Intel SDN/NFV Forum Korea 2014

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근태를 처리하지 못해 하루 최소 근무시간인 4시간을 채우고 포럼 장소인 리츠칼튼 호텔로 달려(버스타고) 감. 다행히 오후 세션 시작 시간인 1시 10분 전에 도착했지만 덕분에 점심도 못 먹고 끝날 때까지 있어야 했다. 먹은 거라곤 사탕 몇 개.

트랙 2개인데, 다른 쪽 트랙에서도 듣고 싶은 게 있었지만 트랙 1을 끝까지 들었다.

Quanta

  • Taiwan Company
  • CPU와 switch 를 상호 선택할 수 있도록 함.

상용 스위치 칩 사용

  • Intel Alta and RRC(w/ Aricent OS)
    • Intel ONS
  • Broadcom Trident and Tomahawk
  • Cavium Xpliant

다양한 CPU 사용 가능

  • Intel, Freescale, Cavium, Broadcom(XLP)

OCE, ONIE(Open Network Install Environment)

Open Network Linux

  • Linux distribution for “bare metal” switches
  • Quanta Ubuntu
  • ONL is sponsored by BigSwitch
  • homepage

North Bound I/F

  • OpenFlow
  • RestFul
  • OpEN API ???

Restful API in switch

  • Switch provide RestFul API directly.
  • Baremetal OS
    • 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers
    • Written in Assembly
  • Puppet, Chef
    • Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and MS systems. The user describe system resources and their state, either using Puppet’s declarative language or a Ruby DSL.
    • Puppet
    • Puppet-openstack
    • Chef
    • Chef-openstack
    • Chef for OpenStack
    • Chef is a systems and clouds infrastructure automation framework that makes it easy servers and applications to any physical, virtual, or cloud location, no matter the size of the infrastructure.
  • MLAG(Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation)
    • Extension of LAG up to node-level.
    • Not covered by IEEE 802.1AX-2008
    • Vendor-specific implementation
  • Support OF 1.3
  • One customer build their hypersclae datacenter with qunata’s h/W and their inhouse OS, but still use ONIE

Advantech

  • For Enterprise and Telecom market
  • All QuickAssist Accelerator support
  • Netronome as I/O processor
    • FlowNIC acceleration card
    • Flow Processor as Accelerated switch
    • NFP-6840 for high-end
  • Use 6wind solution

NEC NFV Commercial Ready solution

NEC

  • R&D on Virtualization from 2009
  • National POC
  • 500K Subscribers POC(VoLTE)
  • 투자 비용은 mobile network이 가장 크게 증가함.
  • 동시에 data revenue의 증가도 가장 큼.

How to reduce TCO

  • virtualization based resource utilization
  • Programmable scalable reliable network
  • Flexible automated configuration
  • centralized control & management
  • Average 39%(CAPEX + OPEX)
    • CAPEX 28% - New feature
    • OPEX System Upgrade 89% reduction
    • OPEX Floor Site rental 66%

Component

  • Redhat or HP for OS and hypervisor
  • HP or Dell
  • Intel DPDK, NIC
  • OpenStack
  • Shift from ATCA NF to COTS NF
  • M2M Service Platform over NFV
    • CONNEXIVE Platofrm(virtualized platform) for M2M Services

Pluribus

  • http://pluribusnetworks.com
  • Startup from 2010
  • Pretty interesting
  • Netvisor and Server-switch architecture
  • H/W is from advantech for some product
  • Utilize many open-sources
    • ISC Internet Switch consortium
    • Quagga
  • Convert legacy designed switch to server based based design
    • Legacy switch use proprietary chip and small control processor
    • Server use powerful CPU for control processor and commercial NIC
    • Switch chip is used to replace NIC
    • Switch chip을 PCIe를 통해 CPU에 직접 연결. DMA를 통해 직접 스위치 내부 테이블을 제어.
  • Netvisor cover multiple boxes -
  • illumos container???
    • illumos is a free and open-source Unix OS derived from the OpenSolaris
    • http://illumos.org or wiki.illumos.org
  • Bhyve hypervisor - 30x faster than KVM?
  • Fabric Cluster - build standard based ethernet fabric as ONE logical switch
  • Time Machine analytics
    • Can track of flows on a specific time period in the past
  • Netvisor Fabric-Connect

Brocade

  • Last night(14/9/23), announce brocade controller
  • AWS 계정을 이용하면 demo를 직접 사용해 볼 수 있다고
  • Linear performance as the number of cores are increased while other’s performance is saturated
  • Yahoo Japan use Brocade VCS fabric for hadoop environment.