Boston
May 8-11, 2017

Event Details

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Cisco - Cisco Advanced Networking

Fast Data and Packet Processing: Virtual, but for Reals
The Fast Data (fd.io) project is dedicated to making open source network services faster, more extensible and interoperable. Vector Packet Processing (VPP) utilizes the Data Plane Development Kit to optimize packet processing. The code base is still maturing, so when VPP support became a requirement, it was time to take it to the next level: production-ready. This talk features an introduction to VPP and its benefits, provide a quick update on the project status, then dives into the effort it took to productize VPP for a mainstream cloud.
 
IPv6 Deployment with OpenStack
More and more enterprise/service provider environments are deploying IPv6 due to IPv4 address exhaustion. Pubic and internal-facing applications that need IPv6 can now be deployed on OpenStack. This talk will discuss:

IPv4 address exhaustion
IPv6 deployment options for the cloud provider using OpenStack
Where to go for design and deployment of IPv6 on OpenStack

Wednesday, May 10, 9:50am-10:30am (1:50pm - 2:30pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Cisco, Distinguished Engineer
Shannon, CCIE #5245, is a Distinguished Engineer and Cloud Architect for Cloud Native and Application Infrastructure technologies at Cisco. He has been at Cisco for 20+ years. Shannon worked as a systems engineer at a system integrator for many years and as an end-user engineer in the medical industry prior to that. Shannon has been involved as a technical contributor in the OpenStack... FULL PROFILE
Technical Leader, Cisco
Anne McCormick is a Technical Leader at Cisco, and has been busy incorporating Cisco technology into OpenStack platforms. She is a member of Women of OpenStack, and has attended the past 5 summits - Barcelona was her favorite! The Boston area is her home base. When Anne isn’t spending time “in the cloud,” she prides herself on being a half-ninja (blue belt), an occasional... FULL PROFILE