Re: [vnfpool] [sfc] BitsnBites ForCES PoC

Shameless self-aggrandizement 

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> On Jul 18, 2014, at 1:00 PM, "Jamal Hadi Salim" <hadi@mojatatu.com> wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I am sorry for spamming all these lists. You are being spammed because
> you are a cousin of ForCES.
> 
> We are planning to have a ForCES based NFV/SDN PoC demonstration at the
> Bits and Bites event on Thursday night (1845-2100 at the Concert Hall).
> Given it is very hard to give a lot of details in the demo, Evangelos Haleplidis
> will present more details at the ForCES meeting Monday 15:20 at the
> Manitoba room.
> 
> The official blurb is as follows:
> ------
> SANA will demonstrate the proof-of-concept of the applicability of
> IETF's ForCES framework for both NFV management and SDN control.
> The ForCES data model will be utilized to describe VNFs, services and the
> infrastructure definition in a clear, formal and concise approach.
> The protocol will illustrate SDN control and NFV management of all
> modelled elements.
> 
> The setup includes various NFV/SDN entities controlled and managed by the
> ForCES architecture execute under a singular simple programmatic API
> regardless of whether they are virtual or physical. The
> separation of hardware and software is illustrated by the same NF
> LFB data models implemented in:
> a)KVM virtual machines, b) Linux containers, c) linux kernel proper
> and d) ASIC based L2/3 (Broadcom chipset) in white box switches
> all working in unison.
> 
> Infrastructure orchestration includes instantiating VMs, containers,
> applications and setup of basic network connectivity using appropriate
> ForCES LFBs.
> Service orchestration is again modelled by ForCES LFBs and
> both control and management activities for the services are driven by
> the ForCES protocol.
> 
> We will illustrate 3GPP S/PGW simple connectivity (NAT-based) service
> and the advantages
> gained from (SDN) separating the datapath components of S/PGW from the control
> as well as (NFV) separation of hardware from software.
> 
> This PoC is further illustrated in:
> http://nfvwiki.etsi.org/index.php?title=ForCES_Applicability_for_NFV_and_integrated_SDN
> --------
> 
> Apologies again for the mass email.
> 
> cheers,
> jamal
> 
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