Open Networking Summit Europe

5G RAN Optimization Using the O-RAN Software Communitys RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller)

5G RAN Optimization Using the O-RAN Software Communitys RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller)

January 8, 2020

The O-RAN SCs RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) is an open-source container-based implementation of the RIC concept as standardized by O-RAN. The presentation will give an overview of its architecture …
AI Powered Edge Computing

AI Powered Edge Computing

January 8, 2020

Next-generation services in the Edge, powered by AI capabilities. How hybrid architectures re-key for next-generation killer use cases leveraging 5G and the Edge, by enabling ML/AI capabilities. Exper …
Kernel-based Forwarding Plane for Network Service Mesh

Kernel-based Forwarding Plane for Network Service Mesh

January 8, 2020

Network Service Mesh is a novel approach solving complicated L2/L3 use cases in Kubernetes that are challenging to address with the existing networking model. The forwarding plane is one of the two ke …
Tutorial: Take a Test Drive with the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed

Tutorial: Take a Test Drive with the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed

January 8, 2020

The Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed is a CNCF initiative to provide a neutral space for exploring and evaluating open source networking technologies and their interoperability. The initiat …
An Exclusive Deep Dive into Collaboration Activities between ETSI and Linux Foundations ONAP

An Exclusive Deep Dive into Collaboration Activities between ETSI and Linux Foundations ONAP

January 7, 2020

Many evolving open source/ONAP areas are defined according to standard bodies under ETSI. But in order to create an easier, more productive way of communicating between ONAP and ETSI, and keep up with …
Blockchain Enabled IoT Edge Computing

Blockchain Enabled IoT Edge Computing

January 7, 2020

The volume of data collected by IoT sensors is very high and requires considerable resources for data processing. Edge processing enables getting the data processed closer to the source. Its not alwa …
End-to-End 5G Network Solutions: A Telco Perspective

End-to-End 5G Network Solutions: A Telco Perspective

January 7, 2020

The challenge of providing end-to-end 5G network solutions is crucial for all the actors in the 5G value chain, starting from operators and vendors, but necessarily extending to vertical industries an …
How Open Networking can Manage Large-Scale VPCs on Top of Clos Network Architecture

How Open Networking can Manage Large-Scale VPCs on Top of Clos Network Architecture

January 7, 2020

Modern Data Centers are based on Clos Network Architecture, which is extremely simple yet unfriendly to applications. It is common to build Software Defined Data Centers on top of it and use VPCs to h …
Large-scale Network Simulations in Kubernetes

Large-scale Network Simulations in Kubernetes

January 7, 2020

Virtual network simulation has been one of the best ways to test new designs before implementing them in production. There are plenty of tools that can help build arbitrary network topologies but most …
Lightning Talk: Advancing CPU Management in Kubernetes

Lightning Talk: Advancing CPU Management in Kubernetes

January 7, 2020

While the majority of the K8s managed workloads are traditionally more forgiving towards frequent context switches, sharing CPU cores, over-provisioning, etc.; these are not the only applications whic …
Lightning Talk: Cloud Native for Non-Coders

Lightning Talk: Cloud Native for Non-Coders

January 7, 2020

For developers, the benefits of a cloud native approach leveraging Kubernetes are quickly clear. However, these advantages are not as readily apparent to people who dont code - yet those same people …
Lightning Talk: Telemetry Aware Scheduling: Let the (Scheduling) Magic Unfold!!

Lightning Talk: Telemetry Aware Scheduling: Let the (Scheduling) Magic Unfold!!

January 7, 2020

With containers becoming the desired deployment model for a wide range of workloads such as Big Data, IoT, storage, AI, ML, SDN and NFV solutions, Container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, need t …
Network Traffic Analytics through Accelerator and SmartNIC at Edge

Network Traffic Analytics through Accelerator and SmartNIC at Edge

January 7, 2020

Network traffic analytics is critical to data center management and operation efficiency. The regular solution with cloud-based analytics has higher latency and delay for action feedback. This paper p …
Resiliency Closed Loop: Telco Self-healing and Maintenance

Resiliency Closed Loop: Telco Self-healing and Maintenance

January 7, 2020

Various studies indicate platform components like memory are prone to errors over prolonged usage leading to huge unpredictable downtime. A resilient & self-managed 5G cloud requires ability of fault …
Who says You Shouldnt Run VMs and Containers Together?

Who says You Shouldnt Run VMs and Containers Together?

January 7, 2020

As momentum around the edge continues to grow there is a widely held thesis that you shouldnt run VMs at the edge. But what about the VM-based applications that exist today? Converting every applicat …
Approaches for Plumbing Hardware Accelerated Interfaces to Containerized Network Functions

Approaches for Plumbing Hardware Accelerated Interfaces to Containerized Network Functions

January 6, 2020

There is strong interest in containerizing network functions to leverage the obvious advantages of containerization. Many network functions require user space access to layer 3 or layer 2 high speed i …
Connecting Kubernetes Clusters Across Clouds With Kilo

Connecting Kubernetes Clusters Across Clouds With Kilo

January 6, 2020

In this talk, Lucas Servn presents a solution for creating Kubernetes clusters that span across cloud providers and regions: Kilo, a multi-cloud networking provider built on WireGuard. The talk consi …
EVPN Networking between Kubernetes Containers and Openstack VMs

EVPN Networking between Kubernetes Containers and Openstack VMs

January 6, 2020

Hybrid cloud is becoming popular these days which has both VMs as well as light weight containers. But networking between them is always a challenge as the orchestrator is different.Ethernet VPN (EVPN …
Extendable Workflow for ONAP Service Orchestrator

Extendable Workflow for ONAP Service Orchestrator

January 6, 2020

In the recent meetups of ONAP F2F, many of the operators raised concerns on the adoption of ONAP as it is. The main challenges raised were around:- Feasibility for the plug and play- Readiness of the …
Project EVE - Enterprise/On-prem Edge Virtualization

Project EVE - Enterprise/On-prem Edge Virtualization

January 6, 2020

Edge computing is getting lots of attention these days – with different definitions of what the edge is. This talk approaches enterprise edge computing, and introduces a new open source project wit …
SDN in the World of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

SDN in the World of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

January 6, 2020

The promise of SDN has always been applications that can communicate behaviors and needed resources with the SDN controller via a well defined API. While traditional methods to determine the needed be …
Success at the Edge - Leveraging Open Source at the Edge as a Bridge to Critical Operations in Industry

Success at the Edge - Leveraging Open Source at the Edge as a Bridge to Critical Operations in Industry

January 6, 2020

In this talk, Richard and Bill present real-world edge solutions, exploring motivations, challenges and opportunities faced by manufacturing operations in extending visibility from the dark edge into …
Veo5G Project: A 5G Use Case for Network Data Analytics

Veo5G Project: A 5G Use Case for Network Data Analytics

January 6, 2020

This presentation will describe Gradiant's role in the VEO5G R&D project: provide data analytics for networking data in a 5G scenario.Gradiant researchers will share their experience working with the …
Android at the Edge

Android at the Edge

January 5, 2020

As cloud architectures continues to gain prominence, it is extending from cloud all the way to the device edge. There are many benefits to device and edge in cloud software infrastructure, but there a …
Blockchain-based Solution for Reducing the Cost of Settling Inter-carrier Charges - Vipin Kumar Rathi, Delhi University &

Blockchain-based Solution for Reducing the Cost of Settling Inter-carrier Charges - Vipin Kumar Rathi, Delhi University &

January 5, 2020

This session will provide a brief overview of key Telecom use cases which benefit from using Blockchain and how Blockchain based solution can help CSPs to manage wholesale settlement efficiently and q …
Lightning Talk: Automated AI Model Deployment within ONAP

Lightning Talk: Automated AI Model Deployment within ONAP

January 5, 2020

AI will enable more intelligent automation, able to constantly adapt to field reality and specificities.Through this talk, a prospective vision of the management of an Al model learning, deployment an …
Lightning Talk: Deploy my AI Model using Acumos

Lightning Talk: Deploy my AI Model using Acumos

January 5, 2020

In automated Network driven by AI, the quality of AI models will not be the only key differentiator amongst Telcos competitors. The ability to update models and deploy them quickly will be a strong as …
OpenStack at the vRAN Edge: PTP Live Demo, Up to Kubernetes

OpenStack at the vRAN Edge: PTP Live Demo, Up to Kubernetes

January 5, 2020

You just have deployed your NFVi successfully and you are eager to onboard your vRAN VNFs and CNFs. But hold on: is your NFVi properly configured? Tempest and Rally tests passed at 100%, but is it rea …