Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

Event Details

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Orchestrating VNF Forwarding Graphs and SFC Using OpenDayLight, Neutron and Tacker

Successful deployments of complex Network Services needs dynamic control of traffic flows through VNFs.

Even when using SDN, adding new services and changing the related networking in the underlying networks can still be a challenge. Service Function Chaining (SFC) addresses these complexities, making even the most complex scenarios quite simple. SFC implemented in an SDN Controller, like OpenDaylight (ODL), must interact with additional components to automate the entire Service Chaining scenario. A VNF Manager, like Tacker, is necessary to manage the life cycle of VNFs.  Multiple layers need to work in cohesion to make this a reality. This ability to support dynamic VNF Forwarding Graphs using Service Function Chaining differentiates various NFV Orchestration stacks out there in the market.

In this talk, you will hear how three opensource projects - Tacker, Neutron and OpenDayLight SDN Controller - coming together to achieve this holy grail of the NFV promise.


What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will learn about a fully validated stack that starts with,

  1. TOSCA YAML templates describing the Network Services as a collection of VNFs and Forwarding Graphs.
  2. An NFV Orchestrator (Tacker) that would "render" such Network Service and FFGs using a Networking abstraction API for SFC (Neutron).
  3. Networking abstraction API backed by a leading OpenSource SDN Controller (OpenDayLight).  
  4. OpenDayLight SFC Project
Tuesday, October 25, 5:55pm-6:35pm (3:55pm - 4:35pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Principal Software Engineer
Sridhar Ramaswamy works as a Principal Engineer in Brocade’s Software Networking division. Sridhar is the ex-PTL for OpenStack Tacker project building NFV Orchestrator solutions for OpenStack and beyond. Sridhar also participates in NFV Data Model Standardizations efforts through OASIS TOSCA. Previously Sridhar contributed to OpenStack Neutron projects. Sridhar is also a... FULL PROFILE
Principal Software Engineer, Inocybe
Brady leads the OpenDayLight SFC project and is a core committer on the OPNFV SFC project. FULL PROFILE
Senior Staff Engineer, Huawei
Louis is currently a senior staff engineer working on network virtualization, cloud services, and SDN technologies at Huawei Technology USA. Louis is an active contributor to serverless cloud computing and service function chaining at several organizations including OpenStack, ONF, ETSI NFV, IETF, OPNFV and CNCF. FULL PROFILE