Whiteboard Workshops: The Building Blocks of the New IP

There are fundamental parts of the New IP that are completely different from the old way of running networks. Our experts will provide you with base-level knowledge of these new network components. What are they, how do they work and where can you use them?

OpenStack:

Transitioning to a cloud computing environment provides many benefits, including greater economies of scale and greater flexibility to adopt new applications quickly. However, with these benefits come new challenges; such as, the need to control and reconfigure this dynamic environment as application workloads move across the networking infrastructure. Many organizations are turning to cloud orchestration solutions to overcome these issues. Commercial solutions can lead to feature lock-in, reducing flexibility and often inhibiting the infrastructure’s ability to evolve as requirements change. In this session, you’ll walk through the benefits of OpenStack, an open solution that is rapidly becoming the de facto open source management framework, and how the compute, network and storage components interoperate to deliver solutions for all types of cloud deployments.

Doug Brown, Solutions Architect, Brocade Federal

OpenDaylight:

This workshop will discuss how to get started with an OpenDaylight controller. You will learn what features are at your disposal; such as device discovery, traffic engineering, traffic re-prioritization, and methods to secure your environment.

Thomas D. Nadeau, Chief Architect, Open Source, Brocade

Ethernet Fabrics:

Ethernet fabrics create a more elastic, automated and simple data center network that behaves like a single switch. Come to this session to learn how easy an Ethernet fabric is to build and integrate into a virtual compute environment, and how it simplifies infrastructure with unique benefits such as hypervisor-agnostic VM awareness, advance automation and multi tenancy features and logically centralized management.

Greg Castellucci, Federal Solutions Consultant, Brocade

Whitebox Devices with NFV:

In this workshop, we'll tackle what the benefits are of a white box deployment. What technologies, such as DPDK, are driving this evolution? How well does Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) fit into these new hardware paradigms?

Clive D'Souza, Sr. Strategic Planner – Open Network Platform, Intel

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