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Monday, May 18 • 2:00pm - 2:40pm
Intent and SDN Driven Service Chain: What, Why, and How

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Service Chaining refers to an ordered sequence of service functions that a specific flow must go through. In current Data Center, the deployment of service chain for a tenant's flow is through static, complex, and rigid configurations since they are tightly coupled with network topology and physical resources.  The introduction of new services into a network usually requires the reconfiguration of most (if not all) network elements. 

The reconfiguration is complex, time-consuming, and error-prone, requiring careful planning of topology changes and network outages, and incurring high OPEX on the user side. 

Things become unmanageble when services are deployed in the cloud:

• Diferent tenants' flows may require different chains of services. Even within one tenant network, different application flows may require different chains of services. This leads to explosion of the number of chains that need to be manually managed

• The administrator may need to change the chain of services in real time based on service treatment result or network status feedback. It is impossible to meet th real-time requirement through manual configurations on all the devices

A simple intent based user interface and a SDN based service chaining framework is needed to solve these challenges for operators and service providers.  

In this presentation, we will show how the intent driven and SDN based service chaining framework can greatly simplfies the user's life and reduces the OPEX as well as how it enables agile deployment of services.

We will also show how this service chaining framework can interoperate with both legacy and new service appliances, which allows for the building of a large ecosystem aross different domains of the network.  

Our solution framework represents an evolution from the static setup of a service path through manual configurations on physical devices to dynamic setup of service paths through simple user intent specification and SDN auto-programming on both physical and virtual nodes. 

 

Speakers
avatar for David Lenrow

David Lenrow

Distinguished Architect, HP
David Lenrow was trained as a computer scientist and has spent more than 20 years driving innovation in digital technology with an emphasis on networks, storage and media.  His career spans multiple roles from individual contributor to executive across all major functional areas... Read More →
avatar for Kyle Mestery

Kyle Mestery

Senior Principal Engineer, Intel
I am a technology executive and distinguished engineer with experience building teams to deliver cloud security solutions using a combination of open source and custom software. I write code, architecture documents, and help mentor members of the team to perform their best. In Open... Read More →
avatar for Cathy Zhang

Cathy Zhang

Principal Architect, Huawei
Cathy has over 15 years of software design and development experience. She is currently a chief architect at Huawei’s USA Cloud Computing Lab. Her expertise includes Serverless Cloud Platform, Network Service and Virtualization, SDN, OpenStack, etc.. She is a key member of the Serverless... Read More →


Monday May 18, 2015 2:00pm - 2:40pm PDT
Room 118/119/120

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