DECEMBER 2016

Our five distinguished judges (pictured below) experienced live demonstrations from the low latency category finalists, Artesyn/Vantrix and Brain4Net, and the analytics category finalists, GENBAND, Netrounds, and Wipro. You can discover more about their solutions from the live interviews conducted from the Verizon Innovation Lab on the Intel® Network Builders Social Hub.

From Left to Right: Matt Adiletta, Intel Senior Fellow and Director of the Center of Innovation at Intel; Dr. Yan Luo, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts; Lynn Comp, Senior Director, Industry and Sales Enabling in the Network Platforms Group at Intel; Dr. Bryan Larish, Director of Technology at Verizon; Anil Guntupalli, Director of Technology at Verizon.

After a difficult deliberation, the judges chose one grand prize winner in each category. The grand prize winners were announced on December 5 at the Intel® Network Builders Summit in conjunction with Carrier Network Virtualization in Palo Alto.

Low Latency Category: Artesyn Embedded Computing and Vantrix Corporation showcased their Network Edge Augmented 360 Demo. This virtual reality solution is seen to provide an improved immersive customer experience at live sports events, as an example.

Analytics Category: Wipro demonstrated a network analytics solution that uses real-time analytics to improve end customer experience on wireless networks.

Congratulations to the grand prize winners!

• vE-CPE Overview: Over seven chapters, this course delivers an overview of vE-CPE, including a summary of the existing technology and its limitations, as well as a view of the industry and major players. This course also highlights the services that Intel delivers and the driving technologies.

• vE-CPE Reference Architecture: This course provides an overview of the vE-CPE architecture and infrastructure and how the various components interact. It also delves into the vE-CPE security features and storage options.

• vE-CPE Use Cases: This course covers vE-CPE use cases, with various specifications across large, medium, and small businesses with high-end deployment scenarios. Cost breakdowns and total cost of ownership (TCO) examples are provided for each scenario.

• vE-CPE Operations: The last course in this series covers the operations of vE-CPE, including deployment, service chaining, and orchestration. The tools and software for vE-CPE are also detailed.

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The xRAN.org members are advancing the RAN architecture in three areas:

• Decoupling the RAN control plane from the user plane.

• Building a modular eNB software stack that operates on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware.

• Publishing open northbound and southbound interfaces to the industry.

Through the founding of xRAN.org, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, and SKT are signaling to the market a desire to re-architect the RAN to be ready for 5G networks and network slicing, and they are encouraging development of an open ecosystem to meet those needs. Among the early members of the xRAN.org community are Radisys,* Aricent,* and Intel. The xRAN architecture transforms today's static RAN infrastructure into an extensible, software-based service delivery platform capable of rapidly responding to changing user application and business needs.

The xRAN.org initiative complements other SDN/NFV programs by extending the NFV principles into the RAN. Intel has joined to bring additional expertise and choices in defining the northbound and southbound software APIs for Intel® architecture-based COTS servers for the cloud RAN use case. Intel's FlexRAN will be the primary vehicle to engage in technical and business discussions with xRAN.org. FlexRAN is the common reference platform for all NPG 5G RAN engagements, across multiple initiatives.

Learn more about this initiative at the xRAN.org web site. FAQ for the initiative are at https://www.xran.org/faq.

"Security Considerations for Network Functions Virtualization for Communications Service Providers" – Read the Paper

"NFV Security Gateway for Communications Service Providers" – Read the Paper

In this developer appreciation event, Out of the Box Network Developers will turn the tables. Members of the industry—including Huawei,* Cable Labs,* Intel, and more—will come to pitch their ideas to the developers and seek their contributions. Register for this event to enjoy an evening of networking, see the winners from the 2016 Devlab competition, and hear lightning pitches from the industry.

Dates: January 19
Time: 05:30 pm - 09:30 pm
Location: SC-9 auditorium, Intel Santa Clara Campus

• Cryptodev Support for Additional Algorithms

• Cryptodev Performance Optimization

• IPsec Sample Application Enhancements

• vHost-User Optimization

• vHost Multi-Queue Enhancement

• Delay Packet Copy in vHost-User Dequeue

• vHost PMD Xstats

• VF Daemon (SR-IOV Policy Manager)

• Cuckoo Hash Enhancements

The full feature list is available in the Release Notes.

This year, all the main contributors to DPDK were represented. In addition to a number of technical presentations, the event also included interactive discussions on the DPDK roadmap, mbuf structure, interworking with the Linux* kernel, usability improvements, and project governance. Presentations and videos from the event are available on the DPDK Summit website.

Planning for next year's DPDK Summit events is starting now. In addition to repeating the PRC, USA, and European events in 2017, the community is also investigating the possibility of hosting its first DPDK Summit in Bangalore, and is considering a summit in the APAC region, possibly in Tokyo. Further details will be communicated in future newsletters and via the DPDK Summit website.