Conveners
Real Life Network Orchestration: Real Life Network Orchestration
- Ivana Golub
Description
Automatically managing the network and its associated services means working with tools and domains in the same way an orchestra brings instruments and musicians together to create a masterpiece. That’s why we call it orchestration. And it is not science fiction. Several research and education networks are creating their own orchestration masterpieces in the network: working with network function virtualisation, automation and orchestration, to get the most of them and create value for their users. This session will bring you three real life use cases to find the inspiration to create your network masterpiece.
GARR-T, the upcoming next generation GARR backbone, is based on programmability and real-time observability for all its constituent parts: the optical transport, the packet network, the datacenters, and the software. Each subsystem is a multitude of interacting elements. Automation is the key to tame these complex stacks.
In GARR we observed that the usual ICT automation approach could bring...
Building software that controls network equipment has many similarities to traditional software engineering, however, testing this software introduces many complexities unique to the network orchestration world. Join this talk to learn how we approached these challenges by building a Realistic Orchestration Validation Environment for netwoRks (ROVER) at ESnet.
NFV is hot and happening at SURF. In this talk, we will:
-Share SURFs experience in building and operating a distributed, scalable and programmable NFV-infrastructure,
-Talk about our use cases for Virtual Network Functions,
-Demonstrate our light-weight NFV-infrastructure,
-Discuss future work
