Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

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CTO Perspectives on Service Function Chaining for OpenStack Clouds
Telecom & NFV Strategy

Service function chaining (SFC) is the underpinning of NFV, enabling operators to compose a dynamic sequence of network services suited for elastic service environments that ultimately determines the quality and efficiency of service offerings. Virtualized network functions is one step in the NFV journey, but they are insufficient without proper SFC.In this session, the panel of CTOS will discuss technologies that are available today and in development for the near future to drive more agile, dynamic SFC with granular service points and policies for OpenStack operators. Some topics to be discussed will include:  

  • Role of SFC in NFV  
  • Challenges of deploying SFC
  • Clarifying SFC, Service Insertion, Service Graphs
  • SFC Architecture Framework
  • Standards bodies: ETSI, IETF on SFC
  • SFC working groups and where to find more information

What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will learn why the challenges exist, what are the technologies available today, and new technologies that are being defined.

Wednesday, October 26, 2:15pm-2:55pm (12:15pm - 12:55pm UTC)
CCIB - Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona - P1 - Room 117
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Tags: CxO Enterprise Telecom
Wendy Cartee
Senior Director of Cloud-Native Marketing
Wendy Cartee is senior director of Cloud-Native Marketing at VMware. Wendy has been in the OpenStack community since Folsom release and led OpenStack marketing at HP and PLUMgrid,where she sponsored OpenStack and its community growth. She is also active in the Linux Foundation collaborative projects and helped launch the IO Visor Project with companies such as Huawei, Cisco, Intel, Facebook,... FULL PROFILE
Joel Halpern
Principal Architect
At Ericsson, I lead IP related standardization activities, participate in Network Architecture and design for emerging customers needs, and assist in investigating emerging technologies of relevance to IP and Broadband. FULL PROFILE
Pere Monclus
PLUMgrid
Pere is the co-founder and CTO at PLUMgrid where he builds innovative solutions in the areas of SDN and Cloud. Before founding PLUMgrid, Pere was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems in the Research and Advanced Development team, where he led innovation in the areas of cloud, security and converged infrastructure. Prior to that, he was responsible for the architecture and technology of... FULL PROFILE
Uri Elzur
DNSG CTO, Intel
  Uri Elzur is the CTO for the Data Center Network Solution Group (DNSG) of Intel’s Data Center Group. In this role, he is responsible for creating SDN/NFV technical strategy, open source top-to-bottom stack architectures (including MANO, OpenStack, ODL, vSwitch) and influence the server platforms. Uri is a networking specialist with more than 25 years of industry experience and a... FULL PROFILE