#OpenInfraSummit Track: 5G, NFV & Edge

The Open Infrastructure Summit, held virtually for the first time, takes place October 19-23 and includes more than 100 sessions around infrastructure use cases like cloud computing, edge computing, hardware enablement, and security. Thousands of attendees are expected to participate, representing 30+ open source communities and more than 110 countries.

Today, we are featuring one of the seven Summit tracks—5G, NFV & Edge. Get your Summit tickets for free and don’t forget to add these sessions to your Summit calendar!

China Tower’s CDN Edge Computing Solution Based on Intel Servers and StarlingX

Presented by Jianqing Jiang from 99Cloud Inc, Junyu He from Intel and Liang Zhang from Shanghai Tower.
What can you expect to learn?
- Explore the StarlingX Architecture and CDN technology with community members from China Tower, Intel and 99cloud.
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Deploying Container Network Functions (CNF) on Kubernetes

Presented by Ajay Kalambur & Yichen Wang from Cisco System.
What can you expect to learn?
- The audience would be able to walk away with ideas on what it takes to deploy a CNF which has high throughput and low latency demands on top of Kubernetes.
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DIMINET: On Demand Multi-site Connectivity for Edge Infrastructures

Presented by David Espinel from Orange.
What can you expect to learn?
- The talk will be mainly divided into two major parts:
  - First, the presenters will discuss challenges related to the distributed control plane scenario, in particular, the scalability and the importance of sites’ autonomy.
  - Second, the presenters will present DIMINET and explain how it can be used in order to provide connectivity in a distributed manner for several OpenStack instances.
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Hardware Automation Deployment and Test with Big Scale in ChinaMobile NFV Cloud

Presented by Xiaoguang Zhang & Zhiqiang Yu from China Mobile.
What can you expect to learn?
- Learn about automation technology, server and switch technology, and network infrastructure
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How does the Telco Industry Benefit from the CNTT/OPNFV Outcomes?

Presented by Sukhdev Kapur from Juniper Networks, Walter Kozlowski from Telstra Corporation Australia, Karine Sevilla from Orange, Tomas Fredberg from Ericsson.
What can you expect to learn?
- This presentation delves into the real-world technology challenges, opportunities and business needs we expect cloud infrastructure implementers to encounter in conforming to the CNTT Reference Architectures. This will cause CNTT Cloud Infrastructure solutions to dynamically evolve and the CNTT Reference Model needs to adapt to this fast-paced evolution. The direction of the evolution is dictated by the adoption of the Cloud Native Network Functions that require support from a Container as a Service virtualization layer (CaaS) and the need for the co-existence of several virtualisation technologies requiring separate and yet co-ordinated management.
- The growing number of real-life deployments, especially in areas like 5G, IoT and Edge, multiplies number of variations in mostly proprietary solutions. Therefore, there is a strong community interest in the normalization of such deployments using directions from a stable and yet flexible CNTT Reference Model.
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I Deployed my Snowflake and it Didn’t Melt! Now What?

Presented by Gianpietro Lavado from Whitestack, Mark Beierl from Canonical.
What can you expect to learn?
- How to break down a complex network service into manageable components and create descriptors to automate the management and orchestration.
- How to monitor complex network services
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Kubernetes as a Container Platform for the Edge

Presented by Karim Manaouil, Adrien Lebre from IMT Atlantique.
What can you expect to learn?
- The behavior of vanilla Kubernetes on the edge, namely the effect of latency and packets loss on Pod startup times, API requests durations and service discovery.
- Draw conclusions and learn the possible limitations and pitfalls of deploying Kubernetes on the Edge from the previous experiments.
- An overview of the main initiatives that propose to extend Kubernetes for the Edge and their architectural limitations, namely KubeEdge, Kubefed and Submariner.
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Living on the Edge with DCN Networking

Presented by Anita Tragler & Bernard Cafarelli from Red Hat Inc.
What can you expect to learn?
- Review of key Edge DCN Networking reference architectures for Telco, IoT, retail Edeg
- Understand the differentiated needs and challenges of DCN Edge workloads requiring
  - localized services using DVR and availability zones (DHCP, routing, load balancing)
  - Sophisticated networking with L3 networks (routed provider networks), low latency constraints, QoS and NIC partitioning with bandwidth guarantees
  - Specialized scheduling and live migration with Nova availability zones
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Making a Better World by Edge Computing Infrastructure: the Experience and Thinking from FiberHome

Presented by Wang Hao & Linxiang Chen from Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies Co.
What can you expect to learn?
- The presenters will share some experiences about the issues they solved at Fiberhome and also some thinkings about the future of edge computing infrastructure.
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Minimum Viable Core for 4G and 5G Dual Connectivity

Presented by Prakash Ramchandran from Dell, Jonathan Bryce from OpenStack Foundation, Boris Renski from FreedomFi.
What can you expect to learn?
- All Service Providers, Chip manufacturers, System, Service & Network Vendors have been facing declining ARPU, funds shortage due to Covid-19 & eager to collaborate to cut costs. With 3GPP (Rel 15/16) 5G NR specs approved by ITU IMT-2020, what needs is a reference implementation of 5GC (core) to migrate using New Radio NR through NSA and SA architectures. The Panel will provide you answers to insights they have gained through the efforts in deploying towards a future plug fest to test both Hardware and Software functionalities to deploy and maintain an upstream version of packages and sources with BSD 3.0 license to contribute and use the Source codes.
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NTT and KDDI Challenges for Sustainable Infrastructure Transformation

Presented by Hiroshi Tsuji from KDDI Corporation, Toshiaki Takahashi from NEC Corporation, Yasufumi Ogawa from NTT.
What can you expect to learn?
- For telecom operators who have been adopting virtualized platforms such as NTT and KDDI, it is a major challenge to achieve sustainable platform transformation and reduce integration and verification costs. Attendees can learn how Tacker is continually responding to new technologies and strengthening the dev process to tackle the challenge. In collaboration with ETSI NFV, Tacker is creating dev process to automate IF and spec compliance test and will promote solution of CNF control.
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OSF Edge Computing WG: Defining the Undefinable

Presented by Beth Cohen from Verizon, Gergely Csatari from Nokia Networks, Ildiko Vancsa from OpenStack Foundation, David Paterson from Dell EMC.
What can you expect to learn?
- Attendees will learn just how much the Edge Computing Working Group’s projects have advanced over the past year as the work has expanded to other projects within both the OpenStack and the wider Open Source communities. This is an opportunity to learn how you can participate in driving innovation in this exciting new superset of the cloud computing technology, as the working group continues its mission to provide requirements to help vendors and Open Source projects create tools and features in support of the use cases.
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Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) Enabling on StarlingX

Presented by Yi Wang from Intel.
What can you expect to learn?
- The basic concept of time-sensitive networking (TSN). What TSN is, and what TSN can benefit
- Some experience on how to enable TSN capability for workload
- How to measure TSN network performance
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Updating Firmware Using Ironic and Redfish in the Datacenter and at the Edge

Presented by Chris Dearborn & David Paterson from Dell EMC.
What can you expect to learn?
- Attendees will learn:
  - To use Ironic to remotely update firmware on servers using the Redfish driver.
  - Determine if the update was successful or not, and how to troubleshoot issues should they occur.
  - How to update firmware for edge nodes deployed in remote networks
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What CNTT Thinks About Containers?

Presented by Georg Kunz from Ericsson, Gergely Csatari from Nokia Networks.
What can you expect to learn?
- Attendees will get an overview of the CNTT Kubernetes Based Reference Architecture (RA2), Reference Implementation (RI2) and Reference Conformance (RC2) and the related activities in OPNFV.
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