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April 3-5 | San Jose, California
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Thursday, April 4 • 11:50am - 12:20pm
Panel Discussion: Towards Kubernetes as the Network Service Orchestrator - Heather Kirksey, The Linux Foundation; Ramki Krishnan, VMware; Ed Warnicke, Cisco Systems; Jeffrey Saelens, Charter Communications; and Nikolay Nikolaev, VMware

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In the current landscape, network services are defined by a slow-moving standards ecosystem (TOSCA etc.) with vendor proprietary extensions. With the advent of Edge Computing and 5G, dynamism of Network Services is a critical element in achieving end-to-end service agility for applications and networks for enterprises, network operators and beyond. While transition from PNFs->VNFs->CNFs is an important element of this transformation, delivering a dynamic network service using an industry standard API is a key gap to address in a disaggregated landscape.

This panel discusses how the open source effort Network Service Mesh (NSM) uses the extensibility of Kubernetes API to deliver dynamic network services across Distributed DC deployments by seamlessly interconnecting PNFs, VNFs and CNFs at Layer 2/3. This panel also elaborates on the current state of NSM and future architectural plans.
Speakers
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Ramki Krishnan

Lead Technologist, Open Source, VMware
Ramki, with 20+ years of industry experience, has a deep understanding of various technologies and strong business acumen to lead and transform innovation into customer-winning products. Currently, at VMware, he is responsible for Telco/Enterprise open source technology vision, strategy... Read More →
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Ed Warnicke

Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems
Ed Warnicke is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems. He has been working for two decades in many areas of networking and Open Source. Ed is currently a co-founder of and active contributor to the OmniBOR and Network Service Mesh projects. Ed has a masters in Physics (String Theory... Read More →
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Nikolay Nikolaev

Engineering Manager, Isovalent
Nikolay Nikolaev is an Engineering Manager at Isovalent's Datapath team. For more than 20 years, he has been implementing networking software ranging from hardware boxes to powerful server applications and virtualized data planes. He spent some time in the virtualization world using... Read More →
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Jeff Saelens

CNF WG Co-Chair, Dell Technologies
 
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Heather Kirksey

Vice President of NFV, The Linux Foundation
Heather Kirksey works with the community to advance the adoption and implementation of open source NFV platforms.Before joining The Linux Foundation, she led strategic technology alliances for MongoDB. Earlier in her career she held various leadership positions in the telecom industry... Read More →

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Thursday April 4, 2019 11:50am - 12:20pm PDT
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