| 8:00am - 9:00am | Networking and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00am - 9:15am | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| Sam Greenblatt, CTO, Dell Enterprise Solutions and Dr. Richard Soley, CEO, Object Management Group |
| 9:15am - 10:00am | Keynote: Finding Business Value Through the Hype |
| Randy Cross, Senior Director for Fabric and Infrastructure Product Management, Avaya Download PDF |
| This session will focus on the evolution toward SDN via real life use cases deployed and under development with Avaya customers. We will explore the immediate benefits of network automation, the relevance of that foundation for broader SDN and how savvy CTOs are identifying SDN applications that actually matter to their businesses. We will highlight the problems businesses are looking to solve and how SDN concepts enable innovative solutions. |
| 10:00am - 10:15am | Morning Refreshment Break |
| 10:15am - 10:45am | Future of Open SDN |
| Subi Krishnamurthy, CTO, Dell Networking Download PDF |
| Disaggregated development methodology similar to what happened in the server world would enable innovation by reducing the cost of development for smaller companies. Explore what happened in compute in the past and predict the future of networking in the data center and beyond. |
| 10:45am - 11:15am | SDN - Needs for an Analytics Plane |
Brent Schroeder, Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Dell Software Group Download PDF
Rajesh Narayanan, Distinguished Engineer, Dell Research Division |
| What you cannot control you cannot measure - the need for analytics plane in the SDN ecosystem |
| 11:15am - noon | NFV Update |
| Dr. Steven Wright, Chair, ETSI NFV ISG Download PDF |
| This presentation will provide an update on recent progress on NFV at the ETSI NFV ISG |
| Noon - 1:00pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm | NFV - The Killer App for SDN |
| Dave Duggal, President, EnterpriseWeb Download PDF |
| Telecom Operators and other large organizations see Network Function Virtualization (NFV) as an opportunity to cut operating expenses and gain business agility by shifting from expensive physical appliances to a flexible new software-based model. In the new approach, Network Functions such as firewalls, routers, IMS, EPC, etc. are dynamically deployed as software on generic x86 hardware. NFV presumes a Software Defined-Network and promotes emerging Open Source technologies like OpenStack and OpenDaylight. EnterpriseWeb provides an award-winning platform for orchestrating and managing Virtual Functions in real-time. Dave Duggal will discuss his experience in the exciting new domain and will provide a short demo of his Company's platform. |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Protocol and Integration Challenges for SDN systems |
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, Ph.D., CTO, Real-Time Innovations Download PDF
Co-chair OMG Data-Distribution Service SIG |
SDN programming and operations requires continuous monitoring of network and application state as well as consistent configuration and update of (forwarding) policies across heterogeneous devices. This is resulting in significant challenges. Multiple open protocols such as OpenFlow, OF-CONFIG, OnePK , etc. are being adopted by different vendors causing an integration problem for developers.
Internet of Things applications are pushing the size and volume of data handled by SDN systems demanding more efficient and scalable protocols for information distribution and coordination of SDN devices. This presentation will describe these and other SDN challenges and ways in which various open protocols, such as DDS, XMPP, AMQP, are being used to address them. |
| 3:00pm - 3:15pm | Afternoon Refreshment Break |
| 3:15pm - 4:15pm | Looking at SDN with DDS Glasses |
Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D., CTO PrismTech Download PDF
Co-chair OMG Data-Distribution Service SIG, Architecture Board Member |
The idea of programmable networks has recently re-gained momentum due to the emergence of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and its promises to dramatically simplify network management and enable innovation. SDN decouples the forwarding hardware from control decisions so to make the latter programmable. The controller, implementing the control plane, communicates with the switching device through what is commonly referred as the southbound-API while network applications communicate with the controller via the northbound-API.
While OpenFlow has emerged as one of the most widely adopted API for the southbound API, the situation is far more fragmented for the northbound API. This presentation will take a fresh look at northbound and southbound SDN interface requirements and will investigate the advantages that the OMG's Data Distribution Service standard can bring in terms of performance, scalability, and interoperability. |
| 4:15pm - 5:00pm | Panel and Facilitated Discussion Session |
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| NOTE: If you register for the Technical Meeting Week, you do not have to pay the additional fee(s) to attend any or all of the special events. If you register only for special events, the special fees apply. |
