Vancouver, BC
May 21-24, 2018

Event Details

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How to build & design production ready vEPC (Evolved Packet Core) solution on OpenStack?

In this session, we will provide a design overview of Telco NFV solution for large EPC deployment. We discuss how the challenges faced during NFV integration, performance and scale testing are addressed by proper dimensioning, testing and enhancement in the networking stack. What role different OpenStack & Tungsten Fabric features played during this integration and scale testing? What are the lessons learned from this and how future looks like for NFV Microservices architecture?

Every vendor VNF design and architecture is different and how VNF can leverage OpenStack & Tungsten Fabric provided services to achieve the best performance. What are different design principles taken into consideration to achieve higher scale and performance for complex VNF solutions testing phase.


What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will learn following:

- vEPC Telco Cloud Architecture

- How to achieve best performance and scale from VNFs by proper design

- Full design overview of vEPC and VNF overlay design details

Wednesday, May 23, 9:50am-10:30am (4:50pm - 5:30pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Principal Engineer @ Juniper Networks Inc
Hi,   I am Ananth. I have been coding bits for the last 20 years or so, primarily in Data Networking and protocol areas. I have worked in numerous groups in Juniper Inc, Cisco Inc, Force10 Networks, Procket Networks, Celox Networks, etc. Nothing excites me now a days more than get some thing to work seemlessly under a cloud environment! FULL PROFILE
AT&T
Manage cloud development for the AT&T Integrated Cloud. Previous repsonibilities include development and support of AT&T SilverLining clouds on Havana and Grizzly, managed large data center upgrades from IceHouse to Juno, OpenStack custom development for internally required features, upstreaming of custom features, & OpenStack upgrade from Juno to Kilo.  Currently managing... FULL PROFILE
ATT
Munish Mehan works at AT&T as Prinicipal Technical Member of Tech Staff and has been working on AT&Ts Openstack Cloud platform. This platform is used by various AT&T applications and host NFVs for various business units. He works on multiple SDNs, Performance tuning of platform- SRIOV PCI-Numa aligment and work as lead developer with cloud platform team and also help VNF teams to... FULL PROFILE