Intel® Network Builders continues to grow and Intel continues to invest in the success of the ecosystem and the Network Transformation. Hear where Intel will be focusing our efforts – optimizations, integration, and interoperability. Come and specifically discuss the interoperability challenges the industry is facing in this technical focused interoperability workshop

VNF software solutions from different vendors were onboarded on to Intel’s Open Network Platform (ONP) for Servers Release 1.5 and other NFVI platforms with respective key ingredients such as DPDK and OpenStack. The purpose of this presentation is to describe the procedure used to onboard VNF solutions as well as to share the experiences, learning and  key challenges along with benchmarking information. The VNFs used in this activity were virtual Routers, virtual Firewalls and virtual Load balancers. We will walk through the service function chain flows and conclude with a demo.

The two emerging technologies Software Defined Networking (SDN) & Network Function Virtualization(NFV) hold the promise to transform Telecom Infrastructure by adapting Cloud Technologies for Telecom Networks.  Faced with the exponential traffic growth, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are looking at SDN & NFV technologies to dramatically improve their network economics. SDN & NFV will enable CSPs to significantly lower their CapEx and OpEx, while driving higher asset utilization and increasing service velocity.

‘Creating Networks of Tomorrow with SDN-NFV’ session will give a quick overview on SDN and NFV technologies with a focus on the next key challenges CSPs face to move the Network Transofrmation from “Ideation to Implementation”. While numerous industry wide PoCs have proven technology viability, undertaking network transformation at scale and doing such transformation with speed are the next biggest challenges the CSPs need to address. The session will examine the key role Systems Integrator will pay in taking the industry to the next stage by solving key challenges of integration, interoperability, testing and certification at scale.

Tech Mahindra provides flexible concept to launch solution in Software Defined Networking (SDN) space for changing network needs of operators globally.

While the industry is moving towards NFV adoption with ETSI NFV MANO being the universal reference architecture, there are key unanswered questions, with Interoperability being the most important challenge.

What makes Interoperability so important for NFV adoption?

In this session Tata Consultancy Services will present its experience in integrating, testing, verifying and managing multi-vendor virtualized network functions, to move a step closer towards the goal of deploying NFV. We explore the following key challenges that we faced during this journey bringing together multiple vendor and open source VNFs to create a tangible reference architecture for an industry use case.

• How has NFV progressed from inception till date?
 
• How to tackle interoperability and the shortcomings of the standards?
 
• What does it take to deploy real industry use cases with multi-vendor VNFs inter-operating in an efficient manner?

Moving into 2016, hear what is in store for Intel Network Builders and get ready for our networking receptions.