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)

• Fetch Network OS from the booter(boot loader -> ONIE -> fetch network OS)
• Similar to loadable OS
• 표준 I/F가 있다고 하네.
• http://opencompute.org
• ONIE
• Slideshare

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?
  • BSD hypervisor
  • http://hbyve.org
  • Runs FreeBSD 9+, OpenBSD and Linux guests
• 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.