with the dual threats of rising operating costs and declining revenues, network service providers are increasingly turning to network functions virtualization (NFV) to help them keep up with constantly changing market conditions.
In a virtualized Telco environment, service providers can deploy and deliver new network functions, services and capacity on demand—reducing normal rollout time from months and weeks to just hours.
Leveraging the principles of cloud computing, network service providers can deliver a level of responsiveness never before available, easily scaling capacity up or down to meet the evolving needs of their subscribers.
The result is a highly agile system that allows new revenue-generating services to be quickly developed, exhaustively tested and selectively rolled out to targeted groups in a fraction of the time and at a much lower cost than previously thought possible.
In this session, the speaker will present how the solution from Juniper networks look like and how it can be deployed by service provider to improve their agility in delivering services to their customers.
Le SDN et NFV sont très à la mode en ce moment car en passant des appliance physiques aux équipement réseau massivement logiciel, celà devrait offrir une grande flexibilité et agilité aux entreprises (et telco en particulier). Néanmoins chainer des services réseau est un exercice encore très complexe et ce document vous explique ce qu'il est déjà possible de faire sur OpenStack en couplant par exemple : un load balancer (BigIP), un Firewall (BigIP), un réseau virtuel WAN (RiverBed) ou encore un routeur virtuel (Brocade).
The document discusses Orange's progress towards implementing SDN and NFV technologies across its network. It describes Orange deploying SDN/NFV-enabled network points of presence (PoPs) in 75 countries to allow for dynamic services. A prototype virtual path computation element (vPCE) has been deployed for path computation. Orange is also conducting trials of a universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) with virtualized functions. SDN is being applied to the IP/MPLS network for path optimization and network services like bandwidth on demand. Orange aims to fully transform its network through multi-domain orchestration using SDN and NFV.
What is NFV? How does it relate to SDN, what does it mean for the telecommunications industry, and why should anyone outside of that industry care?
Presentation delivered at CloudOpen Europe, Düsseldorf, October 2014
SD-WAN is a hot technology that is moving from the drawing board to production. It has changed the WAN equation forever and resulted in enterprises looking at the Connectively and Carrier Services quite differently.
It is an SDN use case to connect enterprise locations over large distances. It promises to reduce enterprises’ IT expenses by using broadband connections and running managed services in the cloud.
It simplifies the management and operation of a WAN by decoupling the networking hardware from its control mechanism. Panel will discuss details of use cases that standards and Operators are deploying e.g. including major multi-operator MEF reference implementation of Orchestrated L3VPN.
The document provides an overview of the Juniper SDN landscape and Contrail solution. It begins with introducing the speaker and their background. It then discusses the need for SDN due to challenges in traditional networking. The current SDN landscape includes major players like Cisco, Juniper, VMware, OpenStack and smaller startups. Contrail is positioned as Juniper's SDN overlay solution that integrates with OpenStack and uses standard protocols like BGP, MPLS and XMPP to provide multi-tenancy, overlays, routing and gateway connectivity.
Software Defined Networking(SDN) and practical implementation_truptitrups7778
This document provides an overview of software defined networks (SDN) and OpenFlow protocol. It discusses the limitations of traditional networks and how SDN addresses these issues by decoupling the control plane from the data plane. The key components of the SDN architecture are described, including the control layer with SDN controllers, the infrastructure layer with OpenFlow switches, and the application layer. The document also covers the OpenFlow protocol for communication between controllers and switches, including message types. Examples of SDN controllers like NOX and POX are also mentioned.
The NFV, SDN & Wireless Network Infrastructure Market: 2015 - 2020 - Opportun...LeeSam111
Recent research and the current scenario as well as future market potential of "The NFV, SDN & Wireless Network Infrastructure Market: 2015 - 2020 - Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies And Forecasts" globally.
Summit 16: Keynote: HPE Presentation- Transforming Communication Service Prov...OPNFV
Open Transformation
Three sentences:
HPE's OpenNFV program aims to accelerate NFV transformations through an open partner ecosystem focused on bridging gaps between open source projects, ecosystems, and deployable solutions. The program provides a proven and innovative environment for NFV by integrating technology partners' components, validating application partners' VNFs, and leveraging services partners' industry strengths. HPE is also contributing learnings from its OpenNFV labs back to the OPNFV project to help bridge gaps between open source and ecosystems.
Network Function Virtualization - Telkomsel Perspective (SDN NFV Day ITB 2016)SDNRG ITB
This document provides an overview of network function virtualization (NFV) from the perspective of an Indonesian telecommunications company, Telkomsel. It discusses the definition and benefits of NFV, including cost reductions, increased flexibility, and faster time to market for new services. It also outlines Telkomsel's insights into NFV and considers various deployment strategies and scenarios for migrating network functions to virtualized environments. Overall, the document examines how NFV can help Telkomsel and other telecom providers address rising data traffic and costs through the virtualization of network functions.
NFV Ecosystem Enabler - a well-enabled VNF package catalystJenny Huang
A TM Forum catalyst project addresses VNF package onboarding & lifecycle management automation issues in a multi-stakeholder ecosystem environment. This project won the "Most Innovative Catalyst - Technical" category award at the 2016 TM Forum Live event.
NFV SDN Summit March 2014 D3 03 bruno_rijsman NFV with OpenContrailozkan01
This document discusses network function virtualization (NFV) using OpenContrail. It provides the following key points:
1) OpenContrail allows for network virtualization, tenant and application policies, service chaining, and rich analytics.
2) It enables the virtualization of network functions and dynamic service chaining through SDN.
3) OpenContrail provides logical abstraction of networks and policies from the physical implementation through its transformation engine and SDN compiler approach.
The document discusses SDN and NFV for carriers. It outlines challenges like network inflexibility and high costs, and opportunities like virtualization and software-defined networking. It provides an overview of NFV and SDN, including definitions and benefits. Use cases are presented that demonstrate how SDN and NFV can address challenges and enable new services. A phased approach is suggested for service providers to adopt NFV and SDN technologies.
This document provides an overview of SDN, NFV, and VNF technologies. It explains that network infrastructure is transitioning from proprietary hardware devices to software-enabled commodity hardware, similar to the earlier transition of servers to virtual machines. The document discusses the definitions and concepts of SDN, NFV, and VNFs, how they provide benefits like reduced costs, increased flexibility and scalability. It also addresses why these technologies are gaining adoption now due to improvements in software, hardware, and ecosystems that support them.
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) BoF, by Santanu Dasgupta.
A presentation given at the APNIC 40 APNIC Network Function Virtualization (NFV) BoF session on Tue, 8 Sep 2015.
The Next Step ofOpenStack Evolution for NFV DeploymentsDirk Kutscher
NFV is now a well-known concept and in an early deployment stage, leveraging and adapting OpenStack and other Open Source Software systems. In the OPNFV project, a large group of industry peers is building a carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform for the NFV community. The telco industry has successfully adopted Open Source Software for carrier-grade deployments. It is now time for taking the next steps and to extend the colloaboration with upstream projects -- by opening up previously proprietary developments, by contributing code and other artifacts in order to create a ecosystem of NFV platforms, applications, and management/orchestration systems.
This talk shares some insights on how Red Hat and NEC are working together to foster collaboration in the NFV ecosystem by actively working with OpenStack and other upstream projects.
NEC has pioneered the adoption of Linux, KVM, Open vSwitch, and OpenStack for their mobile network core product line (virtualized EPC) and has gained significant experience through development work and deployments. NEC's extensions for high efficiency and high availability have led to contributions of new features to OpenStack, such as DPDK vSwitch control and CPU allocation features. For NEC, it is very important to have those features integrated into the mainstream code base for building reliable infrastructure systems.
Red Hat, one of main contributors to OpenStack, leads the development of those functions to meet NFV requirements in OpenStack, making critical and demanding applications run of top of open platforms. The presentation explains how NEC and Red Hat are integrating and optimizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and NFV, along with contributions to open source communities, including OpenStack and Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV).
This document discusses Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and its relationship to OpenStack. It provides an overview of NFV and the ETSI NFV specifications. It describes how ETSI NFV defines the virtualization of network functions and services. It also discusses how OpenStack addresses some of the infrastructure requirements for NFV such as multi-hypervisor support, different virtualization models, and exposing network and resource functions. The document presents examples of how NFV would virtualize a media resource function and related descriptors. It concludes by discussing the relationship between ETSI NFV and OpenStack/OPNFV and their collaborative efforts.
This document introduces programmable virtual networks and discusses their advantages over traditional network slicing. It describes FlowVisor, an early network slicing tool, and its limitations in providing full network virtualization. The document then introduces OpenVirteX, a new system that aims to provide complete programmable virtual networks through topology, address, and policy virtualization. OpenVirteX maps virtual and physical network elements and allows independent control of virtual networks. While still in development, OpenVirteX has the potential to enable more flexible and innovative virtualized networks than previous solutions.
Pankur Agarwal and Muthurajan (M Jay) Jayakumar offered a hands-on lab for Network Service Benchmarking (NSB). NSB extends the yardstick framework to do VNF characterization and benchmarking in three different execution environments - bare metal i.e., native Linux environment, standalone virtual environment, and managed virtualized environment (e.g., OpenStack, etc.). This is part 1 - the introduction.
Faced with the dual threats of rising operating costs and declining revenues, network service providers are increasingly turning to network functions virtualization (NFV) to help them keep up with constantly changing market conditions.
In a virtualized Telco environment, service providers can deploy and deliver new network functions, services and capacity on demand—reducing normal rollout time from months and weeks to just hours.
Leveraging the principles of cloud computing, network service providers can deliver a level of responsiveness never before available, easily scaling capacity up or down to meet the evolving needs of their subscribers.
The result is a highly agile system that allows new revenue-generating services to be quickly developed, exhaustively tested and selectively rolled out to targeted groups in a fraction of the time and at a much lower cost than previously thought possible.
In this session, the speaker will present how the solution from Juniper networks look like and how it can be deployed by service provider to improve their agility in delivering services to their customers.
Le SDN et NFV sont très à la mode en ce moment car en passant des appliance physiques aux équipement réseau massivement logiciel, celà devrait offrir une grande flexibilité et agilité aux entreprises (et telco en particulier). Néanmoins chainer des services réseau est un exercice encore très complexe et ce document vous explique ce qu'il est déjà possible de faire sur OpenStack en couplant par exemple : un load balancer (BigIP), un Firewall (BigIP), un réseau virtuel WAN (RiverBed) ou encore un routeur virtuel (Brocade).
The document discusses Orange's progress towards implementing SDN and NFV technologies across its network. It describes Orange deploying SDN/NFV-enabled network points of presence (PoPs) in 75 countries to allow for dynamic services. A prototype virtual path computation element (vPCE) has been deployed for path computation. Orange is also conducting trials of a universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) with virtualized functions. SDN is being applied to the IP/MPLS network for path optimization and network services like bandwidth on demand. Orange aims to fully transform its network through multi-domain orchestration using SDN and NFV.
What is NFV? How does it relate to SDN, what does it mean for the telecommunications industry, and why should anyone outside of that industry care?
Presentation delivered at CloudOpen Europe, Düsseldorf, October 2014
SD-WAN is a hot technology that is moving from the drawing board to production. It has changed the WAN equation forever and resulted in enterprises looking at the Connectively and Carrier Services quite differently.
It is an SDN use case to connect enterprise locations over large distances. It promises to reduce enterprises’ IT expenses by using broadband connections and running managed services in the cloud.
It simplifies the management and operation of a WAN by decoupling the networking hardware from its control mechanism. Panel will discuss details of use cases that standards and Operators are deploying e.g. including major multi-operator MEF reference implementation of Orchestrated L3VPN.
The document provides an overview of the Juniper SDN landscape and Contrail solution. It begins with introducing the speaker and their background. It then discusses the need for SDN due to challenges in traditional networking. The current SDN landscape includes major players like Cisco, Juniper, VMware, OpenStack and smaller startups. Contrail is positioned as Juniper's SDN overlay solution that integrates with OpenStack and uses standard protocols like BGP, MPLS and XMPP to provide multi-tenancy, overlays, routing and gateway connectivity.
Software Defined Networking(SDN) and practical implementation_truptitrups7778
This document provides an overview of software defined networks (SDN) and OpenFlow protocol. It discusses the limitations of traditional networks and how SDN addresses these issues by decoupling the control plane from the data plane. The key components of the SDN architecture are described, including the control layer with SDN controllers, the infrastructure layer with OpenFlow switches, and the application layer. The document also covers the OpenFlow protocol for communication between controllers and switches, including message types. Examples of SDN controllers like NOX and POX are also mentioned.
The NFV, SDN & Wireless Network Infrastructure Market: 2015 - 2020 - Opportun...LeeSam111
Recent research and the current scenario as well as future market potential of "The NFV, SDN & Wireless Network Infrastructure Market: 2015 - 2020 - Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies And Forecasts" globally.
Summit 16: Keynote: HPE Presentation- Transforming Communication Service Prov...OPNFV
Open Transformation
Three sentences:
HPE's OpenNFV program aims to accelerate NFV transformations through an open partner ecosystem focused on bridging gaps between open source projects, ecosystems, and deployable solutions. The program provides a proven and innovative environment for NFV by integrating technology partners' components, validating application partners' VNFs, and leveraging services partners' industry strengths. HPE is also contributing learnings from its OpenNFV labs back to the OPNFV project to help bridge gaps between open source and ecosystems.
Network Function Virtualization - Telkomsel Perspective (SDN NFV Day ITB 2016)SDNRG ITB
This document provides an overview of network function virtualization (NFV) from the perspective of an Indonesian telecommunications company, Telkomsel. It discusses the definition and benefits of NFV, including cost reductions, increased flexibility, and faster time to market for new services. It also outlines Telkomsel's insights into NFV and considers various deployment strategies and scenarios for migrating network functions to virtualized environments. Overall, the document examines how NFV can help Telkomsel and other telecom providers address rising data traffic and costs through the virtualization of network functions.
NFV Ecosystem Enabler - a well-enabled VNF package catalystJenny Huang
A TM Forum catalyst project addresses VNF package onboarding & lifecycle management automation issues in a multi-stakeholder ecosystem environment. This project won the "Most Innovative Catalyst - Technical" category award at the 2016 TM Forum Live event.
This document discusses configuring and troubleshooting single-area OSPF routing. It covers topics like:
- Configuring static and dynamic routing on distribution and core routers
- Configuring and verifying single-area OSPF
- Designated router election process for multiaccess networks
- Propagating default static routes in OSPF
- Securing OSPF with message digest 5 authentication
- Components of troubleshooting single-area OSPF like forming adjacencies and transitioning states
This document discusses incident handling at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in a bring your own device (BYOD) environment. It provides details on NPS's network upgrades including a new wireless network and cloud initiatives. It outlines NPS's cybersecurity organization and technologies used like a security information and event management system. The document describes the incident handling process based on the NIST framework and tools used like a JIRA incident tracking template. It emphasizes documenting incidents, leveraging automation, and collaborating across the incident response team.
SP Virtual Managed Services (VMS) for Intelligent WAN (IWAN)Cisco Canada
Many organizations anticipate significant growth in WAN bandwidth and Public Cloud usage. Leveraging the Internet to provide extra WAN bandwidth and to offload Public Cloud traffic is compelling, however network reliability, application performance and security are the primary roadblocks. Cisco IWAN transport solution is the most full featured architecture to support the Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) requirements that are emerging in standards bodies like the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) to address these issues. Many enterprises are looking for the benefits these technologies deliver, but without the costs associated with owning and operating those technologies. Here is where VMS for IWAN meets market need. Cisco VMS is a full featured management platform for both virtual and physical devices. This session will cover a full description of the VMS platform and how it can be used to deliver exceptional customer experience when supporting a managed offering of IWAN. The roles of Customer and Resource Facing Services will be covered, along with integration between the IWAN service and SP operations. This session will also cover the topic of how Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) can be placed optimally in the network from the CPE to SP datacenter, along with a demo of the end user and operator experience.
New Threats, New Approaches in Modern Data CentersIben Rodriguez
New Threats, New Approaches in Modern Data Centers - A Presentation by NPS at CENIC conference 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Wednesday, March 22, 2017 – in San Diego, California
The standard approach to securing data centers has historically emphasized strong perimeter protection to keep threats on the outside of the network. However, this model is ineffective for handling new types of threats—including advanced persistent threats, insider threats, and coordinated attacks. A better model for data center security is needed: one that assumes threats can be anywhere and probably are everywhere and then, through automation, acts accordingly. Using micro-segmentation, fine-grained network controls enable unit-level trust, and flexible security policies can be applied all the way down to a network interface. In this joint presentation between customer, partner, and VMware, the fundamental tenants of micro-segmentation will be discussed. Presenters will describe how the Naval Postgraduate School has incorporated these principles into the architecture and design of a multi-tenant Cybersecurity Lab environment to deliver security training to national and international government personnel.
Edgar Mendoza, IT Specialist, Information Technology and Communications Services (ITACS) Naval Postgraduate School
Eldor Magat, Computer Specialist, ITACS, Naval Postgraduate School
Mike Monahan, Network Engineer, ITACS, Naval Postgraduate School
Iben Rodriguez, Brocade Resident SDN Delivery Consultant, ITACS, Naval Postgraduate School
Brian Recore, NSX Systems Engineer, VMware, Inc.
https://youtu.be/mYBbIbfKkGU?t=1h7m16s
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NFVO based on ManageIQ - OPNFV Summit 2016 DemoManageIQ
The document summarizes a demonstration by Red Hat at the OPNFV Summit 2016 of using ManageIQ, an open source cloud management platform, to build an NFV orchestrator (NFVO) capable of orchestrating network services across multiple virtualized infrastructure managers (VIMs), sites, and technologies. The demo showed deployment of an IMS network service spanning OpenStack, AWS, and Kubernetes environments to illustrate ManageIQ's potential as a carrier-grade cloud management and NFV orchestration platform.
Enabling the Digital Services Marketplace with Onboarding AutomationJenny Huang
The document discusses enabling digital service marketplaces through standards-based onboarding and lifecycle management of virtual functions. It proposes a "Metamodel for a Virtual Function" using TOSCA and other standards to simplify onboarding to less than a day through automated processes. The catalyst aims to demonstrate dynamic implementation of a standards-based template to rapidly onboard partner capabilities and leverage metadata for composition, policies and orchestration.
APN & AWS Marketplace Overview: How to Build Your Business with AWS Amazon Web Services
This document provides information about the AWS Partner Network (APN) and AWS Marketplace. It describes that the APN has over 8,000 partners worldwide in consulting and technology roles. It outlines the various APN programs and benefits for partners, including training, marketing support, sales enablement tools, and opportunities to promote solutions. The document also describes AWS Marketplace as an app store for AWS where partners can sell their software. It notes the benefits of AWS Marketplace for partners, such as access to customers, reduced sales cycles, and automated software deployment. Case studies are presented showing how partners like 2nd Watch and Digital Reasoning have used AWS Marketplace.
The many ways in which healthcare reform affects the healthcare industry are still playing out. Undoubtedly, a question for physicians and the hospitals that employ many of them is “how will physician compensation be affected?”
PYA Principal Carol Carden recently spoke at the 2013 AICPA Healthcare Industry Conference, where she addressed this question with her presentation, “Current Reform Initiatives and Their Impact on Physician Compensation.”
This presentation and demo show the hardware which consist of 5G UE’s, 5G radios, a fronthaul network and C-RAN with high density switches and servers, a transport network of 3 DWDM switches and a DC network of servers and high density switches. The basic software arrangement will be shown with emphasis on the structure of the orchestration and SDN controllers and the choice of virtualization components and logical networking. An eMBB slice will be brought up which will entail programming of the radios, the fronthaul, backhaul, a node B and the core. Its behavior will be noted through the test UE’s. An URRLC slice will be brought up and its nodeB and core will be demonstrated through its test UE’s showing extremely low latency. An MMTC slice will be brought up and a large number of test IOT devices will be demonstrated via the test UE’s. The eMBB slice will be augmented by programming a slice selection function that will create a ICN slice and an application (TBD) will be shown running over that ICN core (but with the eMBB slice). Spectrum will be reassigned from slice to slice and the changes noted as an optimizer recomputes the proper allocation of resources and executes it. Traffic will be increased and the changes in the backhaul over transport and core function placements will be noted. An additional demonstration will show creation of multiple 4G air interfaces using the same infrastructure network but with 4G radios and 4G UE’s using OAI software and ETTUS SDRs. A Skype session will be created between the two 4G slices. We will also try to show some of the EPC functions being moved while the UE sessions are not impacted.
Author : Peter Ashwood-Smith, Huawei Technologies
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
MobiFone is one of Vietnam's largest mobile network operators. It is looking to implement SDN/NFV technologies to virtualize its IMS platform for 4G voice services and improve its data center network architecture. Specifically, it is considering running IMS software on commercial off-the-shelf servers across three locations for redundancy and using SDN and OpenFlow to move from a hierarchical to a flatter Ethernet fabric architecture in the data center for improved traffic flow. MobiFone believes these changes can help simplify provisioning, allow dynamic scaling, and provide more flexible disaster recovery for its networks.
NFV VNF Architecture 특징을 설명
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Overview of VNF in the NFV Architecture
VNF Design Patterns and Properties
VNF States and Transitions
VNF Fault Management Overview
Functional Requirements on Management and Orchestration
Functional Requirements on Infrastructure
VNF Architecture Design Examples
#Annex A (Informative): Relationship to SDN
The document provides information about a training event on Deploy MPLS Traffic Engineering taking place from 20 February to 2 March 2017 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It includes details about two presenters - Nurul Islam Roman, Manager of Training & Technical Assistance at APNIC, and Jessica Wei, Training Officer at APNIC. It also acknowledges Cisco Systems and provides an agenda with topics on why MPLS Traffic Engineering is used and how it works.
Summit 16: ETSI NFV Interface and Architecture OverviewOPNFV
The document discusses the work of the ETSI NFV Interfaces and Architecture Working Group (IFA WG). It provides an overview of the MANO architectural framework, including basic concepts, the architectural framework diagram, and information model. It also maps the MANO components to IFA work items, such as specifications for reference points and interfaces. Finally, it shows how the VIM northbound interfaces are mapped to relevant OPNFV projects.
OpenStack NFV Edge computing for IOT microservicesopenstackindia
This document discusses using OpenStack and OpenShift for IoT and edge computing. It proposes a three-tier IoT architecture with devices, intelligent gateways for real-time processing at the edge, and data centers. OpenShift allows for scalable microservices deployment across this architecture. OpenStack provides the virtualization infrastructure for NFV edge computing with the intelligent gateways. The combination provides a platform for applications like NB-IoT from the edge to the cloud.
Juniper Networks®, Tech Mahindra & CA Discuss New Perspectives & Partnership...CA Technologies
A number of recent studies have proven that virtual infrastructure (a.k.a. virtual customer premise equipment or vCPE) is the use case that has the greatest potential for realization of network functions virtualization (NFV) and deliver benefits to both enterprises and service providers deploying software defined networking (SDN) infrastructure.
Juniper Networks®, Tech Mahindra and CA Technologies have formed a partnership designed to deliver integrated solutions in the area of vCPE design, orchestration and management. In this session, you will learn how the Juniper Contrail Service Orchestration-based solutions integrated with SDN/NFV assurance solutions from CA Technologies and powered by Tech Mahindra’s analytics platform and SI and managed services will deliver the seamless visibility required to manage vCPE environments. The new service designer and orchestration tool from Juniper Networks (Contrail Service Orchestration) provides the closed loop for deriving policy-based configuration and automation in networks. Together, these three industry leaders provide an integrated solution built on flexible, scalable and efficient architectures and services.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
PLNOG15 :Assuring Performance, Scalability and Reliability in NFV Deployments...PROIDEA
This document discusses testing methodologies for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) deployments. It begins with an agenda that includes testing NFV, existing test tools, and new NFV test methodologies. It then discusses challenges in NFV testing like portability, performance trade-offs, and network stability. New PASS testing methodologies are proposed to evaluate performance, availability, security, and scale of NFV deployments. Both hardware-based and virtual machine-based testing approaches are described, along with their advantages and limitations. Specific NFV testing use cases are outlined, such as convergence testing, migration impact testing, and auto-scaling testing.
PLNOG15 :Assuring Performance, Scalability and Reliability in NFV Deployments...Marta Pacyga
This document discusses testing methodologies for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) deployments. It begins with an agenda that includes testing NFV, existing test tools, and new NFV test methodologies. It then discusses challenges in NFV testing like portability, performance trade-offs, and network stability. New PASS methodologies are proposed to test performance, availability, security, and scale of NFV. Finally, the document compares hardware-based and virtual machine-based testing approaches and some sample NFV test methodologies.
Spirent TestCenter Virtual is a software solution that enables testing of virtual network functions and cloud services. It can create virtual testing topologies and simulate network functions to stress test SDN and NFV technologies. It also allows users to port test cases from physical to virtual environments to validate migrations and optimize performance of virtual appliances.
Spirent TestCenter Virtual is a software solution that allows users to create virtual network topologies to test and stress simulated virtualized network functions. It can generate traffic to test both control and data planes. It enables the porting of physical network function tests to a virtual environment. This helps accelerate the adoption of technologies like SDN and NFV by allowing users to validate performance in various scenarios before hardware is available.
Contrail is an SDN and NFV solution that provides network virtualization and automation capabilities. It allows for the agile deployment of virtualized network functions and services. This accelerates time to revenue and lowers total cost of ownership by improving infrastructure utilization and reducing operational expenses through centralized management. Contrail is open source and integrates with OpenStack and other open standards-based platforms. It also supports third party virtualized network functions and analytics tools.
Development, test, and characterization of MEC platforms with Teranium and Dr...Michelle Holley
Mobile edge computing delivers cloud computing at the edge of the cellular network to drive services quality and innovation. The ability for CSPs and ISVs to effectively develop, deliver, and deploy MEC services on a given platform directly correlates with the availability and maturity of associated tools and test environment. Dronava is a hyper-connected, web-scale network reference design for the 5G mobile network, suitable for use as a test and development socket for cloud applications developed for MEC platforms with tools such as the Intel NEV SDK. With Dronava, developers can drive the application with real traffics from the network edge to the EPC core, and if need be, connect with services in the core network in order to fully characterize the functionalities, latency, and throughput of the platform and application.Teranium is an integrated development environment that simplifies the development, packaging, and deployment/management of cloud applications. Teranium can be utilized to develop and deploy MEC applications on a number of platforms. Together with Dronava, Teranium helps to reduce complexity and improve efficiency in the ability of CSPs and ISVs to adopt and deploy MEC-base services.
This hands on workshop for OpenContrail will be led by Sreelakshmi Sarva & Aniket Daptari.
This is a labs session so we will have hard RSVP limits. Please RSVP only if you are confident that you will be able to attend.
About Sreelakshmi Sarva
Sree is currently working as part of solution engineering team at Juniper’s Contrail team. She is responsible for delivering & managing SDN solutions & partnerships relating to Contrail. She has been with Juniper for the last 13 years working on various Routing, Switching, Network programmability & virtualization platforms. Prior to Juniper, She worked at Nortel networks in the Systems Engineering group. Sree received her Masters in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas and Bachelor’s in Computer Science from India.
About Aniket Daptari
Aniket is currently working as part of Juniper Networks' Contrail Cloud Solutions team. He is responsible for delivering SDN solutions and technology partnerships related to Contrail. He has been with Juniper for the last 3 years working on various Network programmability & virtualization platforms. Prior to Juniper, he worked at Cisco Systems in the Internet Systems Business Unit (Catalyst 6500). Aniket received his Masters in Computer Science from University of Southern California and a graduate certificate in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
Course Abstract
This session will be the first of a series of OpenContrail hands-on tutorials for developers who want to get deep into OpenContrail code.
This “Basic OpenContrail Programming” Hands-on Session will focus on making developers proficient in writing and contributing code for our OpenContrail Project.
Session will cover the following areas
1) Contrail Overview
· Use Cases
· Architecture recap
2) Contrail Hands on
· Demo + Hands on - Configuration , VN, VM, Network Policies etc
· DevStack introduction
Session: The Data Center Network Evolution: Journey to the Programmable Fabric
Presenter: Robert Zalobinski, Technical Solutions Architect
Date: October 6, 2015
This document discusses the development of test tools and RealFlow testing at a third-party testing lab. It describes various self-designed test tools developed to automate testing of devices like routers, switches, and wireless products. It also outlines how RealFlow testing uses real network traffic replay techniques to test products under realistic conditions captured from a beta testing site. Finally, it mentions some experiments conducted with Software Defined Networking and OpenFlow technologies.
A key tenant of moving NFV from a Proof of Concept (Poc) to deployment is testing. NFV solutions that pull from open source projects such as OPNFV, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and others must be integrated and tested in an environment that fully supports the performance and availability requirements of service provider networks. Testing criteria and solutions are also required to ensure NFV interoperability between hardware and software systems that comprise NFV. In this tutorial, you’ll learn best practices for open source NFV testing, including: methodology; mapping to ETSI NFV use-case/s; open source project integration; testing dashboards; Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD); and testing acceleration.
Summit 16: The Hitchhiker/Hacker's Guide to NFV BenchmarkingOPNFV
The document summarizes benchmarking methodologies and tools for network function virtualization (NFV). It discusses standards from groups like ETSI and IETF, as well as open source projects from OPNFV. Traditional approaches to benchmarking physical network devices need to evolve to address virtual network functions (VNFs) and their supporting infrastructure. New methods are needed to test virtual switches, controllers, and other infrastructure components in NFV environments.
OpenStack: Changing the Face of Service DeliveryMirantis
Keynote by Lew Tucker, VP and CTO of Cloud Computing at Cisco, at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015.
As more companies move to software-driven infrastructures, OpenStack opens up new possibilities for traditional network service providers, media production, and content providers. Micro-services, and carrier-grade service delivery become the new watchwords for those companies looking to disrupt traditional players with virtualized services running on OpenStack.
OpenStack: Changing the Face of Service DeliveryLew Tucker
OpenStack's open source cloud platform opens up new possibilities for network service providers, media production, and content providers looking to disrupt their industries with virtualized services running on OpenStack.
Anuta Networks at Networking Field Day 14Kiran Sirupa
This document provides an overview of Anuta Networks' network services orchestration platform. It begins with an agenda and introduction. It then presents three case studies showing how the Anuta solution has been used by customers for branch automation, enterprise connectivity and managed DC, and managed enterprise services. The document discusses Anuta's model-driven approach, product architecture and extensibility. It also lists over 35 vendors and 100 device platforms supported by Anuta's network models.
Learn more about how today's service provider's networks are built to deliver yesterday's services and how the Next generation service require a new approach with our Evolved Programmable Network's offerings will enable business transformation for new service deliveries.
The document discusses accelerating Nexus feature adoption using NX-OSv and VIRL. It introduces NX-OSv as a tool for exploring and validating Nexus features in a virtual environment without physical hardware. It then describes VIRL as an orchestration platform that allows creating and managing virtual network topologies with different operating systems, including NX-OSv. Specific use cases demonstrated with NX-OSv and VIRL include data center fabric simulation, feature testing, and hands-on learning.
This document discusses use cases and requirements for different cloud customer segments using Contrail. It describes Contrail's ability to enable IT as a service, enterprise migration to the cloud with legacy interconnects, public cloud services, and IoT/M2M use cases. It provides an overview of how Contrail works including its components, scale out architecture, and interaction with OpenStack. It also summarizes Contrail's features such as routing, security, analytics, and gateway services.
Ipv6 test plan for opnfv poc v2.2 spirent-vctlabIben Rodriguez
This document outlines test plans and requirements for testing IPv6 in an OPNFV PoC v2.0 environment using OpenStack Liberty and ODL Lithium SR2. It details:
(1) Setting up an IPv6 service VM in OpenStack with ODL controller capability for IPv6 routing and address advertisement.
(2) A test design and steps for setting up infrastructure, ODL and OpenStack controllers, and compute nodes.
(3) Positive test cases to validate IPv6 and IPv4 connectivity between VMs, routers and external DNS via ping, traceroute from the VM and service VM.
(4) References for IPv6 configuration and testing in Linux.
This document provides an agenda for the 2017 CENIC Annual Conference held from March 19-22, 2017. The agenda includes sessions on international research and education networking, distributed caching, innovative partnerships between NOAA and CENIC, and enabling new services for California libraries through connectivity to the CalREN network. A panel discussion focuses on diversity and inclusion in technology fields. Breakout sessions cover expanding the High-Performance Wireless Research and Education Network into Orange County and congratulating newly connected public libraries on their CalREN connectivity. The document provides location, speaker, and brief description information for each session in the conference agenda.
VERIGRAPH: A pre-deployment verification service for Virtualized Network Functions (aka NFV virtual appliances) running on OpenStack with OPNFV.
Formal Methods: rigorous mathematical methods based on mathematical models for analysing (computer-based) systems
Formal Verification: applied to SDN/NFV-based networks
Verify a formal network model satisfies some invariants or network policies (e.g., absence of loops and black holes, reachability, security policies, etc.)
SDN/NFV is following the same path Linux and the Internet did...
Mentioned during the Open Networking Summit 2014
Santa Clara March 4th
Re-engineering Engineering
Vinod Khosla
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
vkhosla@kpcb.com
Sept 2000
Virtualization can help streamline regulatory compliance efforts by reducing resource and cost requirements, providing unified IT controls, and enabling efficient audit trails that reduce administrative effort. Virtualization allows for isolation of virtual machines, centralized logging of events and changes, quick recovery of virtual machines, and separation of duties through role-based access controls. Some examples given include using virtualization to isolate development and production instances, centrally capturing configuration changes and backups, quickly provisioning new virtual machines from templates, and minimizing disruptions from hardware maintenance. Overall, virtualization can simplify many compliance-related IT tasks compared to traditional physical infrastructure management.
One of the great challenges of of monitoring any large cluster is how much data to collect and how often to collect it. Those responsible for managing the cloud infrastructure want to see everything collected centrally which places limits on how much and how often. Developers on the other hand want to see as much detail as they can at as high a frequency as reasonable without impacting the overall cloud performance.
To address what seems to be conflicting requirements, we've chosen a hybrid model at HP. Like many others, we have a centralized monitoring system that records a set of key system metrics for all servers at the granularity of 1 minute, but at the same time we do fine-grained local monitoring on each server of hundreds of metrics every second so when there are problems that need more details than are available centrally, one can go to the servers in question to see exactly what was going on at any specific time.
The tool of choice for this fine-grained monitoring is the open source tool collectl, which additionally has an extensible api. It is through this api that we've developed a swift monitoring capability to not only capture the number of gets, put, etc every second, but using collectl's colmux utility, we can also display these in a top-like formact to see exactly what all the object and/or proxy servers are doing in real-time.
We've also developer a second cability that allows one to see what the Virtual Machines are doing on each compute node in terms of CPU, disk and network traffic. This data can also be displayed in real-time with colmux.
This talk will briefly introduce the audience to collectl's capabilities but more importantly show how it's used to augment any existing centralized monitoring infrastructure.
Speakers
Mark Seger
A lot of effort has gone into cloud storage peformance benchmarking, both of swift and other cloud stacks and part of the result is a lot of confusion in the numbers, in large part because there is no standard. This is further complicated because some implementations are written in java, some in python and some in raw curl. Furthermore, the underlying libraries themselves can cause variances as they do not all use the same buffer sizes, enable/disable ssl-compression and probably other parameters as well.
I would like to talk about our benchmarking methodologies at HP as well as describe a tool suite I've developed that implements them and share some results of benchmarking our own OpenStack implementation. One thing I've discovered over previous months of testing is that both latency and cpu overhead can have a major impact on performance and those are captured as well, something most tools typically don't report.
The tools are written in python and use the OpenStack python-swiftclient library.
Speakers
Mark Seger
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Iben from Spirent talks at the SDN World Congress about the importance of and issues with NFV Testing in the cloud.
1. Performance – Scaling out NFV implementation...
Iben Rodriguez
Principal Architect
Cloud / Virtualization
October 16th 2014 - SDN World Congress - Dusseldorf, Germany
version 03–10-16-2014
2. Let me tell you a story...
Background – virtualization - SDN (NVo3) - NFV (VNF)
Decision Process
Technology Adoption Lifecycle
Typical use cases for Virtualized Network Functions
Virtualization Impact on the Datacenter
Options for Testing and traffic generation
Importance of Testing Methodologies
Example python script for automation and test case generation
CPU Core Distribution – lessons learned
Continuous Testing – integrating all this into the development and
release deployment lifecycle.
2 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
5. SDN for Service Providers
Must maintain SLAs
Limited bandwidth available in network – adding links is expensive
Increased VoIP/Video applications putting a stress on networks
Network resilience – convergence, failover, protection switching, fast reroute,
minimal service disruption
Creation and management of Traffic Engineering service paths
Stringent requirements for fault management & OAM
5 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
9. SDN/NFV Timeline
2013
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2015
2016
2017-2020
2014
POC
Field Trials
Start of Commercial
Deployment
Widespread small
Commercial
Deployment
The new
normal
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Performance Testing
Performance benchmarking of VNFs, hypervisors and COTS H/W
Portability & Interoperability
Security & Reliability
Performance isolation
Service continuity
On demand scale testing
Management & Orchestration
VM Migration
Fail-over convergence time
Testing security for resources shared across VNFs
Test VM M&O system for in lab environment
Topology validation
Seamless integration of test VMs with SPs M&O systems for live &
post deployment environment
Test fault detection capability of M&O systems
13. Virtualization Impact
Orchestration
Overlay Network
Cloud DC SP Access/Edge
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SP Mobility
Underlay Network
Network virtualization
vRouter testing
vBRAS testing
PCE/BGP-LS validation
10/40/100G
vEPC Capacity
Offload testing
Busy hour call Modeling
Service Chaining
Elastic Performance
Service Availability
VM Migration
Multi-tenancy
Virtual Infrastructure
14. Testing for Service Provider and Cloud Datacenter VNFs
Copper
Fiber
Cable
Mobility Testing
vEPC Cloud Testing - Data Center
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Network Service
Provider
P-GW
Data Center
Interconnect
Cloud Service Provider
Cloud
Services
Cloud
Services
Cloud Services
Cloud Service Provider
Cloud
Services
Cloud
Services
Cloud Services
Intra-DC network
SDN NFV
VM VM …
VNF VNF …
Intra-DC network
SDN NFV
VM VM …
VNF VNF …
SP Core
SP Edge
Wireless
2G
3G
4G
Wifi
Residential
Enterprise
Copper
Fiber
Cable
SDN
NFV
SDN NFV
SDN
NFV
SDN
NFV
Edge
Core
Edge
MME
S-GW
…
P-GW
EPC
Layer 2-3 Testing
Access, Edge, Core
15. Focus Areas – Network Testing
vFW vBNG
vRouter
15 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
Controller
platform
NETCONF SNMP
Topology / Controller
Config
Manager
BGP-LS
vCE vFW vBNG
vRouter
vCE
OSS/BSS Open Stack /
Cloud Stack
Applications Test tools/
Methodologies
REST API
Open Flow PCEP
NETCONG/YANG
Stats /
Monitoring
Northbound API
Southbound API
Segment
Routing
MPLS Switching
Routing, VPNs
16. DX2 FX2 MX2
16 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
100G
MODULES
DX2 FX2 MX2
Interface:
CFP2
CFP4 (adaptor Q4)
QSFP-28 (adaptor Q4)
Speed per Interface:
1x100G (Now)
2x40G (4Q)
8x10G (4Q)
Available: Now (100G)
Interface:
CFP2
CFP4 (adaptor Q4)
QSFP-28 (adaptor in Q4)
Speed per Interface:
1x100G
Available: Q4 (Dec), 2014
Interface:
CFP2
CFP4 (adaptor Q4)
QSFP-28 (adaptor in Q4)
Speed per Interface:
1x100G
Available: Q4 (Nov), 2014
17. 17 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
100G Technology
Flexibility
A Single Module for Multiple Technologies
Native Interface of CFP2
Pluggable & Mixable Adaptors for:
• CFP4
• QSFP-28
• CXP
Available on all DX2, FX2 & MX2 Modules
18. DHCPv6 Multiple Addresses
New Product BPK-1320
Emulate CPE requesting multiple addresses
Pack multiple IA_NA and IA_PD in a single message sequence
• IA_NA (Identity Association for Non-Temporary Address)
• IA_PD (Identity Association for Prefix Delegation)
18 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
19. Use case–Validate failure convergence of vRouter
19 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
STC test
orchestrator
(Velocity)
REST
Orchestrator
(e.g. OpenStack)
SDN Controller
Monitor Config
COTS Servers hosting VNFs
Onboard vRouter, vFW and vIDS instances on
COTs server and connect to STC chassis as
shown
Initiate high scale control and data plane
traffic from STC (e.g. BGP, OSPF) &
establish vRouter upper limits
Initiate failure from STC (BFD timeout or
link failure)
Validate the migration of VNFs to another
server and measure convergence times for
control plane and traffic
vFW vIDS vRouter
vFW vIDS vRouter
STC
STC
Primary
Backup
20. The Spirent EVCI Solution
20 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
Leverage iTest automation to manage the integration
between CI and the virtual environment
Automation Virtualizatio
n
Continuous
Integration
Initiate iTest
Automation Manage VMs
Source &
Artifact
Control
Build artifacts
iTest projects
Test artifacts
iTest automation
projects
Build artifacts
Test Artifacts
Support files
21. Metrics to evaluate during test iterations
• PCI Bus Utilization
• CPU Wait Time per core
• Memory Utilization per socket
• Power usage - efficiency
• Storage Input Output
21 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
32. Customer / On-Premise
Customer’s
Servers, Spirent
HW/SW
Spirent Hosted Elastic
Virtual Private Test Beds
Benchmark-A-A-S
Velocity EVCI – Virtual Network Test Beds Orchestration
Test Suites
32 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
Cloud Under Test (CUT)
OpenFlow
Controller & Switch
Emulation
VXLAN/Geneve Switch
Emulation
10/40/100G
Spirent Elements
Test Suites
Test Suites
Test Suites
Topology Templates
vDUT Image Management
Spirent VCT LAB –
NEPHOSCALE
Public Clouds –
RAVELLO
Test VMs
10/40/100G Test VMs
Amazon
Google
Test VMs
Azure
Customer’s CI
Orchestration
Bare Metal
Servers
Bare Metal
Servers
Results
Jenkin Jobs (instantiate test
environment, run test)
Virtual
Test Bed
Instances
/ Jenkins
Jobs
Virtual Test Bed
Instances /
Jenkins Jobs =
33. Spirent Communications
Thank You – Questions?
For this and other exciting testing products for SDN and
OpenFlow please see us at booth #28
• Emulate 1000+ OpenFlow 1.3
Switches using pre-canned
topologies per port
• Support LLDP Topology Discovery
• High Rate Packet-In testing
http://www.spirent.com/go/sdnshowcase
Ralph.Daniels@spirent.com
33 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
33
• Interactive, multidimensional
network topology view
• 360⁰ navigation with context-aware
network controls
• Clearly see areas of congestion
http://www.real-status.com/sdn
40. 4 Core CPU balanced across PCI BUS
40 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
41. LACP Hot-Standby & Multi Chassis LAG
New Product LAG Emulation BPK-1312
Support for Active/Stand-by ports in a MC-LAG configuration
Support for DUT configured Min and Max ports in a LAG
DUT is typically the Master (higher System ID)
• DUT determines which ports are Active based on Partner Port ID
• Remaining ports put in (Hot)Standby mode (LACP Out-Of-Sync)
41 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
DU
T
STC
ICC
P
Traffic
Break one or more links on
the Active set
Measure Frame Loss Duration
for traffic to switch to
Standby-Ports
43. DHCP over L2GRE
New Product – Emulation over L2GRE (BPK-1319)
43 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
Wi-Fi
Offlo
ad
Gate
way
3G
Core
4G
Core
Data
Networks
STC emulates
UE, SSID, &
AP
STC emulates
Core side
UE SSID Access
GRE
Tunnel Wifi
Point DHCP Server
Offload
Gateway
D
H
C
P
DHCP Discover
DHCP Offer
DHCP Request
GRE Tunnel
DHCP Ack
Data
Packet
Data
44. Segment Routing w/ IGP(OSPF/ISIS)
MPLS Simplified and Optimized
New Part Number BPK-1317 (OSPFv2) & BPK-1318 (ISIS)
Leverage existing MPLS forwarding and VPN services
Reduced State – LDP & RSVP protocols no longer needed
Scalable – Fewer number of MPLS Labels to manage
Reliability & Availability - entirely automated 50msec Fast Reroute or
Failover
IGP determined path
44 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
DUT B
STC C
STC D
STC A
STC-E
10.1.1.0/24
RID= 1.1.1.12
SID=12
RID= 1.1.1.10
SID=10
RID= 1.1.1.11
SID=11
RID= 1.1.1.99
SID=99
RID= 1.1.1.2
SID=2
RID= 1.1.1.1
SID=1
PHP off
IP dest=10.1.1.1
Label=99
IP dest=10.1.1.1
Label=1,9002,99
IF Cost x=y,
=>ECMP, Equal Cost Multi-path, load sharing
IF Cost x<y,
=> Path through Node C preferred
Explicit path
45. SP-SDN – Testing the PCE controller
New Product BPK-1315 (PCC) & BPK-1316 (PCE)
45 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
Capacity planning
Calendaring
SDN (PCE)
Controller
(DUT)
REST API
Thrift API
A
D
Request
SLA Path
Data Analytics
Traffic Engineering
Database (TED)
Stateful
PCE
Traffic Engineering status
Report BGP-LS/BGP-TE
N
o
r
t
h
S
o
u
t
h
Update
Initiate
STC
STC
STC
Top Down Design - Use existing
network infrastructure, only update
head-end/ingress node
In built High Availability - No need to
replicate MPLS and IGP Fast
ReRoute(FRR), protection switching
mechanisms
Separates Network Path
Computation from Topology
Determination
Networks nodes still have knowledge
of the topology and can fast reroute
in case of failure
PCE controller – Optimizes paths to
meet SLAs without using the High
Cost Links(Shortest Path)
46. Use case–Validate performance and auto scaling of vBNG
46 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
STC test
orchestrator
REST
Orchestrator
(e.g. OpenStack)
SDN Controller
Monitor Config
vBNG
vBNG
Virtualization
vSTC
vSTC
Compute Storage Network
COTS Server hosting VNFs
Onboard vBNG and vSTC VMs using vendor
orchestrator and/or Spirent plugin
Assign appropriate cores/memory to VNFs
and originate/terminate traffic on vSTC
Measure the vBNG’s upper limits for control
and data plane performance
Validate the auto scaling capability of the
BNG by ensuring that additional cores are
assigned to vBNG or additional vBNGs are
spawned under following circumstances
• Data plane scale beyond normal limits
• Control plane scale (increasing PPPoE sessions)
48. Spirent‘s Strategic Foundation
Validate high
density edge
& core
routers
48 PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
Next-gen
protocols &
scale testing
Improve
customer
experience
Leader in
SDN/NFV
testing
Embed
Spirent in
millions of
devices
• FX2/MX2100G
• FX2/MX2 10G,
1G
• CFP2/CFP4
• 400G
• Transport
vehicles
• Home
appliances
• Monitoring in
SDN/NFV
environments
• Port Grouping
• MVPN
• LDPv6
• Protocol &
stream scale
• Virtual
infrastructure
testing
• VNF testing
• Methodologies
• PCE, BGP-LS
• Site surveys
• CR reduction
• CET
Currently Available In Progress 1-3 years
Editor's Notes
http://www.layer123.com/sdn-agenda-day2/
version 03
10-16-2014
We are seeing more actually deployed use cases
Open Daylight is strengthening
Spirent has been involved with ETSI NFV since the beginning – we've submitted test methodologies to the performance and reliability working groups
http://www.spirent.com/White-Papers/Broadband/PAB/Validate_NFV_Environments
Application driven networks
Service Agility
Dynamic provisioning of capacity
Reduced CAPEX & OPEX costs
These numbers are already out of date and the rate of adoption is increasing
Optimize the use of resource
Traffic engineering
Stringent service disruption, failover requirements
Superior Fault Management & OAM capabilities
http://www.ibenit.com/post/82614664996/sdn-nfv-logistics-curve
When researching for this post I found that this is related to the economic theory “Diffusion of Innovations” and the “Logistics Function”.
I wonder - where are you now in this adoption curve? What category is your organization in:
innovator - willing to take risks with financial resources help absorb failure
early adopter - new technology will help them stay competitive
early majority - above average social status yet lack opinion leadership
late majority - typically skeptical about innovation
laggard - aversion to change and focused on tradition
With successive groups of consumers adopting a new technology (shown in blue), its market share (yellow) will eventually reach the saturation level. In mathematics the S curve is known as the logistic function.
A logistic function or logistic curve is a common special case of the more general sigmoid function, with equation:
f(x) = \frac{1}{1 + \mathrm e^{-x}}
where e is Euler’s number (approximately equal to 2.71828). For values of x in the range of real numbers from −∞ to +∞, the S-curve shown above is obtained.
The logistic function can be used to illustrate the progress of the diffusion of an innovation through its life cycle. Historically, when new products are introduced there is an intense amount of research and development which leads to dramatic improvements in quality and reductions in cost. This leads to a period of rapid industry growth. Some of the more famous examples are: railroads, incandescent light bulbs, electrification, the Ford Model T, air travel and computers. Eventually, dramatic improvement and cost reduction opportunities are exhausted, the product or process are in widespread use with few remaining potential new customers, and markets become saturated.
Logistic analysis was used in papers by several researchers at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). These papers deal with the diffusion of various innovations, infrastructures and energy source substitutions and the role of work in the economy as well as with the long economic cycle. Long economic cycles were investigated by Robert Ayres (1989).[7] Cesare Marchetti published on long economic cycles and on diffusion of innovations.[8][9] Arnulf Grübler’s book (1990) gives a detailed account of the diffusion of infrastructures including canals, railroads, highways and airlines, showing that their diffusion followed logistic shaped curves.[10]
Carlota Perez used a logistic curve to illustrate the long (Kondratiev) business cycle with the following labels: beginning of a technological era as irruption, the ascent as frenzy, the rapid build out as synergy and the completion as maturity.[11]
Everett Rogers’ studies of technology diffusion have a direct application to the examination of Internet use. He describes the time-phased movement of adoption and adaptation in terms of an “S-curve,” which describes a slow initial rise over time, followed by a more rapid acceleration and finally a slowing toward steady state. S curves show the rate of adoption for six technologies in the US, beginning with telephone, followed by radio, television, cable television, VCR, Personal Computers and Internet. Telephone rises slowly. Radio, TV, VCR and Internet rise very steeply. TV seems to have risen fastest, and, like phones and radio, has achieved almost 100% diffusion. (Internet is unlikely to achieve this 100% saturation as rapidly since about half the remaining non-users in the US have declared themselves uninterested in joining the Internet.)
http://www.techknowlogia.org/tkl_active_pages2/CurrentArticles/main.asp?IssueNumber=16&FileType=HTML&ArticleID=398
http://www.ibenit.com/post/82614664996/sdn-nfv-logistics-curve
Security will never be the same again. It’s a losing battle. 40% of SDN adopters paying money for SDN network virtualization are doing it for a security use case implementing micro-segments on a per app basis overcoming the traditional limits of vlans and hard wired firewall policies.
One of the main take-aways I liked from Martin Casado’s talk was his “Technology Adoption Curve” showing the five steps for any new data center concept. This is what a typical CIO is now going through when learning about Virtualization, Cloud, SDN, and now NFV on their path to the SDDC.
Orchestration Testing
CRAN: Cloud Radio Access Network; S-GW: Serving Gateway; P-GW: Packet Gateway; PCRF: Policy Charging & Rules Function:; MME: Mobility Management Engine; BRAS: Broadband Remote Access Server
Architecting for Software Defined Infrastructure – A Microserver Perspective
Douglas Carrigan – Systems Engineer, DCG Center for Innovation, Intel Corporation
Christian Maciocco – Research Scientist, Intel Labs, Intel Corporation
DATS013
CRAN: Cloud Radio Access Network; S-GW: Serving Gateway; P-GW: Packet Gateway; PCRF: Policy Charging & Rules Function:; MME: Mobility Management Engine; BRAS: Broadband Remote Access Server
Architecting for Software Defined Infrastructure – A Microserver Perspective
Douglas Carrigan – Systems Engineer, DCG Center for Innovation, Intel Corporation
Christian Maciocco – Research Scientist, Intel Labs, Intel Corporation
DATS013
Telecomm Service Providers started with NFV and are now moving up the stack. Our target areas for helping them are …
Please check out the NFV POC Zone for demos of how to test for these use cases
These are representative software solutions.
It will all come down to cost for performance including latency and throughput.
There should be an operational component to consider - how will we get these cards installed in our commodity hardware?
Should you go with Netronome, Cavium, Freescale?
Who has the best offload processing hardware for the given technology stack?
Metrics to look at include:
PCI Bus
CPU
Memory
Power
Storage
Each of these already have a well documented set of counters that a Splunk app can report on for correlation during our test runs.
https://apps.splunk.com/app/725/#/documentation <-- for VMware
https://apps.splunk.com/app/1803/ <-- for Linux (KVM) uses Sysstat
iostat(1) reports CPU statistics and input/output statistics for devices, partitions and network filesystems.
mpstat(1) reports individual or combined processor related statistics.
pidstat(1) reports statistics for Linux tasks (processes) : I/O, CPU, memory, etc.
sar(1) collects, reports and saves system activity information (CPU, memory, disks, interrupts, network interfaces, TTY, kernel tables,etc.)
sadc(8) is the system activity data collector, used as a backend for sar.
sa1(8) collects and stores binary data in the system activity daily data file. It is a front end to sadc designed to be run from cron.
sa2(8) writes a summarized daily activity report. It is a front end to sar designed to be run from cron.
sadf(1) displays data collected by sar in multiple formats (CSV, XML, etc.) This is useful to load performance data into a database, or import them in a spreadsheet to make graphs.
sysstat(5) is just a manual page for sysstat configuration file, giving the meaning of environment variables used by sysstat commands.
nfsiostat-sysstat(1) reports input/output statistics for network filesystems (NFS).
cifsiostat(1) reports CIFS statistics.
SDN has become a VERY LOOSELY DEFINED term that means different things to different people.
When we talk to customers / partners, it is really important to understand their place in the eco-systems, and what their vested interests are.
So, first, let’s take a look the basic functional architecture of a Data Center network.
There are the…
Compute Infrastructure – this is where the servers, and the hypervisors and the VMs live
vSwitch – plays an important role in the architecture, especially for Overlay network archtecture, where the Vswitch is the one that handles mapping between VM and virtual networks and various policies.
Underlay Network – this is where the physical network devices and their control plane is. And OpenFlow is the primary focus of the industry in this layer.
Animation – Click
And we can use this 3 architecture layers to categorize the various vendors / players in the SDN space:
NFV – Network Function Virtuation
NV – Netowrk Virtualization
OpenFlow
http://netronome.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Netronome-SDN-NFV-whitepaper_11-13.pdf
From an architectural model perspective, SDN can be integrated into the NFV architecture framework. The orchestration and the management applications can themselves be VNFs running on one or more VMs. In such cases, the OpenFlow protocol is part of the Nf-Vi interface; or it can be part of the Vn-Nf interface.
EVCI Overview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beMsjoA6zdc
Spirent EVCI (Efficient Virtualized Continuous Integration)
Shorter Release Cycles, Predictable Dates and Higher Quality
To be competitive businesses need a robust, quick, flexible development, test and release environment to keep pace with demanding, fast-paced customer requirements. Those able to respond with the right solution command the market.
Doing this is easier said than done.
Most struggle with crippling inefficiencies around:
Inability to manage continuous change and configurations due to poor process visibility
Bandwidth and time to test new and existing features means products are slow to market
Too many resources focused on bugs, CapEx expenses for builds and testing is too high
Inadequate test case coverage and too many customer-found defects erode quality confidence
The solution for many has been migrating from the traditional "Waterfall process" to an Agile framework with Continuous Change Management (CCM) tools overseeing rapid-cycle Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Test (CT) and Continuous Deployment (CD) phases for a common Integration Branch and Release Branch.
Velocity provisions virtual DUTs, STC
Velocity provisions OpenDaylight Controller with Netconf as southbound interface
iTest or Velocity configures the virtual DUTs and STCv
Send L2/L3 traffic from STCv
Bring the link on the primary path down as shown in the test topology above
Measure the convergence time
Repeat the test with various different trigger mechanisms
Velocity provisions virtual DUTs, STCv
Velocity provisions OpenDaylight Controller with Netconf as southbound interface
iTest or Velocity configures the virtual DUTs and STCv
Configure rate limiting on the first VNF in the chain such that overall end to end throughput is limited
Move the TX STCv to connect directly to the second VNF
Re-run the throughput test
VNF 1 is found to be the bottleneck for end-to-end throughput
Velocity provisions virtual DUTs, STCv
Velocity provisions OpenDaylight Controller with Netconf as southbound interface
iTest or Velocity configures the virtual DUTs and STCv
Run stateful traffic between the two STCv endpoints
Velocity moves the one of the VNFs from Server 1 to Server 2
Measure the VM migration time and the performance impact on QoE of the service provisioned