Open Networking Summit North America 2018

Need for High Performance Data Plane -Sujata:
We will focus on how packet processing operations get translated onto CPU cycles while implementing VNFs. We will take an example of Quality of Service implementation and how it can be used for 5G applications like Network Slicing and Service Assurance


DPDK in Open Networking Platforms – role modeling flexibility, agility and scalability - Mjay:

DPDK with its high performant libraries - shines with the three pillars – Flexibility, Agility and Scalability. We will study a few key DPDK features that role models the above characteristics

Enabling Kata (Clear) Containers in OPNFV- James Chamings
We’ll walk through the modification of a virtual OPNFV installation to allow the use of ‘Kata Containers’. This technology allows the flexibility and speed of containers to be combined with the security and isolation of virtual machines.