Open Networking Summit Europe 2019: Full Schedule

September 23-25 | Antwerp Belgium
View More Details & Register Here

08:00 CEST

Morning Coffee Hour

Grab a coffee before tutorials start on Monday morning. While there will be light snacks available, breakfast will not be provided. Breakfast is included in the room rate at our partner hotel, Radisson Blu Antwerp.

Monday September 23, 2019 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

08:00 CEST

Registration

Monday September 23, 2019 08:00 - 17:30 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

08:00 CEST

Technical Showcase

Monday September 23, 2019 08:00 - 17:30 CEST
Atrium

Technical Showcase

08:45 CEST

Tutorial: MEC in 5G Era: From Requirements and Standards to Practice in Delivering Differentiated Services - Sponsored by Huawei (Pre-registration Required)

You are warmly invited to join us in this workshop on Multi-Access Edge Computing. With the ongoing development of services such as 5G and industrial IoT coupled with CSPs digital transformation ambitions, application innovation in vertical industries is growing rapidly. Edge computing, especially MEC, is a key requirement to the development and innovation of industry digitalization. This tutorial will first walk through the requirements of carriers’ Edge Computing and update you with the latest progress from a carriers’ perspective. Next, we will introduce the current status and working plan of MEC related standards within ETSI MEC and 3GPP. Finally, this tutorial will cover what MEC deployments actually look like and how MEC can support the delivery of 5G differentiated services. Attendees should leave this workshop with a deeper understanding of the requirements that Carriers such as China Mobile have for Edge Computing, along with the knowledge of the progress of the corresponding MEC Standards and finally a view of how MEC deployments based on these standards can be achieved.

Prerequisites and Registration:
There are no prerequisites but Pre-registration is required and you can add this to your registration.

Speakers

Adrian O'Sullivan

Director European Open Source Program Office, Huawei

I have a passion for creating technology that can help solve the issues that challenge the world we live in. I love to work with diverse teams and collaborate globally. Therefore I was attracted to the global collaboration for shared success that I witnessed open source communities... Read More →

Xuan Jia

Edge Computing Architect, China Mobile

Jia Xuan , 5G edge computing platform architect in China Mobile, project manager, graduated from Tsinghua University, CNCF Ambassador. Buid 5G edge computing ecosystem, including edge application and releated technology. He has about 10 years experiences in Cloud Computing.

Yang (Gabriel) Yu

Project Manager, Huawei

Gabriel is a project manager on Open Source Development Team at Huawei. He is currently involved in LF Edge as SPC member and LF Networking as PTL of the OPNFV Bottlenecks project. His experience also includes leading testing working group and long duration testing initiative in OPNFV... Read More →

Xu Yang

Standard Engineer, Huawei

Xu Yang is from Cloud Core Department of Huawei. He has been working on standard and open source since joining Huawei in 2014. His working area includes NFV, MEC and ONAP, and he is now acting as rapporteur of several ETSI NFV specifications and is the leader of ONAP resource information... Read More →

Monday September 23, 2019 08:45 - 10:15 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Tutorials, Laptop Not Required

08:45 CEST

Tutorial: Take a Test Drive with the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed - Sponsored by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Pre-registration required)

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 initiative fosters cross-community collaboration and includes contributors from FD.io CSIT, Network Service Mesh and OpenStack among others. This tutorial will walk through how users can provision the hardware and cluster infrastructure on Packet bare-metal machines as well as the deployment of various telecom-focused use cases onto those clusters. There will be time for Q/A as well as looking at the implementation for some components of the CNF Testbed. Attendees should leave this tutorial with an understanding of how to deploy the CNF Testbed with their own Packet accounts and to contribute to the CNF Testbed initiative.

PREREQUISITES AND REGISTRATION
Please ensure you bring your fully charged laptop with you. Further instructions will be disseminated upon arrival. Pre-registration is also required and you can add this to your registration.

Speakers

Lucina Stricko

Sr. Product Owner, Vulk Coop

Lucina Stricko is a co-owner at Vulk Co-operative (vulk.coop), maintainer of the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Certification Program (https://www.cncf.io/certification/cnf/) and the CNF Test Suite (https://github.com/cncf/cnf-testsuite), and contributor to the CNF Working Group. Lucina uses her Product Owner skills and empathy to combine features, priorities, and project plans to best serve the end user. When Lucina’s not creating GitHub issues, prioritizing backlogs or planning new features, she enjoys practicing... Read More →

Denver Williams

Project Co-Lead, cncf.ci, Vulk Coop & CNCF

Taylor Carpenter

CNF WG Co-Chair, Partner Vulk Coop, Vulk Coop

Partner at Vulk Cooperative & CNCF CNF Working Group Co-Chair. Taylor is helping the Telecom industry to best utilize cloud native technologies like Kubernetes and to build a Cloud native Telecom Community. 4 years as a liaison between the cloud native and telecom communities. Open... Read More →

[ONSEU2019] CNF Testbed Tutorial pdf

CNF Testbed Live Instructions and References pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 08:45 - 10:15 CEST
Darwin (Floor 2)

Tutorials, Fully-Charged Laptop Required

Session Slides Included Yes

09:00 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details

ONS offers an LFN Unconference Track and meeting space for projects in the LF Networking initiative for topic discussions, small-team breakouts, etc. We call this an “Unconference” because it’s less about pre-arranged formal presentations, and instead allows for discussion topics of interest to “spring up” before the event or at the event itself. If you work on any of the LF Networking Projects, we welcome you to view, add your topics/ideas to the wiki and use this space throughout the event.

Monday September 23, 2019 09:00 - 11:30 CEST
Gorilla 4 (Floor 1)

Unconference Tracks

09:00 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details

Monday September 23, 2019 09:00 - 11:30 CEST
Gorilla 5 (Floor 1)

Unconference Tracks

09:00 CEST

Tutorial: The Role of Cloud Native, Edge, & Orchestration in the Evolution of 5G Networks and Its Use Cases - Sponsored by Ericsson (Pre-registration Required)

Please join us for a workshop to understand how Cloud Native, Edge Computing, Orchestration and open source play a role in the evolution of 5G networks. In this deep dive workshop, we will explain cloud native techniques using some of the projects from CNCF along with Orchestration and how Edge plays a role in the evolution of 5G along with an e2e Orchestration & a closed loop automation demo.

AGENDA

Introduction - 5G & Edge
Describe Orchestration Covering Service Assurance, Orchestration Across Hybrid Networks, Network Slicing, CI/CD and ONAP & ETSI Alignment
Cloud native – Cloud native techniques – CNCF – Projects such as Kubernetes, and Other Related Technologies
Key Learnings of a Cloud Native Packet Core Deployment in a Major Customer Network
Accelerating Edge Computing Business with Distributed Cloud and 5G
Deep Dive into Network and Service Exposure (API’s) & Use Cases
End-to-end Orchestration and Closed Loop Automation Demo

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Balaji Ethirajulu – Sr.Director Product Management
Stephen Terrill – Sr.Expert, Automation and Management
Ciaran Johnston – Expert, Network Management Architecture
Tamas Zsiros – Expert, End-to-End System Architecture
Claes Meltzer – Strategic Product Manager, Packet Core
Sheng-Ann Yu – Head of Solution Line, Distributed Cloud
Jitendra Manocha – Senior Portfolio Manager

Pre-registration is required and you can add this to your registration.

Monday September 23, 2019 09:00 - 12:00 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Tutorials

10:45 CEST

CNCF Telecom User Group Meeting

Details will be published shortly. All ONSEU attendees are welcome to join.

Speakers

Dan Kohn

General Manager, Linux Foundation Public Health, Linux Foundation

Dan leads Linux Foundation Public Health, a new initiative to use open source software to help public health authorities combat COVID-19 and serves as VP, Strategic Programs for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes... Read More →

Monday September 23, 2019 10:45 - 12:15 CEST
Darwin (Floor 2)

Cloud Native Networking

10:45 CEST

Tutorial: 5G Network Test with OpenTAP - Sponsored by Keysight Technologies (Pre-registration Required)

Please join us for a workshop focused on applying OpenTAP to test 5G networks and NFV systems. This workshop will introduce OpenTAP, an open source test sequencer optimized for speed, simplicity, and scalability. OpenTAP has been released as an open source project in June 2019. OpenTAP can be used for many types of test sequencing, from driving actual hardware to cloud-based solutions. OpenTAP is used today in manufacturing test and in a 5G network and NFV test research including trial networks.

The workshop will cover the architecture and main components of the OpenTAP core code and the SDK for the development of OpenTAP plugins. After a short introduction, part of the session will provide a walk-through for developing plugins, demonstrating how OpenTAP can be used in the 5G NFV test space. Participants will be invited to apply hands-on the software using OpenStack Heat API, IxLoad and Yardstick as use cases. The workshop will provide an example based on 5G NFV test research.

PREREQUISITES & REGISTRATION
A fully-charged laptop is option. It is not a requirement, but you might want to bring it in case you want to download the package and follow along.Pre-registration is required and you can add this to your registration.

Speakers

Andrea F. Cattoni

R&D Researcher, Keysight Technologies / Keysight Laboratories

Dr. Andrea F. Cattoni received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2004 and 2008. From 2008 to 2015 he was associated with Aalborg University, Denmark. During this period, he served as research consultant for Nokia Networks in 4G and 5G related research activities... Read More →

Dragos Brezoi

R&D Engineer, SW/FW - Senior, Keysight Technologies, Keysight Laboratories

Michael Dieudonne

European Research Projects Coordinator, Keysight Technologies

Asger Iversen

Software Architect, Keysight Technologies

Monday September 23, 2019 10:45 - 12:15 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

Tutorials, Fully-charged Laptop is Optional

12:00 CEST

Women in Networking Lunch (Pre-registration Required)

We’d like to invite all attendees that identify as a woman or non-binary to join us at the Women in Networking Lunch. This is a chance to connect and network with each other onsite in a small group setting, while sharing and learning about other attendees, and working to increase the diversity of the networking community.

All attendees must identify as a woman or non-binary and will need to be registered for Open Networking Summit Europe to attend.

Monday September 23, 2019 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
Grand Café Paon Royal (Floor 0)

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

12:00 CEST

Lunch Break (Attendees on Own)

Monday September 23, 2019 12:00 - 13:15 CEST

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

12:00 CEST

Visit the Antwerp ZOO! (Complimentary with Conference Badge)

Visit the Antwerp ZOO!

Did you know that Flanders Meeting & Convention Center is the only convention center in the world with a zoo on site? As an added bonus to attendees, during lunch hours, you are welcome to visit the Antwerp ZOO complimentary with your badge!

Monday September 23, 2019 12:00 - 13:15 CEST
Antwerp Zoo

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

13:15 CEST

Keynote: Open Source: From Community Collaboration to Commercialization - What's Next?- Arpit Joshipura, General Manager of Networking, Edge/IoT, The Linux Foundation

Speakers

Arpit Joshipura

General Manager of Networking, IoT and Edge, The Linux Foundation

Arpit Joshipura is an executive leader and open source software evangelist across carriers, cloud and enterprise IT - spanning technology areas like networking, orchestration, operating systems, security, AI, edge, hardware and silicon. He was voted “Top 5 Movers and Shakers... Read More →

ONS EU Arpit Keynote Sept 2019 v8final for posting pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 13:15 - 13:35 CEST
Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

13:40 CEST

Keynote: Open Source and Standards: Better Together - Luis Jorge Romero, Director-General, ETSI

In the last years we have seen growing discussions at all levels, confronting the development of standards and the proliferation of Open Source projects. Experience and experts show that both, Open Source and Standards, are needed tools to better develop the systems and technologies that our society demands. It is not “one or the other”, but “not one without the other”.

Speakers

Luis Jorge Romero

Director-General, ETSI

Luis Jorge Romero, Director General of ETSI, has 30 years’ experience in the telecommunications sector.At ETSI he has initiated a global standardization partnership for Machine to Machine communications, oneM2M. He has overseen the rapid development of ETSI’s Industry Specification... Read More →

Monday September 23, 2019 13:40 - 14:00 CEST
Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

14:05 CEST

Keynote: Why Open Source SW, Cloud Native Implementation, and Automation through AI/ML is Essential to Succeeding with 5G and Edge - Anders Rosengren, Head of Architecture & Technology Business Area Digital Services & Ciaran Johnston, NW Management Archit

This Keynote will explain why open source SW together with cloud native applications and cloud infrastructure is essential for the successful deployment of 5G and Edge. It will further describe how AI/ML influenced automation is supporting service creation, service assurance and service delivery and why this is also key for efficiently delivering 5G services over edge infrastructure.

Speakers

Ciaran Johnston

Senior Expert OSS and Programmable Network Automation, Ericsson

I am a senior expert in Operations Support Systems (OSS) and programmable network architecture, and am the chief architect for Ericsson’s network management portfolio with responsibility for architecture governance and evolution. I joined Ericsson in 2000 and worked as a software... Read More →

Anders Rosengren

Head of Architecture & Technology, Ericsson

Anders Rosengren is head of Architecture & Technology in Business Area Digital Services.Ericsson Digital Services provides solutions that realize our customers’ digital transformation including software and services in the areas of monetization and management systems (OSS/BSS... Read More →

Monday September 23, 2019 14:05 - 14:25 CEST
Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

14:25 CEST

Keynote: O-RAN: Goals and Challenges - Olivier Simon, Director, Radio Innovation, Orange Labs Networks

This presentation will explain how O-RAN will trigger more intelligence and openness in the RAN domain. We will see which use cases require this new architecture and why O-RAN is coming at the right time. Major architectural change are necessary in the next years in order to improve E2E latency and benefit from the flexibility of virtualized network functions. O-RAN will provide the right framework in order to perform this transformation in an open manner and keeping at the same time economies of scale thanks to a global adoption.

Speakers

Olivier Simon

Director, Radio Innovation, Orange Labs Networks

Olivier Simon graduated from Ecole Central Paris in 2000. He joined France Telecom/Orange in 2002 and has been involved since 2005 in Researches and Development of digital cellular networks of third, fourth and fifth generation. At the beginning of this period, he was also managing... Read More →

Monday September 23, 2019 14:25 - 14:45 CEST
Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

14:50 CEST

Coffee Break

Monday September 23, 2019 14:50 - 15:30 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

15:30 CEST

5G RAN Optimization Using the O-RAN Software Community’s RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) - Thoralf Czichy, Nokia

The O-RAN SC’s 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. It shows how radio-function-specific xApps deployed into the RIC make the RAN (Radio Access Network) programmable. As part of this we also take a look at the communication protocol used between RIC xApps and gNB.

Speakers

Thoralf Czichy

Technical Lead, Nokia

Thoralf is an expert in telco platforms, with over 20 years of experience in building complex real-time systems. Recently, he has been the key contributor in RIC architecture work and he is the PTL of the near-realtime RIC open-source project in O-RAN SC.

Near RT RIC for ONS pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 15:30 - 16:00 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

15:30 CEST

AI Powered Edge Computing - Sergio Gonzalez, Microsoft

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. Experiences and use cases are driven by Microsoft Intelligent Hyperscale Hybrid cloud in different industries (Oil&Gas, Manufacturing, Security, Smart Cities...)

Speakers

Sergio Gonzalez

Lead Cloud Architect, Microsoft

Once core network and NFV architect, from there I moved to Microsoft as Chief Architect for Telefonica Group. AI and ML can bring the network automation dream and advanced edge computing services come true

AI Powered Edge Compute pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 15:30 - 16:00 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

15:30 CEST

Kernel-based Forwarding Plane for Network Service Mesh - Radoslav Dimitrov, VMware

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 key components of Network Service Mesh which makes this possible. This session will cover the implementation of a pure Kernel-based forwarding plane using the built-in network facilities such as netlink. By leveraging the Linux kernel networking, it makes it possible to enable a wide variety of network protocols that are not yet native in Kubernetes. This will ease the introduction of new use cases for cloud-native services allowing for more domains to benefit from the cloud-native technologies.

Speakers

Radoslav Dimitrov

Open Source Engineer, Stacklok

Radoslav Dimitrov is working as a full-time Open Source Software Engineer at VMware. Currently, he’s contributing to the Network Service Mesh project, but before that, he was working on other open-source projects like OpenStack, OPNFV, QEMU and OpenFaaS. He has spoken at previous... Read More →

kernel forwarder onseu 19 pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 15:30 - 16:00 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

15:30 CEST

Accelerating to the Future of the Edge - Ian Wells, Cisco

Edge computing has been rightly listed as a rising area of interest in the computing industry. The idea of "Edge Computing" has been constantly evolving over the past few years. At the same time, open source communities have begun to define projects supporting edge computing. The entire ecosystem is rapidly evolving, at the same time as it's being built.

In this talk, I'll want to take a step back and present a vision for what "Edge Computing" will look like in the next 5 years. The evolution of compute units from mainframes to bare metal to virtual machines to containers to functions has proven that the industry is moving faster than ever. I will present how this rapid evolution will change "Edge Computing" in the future, and how open source can help to drive this evolution.

Speakers

Ian Wells

CNF WG Co-Chair, Cisco

An OpenStack developer and user since the Essex release, Ian works on the internals of Openstack, on applications to run on top of Openstack, and on making Openstack easy for people to use. His current focus is in NFV, the work to use Openstack to provide virtual network functions... Read More →

Monday September 23, 2019 15:30 - 16:00 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Beginner

15:30 CEST

How Open Networking can Manage Large-Scale VPCs on Top of Clos Network Architecture - Honghui Xiao & Honghao Wang, ByteDance

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 host applications. However, when building a distributed system that need to support Internet services with hundreds of millions of Daily Active Users, a VPC has to be large-scale. This imposes big challenges on the backend SDN system, which need to copy massive control-plane data among hosts , keep it consistent and program it into data-plane rapidly.

In this proposal, we will introduce our practice of building large-scale VPCs that each can host tens of thousands of VMs in Bytedance’s production environment. We will share our architecture which is based on Open Networking, such as Open vSwitch, OpenFlow, and EVPN. Also, we will explore the problems encountered and how they were solved.

Speakers

Honghui Xiao

Network Architect, ByteDance

Honghui Xiao is a CCIE(Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) and has more than 8 year’s experience at Cloud Computing and Networking. He is working as a senior architect in ByteDance, which has more than 600 millions active users and hundreds of thousands of servers over the world... Read More →

Honghao Wang

Software Engineer, Bytedance

Honghao Wang is working for ByteDance, and is responsible for the control plane of SDN and elastic compute.

ONS EU19 Large VPC MANAGEMENT pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 15:30 - 16:00 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Enterprise IT

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

15:30 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details

Monday September 23, 2019 15:30 - 17:00 CEST
Gorilla 4 (Floor 1)

Unconference Tracks

15:30 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details

Monday September 23, 2019 15:30 - 17:00 CEST
Gorilla 5 (Floor 1)

Unconference Tracks

16:15 CEST

Lightning Talk: Cloud Native for Non-Coders - Bill Mulligan, Loodse GmbH

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 don’t code - yet those same people usually hold decision making and budgetary power. This talk seeks to explain the what, why, and business benefits of being cloud native without diving into code. Audience members will learn how to explain cloud native technologies to non-coders and give the business case for a cloud native approach at the organizational level.

Speakers

Bill Mulligan

Kubernetes Advocate, Loodse GmbH

Bill Mulligan currently works at Loodse as a Kubernetes Advocate, helping companies understand if Kubernetes is the right fit for them. He has previously spoken at ContainerDays, DevOn Summit, DevOps Gathering, Cloud Native Warsaw, and Landing Festival.

Cloud Native for Non Coders ONS Antwerp 2019 pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 16:15 - 16:25 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Beginner
Session Slides Included Yes

16:15 CEST

End-to-End 5G Network Solutions: A Telco Perspective - Cecilia Corbi & Alessandro D'Alessandro, Telecom Italia

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 and SMEs. Unified management, end-to-end orchestration based on automation and reliable multi-domain slicing mechanisms, as well as vertical-driven service blueprints, are key to offer user-friendly 5G services in the market.

A Telco industry perspective on how to address some 5G scenarios will be given and an overview of ONAP project experience will be provided as well.

Speakers

Alessandro D'Alessandro

Project manager, TIM

Cecilia Corbi

Senior PM, Telecom Italia

Cecilia Corbi is currently acting as Senior Project Manager in TIM (Technology Architectures & Innovation | Standards, Technology Communication & IPR department). She has a master degree in Mathematics and she has over 25 years of experience in the Telco Industry with various positions... Read More →

ONS EU 2019 final pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 16:15 - 16:45 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Beginner
Session Slides Included Yes

16:15 CEST

Simplifying Network Automation in 5G Deployments with AI - Shamik Mishra, Altran

5G with its service based architecture has introduced flexibility and agility within its network. However, a 5G network is expected to be heterogeneous with multi-vendor network functions, virtualization, policies, real-time low latency edge computing applications, large density of small micro-data centers etc. This will lead to a complex management model and a potential risk of higher cost of maintenance. On the flip side, the data acquired from these different elements in the network has a potential of simplifying the network slice management, orchestration and performance management. It can improve capacity planning and automation through AI and analytics. In this presentation, we will discuss the challenges and find potential solutions. We will evaluate the role of open source projects like ONAP, gaps in specifications, challenges in data aggregation and monetization.

Speakers

Shamik Mishra

Asst. Vice President - Research and Innovation, Altran

Shamik Mishra is currently an Asst. Vice President, Research and Innovation at Altran. He is a global lead for the future of networks and compute at Altran group research and innovation. Shamik Mishra has over eighteen years of experience in the Telecom and software industry, providing... Read More →

Monday September 23, 2019 16:15 - 16:45 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Experience Level Advanced

16:15 CEST

Who says You Shouldn’t Run VMs and Containers Together? - Ian Jolliffe & Glenn Seiler, Wind River Systems

As momentum around the edge continues to grow there is a widely held thesis that you shouldn’t run VMs at the edge. But what about the VM-based applications that exist today? Converting every application to a container isn’t a viable solution for the near future. What is needed is an infrastructure platform that can support VMs and containers as equal citizens and provide the same level of services for both. The session will take a look at the evolution of VM/Container architectures that have been used to address the growing use of containers and then take look at the StarlingX project. StarlingX is a full featured cloud for the edge that uses Kubernetes to provision and manage cloud native applications and when needed OpenStack VMs. Other exciting technologies like Kubevirt, Kata containers and Virtlet will be discussed as solutions for making the ecosystem as flexible as possible.

Speakers

Glenn Seiler

VP Linux Solutions, Wind River

Glenn is Vice President of Strategy at Wind River and drives the open source and community engagements. Glenn has been a strong advocate of Open Source for twenty years. He was a founding member of the Linux Foundation Carrier Grade Linux Workgroup and is currently active in the OpenStack... Read More →

Ian Jolliffe

Sr. Director Engineering R&D, Wind River Systems

Software Architect, and technology leader focused on Edge Cloud Native technologies. Ian is active in StarlingX as a member of the Technical Steering Committee, OpenStack and OPNFV - defining the future of technologies that will enable next generation cloud solutions at the Edge... Read More →

Who Says You Cant Run VMs and Containers pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 16:15 - 16:45 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

16:15 CEST

Blockchain Enabled IoT Edge Computing - Pankaj Mendki, Talentica Software

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. It’s not always possible or economical to set up resource intense infrastructure at the edge.

This presentation proposes using a blockchain-based decentralized application to facilitate IoT edge processing. The resource owner can join the ecosystem and lend out the compute resources for edge computation. This concept is explained considering the use-case of video analytics at IoT edge. Surveillance cameras generate huge data that can be processed at edge to create a searchable indexed repository of the video content.

The presentation will explain the overall solution architecture and the different components involved. It will also cover a set of challenges and possible solution to overcome those challenges.

Speakers

Pankaj Mendki

Sr. Principal Engineer, Talentica Software

Pankaj Mendki has been working as Head of Emerging Technologies in Talentica Software India Pvt Ltd. His areas of expertise involves IoT, AR/VR/MR, and Blockchain. Prior to this, he was working as a solution and technical architect.He has recently presented his work on IoT edge computing... Read More →

Blockchain Enabled IoT Edge Computing pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 16:15 - 16:45 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Session Slides Included Yes

16:25 CEST

Lightning Talk: Advancing CPU Management in Kubernetes - Levente Kálé, Nokia

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 which would like to leverage the features of a K8s infrastructure.

K8s resource management community tried to address this issue with the introduction of the CPU manager feature, but even the existing policies have unaddressed gaps.

The talk lists the requirements still missing from the core CPU Manager component, like the absence of sub-node level CPU pools, the true physical isolation of K8s and non-K8s managed processes, process-level CPU pinning, socket alignment, etc.

The talk then introduces an existing open-source component called CPU-Pooler and showcases how can all of these requirements satisfied today in a cloud-native, and future proof way.

Speakers

Levente Kálé

Product architect, Nokia

Passionate cloud architect tirelessly working on marrying 5G with open source, containerization, and cloud-native; both within Nokia and Akraino.Always up for a chat regarding networking and resource management in Kubernetes, or the many challenges of putting TelCo stuff on everyone's... Read More →

Advancing CPU management in K8s V4 pptx

Advancing CPU management in K8s V4 pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 16:25 - 16:35 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

16:35 CEST

Lightning Talk: Telemetry Aware Scheduling: Let the (Scheduling) Magic Unfold!! - Swati Sehgal, Intel Corporation

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 to evolve to meet stringent networking and resource management requirements. Service Level Objectives for many such workloads demand network I/O performance and capabilities beyond pure connectivity and reachability. Automated actions based on policies as well as predictive and reactive closed loops are becoming an indispensable requirement in the orchestration layer in order to achieve operational Efficiency, better Service performance, reduction in CapEx, OpEx and improved customer experience. This talk focuses on kubernetes scheduling capabilities enabling intelligent placement of workloads as well as for performing automated actions by using system telemetry obtained from Prometheus.

Speakers

SWATI SEHGAL

Cloud Software Engineer, Intel

Swati Sehgal is a Cloud Software Engineer in the Cloudnative Orchestration Software Engineering team in the Datacenter Solutions Group, Intel to deliver best-in-class networking applications and leading edge solutions for Intel Architecture (IA) processors. She is working with Intel... Read More →

Telemetry Aware Scheduler pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 16:35 - 16:45 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

17:00 CEST

An Exclusive Deep Dive into Collaboration Activities between ETSI and Linux Foundation’s ONAP - Alla Goldner, Amdocs

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 the pace of networking-technologies development, ONAP and ETSI recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

So how is this formal collaboration being put into practice?

Alla Goldner reveals the different collaboration activities already in place between ETSI (3GPP SA5, NFV ISG, ZSM ISG) and ONAP: the challenges, open issues, what’s next, and what has already been done… for example, mapping using 3GPP SA5 to define network management for 5G network slicing, with the implementation being carried out by ONAP’s 5G network slicing group. Another example: ETSI ZSM – its role in defining end-to-end network-management reference architecture and how it’s being mapped to ONAP modules, etc

Speakers

Alla Goldner

Director - Technology, Strategy & Standardization, Amdocs

Recognized by Light Reading as one of the industry’s best Female Tech Pioneers in 2018, by capacity Media as the “Best Women in Network Orchestration” in 2019 and with multiple patents to her name, Alla Goldner is the Chair of ONAP Use-Case Subcommittee. She also leads all ONAP... Read More →

Open Source Leveraging SDO's standards for ONS EU pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

17:00 CEST

Bridging the Gap in AI/ML from Cloud to the Edge - Peter Van Ackeren, NXP

Most of the AI/ML learning and model development is being done in the cloud, typically on high-end x86 servers with powerful GPU cards. However, deploying these models to embedded Edge devices which have a much smaller footprint in terms of compute and memory can be a challenge. This session describes how the Edge differs from the cloud in terms of AI/ML processing. It goes on to describe a set of services that can work with different cloud AI/ML frameworks like AWS Sagemaker and Google AutoML, take their output model, convert it into a size and format suitable for embedded Edge devices and deploy over the air.

Speakers

Peter Van Ackeren

Lead Applications Engineer, NXP

Monday September 23, 2019 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Experience Level Any

17:00 CEST

Large-scale Network Simulations in Kubernetes - Michael Kashin, Arista Networks

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 of them were designed to work on a single host.

Kubernetes presents an ideal platform to run large-scale network simulations, however its networking model, assuming a single interface per pod, is very limiting.

This presentation will examine the shortcomings of existing solutions, establish the desired requirements, provide an overview of a purpose-built CNI plugin (meshnet-cni) and demo how to build a 750-node network topology running open-source routing daemon (quagga/ospfd).

Speakers

Michael Kashin

Advanced Services Engineer, Arista Networks

I'm a network engineer, currently working as advanced services engineer at Arista Networks. I've been designing and building networks for almost 10 years and have always been looking for ways to optimise my workflow, which is why automation and testing have been one of my primary... Read More →

ONS EU19 K8s Netsim pdf

Monday September 23, 2019 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

17:00 CEST

Panel Discussion: Akraino - Balaji Ethirajulu, Ericsson; Tapio Tallgren, Nokia; Tina Tsou, Arm; Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T; Sukhdev Kapur, Juniper Networks

The panelists will talk about overall LF-Edge and how Akraino fits in to overall LF Edge. It will explain Akraino architecture, Akraino use cases, business benefits, and blueprints.

Speakers

Tapio Tallgren

Technical Leader, Nokia

Tapio has a long history of representing Nokia in different open source projects and their technical steering committees. Currently he focuses on Akraino, where he has two projects and one committee to look after. Tapio has been giving several presentations in recent Open Networking... Read More →

Kandan Kathirvel

Director, AT&T

Kandan is the Director at AT&T Labs and he leads the innovations of 5G and Edge Computing. In addition, he serves as a Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Chair at Akraino Edge Stack and Technical Advisory Council (TAC) at Linux Foundation. Kandan served on the OpenStack board of directors... Read More →

Sukhdev Kapur

Distinguished Engineeer, Juniper Networks

Sukhdev Kapur is Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. He is part of Contrail Software Development team. He is on Technical Steering Committees of Tungsten Fabric as well Akraino Edge Stack (open source projects under Linux Foundation). He is also on Technical Advisory Council... Read More →

Tina Tsou

Director, Arm

Tina Tsou, Director of Infrastructure Ecosystem at Arm, is a recognized leader in open source software, cloud infrastructure, and edge computing. She chairs the Kubernetes Edge Day events under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and serves as the Board Chair of LF Edge... Read More →

Balaji Ethirajulu

Sr.Director Product management, Ericsson AB

Balaji Ethirajulu is a senior director of product management at Ericsson, driving technologies in the areas of open source, automation, orchestration, NFV, SDN, 5G, cloud-native, edge computing, networking, and IoT. He has more than 25 years of experience in product management, technology... Read More →

Monday September 23, 2019 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Intermediate

17:00 CEST

Demystifying Open Source Network Operating System - Stefan Bokaie, Dell Technologies

Open Source Network Operating system landscape changed over the last few years and has been gaining increased adoption both at hyper scalers, service providers and large enterprises. In this talk I attempt to simplify what really makes up a network operating system at a high level, highlight and provide overview of some of the prominent open networking operating systems, components and tools that are out there now and in works, their current state, features supported, use case where these can be deployed and what next?

Open Networking Linux - OpenSwitch - SONiC - Stratum - FlexSwitch - FBOSS -Danos

Speakers

Stefan Bokaie

Vice President of Software Engineering, Dell Technologies

Executive leader with more than 30 years of experience in delivering a wide range of platforms in Networking, Telecom and Network Management. Stefan's experience spans from founding member of different start-ups to a leadership position within various engineering organizations of... Read More →

Monday September 23, 2019 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Enterprise IT

Experience Level Beginner

18:00 CEST

ONS Partner Reception (Invitation Only)

Speakers, media and select sponsors will gather for drinks, hors d’oeuvres and networking at the Open Networking Summit Europe Partner Reception. Located at Chocolate Nation, The Belgian Chocolate Experience, just a short walk from Flanders Meeting & Convention Center, invited guests will have the opportunity to network with fellow attendees and immerse themselves in the Belgian chocolate process.

Monday September 23, 2019 18:00 - 20:00 CEST
Chocolate Nation, The Belgian Chocolate Experience Koningin Astridplein 7

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

06:45 CEST

5K Fun Run at the Zoo!

5K Fun Run
Tuesday, September 24 | Meet at 6:45; Run from 7:00 – 8:00
Location: Run will start and end at Flanders Meeting & Convention Center
Registration Cost: Complimentary – RSVP Required

Start your morning off right with a 5K fun run through the Antwerp ZOO! The Antwerp ZOO opens its doors for early birds and allows attendees to take a walk or run through the sleeping ZOO. The flamingos will definitely inspire you to run the extra mile! Get those batteries charged by starting the day surrounded by the beauty and serenity of the ZOO.

Tuesday September 24, 2019 06:45 - 08:00 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

07:30 CEST

Morning Coffee Hour

Grab a coffee before keynotes start on Tuesday morning. While there will be light snacks available, breakfast will not be provided. Breakfast is included in the room rate at our partner hotel, Radisson Blu Antwerp.

Tuesday September 24, 2019 07:30 - 09:00 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

07:30 CEST

Registration

Tuesday September 24, 2019 07:30 - 18:00 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

07:30 CEST

Technical Showcase

Tuesday September 24, 2019 07:30 - 19:00 CEST
Atrium

Technical Showcase

09:00 CEST

Keynote: Scaling DevOps – Moving from Mechanization to Automation - Amy Wheelus, Vice President, Network Cloud, AT&T

As operators embrace and scale DevOps, it takes more than just moving groups of people together into scrum teams and common organizations. It means changing the paradigm of how we operate our networks. It requires shifting from humans validating what mechanized processes deliver to linking mechanized processes together with outcomes initiating the next process step. These concepts may be easy for leadership to get behind, but implementing them requires discipline. AT&T will share from their experience on this journey and outline areas of focus in the open source community that can help accelerate us on this journey.

Speakers

Amy Wheelus

Vice President, Network Cloud, AT&T

Amy Wheelus leads AT&T’s Network Cloud platform architecture, development, design, planning and engineering, as well as the asset lifecycle management, tenant care, quality assurance and cloud security functions. Amy is a transformative leader and technologist who has held a variety... Read More →

Tuesday September 24, 2019 09:00 - 09:20 CEST
Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

09:20 CEST

Keynote: Driving Network Automation and Cloud Native - Matt Beal, Director, Technology Strategy & Architecture, Vodafone

Speakers

Matt Beal

Director, Technology Strategy & Architecture, Vodafone

Tuesday September 24, 2019 09:20 - 09:40 CEST
Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

09:40 CEST

Keynote: Build 5G Deterministic Network Empower Digital Transformation - Bill Ren, Chief Open Source Liaison Officer & General Manager, ICT Infrastructure Open Source, Huawei Technologies

The core mission of 5G is to enable the industry digitization. To build and operate 5G networks, Telcos need to guarantee the customer's deterministic experience for 5G networks. This keynote talk discusses how to systematically build deterministic 5G networks to enable industry customers.

Speakers

Bill Ren

VP of Strategy, Huawei

Bill Ren holds an EMBA and Master Degree from Peking University, and a CS Bachelor Degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Since Joining Huawei in 2000, Bill served as an Intelligent Network Research and Development Engineer, Product Manager and Architect of India Branch, General... Read More →

Tuesday September 24, 2019 09:40 - 09:47 CEST
Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

09:50 CEST

Keynote: Why Open Source for Test Automation? - Pierre Lynch, Lead Technologist, Keysight

Speakers

Pierre Lynch

Lead Technologist, Keysight Technologies

Pierre Lynch is a Lead Technologist for Keysight Technologies. Pierre has been working in the mobile network testing industry since the beginning of his 20 year career. He is responsible for representing Keysight at standards definition organizations (SDOs) and open source communities... Read More →

Tuesday September 24, 2019 09:50 - 09:57 CEST
Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

10:00 CEST

Keynote Panel Discussion: Survey Says: How does Compliance Jumpstart Deployment the Open Way - Henry Calvert, GSMA; Beth Cohen, Verizon; Lincoln Lavoie, UNH InerOperability Laboratory; Thomas Nadeau, Red Hat; and moderated by Heather Kirksey, Vice Preside

Speakers

Henry Calvert

Head of Future Networks, GSMA

Henry joined the GSMA in December 2013, and will be responsible for the delivery of the Future Networks programme. A key programme of the GSMA’s strategic focus, to deliver industry scale for 5G and 5G service enablement (e.g. Network Slicing and Edge Computing), whilst considering... Read More →

Thomas D. Nadeau

Technical Director, NFV, Red Hat

Tom is Technical Director for NFV at Red Hat where he leads a team of engineers focusing on the many areas of Open Source Networking including SDN, NFV, data plane acceleration, and container networking efforts. In addition, Tom leads the NFV Partner Engineering team which is focused... Read More →

Heather Kirksey

Vice President of NFV, The Linux Foundation

Heather Kirksey works with the community to advance the adoption and implementation of open source NFV platforms.Before joining The Linux Foundation, she led strategic technology alliances for MongoDB. Earlier in her career she held various leadership positions in the telecom industry... Read More →

Beth Cohen

SDN Product Strategist, Verizon

Beth is an Advanced Networking Product Manager at Verizon, working on developing new SDN products and services. At Verizon, she has architected and developed several products, including NaaS, SASE, Digital Enablement Platform and Virtual Network Services, which has been driving many... Read More →

Lincoln Lavoie

Principal Engineer, Broadband Technologies, UNH-IOL

Lincoln Lavoie is a senior engineer at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory, responsible for the NFV, Gfast, DSL, Wi-Fi, and GPON programs and services offered by the lab. He currently serves as the technical chair of the Broadband Forum and the chair of the... Read More →

Tuesday September 24, 2019 10:00 - 10:30 CEST
Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

10:30 CEST

Coffee Break

Tuesday September 24, 2019 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

11:00 CEST

Resiliency Closed Loop: Telco Self-healing and Maintenance - Sunku Ranganath, Intel Corporation & Tomi Juvonen, Nokia

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 detection, fault isolation and re-provisioning of network slices based on hardware reliability errors encountered using open industry standard interfaces to guarantee five nines VNF operation. It is not just sufficient to recover fast from failure, but to close the loop by repairing what is broken and ensuring the service availability.

Our ongoing work in newly formed OPNFV Closed Loop Automation working group will showcase how you can have it all with a demo, with Collectd, Prometheus & OpenStack components Vitrage & Fenix along with available resiliency features that help predict component reliability.

Speakers

Tomi Juvonen

Technical Leader, Nokia

I have been in Telco industry for twenty years, in various exciting roles to drive new cutting-edge changes to market. Currently I am the PTL of the OPNFV Doctor and OpenDev Fenix projects. Working on making Telco industry needed functionality implemented into open source cloud solutions... Read More →

Sunku Ranganath

Global Solutions Architect, Intel Corporation

Sunku Ranganath is a Solutions Architect for Edge Compute at Intel. For the last few years, his area of focus has been on enabling solutions for the Telecom domain, including designing, building, integrating, and benchmarking NFV based reference architectures using Kubernetes & OpenStack... Read More →

Resiliency Closed Loop Telco Self healing and Maintenance ONS Europe 2019 pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

11:00 CEST

Network Traffic Analytics through Accelerator and SmartNIC at Edge - Yuming Ma & Mrittika Ganguli, Intel Corporation

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 proposes an edge-based analytics model with close-loop action feedback to achieve real-time predictive network analytics. Under this solution, the network traffic telemetry data is collected and aggregated by the network devices (e.g. SmartNIC). The AI model is trained at cloud and deployed to the SmartNIC. The predictive analytics and AI inference is managed at the edge device of SmartNIC to achieve real-time close-loop management and mitigation.

Speakers

Mrittika Ganguli

Principle Engineer and Network Architect, Intel Corportation

Yuming Ma

Cloud Solution Architect, Intel Corporation

Yuming Ma is a solution architect of Intel DCG (Data Center Group) working on to build cloud solution and system leveraging Intel silicon & adjacency and eco system technology for next generation data center architecture, Prior to Intel, Yuming was chief storage architect of Cisco... Read More →

ONS EU19 PPT Analytics Edge SMART NIC pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

11:00 CEST

Connecting Kubernetes Clusters Across Clouds With Kilo - Lucas Servén Marín, Red Hat

In this talk, Lucas Servén 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 considers the real-world issues motivating multi-cloud clusters, including: providing service geo-availability, building elastic clusters on-premises, and accessing hardware accelerators from other clouds. Lucas discusses how Kilo addresses these requirements and how its use of WireGuard solves additional cluster connectivity needs, such as deploying multi-cluster Kubernetes services, VPN-ing to clusters, and providing secured access to external services. Finally, the talk demonstrates the practice of running a multi-cluster service on heterogeneous infrastructure and considers some of the issues that arise when doing so.

Speakers

Lucas Servén Marín

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Lucas Servén Marín is a principal software engineer from Spain currently working for Red Hat in Berlin. By trade he is an electrical engineer, with a Masters in robotics. After two years at CoreOS, he joined Red Hat where he works on the OpenShift Monitoring team and contributes... Read More →

Open Networking Summit EU 2019 pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

11:00 CEST

Your Path to Edge Computing - Akraino Edge Stack Update - Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T & Tina Tsou, Arm

The Akraino community was proud to announce the availability of its release 1 on June 6th. The community has experienced extremely rapid growth over the past year, in terms of both membership and community activity.

Before Akraino, developers had to download multiple open source software packages and integrate/test on deployable hardware, which prolonged innovation and increased cost. The Akraino community came up with a brilliant way to solve this integration challenge with the Blueprint model.

An Akraino Blueprint is not just a diagram; it’s real code that brings everything together so users can download and deploy the edge stack in their own environment to address a specific edge use case.

Learn more about the Akraino Edge Stack. In this talk, we will share details about

1. R1 blueprints and its use
2. R2 goals
3. How to engage and contribute to the Akraino Community

Speakers

Tina Tsou

Director, Arm

Kandan Kathirvel

Director, AT&T

Tuesday September 24, 2019 11:00 - 11:30 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Intermediate

11:00 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details

Tuesday September 24, 2019 11:00 - 12:15 CEST
Gorilla 5 (Floor 1)

Unconference Tracks

11:00 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details

Tuesday September 24, 2019 11:00 - 12:15 CEST
Gorilla 4 (Floor 1)

Unconference Tracks

11:45 CEST

Extendable Workflow for ONAP Service Orchestrator - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti, Huawei Technologies & Alexis de Talhouet, Bell Canada

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 modules to be used in the field
- Ease of use and adoption in production

These key challenges are being worked out in the Service Orchestrator project through the use of building blocks that are extendable workflows which could be stitched together
This greatly helps in customizing the functional flows based on the business needs solving the issues around re-usability.

The current topic discusses in detail the design, solution and implementation adopted by Bell Canada and also involves a demo to the audience.

Speakers

Alexis de Talhouet

Senior Technical Architect - Network Automation, Bell Canada

Multi-tasking Technical Architect / Developer building architecture, design and implementation for large-scale software solution deployed in Kubernetes within a private cloud. Strive to build an overall, yet very technical, knowledge of networking and programming.

Seshu Kumar Mudiganti

Principle Architect, Windriver

A hands-on technical Architect and developer building E2E solutions, architecture, design and implementation for various commercial and open source projects alike. Seshu is a Chef Architect at Huawei Technologies, India Pvt. Ltd. He is also the member of the Technical Steering Committee... Read More →

Extendable workflow for ONAP Service Orchestrator pptx

Tuesday September 24, 2019 11:45 - 12:15 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

11:45 CEST

Towards Open Network Intelligence - Faseela K, Ericsson & Frederick Kautz, doc.ai

In this talk, we officially launch the Open Network Intelligence project.

The ONI runner is a Cloud-Native Network Function capable of efficiently training and running AI modules on the data plane. It is designed to ingest L2/L3 data and run in either training or inference mode. The ONI runner communicates with its data plane using memif.

In this talk, we cover ONI's major components and architecture.

Speakers

Faseela K

Experienced Cloud-native Developer, Ericsson Software Technology

Faseela is a cloud-native developer at Ericsson Software Technology(EST) and is a steering committee member and maintainer at Istio. Prior to this, she has worked as a platform development engineer at Cisco and as a Tech Lead at Ericsson R&D, leading contributions to the OpenDaylight... Read More →

Frederick Kautz

Director of R&D, TestifySec

Frederick collaborates on security and networking. He is on the SPIFFE Steering Committee, focusing on providing Zero Trust Workload Identity to compute workloads and resources. Frederick co-authored Solving the Bottom Turtle. He is a co-founder of OmniBOR and maintains the reference... Read More →

Tuesday September 24, 2019 11:45 - 12:15 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Experience Level Beginner

11:45 CEST

Approaches for Plumbing Hardware Accelerated Interfaces to Containerized Network Functions - Thomas F. Herbert, Red Hat

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 interfaces and bandwidth hungry network functions need zero copy access to the hardware offload features provided in modern 40GB and faster NICs. In this talk, Mr. Herbert will describe and contrast open source methods to plumb hardware accelerated interfaces into a containerized network function. He will discuss zero-copy methods such as SR/IOV and vDPA (vHost Data Path Acceleration.) and how vDPA shows promise as a vendor independent interface. He will also discuss vHost-user, tcflower and AF_XDP data paths and control paths. Finally, he will discuss how containers running in orchestration systems such as Kubernetes can utilize these interfaces.

Speakers

Thomas Herbert

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Thomas is a principal software engineer in the networking group in the Red Hat office of the CTO where he has been working on bringing hardware accelerated network interfaces into containerized network functions. Previously, he has worked on VPP, fd.io CSIT, Network Service Mesh and... Read More →

Plumbing Hardware Accelerated Interfaces to Containerized Network Functions pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 11:45 - 12:15 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

11:45 CEST

Success at the Edge - Leveraging Open Source at the Edge as a Bridge to Critical Operations in Industry - Richard Beeson, OSIsoft & Bill Hunt, Dianomic

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 their critical operations. Outside direct automation and control, visibility through additional sensing helps to significantly inform and enhance manufacturing planning, execution and operation.

They will look at both architectural, technical and organizational challenges faced in these use cases and how existing open source software helped frame solutions and deliver value. By highlighting a number of real world solutions they want to inspire decision makers in manufacturing to leverage solutions available today, accelerating adoption; and to encourage the open source community to focus their efforts and solutions on delivering real value today while paving a path for the future.

Speakers

Bill Hunt

CTO / Co-Founder, Dianomic

Bill Hunt is the CTO of Dianomic, the maker of FogLAMP. Previously, he was Group Vice President at Oracle, where he led an 1,100-person software development team and managed a $126 million budget. Bill has founded and/or been a senior exec at multiple venture-backed software companies... Read More →

Richard Beeson

CTO, OSIsoft

Richard is OSIsoft’s Chief Technology Officer focused on long term strategic planning, business and technology alignment, strategic partnerships and alliances, and research and innovation programs, He has spent his career creating and delivering industrial software including the... Read More →

ONS Success at the Edge Leveraging Open Source at the Edge as a Bridge to Critical Operations in Industry v1.3 pptx

Tuesday September 24, 2019 11:45 - 12:15 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

11:45 CEST

SDN in the World of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning - Abhijit Kumbhare, Ericsson

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 behaviors continue to be important, the true promise of SDN is perhaps realized with the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The talk underscores why software defined networks need to be intelligent by being aware of runtime status of the network and dynamically come up with network policies according to analytics results. Abhijit will discuss previous efforts in this area with OpenDaylight as well as future use cases of a smart and intelligent SDN controller. He will also cover a few of the AI/ML/big data tools and techniques which could be used for SDN.

Speakers

Abhijit Kumbhare

Principal Architect/Director, Ericsson

Abhijit is the Chair of the OpenDaylight Technical Steering Committee. He is also a member of Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) Technical Advisory Council (TAC) and Strategic Planning Committee. He has been active in OpenDaylight from its inception and the project lead (PTL) for the... Read More →

ONSE SDN AIML Abhijit Kumbhare pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 11:45 - 12:15 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Enterprise IT

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

12:15 CEST

Lunch Break (Attendees on Own)

Tuesday September 24, 2019 12:15 - 13:50 CEST

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

12:15 CEST

Visit the Antwerp ZOO! (Complimentary with Conference Badge)

Tuesday September 24, 2019 12:15 - 13:50 CEST
Antwerp Zoo

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

13:50 CEST

Experience for Bringing up 800 Nodes NFV Cloud Using AUTO in China Mobile - Qiao Fu, China Mobile

We will share our experience for bring up an NFV cloud of 800 nodes using self-developed AUTO tools in Nanjing, China. The cloud is one of the resource pools that support the core network for China Mobile. It includes 800 x86 servers, and more than 150 network switches. Integrating such scale of NFV cloud requires huge work load, including configuring all the hardware, deploying multiple software, and verifying at each step to make sure no error will bring to the next level. In order to improve the efficiency and quality of integration, China Mobile develops an automatic integration and testing platform: AUTO. With AUTO, we reduce the whole integration period by almost one month.
We will share a demo video we took during the integration procedure in Nanjing, in which AUTO is configuring and checking the hardware and network connections, and within 30min, 641 errors are detected.

Speakers

Fu Qiao

Project Manager, China Mobile

Qiao Fu is a project manager at China Mobile Research Institute, working on research of network technology. Qiao Fu is responsible for the China Mobile National Experiment Network of NFV, and is also engaged in technical research of edge cloud, hardware acceleration and NFV system... Read More →

Tuesday September 24, 2019 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Beginner

13:50 CEST

Veo5G Project: A 5G Use Case for Network Data Analytics - Carlos Giraldo & Lorenzo García Cortiñas, Gradiant

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 PNDA.io LFNetworking project and how they manage thousands of Machine Learning models to predict VNF load at the mobile core. VEO5G is an example of the latest technology trends at the service of networking data analytics: Kubernetes, Spark Structured Streaming, and Timeseries Prediction through ML Regression are some of the pieces.

Speakers

Lorenzo García Cortiñas

Senior Researcher-Engineer | Intelligent Systems Department, Gradiant

Lorenzo García Cortiñas. Telecommunications Engineer by University of Vigo. Joins Gradiant in 2014, working on privacy and security projects on cloud environments (HIGEA, AVATAR, SCAPE); with theese projects he gains expertise on REST API development, SQL and NoSQL databases and... Read More →

Carlos Giraldo

Senior Researcher, Gradiant

Carlos Giraldo Rodríguez, 27 November 1984, Vigo, Spain. Carlos graduated from Vigo University in Telecommunications Engineering in 2007 with a final thesis on Delay Tolerant Networks applied to Wireless Sensors. Then he moved to Toulouse to start his PhD on Information Theory and... Read More →

Gradiant VEO5G pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

13:50 CEST

EVPN Networking between Kubernetes Containers and Openstack VMs - Vyshakh Krishnan, RtBrick & Faseela K., Ericsson

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) is the most preferred and used overlay technology that provides L2 and L3 connectivity of virtual networks over a physical underlay in data center (DC) now.

This abstract's proposal is to use EVPN to provide L2/L3 connectivity between Kubernetes Containers and Openstack VMs using OpenDayLight (ODL) SDN Controller. Containers in one DC can talk to other containers/VMs in the same as well as physically separated DC over public network using EVPN.

Speakers

Faseela K

Experienced Cloud-native Developer, Ericsson Software Technology

Vyshakh Krishnan

Software Engineer, RtBrick

Working as a software engineer in Rtbrick contributing to their web scale routing software.Previously a senior technical lead in Ericsson working in SDN controller (ODL) and L2 L3 protocols. Active contributor in opendaylight community and previously presented in ODL community and... Read More →

ONS EU19 EVPN pptx

Tuesday September 24, 2019 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Session Slides Included Yes

13:50 CEST

Project EVE - Enterprise/On-prem Edge Virtualization - Erik Nordmark, Zededa

“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 within the LF Edge Foundation: Project Eve.

The enterprise edge is different from traditional data center environments:
- Physical distribution and resulting physical and network security
- Service lifetime of 7 or more years
- Security requirements for cyber-physical systems
Yet system designers want to follow cloud native and devops approaches for deploying apps at the edge. This is why we created the Edge Virtualization Engine, or Project EVE.

This talk covers:
- Requirements of the enterprise edge environment
- Overview of Project EVE
- Zero Trust
- Zero Touch for the enterprise edge
- Providing freedom of any app, any network (technology), and any hardware.
- A brief demo

Speakers

Erik Nordmark

CTO, ZEDEDA

Erik is a co-founder and the CTO at edge orchestration company ZEDEDA, and he is an expert on architecting and implementing secure large scale software systems, with a deep understanding of the implications of the Internet on system design. Prior to joining ZEDEDA he was developing... Read More →

Project EVE enterprise Edge Virtualization pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Any

13:50 CEST

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

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 quickly by reducing friction and removing the long settlement and dispute cycles. In the case of Roaming and content, there is a great dependency on intermediaries, Network operators spend substantial amounts of time and effort to resolve the billing discrepancies between the partners and invest a lot of money to avail the roaming settlement services from the clearinghouses Interconnect is considered one of the largest operating costs and ranges from 30% to 50% of the overall operator’s business. Blockchain bases solutions will build transparency and trust across deals and ﬁnancial transactions, Increased direct control by reducing intermediary dependency and Dispute Management.

Speakers

Vipin Rathi

Assistant Professor, University of Delhi

Vipin Rathi is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Delhi. He is ChairPerson of Linux Foundation Hyperledger Telecom Special Interest Group. He started his career as a Research Fellow in CSIR. He also worked in CERN where he implemented Load balancer as... Read More →

Sunay Zelawat

Product Director - Partner Management, Subex Ltd.

Sunay currently serves as the Product Director of Partner Management portfolio. He specializes in Telecom Partner Settlement, Digital Billing, Route Optimization and Interconnect Billing. He has 12+ years of experience in the Telecom Industry. He is also a keynote speaker in forums... Read More →

Blockchain Based Settlements ONS Europe 2019 pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Enterprise IT

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

13:50 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details

Tuesday September 24, 2019 13:50 - 17:35 CEST
Gorilla 5 (Floor 1)

Unconference Tracks

13:50 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details

Tuesday September 24, 2019 13:50 - 17:35 CEST
Gorilla 4 (Floor 1)

Unconference Tracks

14:35 CEST

Lightning Talk: Automated AI Model Deployment within ONAP - Alassane Samba & Nicolas Edel, Orange

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 and updating within ONAP will be presented.

It will be accompanied by a demo that shows how new intelligent policies can be learned and updated based on the data collected from ONAP and its managed services at runtime.
Different aspects are considered such as dataset collection through a data lake, model learning from the data lake, model evaluation, model transformation into microservice, microservice deployment, microservice output usage by Policy component and the automation of the whole process facilitating model updating.

Speakers

Nicolas EDEL

Senior System Administrator, Orange

Nicolas is a FreeBSD evangelist with a strong background in IT and system administration. He worked for HPE and Telisma before joining Orange. He is currently working on Orange ONAP community lab.

Alassane Samba

Research Scientist, Orange

Alassane Samba is a data science specialist. He joined Orange in 2015 as a Research Scientist. His current research interests include artificial intelligence and network management. Since 2017, he has been involved in several Linux Foundation projects such as OPNFV, Acumos and ONAP... Read More →

Automated AI model deployment within ONAP pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 14:35 - 14:45 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Experience Level Beginner
Session Slides Included Yes

14:35 CEST

OpenStack at the vRAN Edge: PTP Live Demo, Up to Kubernetes - Franck Baudin, Red Hat

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 really enough for NFVi?

I will demonstrate, live, how to perform your OpenStack for Telco post-deployment validation, with open source standard NFV tools, and verify if the PTP accuracy is compliant with vRAN requirements, as well as Real Time characteristics. We will deep-dive on “why?” a Real Time Linux and KVM are required for PTP, and the fine tuning implied by Real Time.

I will use a typical vRAN/Edge OpenStack deployment for this demonstration, hosting Real Time virtual machines and Kubernetes Telco Containers. All typical networking features will be activated at once: SR-IOV, OVS-DPDK, KVM-RT, Distributed Compute Node, collectd, FPGA, Numa Aware vSwitch and PTP.

Speakers

Franck Baudin

Senior Principal Technical Product Manager - OpenStack NFV, Red Hat

Franck Baudin is responsible for the NFV technical strategy within Red Hat’s OpenStack product management team. He currently focuses on providing high performance network connectivity to VNFs: SR-IOV, OVS-DPDK, VPP, SmartNICs. He’s been working as a Software Architect in the... Read More →

ONS EMEA Antwerp OpenStack at the vRan Edge pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 14:35 - 15:05 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Advanced
Session Slides Included Yes

14:35 CEST

Seamless Transition to CNFs with Tungsten Fabric - Magdalena Zaremba & Jaroslaw Lukow, Codilime

One of the key strengths of LF's Tungsten Fabric is its wide range of integrations and deployment scenarios. As a proven network backend for OpenStack, it powers some of the largest NFV clouds. Now, because it can support integration with Kubernetes as a CNI plugin, it is able to seamlessly incorporate Cloud Native Network Functions into existing environments. In this talk, speakers will focus on combining hardware-virtualized and containerized services, show the TF capabilities of container networking, mixed service chaining between OpenStack instances and K8s pods, and how this can be used to bring the incorporation of CNFs closer to reality - first in your lab and later in larger setups. The benefits of this approach include earlier/easier evaluation of new services and a broader set of services possible to deploy in your existing environment.

Speakers

Jaroslaw Lukow

DevOps Engineer, Codilime

Jarek is a software engineer turned network/systems engineer turned DevOps. He has been a maintainer of the continuous integration system for the Linux Foundation's Tungsten Fabric/Contrail project before starting to work with various Contrail deployments at scale in telco environments... Read More →

Magdalena Zaremba

Software Engineer, Codilime

Magda works as a Software Engineer at Codilime. Her professional interests lie in the field of Software Defined Networks. She has been a developer on the Tungsten Fabric project. Now, as a member of the R&D departament at CodiLime, she is engaged in developing novel scenarios of integration... Read More →

Seamless Transition to CNFs with Tungsten Fabric pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 14:35 - 15:05 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

14:35 CEST

Android at the Edge - Melissa Evers-Hood, Intel Corporation

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 are also differentiated challenges- a UI for example! The prevalence of this migration to device with cloud software is seen across LF Edge projects. Many folks are looking to bring the exceptionally popular device operating system, Android, to these cloud architectures in either VM or Containerized implementations. This drive for workload consolidation and convergence presents enormous opportunities ( >2M app ecosystem, robust tooling, Google services) as well as challenges (certification, performance tuning, security). We will review LF Edge projects and pathfinding development done with AOSP and show demos of Android in a variety of scenarios.

Speakers

Melissa Evers

Vice President & General Manager, Strategy to Execution, Software and Advanced Technology Group, Intel Corporation

Melissa E. Evers is vice president iand general manager of Software Business and Ecosystme Strategy at Intel Corporation. Her responsibilities span defining software strategies and driving to execution collaborating with entities across Intel. Based in Portland, Oregon, Evers leads... Read More →

Android at the edge ONS 19Upload pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 14:35 - 15:05 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Beginner
Session Slides Included Yes

14:35 CEST

The Secret Sauce for Profitable Next Generation Managed LAN Service - Amit Navon, Huawei

LAN and WLAN are perceived as commodity services, but the clear migration towards cloud workloads and increasing WIFI consumption in campus networks introduces a paradigm shift for enterprise CIOs to offload their LAN and WLAN management to manage service providers (MSP) and reduce their organization operational costs.

MSPs targeting this domain find themselves struggling with low operational margins, as the existing market technologies don’t eliminate the massive human resource required for the planning and ongoing lifecycle phases.

During this session Amit will be showcasing the managed LAN/WLAN business opportunity for MSPs empowered by innovative cloud campus technologies, improving operational margins with minimal touch networks. providing converged LAN/WAN services, and open platform architecture to cross-sell new value-added campus services like security and acceleration.

Speakers

Amit Navon

Senior Network Research Manager, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Amit Navon is a leading Senior Network Research Manager at Huawei European Research Center. Mr. Navon is a subject matter expert for innovative Fixed and Wireless technologies. Mr. Navon has over 15 years of experience developing pioneering solutions, managing enterprise products... Read More →

The Secret Sauce for Profitable Next Generation Managed LAN Service pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 14:35 - 15:05 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Enterprise IT

Session Slides Included Yes

14:45 CEST

Lightning Talk: Deploy my AI Model using Acumos - Alassane Samba, Orange

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 asset. He will give an overview of how Acumos can help Telcos in these tasks.

Speakers

Alassane Samba

Research Scientist, Orange

Deploy AI models using Acumos pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 14:45 - 14:55 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Session Slides Included Yes

14:55 CEST

Lightning Talk: Change Your Control Loop Logic at Runtime with Adaptive Policy - Liam Fallon, Ericsson

Adaptive Policy is an approach to Policy-Based Management that allows you to specify your application’s logic as adaptable policies that can be deployed and modified as metadata while your application is running. The logic of adaptable policies uses their stimuli and environment to make decisions.

In this lightning talk, Liam gives an overview of Adaptive Policy. He describes how you can use the ONAP Policy Framework to execute and manage your adaptive policies. He sketches how you can evolve your control loop application towards full adaptive policy, where policies adapt to their stimuli and environment at run time.

Speakers

Liam Fallon

Principal Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology

Dr. Liam Fallon is a Principal Engineer at Ericsson Softare Technology, Ericsson's centre of excellence for open source development. Liam is a network management practitioner and researcher with over 30 years of industrial experience in crafting software systems in that domain. He... Read More →

ControlLoop AdaptivePolicy pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 14:55 - 15:05 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Experience Level Beginner
Session Slides Included Yes

15:20 CEST

Challenges in Implementing Closed-Loop Standard PNF-based Services in ONAP - Lessons Learned - Ali Fouladgar & Ahmad Khalil, Tata Communications

Ali will address the challenges and lessons learned SPs face during ONAP implementation that are related to event collections, telemetry and alarm correlation systems. These challenges are caused by the transition from legacy to next-gen systems which required new tools and adapters. Even though the work that is being done currently by ONAP community is crucial, (e.g. by providing Holmes and VES mapper and collector as a standard way of formatting the telemetry and event messages), it is mostly limited to VNFs and there is no solution on how to get event messages in different formats into ONAP and manipulate them by analytic applications. This presentation will highlight what is missing in this area in order to fully support, closed-loop and zero-touch provisioning for PNF-based networks. Ali will also present the work which has been done at Tata Communications related to this subject.

Speakers

Ahmad Khalil

Director, Tata Communications

The head of Architecture, Technology, Systems & Innovations (ATSI) team at Tata Communications. The team’s function is to evaluate and qualify new technologies as well as develop new services across all network layers. During his tenure at Tata Communications, Ahmad submitted various... Read More →

Ali Fouladgar

Principal Architect, Tata Communications

As a member of Architecture, Technology, Systems & Innovations (ATSI) team, Ali’s current focus is mostly on evaluating the ONAP capabilities on alarms/events correlation and close-loop automation over an underlying PNF network. He is investigating, designing and developing the... Read More →

ONS Presentation Fouladgar and Khalil pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

15:20 CEST

Responsible Use of AI and Blockchain in Telecommunications- Jason Hunt, IBM

AI is having a transformational effect on the operations of the network and surrounding operational and business processes. Blockchain is beginning to make its mark in removing inefficiencies in telco ecosystems. Yet each technology can have issues that can eliminate these business benefits. Machine learning models have been shown to suffer from bias. Some blockchain networks consume massive amounts of energy and leave data in the public. In this talk, we'll discuss the uses of AI and Blockchain in telecommunications, highlight the challenges, and discuss approaches to responsible use in a secured and trusted fashion.

Speakers

Jason Hunt

Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Jason Hunt is a Distinguished Engineer with IBM. He has over 20 years of experience working with large enterprises to design & develop market-leading solutions in areas such as blockchain, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and cloud networking. Jason also leads IBM’s open source networking... Read More →

ONS Responsible Use AI Blockchain Jason Hunt 24Sept2019 pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Experience Level Beginner
Session Slides Included Yes

15:20 CEST

Pushing the Boundaries for Cloud-native Network Functions - Franck Baudin & Marc Curry, Red Hat

Independently of being hosted on virtual machines or containers, edge deployment for radio access networks (RAN) or mobile core networks (EPC, 5GC) components will require real time processing (RT), NUMA awareness, programmable logic with FPGA, distributed computing nodes (DCN), and networking features such SR-IOV and OVS-DPDK.

Using such technologies, we will demonstrate, live, how to verify if the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) accuracy is compliant with RAN requirements, as well as real time characteristics. We will deep-dive on “why?” a real time kernel is required for PTP, and the fine tuning implied.

Join Red Hat experts to learn what are the expectations from the telecommunications industry when it comes to cloud-native network functions and how the technologies are adapting to the shift in the marketplace.

Speakers

Franck Baudin

Senior Principal Technical Product Manager - OpenStack NFV, Red Hat

Marc Curry

Consulting Product Manager, OpenShift, Red Hat

Marc Curry is a Consulting Product Manager in the Cloud Platform Business Unit with a focus on OpenShift Container Platform infrastructure and networking for application platforms. Prior to his current role, Marc was a Solution Architect specializing in open source solutions for the... Read More →

ONS EMEA Antwerp Pushing the boundaries for Cloud native Network Functions pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Session Slides Included Yes

15:20 CEST

Akraino KNI: Project Update - Ricardo Noriega & Yolanda Robla Mota, Red Hat

This session will make an introduction of the Akraino KNI blueprint family, and show what has been released in Akraino R1.

Blueprints in the Kubernetes-Native Infrastructure Blueprint Family leverage the best-practices and tools from the Kubernetes community to declaratively manage edge computing stacks at scale and with a consistent, uniform user experience from the infrastructure up to the services and from developer environments to production environments on bare metal or on public cloud.

All blueprints in this family share the following characteristics:

- K8s Machine API: declarative API to manage a configure the infrastructure of a cluster.
- Operator Framework: automated and secure lifecycle of applications running on the edge stack.
- Kubernetes-native workloads: allowing the mix of CNFs and VM-based workloads via Kubevirt.

Come and check the leading edge!

Speakers

Yolanda Robla Mota

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Having more than 15 years of experience in the industry, I have long expertise in the Open Source world. I have been contributing to several projects in the OpenShift, OpenStack and Linux Foundation communities, being core committer of several projects, specially related with infrastructure... Read More →

Ricardo Noriega

Principal Software Engineer, Emerging Technologies, Office of the CTO, Red Hat

Ricardo is a Principal Software Engineer working at the Red Hat's Office of the CTO in the Emerging Technologies organization. Ricardo is currently focused on the edge computing space, and he has been part of the MicroShift project since its inception, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution... Read More →

Akraino KNI ONS EU 2019 pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Beginner
Session Slides Included Yes

15:20 CEST

Zero Trust, Software Defined Perimeter and P4 - Omer Anson, Huawei Technologies

Suppose you want to implement Zero Trust network, where no-one can be trusted to do more than they must, and SDP, where trusted actors should be allowed access from anywhere. This way you can prevent breaches, which is good, and allow maximum flexibility for your network users, which is even better.

You could do this with smart switches and feature-rich gateways. But they are not cheap. On the other hand, commodity hardware allows you to use eBPF. This allows control all the way to the network header protocol layer, if you need it. You could bring cloud networking to your physical network.

We tried writing directly in eBPF. It’s a long, arduous task. Wouldn’t you prefer a higher-level language?

We implemented a compiler for P4 to eBPF. The result implements our SDP network dataplane.

Speakers

Omer Anson

Software Physicist, Huawei Technologies

Omer is currently a software developer for Huawei. He has 10 years of professional programming experience, with over 6 years expertise in Linux systems and networking. Omer has an M.Sc and B.Sc in Computer Science, and a B.Sc in physics. In his studies, Omer worked on Programme Analysis... Read More →

Zero trust, Software Defined Perimeter, and P4 pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Enterprise IT

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

15:50 CEST

Coffee Break

Tuesday September 24, 2019 15:50 - 16:20 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

16:20 CEST

Lightning Talk: AI Marketplace: We Make AI Accessible and Easy to Use - Jamil Chawki, Orange

Artificial Intelligence is now considered as the main paradigm for the next digital wave and industry 4.0. After an introduction of LF AI foundation projects and landscape, the Lightning Talk will introduce how Orange make AI accessible easy to deploy and to use. By creating a mutualized Open Ecosystem where producers can publish and share AI models that can be easily deployed as a micro-service, Orange AI Marketplace inspires and supports companies in developing their usage of AI, testing and deploying new AI solutions to grow their Business.

Speakers

Jamil Chawki

Intrapreneur CEO, Orange

Dr Jamil Chawki leads Orange AI Marketplace at Intrapreneurs Studio. He is Chariman of the Outreach Committee of the Linux Foundation AI Foundation. He was in charge of IT and cloud networks open source activity at Orange and convenor of the Collaborative Teams between ITU-T and ISO/IEC... Read More →

ONS AI Marketplace We make AI Accessible and easy to use pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 16:20 - 16:30 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

16:20 CEST

Automating the Deployment of 5G Network Slices with ONAP - Veronica Quintuna Rodriguez & Eric Debeau, Orange Labs

Network slicing enables network operators to meet the requirements of vertical industries by providing portions of their networks for specific purposes and/or customers.

This session exposes the design, onboarding, instantiation and distribution of a fully virtualized end-to-end 5G network slice with of ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform). The on-boarded network slice concretely represents a private, customized and independent 5G mobile network and involves both core and radio-access functions. The exposed network slice is based on a complete separation of the data- and control-plane as recommended by 3GPP.

The achieved results not only make true NFV and 5G promises, notably those referring to on-demand networks, service customization and time-to-market acceleration, but moreover they open the door to the deployment of private/tailored cloud-native 5G networks.

Speakers

Eric Debeau

Head of Network Automation, Orange

Eric Debeau has a solid 20 years experience in the telecommunications area with a particular focus on IT techniques adoption in networks and OSS domains. Through his broad experience as network architect and platform development (IMS/VoIP, network API), he is recognized as a member... Read More →

Veronica Quintuna Rodriguez

Research Engineer, Orange Labs

Veronica Quintuna Rodriguez earned dual engineering degree in electronic and computer sciences. She received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Systems Engineering from IMT Atlantique-France, in 2015. She joined the French Institute for research in computer science (Inria) and... Read More →

Automating the deployment of 5G Network Slices2 pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 16:20 - 16:50 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

16:20 CEST

Building a Unified Hybrid Cloud Networking Stack using Open Virtual Network (OVN) - Ankur Kumar Sharma & Manoj Sharma, Nutanix Inc.

Open Virtual Network (OVN) is an open-source SDN controller, providing abstractions for switching, routing, security policies, etc., with steadily improving adoption in the community. However, its implementation is predominantly overlay based, which limits its usage in on-prem deployments, where backend implementation is expected to be VLAN rather than an overlay. We would like to bring OVN control plane to on-prem deployments as well.

In this talk, we will go through the limitations in OVN for on-prem deployment and the corresponding enhancements done. We will explain how these fixes, allowed us to build a unified SDN networking stack which could be used for building on-prem private clouds and overlay backed multi-tenant public clouds. We will further explain, additional work done in OVN to provide hybrid cloud connectivity between on-prem deployments and public clouds.

Speakers

Ankur Sharma

Staff Engineer, Nutanix Inc.

I work in Cloud Networking group in Nutanix. Primarily responsible for Datapath for SDN solution deployed in Nutanix's XI Cloud services. I have presented earlier in Open Vswitch Conference 2014 (https://www.openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2014/17/1330-OVS_HyperV.pptx) and Open Vswitch... Read More →

Manoj Sharma

Staff Engineer, Nutanix Inc.

Manoj is a technical lead in cloud networking group in Nutanix Inc. He is responsible for overall SDN stack that is deployed XI Cloud Services. He has presented earlier in Open Vswitch Conference 2018 (https://www.openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2018/6/1340-sharma.pptx)

ONS 2019 OVN HYBRID CLOUD pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 16:20 - 16:50 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

16:20 CEST

Addressing IoT Protocol Soup – Leveraging a Highly Interoperable, Flexible and Open Source Edge Platform - Jason Shepherd, Dell Technologies

Today’s IoT/edge landscape often requires developers to connect a variety of sensors and devices speaking dozens of protocols into an IoT platform. The IoT platforms, after ingesting data from the sensors and devices, must prepare the data for a variety of applications, cloud systems, and analytic engines. Developers must negotiate a diversity of endpoint protocols, data formats, and special data needs. Thus, IoT platforms today and for the foreseeable future are dual transformation engines – converting OT data into IT data and then arranging it for enterprise systems and applications. In this session, learn how EdgeX Foundry – an open source, edge platform backed by more than 70 companies – provides a scalable and flexible platform that addresses the dual transformation needs of the edge.

Speakers

Jason Shepherd

Chief Technology Officer, IoT & Edge, Dell Technologies

Jason Shepherd is responsible for CTO evangelism, standards enablement, strategic ecosystem development and solution planning for the Dell Technologies IoT Solutions Division. His proven track record as a thought leader in the IoT market is evidenced through his leadership of efforts... Read More →

Tuesday September 24, 2019 16:20 - 16:50 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Beginner

16:20 CEST

Driving to the Edge: How Open APIs and Open RAN will Transform Ordinary Parking Lots into Dynamic Data Centers - Natasha Tamaskar, Radisys

Self-driving cars are bringing the cloud to the most mundane of locations – the city parking lot. But this brings density and network congestion challenges as these cars demand access to mobile networks to receive updates. The emergence of 5G will support these new applications, while moving the network closer to the edge. Natasha Tamskar will discuss how open APIs, Open RAN solutions, CBRS, and small cells combine to enable disaggregation and virtualization at the network edge, enabling new use cases such as driver assistance services (self-parking, etc.).

Ultimately, the influx of local processing power and real-time data from self-driving cars will provide operators, developers, city planners and automotive manufacturers an opportunity to monetize the new data centers that will populate smart parking lots.

Speakers

Natasha Tamaskar

Vice President, Global Marketing and Sales Strategy, Radisys

Natasha heads corporate & product marketing and sales strategy for Radisys. Named last year as one of the Global Telecoms Business “50 Women to Watch,” Natasha brings nearly 20 years of telecom industry experience with particular expertise in product and corporate marketing, product... Read More →

ONS 2019 Antwerp Radisys CLEAN pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 16:20 - 16:50 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Enterprise IT

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

16:40 CEST

Lightning Talk: Can Blockchain and Machine Learning Cooperate? - Lorella Carbone, IBM

The role of collaborative technologies in training AI systems: How to adopt a blockchain approach to contribute to Visual Recognition Framework increasing accuracy in detection of plant diseases. The solution leverages permissioned blockchain like Hyperledger Fabric and Visual Recognition services like IBM Watson Visual Recognition. This new architectural paradigm has been applied in designing and implementing a 5G use case for a major Italian Telco company.

Speakers

Lorella Carbone

IT Specialist, IBM

Lorella is one of the technical specialist of the "5G Program" for a major Italian CSP and she joined last month in the IBM 5G Team. In day by day activities, she's able to manage the intersection of many new technologies and application paradigms, providing deep knowledge in AI/ML... Read More →

ONS EU19 Lorella Carbone pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 16:40 - 16:50 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

17:05 CEST

ONAP Controller Framework Evolution with CDS - Alexis de Talhouët & Marc-Alexandre Choquette, Bell Canada

A lot of existing controllers focus on transport, by implementing southbound protocols such as NetConf, OpenFlow, etc...

This generic controller also focuses on content, and follow the Inversion of Control pattern. Using a model-driven approach, leveraging TOSCA, network designer are able to define their config provisioning/lice cycle management action in a self-serve manner.

This lightweight micro-service platform has two main capabilities:
1- Focuses on resources required for a given action, source(s), and how to resolve and transform them using templates
2- Enables the self-serve teams to own the configuration logic by providing scripts, or by acting as proxy to 3rd party systems (incl. vendor EMS).

The execution of the former occurs in separate micro-service, able to scale horizontally under load.

Speakers

Marc-Alexandre Choquette

Distinguished member of Technology, Bell Canada

Distinguished member of Technology - Network orchestration in Bell Canada's network technology & services organization, 20 years experience in OSS & BSS development, architecture & operation at Bell Canada.

Alexis de Talhouet

Senior Technical Architect - Network Automation, Bell Canada

ONS ONAP Controller Framework Evolution with CDS pptx

Tuesday September 24, 2019 17:05 - 17:35 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

17:05 CEST

ONAP Native VNF Onboarding with NETCONF / YANG- Sharing of Learnings by Working with ONAP Fundamentals - Marc Fiedler, Deutsche Telekom

DT and Affirmed Networks will share their experience in onboarding and management of a cloud native core with ONAP. Sharing experience by using NETCONF / YANG. Updating particular container images and many more.

Speakers

Marc Fiedler

Architect, Deutsche Telekom AG

20+ years experience in Telco busines Last 5 years active in LFN, TAC rep. from DT, DT is activly contributing to ONAP, SMO Dev, O-RAN

Cloud native config ons v02 pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 17:05 - 17:35 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

17:05 CEST

Aggregating Mobile Operator Edge Compute Infrastructure with End to End Network Slicing - Sukhdev Kapur, Juniper Networks & Rolf Muralt, MobiledgeX

We believe that edge is the missing piece in a new value chain that expands the types of devices on mobile networks, secures IOT, enables next generation content (AR/MR), readies mobile infrastructure for large scale handling of video ingress along with computer vision and machine learning services and is needed for autonomous devices.

MobiledgeX and Juniper will present a blueprint that is the outcome of their collaboration in aggregating highly distributed operator infrastructure on a global scale and deliver normalized, abstracted interfaces to application developers and device makers. To achieve service level objectives the application desires, such as low latency in mobile gaming or guaranteed throughput in CDN, MobiledgeX’s edge framework communicate with Tungsten Fabric orchestrated network slicing to provision virtual networks end to end. All of this is open sourced software.

Speakers

Rolf Muralt

Vice President of Product Management, MobiledgeX

Rolf Muralt is the Vice President of Product Management at MobiledgeX, leading the overall product strategy and roadmap. MobiledgeX is building a marketplace of edge resources and services that will connect developers with the world's largest mobile networks to power the next generation... Read More →

Sukhdev Kapur

Distinguished Engineeer, Juniper Networks

MobiledgeX Juniper TF Blueprint Sept 2019 final pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 17:05 - 17:35 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

17:05 CEST

Running VM Workloads Side by Side with Container Workloads - Sebastian Scheele, Loodse

On Kubernetes clusters, cloud native workloads and (legacy) VM workloads can run side by side. KubeVirt is a project to bring declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to VM creation, configuration, and management. In this talk, I will demonstrate how you can use the KubeVirt to set up and manage VM inside of a Kubernetes cluster. I will be describing how KubeVirt leverages CPU virtualization to implement a stronger security architecture for Kubernetes.

When combining both approaches, we can run a wider range of workloads, from container cloud-native applications to lift-and-shift applications with KubeVirt.

Speakers

Sebastian Scheele

CEO & Co-Founder, Kubermatic

Sebastian Scheele is CEO and co-founder of Kubermatic, a start-up with +90 employees that focuses on developing open-source software solutions for automating Kubernetes operations, at scale. Sebastian, a developer himself, has his finger on the pulse of where the Kubernetes landscape... Read More →

Running VM Workloads Side by Side with Container Workloads pdf

Tuesday September 24, 2019 17:05 - 17:35 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Enterprise IT

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

17:30 CEST

Onsite Attendee Reception & Tech Showcase

Join your fellow attendees after sessions conclude for drinks, canapes, networking and the opportunity to check out the latest and greatest sponsor products and technologies!

Tuesday September 24, 2019 17:30 - 19:00 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

08:30 CEST

Morning Coffee Hour

Grab a coffee before keynotes start on Wednesday morning. While there will be light snacks available, breakfast will not be provided. Breakfast is included in the room rate at our partner hotel, Radisson Blu Antwerp.

Wednesday September 25, 2019 08:30 - 09:30 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

08:30 CEST

Technical Showcase

Wednesday September 25, 2019 08:30 - 16:15 CEST
Atrium

Technical Showcase

08:30 CEST

Registration

Wednesday September 25, 2019 08:30 - 16:30 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

09:30 CEST

Keynote Panel Discussion: Unifying the Edge - IoT, Enterprise, Telco and Cloud - Melissa Evers-Hood, Intel Corporation; Erik Nordmark, ZEDEDA; Jason Shepherd, Dell Technologies; and moderated by Will Townsend, Moor Insights & Strategy & Forbes Contrib

Speakers

Erik Nordmark

CTO, ZEDEDA

Melissa Evers

Vice President & General Manager, Strategy to Execution, Software and Advanced Technology Group, Intel Corporation

Will Townsend

Vice President & Principal Analyst, Networking & Security, Moor Insights & Strategy

Will Townsend is a frequent Forbes contributor and advises some of the largest networking and telecommunications companies in the world. His more than thirty years of experience spans tenures spent with iconic companies such as Dell & Hewlett-Packard, serving in several senior level... Read More →

Jason Shepherd

Chief Technology Officer, IoT & Edge, Dell Technologies

Wednesday September 25, 2019 09:30 - 09:55 CEST
Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

10:00 CEST

Keynote: A Brief Update on Cloud Native Telecom - Dan Kohn, Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Speakers

Dan Kohn

General Manager, Linux Foundation Public Health, Linux Foundation

CNCF ONS Antwerp 2019 09 25 pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 10:00 - 10:07 CEST
Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

10:10 CEST

Keynote: 5G + AI + Orchestration: Where Do We Stand? - Dr. Junlan Feng, Chief Scientist, China Mobile Research Institute

5G is commercially available for certain regions and is on the fastest way to serve globally. Does 5G need to be orchestrated? Should 5G be operated and orchestrated intelligently? Where do we stand now? In this talk, we will address these questions in the context of 2019, the first year of the 5G Era. Possible solutions will be offered and discussed.

Speakers

Dr. Junlan Feng

Chief Scientist, China Mobile Research Institute

Junlan Feng is Vice Chairman of the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, Chief Scientist at China Mobile, General Manager of AI and Intelligent Operation R&D Center, Board Chair of Linux Foundation Network.Dr. Feng received her Ph.D. on Speech Recognition from Chinese... Read More →

Wednesday September 25, 2019 10:10 - 10:30 CEST
Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

10:30 CEST

Coffee Break

Wednesday September 25, 2019 10:30 - 11:15 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

11:15 CEST

Accelerating 5G Slicing Deployment via Open Source and Open Standards - Lingli Deng, China Mobile

5G is coming to scale deployment with its appealing killer application on-demand slice automation, which has been the most highlighted use-case of ONAP community lately. 3GPP SA5 defines the 5G slice management reference architecture. TMF discusses the linkage with BSS and 3GPP slicing system. There are multiple implementations of 5G slicing based on ONAP. This presentation summarizes the different ways in which the three ONAPs support slice orchestration and management implementation. It discusses the possible deployment methods of different operators using ONAP to support slicing in different scenarios, and how to further improve the various projects of ONAP to support the next step of improvement of these deployment methods, including collaboration proposals with the relevant standards organizations.

Speakers

Lingli Deng

Technical Manager, China Mobile

Lingli obtained her Doctorate in Computer Application Technology from the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences and joined China Mobile in 2009.She is a core member of the Novonet project which drives SDN/NFV strategy for China Mobile, and has been working on evaluation... Read More →

Wednesday September 25, 2019 11:15 - 11:45 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Intermediate

11:15 CEST

Orange WAN Automation Vision Leveraged by ONAP - Olivier Augizeau, Orange

Orange expect WAN (Wide Area Network) automation to be an opportunity to improve the operational efficiency and to support new on-demand businesses. Orange view on why automating networks and what to automate will be presented. Then the how to automate prospects will be described with a strong relation with ONAP. This part will be concretely elaborated with references with the demos and conferences related to WAN automation proposed this year by Orange at the ONS Europe.

Speakers

Olivier Augizeau

WAN Automation project manager, Orange

Current position: Orange Labs Networks - WAN Automation Project Manager Previously: - Orange Labs / b-com Institute of Research and Technology: Network Architect in a SDN research collaborative project - Orange France: Head of IP Network Operations Security and Automation ICC 2016... Read More →

V2 Orange WAN automation vision leverage by ONAP pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 11:15 - 11:45 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

11:15 CEST

The TOSCA Datacenter - Tal Liron, Red Hat

TOSCA has been making inroads into the datacenter and it's high time we asked of it to take us all the way. Originally, it was aimed at deploying on-top-of-the-cloud workloads with the Simple Profile. Then the Simple Profile for NFV was introduced for modeling network services, again on-top-of-the-cloud. But what about the infrastructure? And how does networking fit in there, as a part-of-the-infrastructure workload? In this presentation we'll show how it's possible to use the full potential of TOSCA's object-oriented paradigm and its substitution feature to compose coherent topologies from hardware to networks to applications. This will allow for a more integrated and more manageable datacenter architecture, ready to tackle the ever increasing complexity of our cloud use cases.

Speakers

Tal Liron

Google

Tal has been working in the cloud orchestration space for several years. He is currently in the networking team of CTO office of Red Hat, where he focuses on ONAP integration, and previously was at Cloudify. He is the creator of the Puccini TOSCA compiler and has worked on the ARIA... Read More →

The TOSCA Datacenter pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 11:15 - 11:45 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

11:15 CEST

Panel Discussion: OSF Edge Computing Activities – Building a Solid Foundation - Beth Cohen, Verizon; Ildiko Vancsa, OpenStack Foundation; Chris Price, Ericsson; Gergely Csatari, Nokia

Edge Computing continues to be of great interest the Open Source Community over the past few years. Since publishing a white paper in March 2018, the OpenStack Edge Computing Working Group has been working tirelessly on defining what Edge Computing is, gathering use case requirements, identifying Open Source Community project synergies, and most recently, determining a set of reference architectures based on the gathered requirements. During this session, we will be covering the reference architectures and what activities we will be doing to complete this next step in the journey.

Join us as the working group leadership discusses what we have been doing, how we have been engaged with the larger Open Source communities, and what we will be working on in the future.

Speakers

Ildiko Vancsa

Director of Community, Open Infrastructure Foundation

Ildikó is working for the Open Infrastructure Foundation as Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem. As part of her role, she is the Community Manager for the StarlingX open source edge cloud project and a co-leader of the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group. Ildikó has been contributing... Read More →

Gergely Csatari

Senior Open Source Specialist, Nokia

Gergely is working in the central part of Nokia-s OSPO and partially responsible for the outgoing contributions. He is also responsible for cloud infrastructures a contributor to Anuket, the OpenInfra ECG and the CNCF TUG. Speaker experiences cover several presentations in OpenStack... Read More →

Christopher Price

CEO, Ericsson Software Technology

Chris leads open source industry collaboration for Ericsson in the areas of NFV, Cloud & SDN from the CTO’s office in Sweden. Chris’ experiences include leading Ericssons' IP&Broadband network architecture and standardization teams and a rich history with the development of technology... Read More →

Beth Cohen

SDN Product Strategist, Verizon

ONS Antwerp EWG Sept2019 v1 pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 11:15 - 11:45 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

11:15 CEST

Provisioning IoT Devices - Cagdas Doner, AirTies Wireless Networks

IoT devices need to get configured for Internet access. As they are constrained devices with lack of input peripherals, they require a configurator smartphone for data exchange. The exchanged data might be Wi-Fi SSID and password like credentials. There are several methods to accomplish this task but due to user interaction, must be finalized with an elegant experience.

In this representation, most popular device provisioning methods will be covered. You will learn about vendor based implementations and their infrastructures like 802.11 AP, monitor and promiscuous mode. Not only 802.11 but also other provisioning mediums like sound and light will be highlighted.
Cagdas's experimental visible light communication based method will be also represented and you will have a tiny demo at the end of the session.

Links:
https://youtu.be/gfkq_h9gwhQ
https://github.com/cagdasdoner/Modulazy

Speakers

Cagdas Doner

Senior Software Engineer, AirTies Wireless Networks

Cagdas is a software senior with a strong background of wireless technologies and IoT. He worked 8 years at Vestel Electronics with a focus on IoT and embedded devices. Now he is developing mesh and client oriented software at AirTies Wireless Networks for creating a seamless Wi-Fi... Read More →

iot provisioning cagdas doner pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 11:15 - 11:45 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Advanced
Session Slides Included Yes

11:15 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details

Wednesday September 25, 2019 11:15 - 12:30 CEST
Gorilla 5 (Floor 1)

Unconference Tracks

11:15 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details

Wednesday September 25, 2019 11:15 - 12:30 CEST
Gorilla 4 (Floor 1)

Unconference Tracks

12:00 CEST

Lightning Talk: Using Edge to Reduce Latency Between End Users and Cloud - Nathaniel Moore, StackPath

Cloud datacenters are located where power and cooling are inexpensive. These are far away from population centers, where end users actually live. Since higher latency means lower bandwidth, performance from the Cloud can suffer. Edge Computing sits inbetween the two, terminating end user connections locally, and allowing for buffering and additional computing logic to be executed as close to the end user as possible, while still communicating changes with Cloud-based systems. This kind of asynchronous capability means that applications can accelerate delivery to the end user while still forwarding needed updates and other state information to the Cloud.

Speakers

Nathaniel Moore

Director, Performance Engineering, StackPath

Nathan Moore is the Director of Performance Engineering at StackPath. He has been heavily involved in the online CDN industry for over 7 years in roles ranging from Principal Architect through Director. He specializes in the technologies which allow online experiences to be delivered... Read More →

NathanMoore LightningTalk ONS2019 pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 12:00 - 12:10 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

12:00 CEST

Panel Discussion: Tosca VNF Validation for OVP Program - Yan Yang, China Mobile; Rabi Abdel, Vodafone; Haibin Huang, Intel Corporation; Kanagaraj Manickam, Huawei

The LFN OVP is an open-source, community-led compliance and verification program to demonstrate the readiness and availability of commercial NFV products and services, including NFVI and VNFs, using LFN components.

The aim is to bring more consolidation and consistency between ONAP and OPNFV eco-system to deliver a complete certification and verification program for both VNFs and NFVI.
In the presentation, we are going to introduce the joint demonstration work about TOSCA VNF validation within OVP.

What can you expect to learn?
- How ONAP works to manage and orchestrate the Tosca VNF
- An opened test framework for VNF Certification(both Compliance Testing and Lifecycle Testing)
- xx

Speakers

Kanagaraj Manickam

Lead Architect, Huawei Technologies India

Kanag is having expertise in NFV cloud &Orchestration domains, focusing mainly on LFNOVP for VNF testing & certifications and he hasestablished VNF Test platform (VTP) in ONAPVNFSDK for OVP and along with CVC team, hedemoed VNF compliance and validation testing inONS NA & EU 2019... Read More →

Victor Gao

Huawei Technologies Architect, Huawei

Weitao (Victor) Gao, the architect of EdgeGallery, an open source mec project. ONAP VNFSDK Project PTL，Senior Software Engineer of Huawei Cloud Network Opensource Department. LF Networking Community CVC Committee Huawei representative, mainly active in VNF certification, MANO, ETSI... Read More →

Rabi Abdel

Network Virtualization and SSDN/NFV Lead Architect, Vodafone

Rabi Abdel is a lead NFV & SDN Architect and Vodafone with a practical experience in Building, Automating, Accelerating, and Operating Vodafone Telco Clouds. He holds 5 Patents in the field and have a PhD degree in Computer Networking and Engineering from the University of Nottingham... Read More →

Haibin Huang

Cloud Software Engineer, Intel

Haibin Huang is an engineer of Open Source Technology Center (OTC), Intel. Haibin joined Intel in 2016. He has been working on Huawei after he graduated from Zhejiang University and got his Master's degree in Computer Science. He always works on low-level Virtualization Technology... Read More →

Yan Yang

Senior Architect, China Mobile Research Institute

Yan Yang has more than 8 years experience in software design and development in telecom industry and 6 years experience in open source development and management, mainly focusing on NFV domain management and orchestration, VNF testing & certifications, evaluation solutions for artificial... Read More →

Wednesday September 25, 2019 12:00 - 12:30 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Intermediate

12:00 CEST

The Ideal ONAP - Eric Debeau, Orange

ONAP provides a rich framework to design and manage the full lifecycle service in an automatic way.
While Dublin release has been just released, there are still some gaps to reach the promise of describing and providing any lifecycle operations.

ONAP design-time tool provides a rich set of tools to model services, configure parameters and describe policies or closed-loops.

But when designing a service, the VNF descriptor is the emerged part of the modeling and there's still a lot of manual steps to prepare the full set of needed actions that will be executed during Day1/2 operations.

Eric will provide a brief overview of the existing ONAP features allowing to automate the deployment and post configuration of services based on various PoC/trials.

Eric will also address the next challenges for the coming releases to ease ONAP adoption and to fully take benefit from this powerful framework.

Speakers

Eric Debeau

Head of Network Automation, Orange

Our ideal ONAP pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 12:00 - 12:30 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

12:00 CEST

NUMA Awareness in Kubernetes with Topology Manager - Louise Daly, Intel Corporation & Feng Pan, Red Hat

Kubernetes is becoming the choice orchestrator for containerized deployments, with users flocking to it. More workloads are becoming performance sensitive to achieve the results now expected of them. K8s has started to evolve to cater for such workloads with the creation of the CPU and Device Manager to handle the compute and device resources on a K8s node. However, these components act independently of each other, which results in sub-optimal resource allocations. These less than ideal resource allocations can severely impact performance sensitive workloads. We are working in the K8s community to introduce a Topology Manager component that will co-ordinate these resource allocations, to ensure optimal performance.This talk will introduce and demonstrate the Topology Manager, showcase benchmark results showcasing its benefits and finally discuss the different use cases this applies to.

Speakers

Feng Pan

Sr. Manager, Software Engineering, OpenShift, Red Hat

Feng leads the OpenShift network engineering organization, responsible for all networking related features and roadmaps for OpenShift platform. Previously, Feng led Office of The CTO Networking team.

Louise Daly

Software Engineer, Intel Corporation

Software Engineer at Intel. Working towards cloud native orchestration of workloads, currently looking at enabling compute resources in Kubernetes such as CPU Pinning & Isolation, Topology Awareness, Huge Pages etc. to improve application performance, provide predicable performance... Read More →

NUMA Awarness in Kubernetes pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 12:00 - 12:30 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

12:00 CEST

Multi-Access, Multi-Edge Access with Akraino - Tapio Tallgren, Nokia & Ferenc Szekely, SUSE

The ETSI Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) started with the idea that a base station can host a server. The benefits of being close are low latency -- critical for AR/VR applications -- and processing information close to the producer so that all does not need to be transmitted.

The Akraino MEC API Framework project creates tools that translate the ETSI APIs to programming language interfaces, and provides a repository where applications can find available APIs. The Akraino uMEC project is an ultra-small MEC platform that can be deployed in a lightpole in a Smart City, along a Smart Highway, or in a liftfork in a Smart Factory.

We tested the uMEC concept in a hackathon in Finland, with the task to create new applications for smart city denizens. We are planning to create a demo platform next that would allow the participants to create applications that will use real MEC APIs.

Speakers

Ferenc Székely

Developer Program, SUSE

Working at SUSE's Developer Program. We are helping companies on their cloud transformation journey. I am looking forward hearing about interesting uses cases where uMEC (Micro MEC) would be a potential solution.

Tapio Tallgren

Technical Leader, Nokia

Multi Access Multi Edge Access with Akraino incl demo pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 12:00 - 12:30 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Intermediate

12:10 CEST

Lightning Talk: Auto Test Case Generation from Cloud Definition Using Rule-based Systems - Sridhar Rao, Spirent Communications

In this talk, Sridhar will present how one can take advantage of Infrastructure as code, by generating testcase automatically from the cloud definition files such as blueprints, templates, config-files, etc, using a rule-based systems such as Drools. In this talk, Sridhar will take Airship's blueprints and templates as example cloud infrastructure definition, and VNF package definitions for application information. The testcases that will be generated from reading these files would be OPNFV Testcases from different testing projects such as functest, yardstick and VSPERF. Though the Idea is novel, which has never been explored before, the challenge is in designing a rules engine to auto generate the testcases. This challenge will be the focus of the talk.

Speakers

Sridhar Rao

Architect, Spirent Communications

Sridhar received his Ph.D degree in computer science from National University of Singapore, in 2007. Sridhar’s research interests are mainly in the domain of next-generation wired and wireless networking, and use of Machine-Learning in Networking. Sridhar is currently working as... Read More →

Wednesday September 25, 2019 12:10 - 12:20 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Intermediate

12:20 CEST

Lightning Talk: Observability for Containerized NW Slice with OSS vEPC - Yuki Kasuya, KDDI

Cloud Native network is one of the innovation for Telecoms because improving the agility and flexibility of a 5G network make our life better. CNFs are core functions of 5G and Observability for CNFs is a key factor for providing a stable network to customers. KDDI expands its project that Yuki presented the previous ONS to investigating the way of Observability for CNFs, especially for metrics/traces, and one of the scopes is NW Slice.

He deploys vEPC as CNF for building NW environment on public cloud and he uses OpenAirInterface, istio, envoy, prometheus, spinnaker and some tracing tools.

In this presentation, Yuki will show a live/video demo on GCP and share requirements from the perspective of observability.

Speakers

Yuki Kasuya

Research Engineer, KDDI Research

Yuki Kasuya has been engaged in research on the infrastructure management in KDDI Research. He is currently investigating the infrastructure operation for NFV, IoT and CloudNative network, especially, the fault management for those area. He also has over 5 years experiences of actual... Read More →

Observability ONS Euro 2019 pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 12:20 - 12:30 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Beginner
Session Slides Included Yes

12:30 CEST

Lunch Break (Attendees on Own)

Wednesday September 25, 2019 12:30 - 13:50 CEST

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

12:30 CEST

Visit the Antwerp ZOO! (Complimentary with Conference Badge)

Wednesday September 25, 2019 12:30 - 13:50 CEST
Antwerp Zoo

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

13:50 CEST

BBS: Broadband Services Orchestration with ONAP - David Perez Caparros, Swisscom & Victor Gao, Huawei Technologies

BBS aims at enabling ONAP for the design, provisioning, life-cycle management, and assurance of broadband services, such as multi-Gigabit Internet Connectivity services based on PON (Passive Optical Network) access technology. The use case covers new scenarios, such as nomadic ONT (Optical Network Terminal) and service subscription plan changes.

BBS use case shows the extensibility of the ONAP platform in supporting the orchestration of services across different locations (e.g., Central Office, Core) and technology domains (e.g., Access, Edge).

Speakers

Victor Gao

Huawei Technologies Architect, Huawei

David Perez Caparros

Lead Engineer, Swisscom

David is a Lead DevOps Engineer in the Operations and Network Engineering department at Swisscom, where he is engaged in the development of Swisscom's 5G service orchestration and slicing management systems, based on NFV, SDN, network automation and open source technologies. Prior... Read More →

20190925 ONS ONAP BBS Broadband Service final pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

13:50 CEST

Panel Discussion: The Common NFVi Task Force (CNTT): Building Consensus on NFV Infrastructure - Beth Cohen, Verizon; Mark Cottrell, AT&T Labs; Rabi Abdel & Markus Wuepping, Vodafone; Qiao Fu, China Mobile; Vincent Danno, Orange

Work on creating a common understanding for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is underway with projects such as Cloud Native Networking, ONAP, and the OPNFV testing program. However, NFVs need to be deployed somewhere – in a Data Center, a Central Office or a box on the edge. That infrastructure piece does not have a well-defined standard. To address the gap, the Common NFVi Task Force (CNTT) has been created by a coalition of global telecom leaders to establish a reference model, discrete architectures and a common understanding of the infrastructure needed to support the NFVs.

After an introduction to the CNTT framework, we will discuss the task force charter and goals, the joint GSMA/OPNFV sponsorship, details of the effort to build a common reference language and architecture, and most importantly how you as a vendor or provider can contribute to and benefit from the project.

Speakers

Markus Wuepping

Head of Cloud Centre of Excellence, Vodafone

Markus Wuepping is leading the Cloud Centre of Excellence in Vodafone Group Technology and responsible for defining the strategy and architecture for Vodafone's network and IT cloud platforms.

Fu Qiao

Project Manager, China Mobile

Vincent Danno

Director IoT, Wireline, Virtualisation, Orange

Vincent Danno is Director of Standards in Orange. His responsibility includes all wireline networks and home networks, IoT platform, as well as virtualisation. In his role, he defines strategy and policy, and leads Orange’s standardisation activities to set the direction and lead... Read More →

Rabi Abdel

Network Virtualization and SSDN/NFV Lead Architect, Vodafone

Mark Cottrell

Assistant Vice President, AT&T Labs

Mark Cottrell leads several areas within AT&T Network Cloud, including Integrated System Test (IST), Production Validation Test (PVT), Operational Readiness Test (ORT), Penetration Test (Security), Tier 4 Production Support, Audit Compliance, and Security. For the overall SDN platform... Read More →

Beth Cohen

SDN Product Strategist, Verizon

CNTT Introduction ONS Europe Sept2019 Final pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

13:50 CEST

IPv6-only Networks for Containers Orchestration - Valentin Ouvrard, Nautile.nc

Each containers got his own IP address and talk to each other using different network solution (Overlay or Routing). Sadly, Containers world is dominated by IPv4, like in many other area. In this talk, we will see how IPv6-only can be used in container orchestration platform (Kubernetes), how it can improve security, reliability and the future of your applications hosting and finally how it can be a bit complicated to set up.

Speakers

Valentin Ouvrard

DevOps Engineer, Nautile.sarl

I'm the main DevOps engineer in our company, a local ISP in New-Caledonia with +5000 customers. I implemented DevOps good practices in our company, by implementing containers in production, CI/CD deployments with auto build and tests and I have build a production IPv6-only Kubernetes... Read More →

IPv6 only network for containers orchestration pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Session Slides Included Yes

13:50 CEST

Panel Discussion: Harnessing the Kubernetes (K8s) Ecosystem for Edge Automation & Computing - Ramki Krishnan, VMware; Davide Cherubini, Vodafone; Mike Elliott, Amdocs; Srinivasa Rao Addepalli, Intel Corporation; Catherine Lefevre, AT&T

Edge computing industry is increasingly using cloud technologies for seamless migration of workloads across edges and clouds. For seamless mobility workloads, K8s is a key requirement for all CSPs. Also, K8s is being thought to be good infrastructure orchestrator for all deployment types (VMs, containers and functions). As an example, collection/learning/inference components of a typical analytics app are distributed across edges and clouds. Many applications, including ONAP distributed analytics work assumes that the edges and clouds are K8s enabled.

This panel discusses existing work and novel ways of realizing a consistent app lifecycle management across distributed clouds using the extensibility of K8s ecosystem. This work is currently happening in ONAP as part of the Edge Automation effort and we see this impactful to other open source efforts such as Akraino, K8s Edge WG etc.

Speakers

Davide Cherubini

Lead Open Source, Vodafone

Davide is Lead Software, Open Source and Labs in the Strategy, Planning and Operations team of the Cloud & Automation Centre of Excellence in Vodafone Group. His current responsibilities are Open Source Programs Coordination, Go-to Market Strategies and the End-to-End Cloud Architecture... Read More →

Mike Elliott

Principal Engineer, Amdocs

Mike is a Chief Architect at Amdocs and previously the PTL for the OOM project. He brings more than 25 years of experience building highly scalable, performant platforms and software solutions. Mike has been involved as a committer in every release of ONAP since its inception. He... Read More →

Srinivasa Addepalli

Sr. Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation

Srini Addepalli is a Sr. Principal Engineer in NEX/NPG business unit of Intel Corporation. He is one of the principal architects of networking, security & Edge technologies for the Network Function Virtualization/Containerization (NFV/NFC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN). Srini... Read More →

Catherine Lefevre

Assistant Vice President, Network Systems Common Platform & Services, AT&T Technology Services

Catherine Lefèvre is in charge of 140+ unique applications, to support key AT&T business initiatives (5G RAN/Access Automation, 5G Core/Network Cloud, Accelerated C-Band Deployment, SD-WAN, Fiber, ROADM, FirstNet, NetBond, Win@Home). She serves as ONAP TSC Chair since September 25th... Read More →

Ramki Krishnan

Lead Technologist, Open Source, VMware

Ramki, with 20+ years of industry experience, has a deep understanding of various technologies and strong business acumen to lead and transform innovation into customer-winning products. Currently, at VMware, he is responsible for Telco/Enterprise open source technology vision, strategy... Read More →

towards all k8s pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 13:50 - 14:20 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

13:50 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details

Wednesday September 25, 2019 13:50 - 17:30 CEST
Gorilla 4 (Floor 1)

Unconference Tracks

13:50 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details

Wednesday September 25, 2019 13:50 - 17:30 CEST
Gorilla 5 (Floor 1)

Unconference Tracks

14:35 CEST

Container Network Functions or Cloud Native Network Functions for 5G - Azhar Sayeed, Red Hat

Containers encapsulate microservices and allow flexibility and reusability with respect to deployment of components. However, they also create complexity as a single network function can be divided into several micro services and in turn into several containers. These micro services must now be packaged together and managed together to exhibit the behavior of a network function.

This presentation looks at containerization of DU code as an example to show how a VM based DU can be disaggregated into micro services and what challenges we face when deploying such containers on bare metal and Kubernetes environment.

Topics such as KNI, Istio and Real time kernel will be discussed in context to building a containerized network function for 5G.

Speakers

Azhar Sayeed

Sr. Director, Solution Architecture, Red Hat

Azhar Syeed is the global solution architect for Telco (5G) for RH. He has decades of experience with networking and telcos. Azhar was instruemental in our current startegy of OCP on BM for Telcos

5G Cloud Native ONS Antwerp pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 14:35 - 15:05 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Advanced
Session Slides Included Yes

14:35 CEST

Enabling DPDK in Akraino and Airship for 5G networks - Georg Kunz, Ericsson & Cheng Li, Intel Corporation

The Akraino project is defining and implementing reference software stacks to enable edge use cases. In case of 5G networks, network performance is key. For this reason, we have been working on a performance optimized software stack in Akraino by adding support for OpenVswitch with DPDK to the Network Cloud Unicycle blueprint. To this end, we introduced DPDK support to the underlying Airship and OpenStack-Helm projects.

In this presentation, we will talk about our motivation for enabling DPDK support in the Network Cloud blueprint. We will introduce the high-level design of the software stack and provide an overview of how we leverage it for 5G vRAN deployments. Finally, we will dive into the technical implementation in the Airship and OpenStack-Helm projects and showcase how we achieved and leveraged cross-project collaboration.

Speakers

Cheng Li

Software Engineer, Intel Corporation

Cheng Li has 3 years experiences in OpenStack, focusing on Neutron, Cinder, and Ironic. He is also working on OpenStack deployment automation using Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes.

Georg Kunz

Open Source Program Manager, Ericsson

Georg is an open source advocate and a long-term contributor to a wide range of open source communities and projects, such as OpenStack, OPNFV, CNTT, CNCF, Anuket, Akraino, and Airship. He is serving on the Technical Steering Committee of the Anuket project and has been on the TSC... Read More →

OVS DPDK ONSEU19 pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 14:35 - 15:05 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

14:35 CEST

Cloud Native Network Provisioning with Network Service Mesh in the CNF Testbed - Taylor Carpenter, Vulk Coop & Nikolay Nikolaev, VMware

Network Service Mesh (NSM) is a CNCF sandbox project. NSM augments the Kubernetes networking to support running workloads for domains which are not covered by the default networking provided in K8s in a declarative cloud native manner. The CNF Testbed is an initiative within the CNCF to verify and layer the grounds of Cloud-native Network Function standardization. Both groups worked together for the last several months and implemented a set of use-cases, which target to prove the viability of the approach and allow for a practical look at deploying and maintaining solutions based on Cloud-native technologies. The session will present the work done, the current status, some conclusions and possible directions. An active feedback from the wider community and the audience is perceived as well as a post-session discussions.

Speakers

Taylor Carpenter

CNF WG Co-Chair, Partner Vulk Coop, Vulk Coop

Nikolay Nikolaev

Engineering Manager, Isovalent

Nikolay Nikolaev is an Engineering Manager at Isovalent's Datapath team. For more than 20 years, he has been implementing networking software ranging from hardware boxes to powerful server applications and virtualized data planes. He spent some time in the virtualization world using... Read More →

[ONSEU 2019] NSM in CNF testbed pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 14:35 - 15:05 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

14:35 CEST

Next Generation of SDN/NFV – A New Metro Computing Network - Ruobin Zheng, Huawei Technologies

The industry faces a strategic transformation from “device, PIPE and cloud” to “device, EDGE and cloud”. Four challenges of this transformation will be discussed: Scalability, Statistical computing multiplexing, multi-cloud networking and routing. A new Metro-Computing Network is proposed connecting computation to data dynamically and making edge islands just like one whole cloud with the purpose of network-level scalability and best statistical computing multiplexing. SRv6 like ServiceWire is introduced to support not only network programmability but also computing programmability. Finally, an innovative compute-aware routing is discussed to address edge-computing routing difficulty. It expands the routing domain to the computing domain, inject the computing capability into the network. Thus, the network can select the best edge-computing sites along the best route for computing tasks.

Speakers

Ruobin Zheng

Chief Expert, Huawei Technologies

Ruobin Zheng received the B.Eng degree from Xiamen University, China and M.Sc degrees from Univ. of Waterloo, Canada, in electronic engineering. He currently works for Huawei and is the chief expert of Edge-Computing Network, 2012 lab. With more than twenty years of R&D experience... Read More →

Next generation of SDNNFV – A new Metro Computing Network v1.0 Eng pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 14:35 - 15:05 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Advanced
Session Slides Included Yes

14:35 CEST

Panel Discussion: Autonomous Smart Slices at the Edge - Lingli Deng, China Mobile & Jianguo Zeng, Huawei Technologies

The business scenario of this joint demonstration is a crowded hot spot coverage area in China Mobile, such as large shopping malls and stadiums. When using Tencent video integrated with Tencent Slice SDK, the user terminal user of the game service enters this area, and uses the intelligent experience prediction algorithm deployed on the edge to ensure that the user experience automatically triggers the on-demand creation of eMBB slices in this hotspot area. And associated with the user terminal, the 5G core network data plane gateway is automatically deployed to the edge site closest to the user access location, and the edge service traffic is diverted nearby. Through the in-depth cooperation between OTT applications and SP networks, ONAP implements intelligent orchestration of edge slices to ensure high-quality priority experience for end users.

Speakers

Zeng Jianguo

Software Architect, Huawei Technologies

Join Huawei since 2001, 15+ year experience in Transport network management solution, Technical planning for open source in network management solution. Now is Software architect in ONAP.

Lingli Deng

Technical Manager, China Mobile

Wednesday September 25, 2019 14:35 - 15:05 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Intermediate

15:20 CEST

Getting BSS/OSS Ready - Murat Turpçu, Turk Telekom A.Ş.

Getting ready for 5G / Next Gen Telco is a major challenge for CSPs with ongoing digital transformation. Transforming our BSS / OSS from vertical silos to support 5G requirements and starting our NFV transfomation, trying to find future proof and cost effective( mostly open source ) solution (for both BSS/OSS & NFV MANOs and how they will interact with each other) is one of our biggest challenges.

As Turk Telekom, we are trying to find the most suitable method for us by feeding from ONAP project and TM Forum under the roof of our main resources LFN to find the answer to this question.

In this session i am going to describe a landscape and alternatives roadmaps for telcos like us.

Speakers

Murat Turpcu

Enterprise Architect, Turk Telekom A.Ş.

Enterprise Architect at Turk Telekom Group with more than 11 years of experience in Telco. He is focused on getting Turk Telekom architecture ready for 5G. He is the TSC representative of Turk Telekom for ONAP Project.

Wednesday September 25, 2019 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Beginner

15:20 CEST

How LF Networking Projects Contribute to Service Provider Transformation - Cédric Ollivier & Morgan Richomme, Orange

Service providers need to transform their processes and skills to embrace the network automation frameworks required by the network softwarisation.

LFN projects provide a rich set of solutions to automate network automation and to test the full stack (Network infrastructure, VNF, orchestrator...) in a fully automatic manner. These frameworks offer great value for teams in charge of validating VNF and complex end-to-end services.

The presentation will depict how Orange has leveraged LFN tools (OPNFV Functest & Xtesting, ONAP VVP & onap-tests) within internal network transformation program to accelerate the adoption of CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) Integration best practices.

We will also present how we solved some roadblocks to progress in our network automation journey and the next challenges to deploy 5G networks and embrace AI.

Speakers

Morgan Richomme

NFV architect, orange

Morgan works as Network architect for innovative services in Orange. He is Orange Network open source evangelist. Primarily involved in IMS deployment for Orange affiliates, he managed the project Emerginov (OW2), an open source PHP PaaS that has been deployed in Africa. He has... Read More →

Cédric Ollivier

Network Automation Expert, Orange

Cédric Ollivier is a network automation expert in Orange. He is involved in new network architectures around network programmability, global orchestration and network disaggregation.He also acts as a network automation evangelist within Orange and he is very involved in the network... Read More →

V2 How LF Networking projects contribute to service provider transformation final pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Beginner
Session Slides Included Yes

15:20 CEST

Kubernetes for NFV - VNFs and CNFs - Srinivasa Addepalli & Ravi Chunduru, Intel Corporation

Many know that IT applications as containers can be orchestrated by Kubernetes. Do you know that there are industry efforts to extend Kubernetes to deploy Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and Containerized Network Functions (CNFs)? By bringing networking and performance concepts from Openstack to Kubernetes world, one can use Kubernetes to orchestrate all kinds of deployment types (VNFs, CNFs, VMs, containers and functions). In this talk, we will present the work that was done in LFN community - ONAP and OPNFV, CNCF community and LFE community - Akraino to enable K8S to deploy VNFs and CNFs. We, then talk about roadmap items - soft and strict multi-tenancy in K8S, network slicing, service mesh acceleration and supporting provider networks etc... At the end, we briefly touch upon some of the use cases from ONAP that demonstrate inter-working of VNFs, CNFs and Micro-Services together.

Speakers

Srinivasa Addepalli

Sr. Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation

Ravi Chunduru

Associate Fellow, Verizon

Ravi Chunduru is a Senior Architect at Verizon responsible for Product strategy and thought leadership in the domain of Virtual Network Services and MEC solutions. Ravi has been a key player in conceptualizing and delivering various products at Verizon such as VNS Application Edge... Read More →

ONS EU19 Kubernetes for NFV pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

15:20 CEST

China Mobile Edge Computing Platform Design - Xuan Jia, China Mobile

China Mobile has announced 'Sigma' edge computing platform in MWC2019@Barcelona. Now it has been deployed in several provinces in China. In this session, Xuan will introduce the architecture of 'Sigma" edge platform, how we improve the ETSI MEC architecture and the interaction between 5G UPF and 'Sigma' platform and the relationship between our vendor and customer.
Sigma is a hybrid cloud. It can serve as a public and private cloud. And 'Sigma' platform should provide several capabilities, like Radio Network Information API which has been defined in ETST MEC. In this session, Xuan will introduce and demonstrate more APIs which has been provided in ‘Sigma’ Platform. 'Sigma' provide edge computing data center location API and some AI capability which could show how many people are here under one MEC data center and other useful information.
More APIs are building in Sigma's ecosystem.

Speakers

Xuan Jia

Edge Computing Architect, China Mobile

Wednesday September 25, 2019 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

15:20 CEST

ONAP Orchestrated Edge and Cloud Collaboration in China Unicom - Chen Qiu, China Unicom & Derek Chen, Huawei Technologies

The business scenario of this joint demonstration is for industrial Internet, especially in the smart campus extracts video or image abstracts from the edge side and processes them on the cloud to prevent massive video data from being transmitted to the cloud and occupy limited resources.
Based on the automatic orchestration and scheduling capabilities of ONAP, this topic implements cloud and edge collaboration and computing sinking. Based on the Akraino Eliot project capability, this demonstration extends the ONAP application management capability to the edge and solves the challenges faced by users in the current intelligent edge domain.

ONAP with Akraino implements orchestration of edge，to ensure the low-latency experience for end-users and no need to upload the huge video and pictures data to save bandwidth.

Speakers

Chen Qiu

Senior Engineer/Open Source Platform Manager, China Unicom

Daoqing Chen

Marketing Manager, Huawei

Daoqing Chen now is the marketing director of open source networking in Huawei. He has been working for Huawei for 8 years including 3+ years working for Huawei NCE SDN controller as marketing manager. Before this, he is a senior FPGA chip engineer in Huawei for Fixed Networking BU... Read More →

ONAP+Orchestrated+Edge+and+Cloud+Collaboration+in+China+Unicom V5. pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 15:20 - 15:50 CEST
Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

15:50 CEST

Coffee Break

Coffee break!

Wednesday September 25, 2019 15:50 - 16:15 CEST
Atrium

Event Experiences / Meals / Breaks

16:15 CEST

ONAP from the Inside Looking Out (Journey, Status, Challenges and Upcoming Expectations) - Stephen Terrill, Ericsson & Catherine Lefevre, AT&T

ONAP is an open source automation platform for networks covering networks PNFs and VNFs connecting to many virtualization infrastructures. It is setting the industry expectations for an automation platform architecture and provides an opensource platform. ONAP completed its 4th release called Dublin in June. Now we are advancing both ONAPs functionality as well as pivoting our methodology to increase the release cadence. This means we are working with overlapping releases, with the El Elto release focusing on reducing technical debt and the Frankfort release evolving ONAPs automation capabilities. This presentation will summarize the journey, status and upcoming challenges as well as what is expected to come in the future. We will also share our personal reflections on the journey and how the many parties are coming together in a collaborative manner.

Speakers

Catherine Lefevre

Assistant Vice President, Network Systems Common Platform & Services, AT&T Technology Services

Stephen Terrill

Senior Expert, Ericsson

Stephen Terrill is a Senior Expert in Automation and Management with Ericsson and with his more than 25 years of working in telecommunications he has overseen several industry transitions. He has a background both in core networks and in management and has spent several years in telecommunication... Read More →

ONS Europe 2019 V7 pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 16:15 - 16:45 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Beginner
Session Slides Included Yes

16:15 CEST

ONAP Test Automation – Optimization of E2E Testing the ONAP Framework by Adding CI/CD Pipeline - Andreas Geissler & Harald Fuchs, Deutsche Telekom

Automated test installations to proof the maturity and readiness of ONAP deployments

Speakers

Andreas Geissler

Sr. Architect, Deutsche Telekom

Harald Fuchs

Sr. Architect, Deutsche Telekom

ONAP Test Automation ONS 2019 pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 16:15 - 16:45 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Any
Session Slides Included Yes

16:15 CEST

Panel Discussion: Embracing Cloud Native on the Path to 5G - Heather Kirksey, The Linux Foundation; Rabi Abdel, Vodafone; Lincoln Lavoie, UNH Interoperability Lab; Frederick Kautz, doc.ai; Taylor Carpenter, Vulk Coop

Communications service providers, from telcos to cable operators, continue to reimagine their networks and look towards next-gen services. As the industry move towards 5G, these next-gen services will increasingly need to include cloud native network functions (CNFs) running on cloud native infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Network Service Mesh using CI/CD and automated testing. Building on previous discussions, this panel of CNF experts will discuss how the path to cloud native is forming for CSPs, including lessons learned, progress to date, and where things are headed next.

Speakers

Rabi Abdel

Network Virtualization and SSDN/NFV Lead Architect, Vodafone

Lincoln Lavoie

Principal Engineer, Broadband Technologies, UNH-IOL

Frederick Kautz

Director of R&D, TestifySec

Taylor Carpenter

CNF WG Co-Chair, Partner Vulk Coop, Vulk Coop

Heather Kirksey

Vice President of NFV, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday September 25, 2019 16:15 - 16:45 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Intermediate

16:15 CEST

Edge Computation Offloading - Miroslav Mikluš, PANTHEON.tech

The promise of 5G: low latency and high bandwidth. In this talk we will discuss how Radio Access Network could be used to offload tasks from the end-user device to the edge. We will demonstrate a client application (mobile device) that can execute compute-intensive tasks on an edge compute node. K8s has been used on a RAN site to host specialized container application, based on TensorFlow and pre-trained models, to classify image content, created on client devices. Working example with source code will be presented.

Speakers

Miroslav Mikluš

CPO, PANTHEON.tech

Miroslav Miklus - CPO at PANTHEON.tech, a company with more than two decades of experience in network software products development.

ECO FINAL pdf

ECO demo mp4

Wednesday September 25, 2019 16:15 - 16:45 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

17:00 CEST

Lightning Talk: Cloud Native Resource Management - Sonam Saxena, Google

Enterprise/IT developers and operators have to use many different tools to manage different resource types with different providers. Workflows can be hard to orchestrate across non-interoperable tools. Often there is confusing inconsistency across the various configuration tools used.

This session will talk about how to gain consistency in multi-environment management using Kubernetes-native tooling

Speakers

Sonam Saxena

Product Manager, Google Cloud, Google

Sonam is Head of Product for Google Cloud Deployment Manager and focuses on the CI/CD and DevOps space. He has over 17 years of experience as a PM in startups and enterprises as a PM and lives in Seattle with his wife and 2 daughters. Over weekends he likes to climb mountains and... Read More →

Wednesday September 25, 2019 17:00 - 17:10 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Intermediate

17:00 CEST

Panel Discussion: How OVP will bring Interoperability Across the Networking Stack - Heather Kirksey, The Linux Foundation; Rabi Abdel, Vodafone; Lincoln Lavoie, UNH Interoperability Lab

Recognizing the need for neutral, open source, community-driven verification initiatives for NFV deployments, the OPNFV Verification Program (OVP) was launched in early 2018 with a focus on commercial NFVI/VIM product offerings. OVP is now evolving to cover compliance, validation, performance and testing of VNFs. In this session, learn how the program is expanding, process updates to begin addressing VNF validation, and how the program is working with GSMA and leading global carriers in the Common NFVI Telco Taskforce (CNTT) to create a common NFVI for the industry.

Speakers

Rabi Abdel

Network Virtualization and SSDN/NFV Lead Architect, Vodafone

Lincoln Lavoie

Principal Engineer, Broadband Technologies, UNH-IOL

Heather Kirksey

Vice President of NFV, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday September 25, 2019 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Intermediate

17:00 CEST

Crafting Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs) Using the X-Factor CNF Methodology - Frederick Kautz, Doc.ai & Nikolay Nikolaev, VMware

Learn how to build Cloud-Native Network Functions that follows best practices as outlined by the X-Factor CNF Methodology (X-CNF).

The X-CNF methodology describes a set of principles which guide CNF developers to build declarative, compatible, horizontally scalable and upgradeable CNFs. It is the precursor that spawned discussions into the CNF certification which is currently being developed.

Come learn how to build a CNF which integrates with Kubernetes and Network Service Mesh (NSM) from the creators of both NSM and the X-CNF methodology.

Speakers

Nikolay Nikolaev

Engineering Manager, Isovalent

Frederick Kautz

Director of R&D, TestifySec

Wednesday September 25, 2019 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud Native Networking

Experience Level Any

17:00 CEST

Use Case: The Policeman's Camera is on Duty with Akraino+EdgeX Technology Embedded - Xuan Jia, China Mobile

Akraino provides the basic edge cluster and Edgex could provide the camera capability. We integrate with these two open-source projects and do a use case about the policeman's camera under 5G environment.

Here is the story: when a policeman is walking in the street, there will be a small camera which hangs on his breast pocket. It could record the video and send the stream into the edge server, then we do face recognition in the edge server. At the last, policeman's cellphone will get to know when suspect shows up.

In this presentation, I will share how we integrate Akraino and edgex. In the edge cloud, we deploy china mobile edge computing platform to do AI analysis. This platform is based on Kubernetes, it provides GPU and AI capability to fulfill this use case's requirement.

Through this use case, we can confirm that Akraino and EdgeX can be integrated with each other and work properly.

Speakers

Xuan Jia

Edge Computing Architect, China Mobile

Wednesday September 25, 2019 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

Edge & IoT

Experience Level Beginner

17:10 CEST

Lightning Talk: Service Flavor Selector to Deliver Customer Service with ONAP Using TM Forum Standards - René Robert, Orange

On one hand, Marketing people and ordering system wants to be able to request any kind of services, without having to care about vendor solutions or technology used.

On the other hand, ONAP is great to design and deliver a technical network service but is expecting very detailed and precise service request: in particular if several solutions/flavors are possible, it is necessary to explicitly indicate which solution/flavor to instantiate.

Using Telecom Management Forum standards, in addition with some simple instantiation rules, we can explain and demonstrate, via a proof-of concept application, a possible solution for ONAP to interconnect, understand and process service orders and eventually deliver customer services : the missing piece between Business Operating System (BOS) and ONAP.

Speakers

René ROBERT

Senior enterprise architect, Orange

René Robert is senior enterprise architect at Orange Labs, implicated in network to IT transformation programs. Large experience in information system architecture (OSS/BSS), Orange API program and research project management, he also contributed to TM Forum and ETSI/NFV standardization... Read More →

ONS EU19 Service Resolver Orange pptx

Wednesday September 25, 2019 17:10 - 17:20 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes

17:20 CEST

Lightning Talk: Industry Harmonization for Shaping a Management Ecosystem and Promoting Innovation - Magnus Buhrgard, Ericsson

Industry alignment is key to creating a healthy management ecosystem and a base for service innovation. The presentation will address what is happening and the potential regarding industry alignment between ONAP, ETSI NFV, ETSI ZSM, 3GPP, MEF, TM Forum, etc

Speakers

Magnus Buhrgard

Program Manager, Ericsson

Magnus Buhrgard is the program manager for Ericsson's ONAP engagement. He is also Ericsson's primary delegate to ETSI ISG ZSM. With 30 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, his work has spanned a multitude of architectures and technologies, reaching from fiberoptic... Read More →

Industry Harmonization for innovation pdf

Wednesday September 25, 2019 17:20 - 17:30 CEST
Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

5G + Network Automation + DevOps

Experience Level Intermediate
Session Slides Included Yes