Speakers | April 2012 Open Networking Summit

Guido is the Co-Founder and CEO of Big Switch Networks. Before co-founding Big Switch Networks, he was a Consulting Assistant Professor and head of the Clean Slate Lab at Stanford University where he led the team that maintained the OpenFlow reference implementation and published the OpenFlow 1.0 standard. Previously he co-founded and served as CTO of Voltage Security, an enterprise software company with close to 1000 enterprise customers. He was named to the MIT Review TR100 list and a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. Guido holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BA in Physics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The advent of virtualization in the computing industry had a profound impact on usage pattern where IT resources are expected to be available on-demand. However today's networks lack of automation and programmability prevents cloud solutions to be dynamically delivered to users without significantly increasing operational complexity.

By abstracting a logical view from the underlying infrastructure, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) brings programmability to networking comparable to the compute industry for more agility, flexibility, scalability but also more innovation. Big Switch Networks will provide clear consideration criteria to IT leaders interested in implementing SDN solutions as well as different illustrative use cases and their associated benefits from simplified operations, to better optimization of compute and networking resources or faster introduction of new services. Indeed as enterprise networks become more nimble and interact better with applications, new kind of services can be envisioned.

Opening Up Your Network to Cloud Innovation with SDN

Led the team that published the OpenFlow 1.0 standard and CEO of Big Switch Networks, a leading OpenFlow Company.

Mr. Jun Bi received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Currently he is a full professor and director of Network Architecture & IPv6 Research Division, Network Research Center of Tsinghua University, Ph.D. supervisor of Dept. of Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University. He is also the consulting member of several governmental technical committees.

His research interests include Internet Architecture and Protocols, Future Internet, Internet Routing, and IPv6. He has successfully lead tens of government supported or international collaboration research projects, published more than 90 research papers and 20 Internet RFCs or drafts, owned twenty innovation patents, received the national science and technology advancement prizes, and is supported by program of Ministry of Education of China for New Century Excellent Talents.

He served TPC of many international academic conferences, such as ICNP, CoNext, ICDCS, ICCCN, etc. He is Co-chair of AsiaFI (Asia Future Internet Forum) Steering Group, Member of Internet Technical Committee of China Computer Federation, and Board Vice Chair of Beijing Next Generation Internet Association.

Software-defined networking (SDN) is considered as the trend of future Internet development.

OpenFlow has become a de facto standard of an open interface between a control plane and a forwarding plane for SDN. We will discuss the challenges for SND/Openflow in an operational and large-scale network, then introduce some of our research progress on SDN/OpenFlow extension and application.

The Challenges of SDN/OpenFlow in an Operational and Large-scale Network

Martin is co-founder and CTO of Nicira networks, a venture funded company in the network virtualization space. Nicira is currently in stealth mode. Martin received his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 2007 and a masters in 2005. He maintains a position at Stanford as consulting professor.

In the world's largest datacenters, control is being pulled out of the physical network, and placed in software at the edge. As a result, the physical network is becoming much simpler, often being implemented as a simple L3 fabric. In this talk, I will describe this trend and discuss how SDN intersects with it.

Data Center Networking in the Era of Overlays

My PhD research was the basis for SDN and OpenFlow; I wrote the first draft of the OpenFlow spec, and have been heavily involved since; I coinvented the concept of Network Operating Systems (with Scott Shenker); I cofounded Nicira Networks (with Nick McKeown and Scott Shenker), where I am Chief Technology Officer; and I have coauthored several papers on SDN and related topics.

Born in 1960, Axel is involved with Networking and Computing since 1982. Axel holds a diploma in Physics from the University of Cologne. He worked as a freelancing trainer on operating systems, networking and systems programming for Digital Equipment Corporation since 1983. Axel was leading the networking department at the University of Cologne Computing Center from 1989 to 1998, he was one of the main drivers for the deployment of the Internet Protocol in the German research community. In 1998, Axel joined Cisco Systems, initially as a Consulting Engineer on Core IP technologies in the German team. In 2000, Axel moved to an international role in the Cisco EMEA Service Provider team. He was in various international leadership roles since 2001. From 2005 onwards, Axel was part of the core team building the Emerging Markets sales organization for Cisco. His territory included Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Central/Eastern Europe and Russia. From 2008 to 2011, he acted as Sales CTO in Emerging Markets and had the responsibility for solutions development and deployment across all market segments. Axel also had the content responsibility for Cisco's flagship events Cisco Live and Cisco Networkers in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. He delivered event keynotes at various Cisco EXPO events around the globe. Axel joined Deutsche Telekom AG in September 2011. At the group level, Axel is responsible for Deutsche Telekom's IP Architecture and Designs for fixed and mobile networks. Since December 2011, Axel represents Deutsche Telekom AG in the ONF board.

Globally, carriers continue to be under heavy cost pressure. IP traffic in fixed and mobile networks continues to grow exponentially while ARPU for traditional dual-, triple- and quad- play services remains flat or even declines. The current carrier multi protocol network architecture with IPv4, IPv6 and MPLS control, a complex service production process using some features in network elements, some data centre components, integrated under the control of a complex OSS system does not meet future scalability and cost requirements.

Software Defined native IP Networks under the control of a realtime OSS, using a cloud-based service delivery concept, are key for transforming the carrier business. This presentation covers Deutsche Telekom AG's IP architecture strategy and uses some concrete examples where SDN and specifically OpenFlow controlled networks can deliver immediate business benefits.

Revolutionizing Carrier Service Delivery using a Software Defined Native IP Network

Matthew Davy is director of InCNTRE and Indiana University's chief network architect. Before coming to Indiana University (IU) in 1999, he served as a network engineer for Tier 1 Internet Service Providers focused primarily on backbone traffic engineering. Davy has spent the last twelve years providing leadership in the design and management of large-scale, advanced R&E; networks. At IU, he is responsible for the long-term design and planning of the university's enterprise network, which includes over 100,000 data connections across eight campuses. Recently he has focused on supporting network research related to Software-Defined Networking and building collaborations among the faculty, students, and IT staff who support R&E; networks.

There is broad recognition of the value of SDN to university researchers, but the value of SDN to universities extends far beyond the walls of computer science and engineering departments. Large research universities maintain some of the largest, most complex campus networks in the world. Networking trends that are challenging many enterprise IT departments today, such as mobility and BYOD, were experienced by university IT departments years before private enterprises. As a result, large research universities are accustomed to being on the cutting edge of technology and sometimes having to roll their own solutions to problems. It should come as no surprise then that the IT departments at many these universities are very excited by emergence of SDN. In this talk I will describe the challenges facing university enterprise networks, the solutions universities are deploying today with SDN, and the direction the the university community is heading with SDN in the coming years.

The Value of SDN for University Enterprise Networks - Today and Tomorrow

Matt has been a strong advocate on the value of OpenFlow/SDN especially in large enterprise and service provider networks and has been championing the deployments of OpenFlow/SDN in research and education networks.

Michael Beesley is Chief Technology Officer of Juniper�s Platform Systems Division, responsible for technical strategy, innovation and next generation product development for Juniper�s portfolio of routing, switching, branch, and Wireless LAN products, as well as for the ongoing evolution and development of the JUNOS operating system.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Beesley served as VP of Architecture for Juniper�s Data Center Business Unit (DCBU) overseeing the architecture, development and future roadmap in terms of technology and product offering of Juniper�s Data Center product lines and solutions, including QFabric and the standalone QFX Series of switches, encompassing stack integration, orchestration and workflow integration with current and emerging technologies (SDN/OF).

Mr. Beesley worked at Huawei Technologies from 2009-2010 as VP of IP R+D building and managing a Silicon Valley based team chartered with developing the next generation of advanced IP packet equipment for Huawei covering the core and edge routing and DC Core switch markets. Mr. Beesley also managed a standards team pursuing Huawei�s agenda in several standards bodies including IEFT and IEEE. He also acted as senior Strategy Consultant to many of Huawei�s large business units in China.

From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Beesley worked at Cisco Systems in a variety of roles, ultimately serving as the Chief Technology Officer of the Edge Routing Business Unit (ERBU) providing technical leadership, architectural direction and product innovation for a multi-billion dollar product portfolio targeted at both service provider and enterprise markets. Mr. Beesley also drove portfolio software innovation across a multitude of business units resulting in the IOS-XE operating system being adopted from the original ASR-1000 Series on which it was initially developed onto many product lines including lower end CPE routers and Ethernet switches.

From 1997 to 2004, Mr. Beesley was a member of Juniper Networks founding engineering team as employee number 47. During this time, he held multiple leadership positions in engineering and was instrumental in architecting JUNOS and delivering the first several generations of Juniper routers including the M40, M160 and T640. Mr. Beesley was one of four Distinguished Engineers in the company during the early years and also managed and grew the embedded software team. Prior to joining Juniper, Mr. Beesley worked for six years at Cisco Systems as a Distinguished Engineer driving the architecture, design and implementation of several billion dollar IOS product lines including the C4000 Series and the C7200 Series of routers.

Mr. Beesley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science and a Masters degree in Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

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Dr. Stuart Elby, Chief Technologist of Verizon Digital Media Services, is responsible for the overall solutions architecture, design and development of VDMS' platform-as-a-service products and the cloud computing infrastructure upon which they are delivered. As VP within the Technology organization, Stuart is responsible for developing Verizon's target network architecture and driving the industry to converge towards this target. He also manages the design and specification of Verizon's core services platforms including VoIP / IMS, video, cloud computing, and Verizon Wireless' open network service delivery platform. Stuart oversees the Verizon Interoperability Forum.

Previously, Dr. Elby was a Research Associate at the NSF Center for Telecommunications Research at Columbia University performing R&D; in all-optical networks and developing ATM/WDM platforms. In 1985, at a laser surgery start-up, Lasers for Medicine Inc, he was responsible for FDA clinical trials, product development, and brought the first disposal plastic fiber-optic system to the medical market. In 1982, he worked at StorageTek, contributing to the development of the first commercial optical disk storage system.

Stuart received a BS degree in Optical Engineering from the University of Rochester, NY in 1982 and received a MSEE and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1989 and 1994, respectively. He serves on the advisory boards of several university/government/industry consortia. He lives with his wife and kids just south of the middle of nowhere, NJ.

SDN has become an essential framework for Verizon's next generation network.  Presently, Verizon's SDN deployments do not leverage the network directly.  Through OpenFlow, the SDN and underlying network can be coupled to optimize cost and service performance.  A key objective is to virtualize the network and converge the orchestration of the virtualized networks with VMs in the data centers to create a true "Cloud".   Towards this goal, Verizon and ecosystem partners are collaborating to demonstrate specific SDN/OpenFlow use cases relevant to our customer base, and to identify gaps in the technology and standards that inhibit the desired capabilities.

Carrier Adoption of Software-defined Networking

As Verizon's head of network architecture, I have been aggressively pursuing a game changing approach to simultaneously improve network flexibility and scalability while dramatically lowering the infrastructure cost basis.

Nick Feamster is an associate professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Computer science from MIT in 2005, and his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2000 and 2001, respectively. His research focuses on many aspects of computer networking and networked systems, including the design, measurement, and analysis of network routing protocols, network operations and security, and anonymous communication systems. In December 2008, he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his contributions to cybersecurity, notably spam filtering. His honors include the Technology Review 35 "Top Young Innovators Under 35" award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER award, the IBM Faculty Fellowship, and award papers at SIGCOMM 2006 (network-level behavior of spammers), the NSDI 2005 conference (fault detection in router configuration), Usenix Security 2002 (circumventing web censorship using Infranet), and Usenix Security 2001 (web cookie analysis).

In this talk, I will introduce event-driven network control, a network control framework that makes networks easier to manage by automating many tasks that must currently be performed by manually modifying low-level, distributed, and complex device configuration. We identify four policy domains that inherently capture many events: time, user, history, and traffic flow. We then present an event-driven network control framework that can implement policies expressed using these domains. This framework can support policies that automatically react to a wide range of events, from fluctuations in traffic volumes to changes in the time of day; it allows network operators to specify networkwide policies in terms of a high-level, event-driven policy model, as opposed to configuring individual network devices with low-level commands. To show that this framework is practical, general, and applicable in different types of network scenarios, we have deployed it in both a campus network and a home network and used it to implement more flexible and dynamic network policies. We also perform evaluations to show that event-driven network control introduces negligible overhead beyond a conventional OpenFlow-based control framework.

Event-driven Programming in Lithium

Leading research on deployment of SDN for access control in campus and home networks, and developing new programming paradigms for programmable hardware.

Nate Foster is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. The goal of his research is developing abstractions and tools for building reliable software systems. Specific topics of interest include language design and implementation, networking, data management, and security. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University, and a BA in Computer Science from Williams College. His honors include a Sloan Research Fellowship and Penn's Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff award.

Configuration changes are a frequent source of instability in networks, leading to broken connections, forwarding loops, and access control violations. Even when the initial and final configurations are correct, the update process often steps through intermediate configurations which are not. This talk will introduce the notion of consistent network updates -- updates that are guaranteed to preserve well-defined behaviors when transitioning from one configuration to the next. I will present two distinct consistency levels, per-packet and per-flow; describe general mechanisms for implementing consistent updates in software-defined networks; and discuss how consistent updates can be leveraged to reduce the complexity of verifying the correctness of network control software.

Consistent Updates in Software-Defined Networking

Igor Gashinsky is a principal architect at Yahoo!, where his responsibilities range from overall network design, including highly resilient datacenter and backbone switching and routing architecture, peering strategy, MPLS design, and L4-7 loadbalancing, to distributed and scalable content delivery methodologies, DNS architecture, and R&D; into future technologies.

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SDN in Warehouse Scale Datacenters v2.0

Igor has been advocating an SDN-based approach to scaling datacenter networks in the industry for the past 1.5 years, and is currently leading the OpenFlow/SDN research @ Yahoo!

Saar Gillai is vice president of HP�s Advanced Technology Group and chief technical officer for HP Networking. In this role, Gillai is responsible for developing the technology vision and strategy for HP Networking.

Gillai brings more than 20 years of product, strategy and business leadership experience in the networking industry.

Prior to joining HP, Gillai was senior vice president of Worldwide Products and Solutions for 3Com. His responsibilities encompassed global product management, marketing, strategy and vision for all product lines and solutions. In this role, Gillai helped increase 3Com�s shareholder value by more than 350 percent in 18 months.

Before 3Com, Gillai was senior vice president of Product Development and Operations for Enfora, a leading global supplier of intelligent wireless networking solutions. He was responsible for scaling the company�s capabilities across product, operations and IT groups. Under Gillai�s leadership, Enfora instituted operational discipline to help grow the business to profitability and improved its market share.

Gillai also spent seven years at Cisco Systems in a variety of leadership positions, including vice president of Engineering for the wireless networking business unit. He played a key role in building Cisco�s enterprise WLAN product line to the No. 1 position in the market as it developed and shipped more than $1.5 billion in products during his tenure.

Gillai also held key management positions in Cisco�s Desktop Switching business unit and the Multiservice Switching business unit, where he worked closely with major service providers on next-generation network architectures. Prior to Cisco, he worked at Newbridge Networks as well as several start-up companies.

Software Defined Networking (SDN) protocols such as OpenFlow have been gaining acceptance from early adopters in research and service providers, with the objectives focused on improving network agility and reducing costs. While customers in these segments have the wherewithal and motivation to deploy purpose-built customized OpenFlow-based SDNs, more widespread enterprise adoption will demand a different approach. The path to �enterprise-grade� OpenFlow solutions will require networking vendors to pursue practical, evolutionary integration of OpenFlow technology into more wholly-formed solutions that ensure security and reliability, with improved operations and cost reductions. With a long history of offering open standards-based enterprise networks, HP will discuss how leveraging the agility and power of OpenFlow into its Virtual Application Networks strategy to deliver enterprise-grade SDNs.

Delivering OpenFlow for the Enterprise

Sachin Katti is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He received his PhD in EECS from MIT in 2009. His research focuses on designing and building next generation high capacity wireless networks using techniques from information and coding theory. His dissertation research focused on redesigning wireless mesh networks with network coding as the central unifying design paradigm. The dissertation won the 2008 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award - Honorable Mention, the George Sprowls Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in EECS at MIT. His work on network coding was also awarded a MIT Deshpande Center Innovation Grant, and won the 2009 William Bennett Prize for Best Paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has also won the Best Demonstration Award at Mobicom 2010, as well as Okawa, Hooover, Packard and Terman Faaculy Fellowships. His research interests are in networks, wireless communications, applied coding theory and security.

Future mobile networks are faced with three trends: exponentially increasing traffic demand, chaotic network deployments with the advent of femtocells, and demand for supporting heterogeneous services (voice, video, data, smart grid etc). To adapt to these trends, wireless infrastructure has to scale in a cost-effective fashion to meet traffic demand, make it easier to manage chaotic deployments, and be flexible enough to accommodate heterogeneous services.

In this talk, I will discuss OpenRadio, our vision for a virtualized wireless infrastructure as the fundamental building block for future wireless networks. Our design approach can be summed up in three steps: separate service definition from infrastructure, design programmable wireless infrastructure fabrics, and enable flexible service definition in software. We argue how the above design approach enables an infrastructure that can be shared among multiple operators to enable cost-effective deployment, simplifies network management by enabling fine grained dynamic macro-resource allocation, and provides flexibility to customize the network for different services in software.

OpenRadio: Software Defined Wireless Infrastructure

Dr. Geng Lin is the Chief Technology Officer of Networking Business at Dell, where he has overall responsibility for technology strategy, system architecture, product innovation, and partnership and acquisition of key technologies. Previously, he was the Chief Technology Officer of IBM Alliance at Cisco Systems where he was responsible for technology direction, strategy, and solution development of the joint Cisco-IBM solution portfolio worldwide. In his 19 years in the networking industry, he has also served as Vice President of Software Engineering at Netopia (acquired by Motorola), Director of Engineering at Cisco Systems, and Director of Product Strategy at Nortel Networks.??Dr. Lin speaks frequently at conferences and industry tradeshows. He has served on the editorial board of two research journals in network and systems software, and the advisory board of two books on cloud computing. He has over 40 publications including book, book chapters, journal and conference papers, and keynote speeches. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Peking University and his Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia, all in computer science.

Virtualization, cloud computing, and big data applications bring tremendous challenges to today's networking architectures. Software Defined Networking (SDN), and in particular OpenFlow-based architectures, has recently emerged as a potential paradigm shift to meet these challenges.

This session will discuss SDN from an industry perspective. We will examine key technical aspects of SDN architecture, such as scalable control planes, high throughput flow processing, cost-effective packet forwarding processors, network-oriented programming model and tools, network resource control and conflict resolutions, and interoperability with server virtual networking capabilities such as VM switching and I/O virtualization. We will also explore the business implications of this paradigm shift in network architecture, such as business models for SDN devices and associated network applications, open source networking software and service opportunities, and SDN development ecosystems. We will provide insight into how SDN/OpenFlow-based Ethernet switches and applications are being used today and how they fit into current data center and enterprise IT architectures. We will also show new business use cases that will emerge near-term.

Industry Perspectives of SDN: Technical Challenges and Business Use Cases

Nicholas J. Lippis III is a world-renowned authority on advanced IP networks, communications and their benefits to business objectives. He is the publisher of the Lippis Report, a resource for network and IT business decision makers to which over 35,000 executive IT business leaders subscribe. Its Lippis Report podcasts have been downloaded over 170,000 times; ITunes reports that listeners also download the Wall Street Journal's Money Matters, Business Week's Climbing the Ladder, The Economist and The Harvard Business Review's IdeaCast. Mr. Lippis is currently working with clients to design their private/public virtualized data center cloud computing network architectures to reap maximum business value and outcome. He currently has a special focus on Software Defined Networking and OpenFlow architecture and business benefits.

He has advised numerous Global 2000 firms on network architecture, design, implementation, vendor selection and budgeting, with clients including Barclays Bank, Eastman Kodak Company, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Hughes Aerospace, Liberty Mutual, Schering-Plough, CampDresser McKee, the State of Alaska, Microsoft, Kaiser Permanente, Sprint, Worldcom, Cigitel, CiscoSystems, Hewlett Packet, IBM, Avaya and many others. He works exclusively with CIOs and their direct reports. Mr. Lippis possesses a unique perspective of market forces and trends occurring within the computer networking industry derived from his experience with both supply- and demand-side clients.

Mr. Lippis received the prestigious Boston University College of Engineering Alumni award for advancing the profession. He has been named one of the top 40 most powerful and influential people in the networking industry by Network World. TechTarget, an industry on-line publication, has named him a network design guru while Network Computing Magazine has called him a star IT guru.

Mr. Lippis founded Strategic Networks Consulting, Inc., a well-respected and influential computer networking industry-consulting concern, which was purchased by Softbank/Ziff-Davis in 1996. He is a frequent keynote speaker at industry events and is widely quoted in the business and industry press. He serves on the Dean of Boston University's College of Engineering Board of Advisors as well as many start-up venture firms' advisory boards. He delivered the commencement speech to Boston University College of Engineering graduates in 2007. Mr. Lippis received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and his Master of Science in Systems Engineering from Boston University. His Masters' thesis work included selected technical courses and advisors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology on optical communications and computing.

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Nick McKeown is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Faculty Director of the Clean Slate Program at Stanford University. Nick is a Board Member of ONF.

Nick's early research was mostly on the design, architecture and analysis of Internet switches and routers. He was a co-founder of networking semiconductor companies Abrizio and Nemo. More recently he has been interested in network architecture, and how to enable innovation in networks. Nick is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Making SDNs Work

Nick has been involved in OpenFlow/SDN since its beginning. He supervised Martin Casado's PhD thesis at Stanford that laid the foundation for OpenFlow/SDN. He is co-founder (with Martin Casado and Scott Shenker) of Nicira Networks and co-foudner (with Scott Shenker) of Open Networking Foundation. He led development of OpenFlow at Stanford and evangelized deployment and exploration of OpenFlow/SDN networks around the world.

Shehzad Merchant serves as Vice President of Technology at Extreme Networks, a global leader in Ethernet networking, where he drives strategy and technology direction for advanced networking including LANs, mobile networks and Data Centers. With over 17 years of industry experience, and an engineering track record that is highlighted by the achievement of several technology patents, Merchant is a veteran of wired and wireless Ethernet and communications.

Users, devices, and applications are increasingly becoming mobile. In the campus, mobility of users and devices is driving a greater need for the network to adapt and provide more intelligent services to deal with mobility as well as newer paradigms such as BYOD. In the data center, mobility of virtual machines along with the growing need for departmental and tenant isolation are again pushing traditional distributed network models to their breaking points.

This session will explore how software defined networking is being applied in customer trials to streamline the workflow and simplify provisioning and management - both in the campus network to deal with user and device mobility across wired and wireless infrastructures, as well as in the data center to deal with virtualization, VM mobility and policy management, across heterogeneous hypervisor technologies.

Looking at SDN Beyond the Data Center

Eric Murray is a Senior Network Engineer at Kindred Healthcare Inc and has been with the company for 7 years. Eric is the technical lead for the network team and is responsible for a large enterprise network consisting of over 2000 locations in the US. Eric has been the lead architect in many initiatives at Kindred including a complete redesign and replacement of the data center network consisting of over 1200 servers, several acquisitions that involved large scale data center moves, and many other initiatives of systems and facility integration. Data center switching and routing are Eric's specialties and he has been heavily involved with integrating virtualization into Kindred's environment. Prior to working at Kindred Eric worked several years for a global chemical manufacturer supporting and implementing network equipment around the world and has 15 years of network experience.

Enterprise networks are increasingly difficult to manage and becoming more complex every day. With so many applications being offered across a broader range of clients, the demands for scalable, mobile, and secure network connectivity continue to push the limit of current architecture. Integrating systems across many platforms and many types of locations becomes an exercise in constant problem solving and design challenges. Providing many custom one off configurations to meet the requirements of the business places a huge demand on resources and skill sets within the organization and can be very difficult to manage.

In this presentation we will go over problems faced by network engineers in large enterprise networks. Using real world case scenarios of systems integration and challenges of a company who has grown by acquisition, we will go over these examples and demonstrate the complexity and issues that were faced and the difficulty of overcoming them. Then we will explore the possibilities for how networking will evolve and how SDN can help.

The current trend in providing services is in virtualization. In compute services, the server's identity is being abstracted from hardware. This provides centralized management, ease of administration, quick deployment and provisioning, the ability to use profiles to deploy servers, services and architecture. This is a dream come true for service based architecture and provides highly scalable, easy to manage, virtual platforms. We need the network services we provide to catch up! Abstracting the network hardware, moving the networks identity and configuration into a virtual, robust, easy to manage centralized software based platform is where we need to be in enterprise network architecture.

Challenges in Enterprise Networking and How SDN Can Help.

Greg Papadopoulos, a 20-year veteran of the computer industry, is a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital and growth equity firm. Before that he served as chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems, where he directed the company's $2 billion R&D; portfolio. He was Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a co-founder of three technology companies. He serves on the University of California's President's Board on Science and Innovation, and is a trustee for the SETI Institute and the Computer History Museum, both in Mountain View, California. He holds a BA in systems science from the University of California at San Diego, as well as MS and PhD degrees in engineering from MIT.

Open Networking has all of the ingredients for a classic market disruption. There is a huge existing global market with fat margins and high intrinsic demand, with mature and relatively vertically-integrated architectures.  Yet, the underlying demand dynamics are changing rapidly --- especially with respect to virtualization and cloud-style infrastructure. That changes the equation of What's Important and creates a bunch of new customer opportunities and pain points. Open Networking offers an alternative which could parallel the revolution in servers:  large horizontal ecosystem layers can emerge and much innovation is cast as software. In this short talk, we'll give a VC view of investing in OpenFlow and SDN, and try sort through where the real value-creation (versus commoditization) opportunities are likely to be.

Open Networking:  Investing for Fun and Profit

Dan Pitt is Executive Director of the Open Networking Foundation, starting on its public launch in March 2011. Dan spent twenty years developing networking architecture, technology, standards, and products at IBM Networking Systems in North Carolina, IBM Research Zurich in Switzerland, Hewlett Packard Labs in Palo Alto, and finally at Bay Networks and Nortel Networks in Santa Clara, Cal., where he was vice president of the Bay Architecture Lab and the Enterprise Solutions Technology Center. From 2002-2007 he served as dean of the school of engineering at Santa Clara University and holder of the Sobrato Chair in Engineering. From 2007-2011 he advised and served in executive operational roles in startup companies in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, most recently as an executive in residence at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, Cal. Dan received a B.S. in mathematics (magna cum laude) from Duke University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois. He taught as an adjunct professor at Duke University and the University of North Carolina for ten years and has fifty publications and one patent to his credit.

This update on ONF will present the concrete and substantial progress on SDN standards made by ONF along with its philosophy of standardization and the consequent areas of non-standardization. Note that not standardizing does not mean not exploring. We will also position the activities of the IETF, ITU-T, and MEF relative to ONF.

SDN Standards: What and Whatnot

Dan's group at Bay Networks and Nortel invented and prototyped a separation of the control plane from the forwarding plane in a programmable networking platform for packet switches and routers starting in 1998. See www.openetlab.org.

Renato Recio is IBM Fellow & System Networking CTO, specializing in System I/O and Network Architecture, Strategy, and Standards. For the past 14 years, he has played a leadership role in the strategy, architecture and design of future IBM system IO and Networks. He is currently responsible for cross-IBM Data Center and Virtual Switch Networking product strategy and roadmap.

He has been a founding engineer and author of several IO and Network industry standards, including: InfiniBand (cluster network), iWARP (Remote Direct Memory Access, RDMA, over TCP/IP), PCI IO Virtualization, Convergence Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), Fibre Channel over CEE and IEEE 802.1Qbg Ethernet Virtual Bridging. He also created and chaired IBM's I/O Technical Community (IOTC), which serves the networking, education, and support needs of over 750 IBM IO and networking professionals. He has received 4 external, professional awards for his contributions to the industry, including a Life Time Achievement Award in recognition for his contributions to Server IO field.

He has filed 190 patents, of which over 100 have already issued. He has published dozens of refereed technical conference (e.g. IEEE and ACM) papers. He created and chairs the IEEE Data Center Converged And Virtual Ethernet Switching (DC CAVES) workshops (see www.i-teletraffic.org/itc22/workshops/dc-caves-workshop/).

Initial deployments of OpenFlow are underway in Enterprise production environments. This presentation will briefly cover the products used in these deployments, as well as use case references. It may include client names, if clearance is obtained.

The presentation will then cover requirements from Enterprise clients that need to be satisfied in production Data Center Networks. An summary of cross industry requirements will be provided. Based on this cross-industry input, the presentation will then focus on Enterprise Data Center Networking capabilities needed in the OpenFlow protocol, OpenFlow Controller and Applications running above the OpenFlow Controller.

OpenFlow in the Enterprise Data Center - Products, Lessons and Requirements

Jennifer Rexford is a Professor in the Computer Science department at Princeton University. From 1996-2005, she was a member of technical staff at AT&T; Labs--Research, where she designed tools for traffic engineering, router configuration, and network monitoring that are in daily use in AT&T;'s networks. She was the 2004 winner of ACM's Grace Murray Hopper Award for outstanding young computer professional, and was listed on MIT Technology Review's 2004 TR-100 list of the top 100 innovators under the age of 35.

Internet services run on multiple servers hosted in different locations, serving users that are increasingly mobile and multi-homed. This does not match well with today's end-host network stack, designed for communication between fixed hosts with topology-dependent addresses. As such, service providers must resort to clumsy and indirect work-arounds to ensure seamless service for their users. Just as OpenFlow is enabling much-needed innovation in network management, the time is ripe to rethink how we manage networked services.

Our new Serval architecture enables applications to communicate directly on service names, on top of an unmodified network layer. Through a clean separation between the control and data plane, Serval enables software-defined control of services and end-points. With active sockets tied directly to the control plane, applications automatically trigger updates to service-routing state upon invoking socket calls, ensuring up-to-date service resolution. With Serval, end-points can seamlessly change network addresses, migrate flows across interfaces, and establish additional flows for efficient and uninterrupted service access. Experiments with our prototype show that Serval greatly simplifies the management of cloud services and mobile devices.

This is joint work with Erik Nordstrom, David Shue, Prem Gopalan, Rob Kiefer, Matvey Arye, Steven Ko, and Mike Freedman. The Serval source code and publications are available online at http://www.serval-arch.org

Software Defined Service-Centric Networking

Jennifer was an early designer of the Routing Control Platform (RCP)---a Software Defined Networking solution deployed in AT&T;'s backbone network---and the 4D architecture that popularized logically-centralized control of computer networks.