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ONF Connect 2019

9:00am PDT

Keynote: "Open Source for Broadband Networking", Andre Fuetsch, President AT&T Labs and CTO at AT&T

Speakers

Andre Fuetsch

President, AT&T Labs and Chief Technology Officer, AT&T Labs

Andre oversees the global technology direction for AT&T. This includes network planning, the company’s innovation road map, AT&T Labs, AT&T Foundry, and the intellectual property organization. His responsibilities include spearheading the design of the company’s next-generation... Read More →

Wednesday September 11, 2019 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
Salons 5-6

9:30am PDT

State of ONF: Guru Parulkar, Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation (ONF)

Speakers

Guru Parulkar

Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation

Guru Parulkar is Executive Director of ONF and ON.Lab, and Executive Director of Stanford Platform Lab, and Consulting Professor of EE at Stanford University.Guru has been in the field of networking for over 25 years. He joined Stanford in 2007 as Executive Director of its Clean Slate... Read More →

Wednesday September 11, 2019 9:30am - 10:00am PDT
Salons 5-6

10:00am PDT

Distinguished Contributor Awards

Speakers

Andre Fuetsch

President, AT&T Labs and Chief Technology Officer, AT&T Labs

Andre oversees the global technology direction for AT&T. This includes network planning, the company’s innovation road map, AT&T Labs, AT&T Foundry, and the intellectual property organization. His responsibilities include spearheading the design of the company’s next-generation... Read More →

Guru Parulkar

Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation

Guru Parulkar is Executive Director of ONF and ON.Lab, and Executive Director of Stanford Platform Lab, and Consulting Professor of EE at Stanford University.Guru has been in the field of networking for over 25 years. He joined Stanford in 2007 as Executive Director of its Clean Slate... Read More →

Nick McKeown

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science/Co-Founder, Stanford University/Barefoot Networks

Nick McKeown (PhD/MS UC Berkeley ’95/’92; B.E Univ. of Leeds, ’86) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Faculty Director of the Clean Slate Program at Stanford University. From 1986–1989 he worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs in Bristol, England... Read More →

Wednesday September 11, 2019 10:00am - 10:15am PDT
Salons 5-6

10:15am PDT

Keynote: "How We Might Get Humans out of the Way", Nick McKeown, Stanford University, Professor of Computer Engineering and Barefoot Networks, Co-founder

Nick will talk about how P4 and the PISA switch architecture will be the foundation for fine grained measurement, formal verification and closed loop control of networks.

Speakers

Nick McKeown

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science/Co-Founder, Stanford University/Barefoot Networks

Nick McKeown (PhD/MS UC Berkeley ’95/’92; B.E Univ. of Leeds, ’86) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Faculty Director of the Clean Slate Program at Stanford University. From 1986–1989 he worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs in Bristol, England... Read More →

Wednesday September 11, 2019 10:15am - 10:45am PDT
Salons 5-6

11:00am PDT

Plenary: "Who dares wins! How access transformation can fast-track evolution of operator production platforms"

Arthur D. Little has collaborated with three major operators to provide a view into the impact of cloud technology and IT on the business of broadband access. Hear directly from ADL and these operators on why they are transforming their businesses, why the provider access edge is so important, and how their strategy relates to collaboration in multiple ONF projects.

Speakers

Salman Ali

Hans-Joerg Kolbe

Chief Engineer, Deutsche Telekom AG

Hans-Joerg Kolbe is a chief engineer at Deutsche Telekom Germany working as technical lead for SDN, NFV and broadband access. He is co-responsible for the system design and architecture of DT's Access 4.0 program and is an active member of the Open Networking Foundation's reference... Read More →

David Artuñedo Guillén

CEO, OnLife Networks/ Telefónica

David Artuñedo Guillén is the CEO at OnLife Networks (a Telefónica Intrapeneur start up) at Product Innovation Inside Chief Commercial Digital Office exploring how to re-architect Central Offices as Datacenters using SDN & Cloud open source technologies, to deliver best user experience... Read More →

Tom Anschutz

Distinguished Member of Tech Staff, AT&T

Tom Anschutz is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T. In his role as a network architect, he is instrumental in the development of AT&T’s software-centric network, and in progressing the key technologies that support it - SDN and NFV. He is the editor and chief contributor... Read More →

Wednesday September 11, 2019 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Salons 5-6

11:45am PDT

Panel: 5G and Open Source

Speakers

Oguz Sunay

Chief Architect for Mobile Networking, Open Networking Foundation

Oğuz Sunay is the Chief Architect for Mobile Networking at the Open Networking Foundation. Previously, Oğuz was the Chief Technology Officer at Argela-USA where he led the research and development for a programmable RAN architecture that enables dynamically programmable RAN slicing... Read More →

Lyle Bertz

Director of Technology Innovation & Architecture, Sprint

Lyle Bertz serves as a Director of Technology Innovation & Architecture at Sprint where he is responsible for long-term Core Network and Service System (wireline, enterprise, IOT, LTE & 5G) technology strategy and architecture as well as support of related standards and global ecosystem... Read More →

Michal Sewera

T-Mobile Poland

Michal Sewera is leading the EPC Shared Service Center team (hosted in Warsaw) focused on delivery of ePC engineering services in Deutsche Telekom. He is also responsible for DevOps activities in T-Mobile Poland ePC network. Michal was involved in early development of different Packet... Read More →

Doug Eng

Distinguished-Technical Architect, AT&T

Pranav Mehta

VP & Director, Systems and Software Research, Intel Labs, Intel

Wednesday September 11, 2019 11:45am - 12:30pm PDT
Salons 5-6

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Jason Hoffman , President & CEO, MobiledgeX,

Speakers

Jason Hoffman

President and CEO, MobiledgeX

Jason Hoffman is President and CEO of MobiledgeX, where his decades of experience in telecommunications and cloud infrastructure have driven him to design the future of mobile edge services, applications, and devices.Jason is considered one of the architects of large scale cloud computing... Read More →

Thursday September 12, 2019 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
Salons 5-6

9:30am PDT

Keynote: "Plotting a Course to a Continued Moore's Law" by Partha Ranganathan and Amin Vahdat, Google

The systems community faces an important and exciting challenge. On one hand, Moore’s law is slowing down, stressing traditional assumptions around cheaper and faster systems every year. Concurrently, demand for computing continues to grow at phenomenal rates, with deeper analysis over ever growing volumes of data, new diverse workloads in the cloud, and smarter edge devices. In this talk, we will summarize recent technology and workload trends and discuss the evolution of system architectures for large "warehouse-scale computing" environments with a focus on the role that networking will play in enabling continued exponential increase in computing capability. Specifically, we will discuss how responding to the current opportunities will require more “out-of-the-box” designs ---considering the entire datacenter as a computer, hierarchical architectures exposing inherent latency variations, and co-designing across hardware and software. Taken together, we sketch a path toward a new Moore’s Law: exponentially increasing compute capability at a fixed cost by increasing the efficiency of the distributed applications running across an auto-balancing warehouse-scale computer, co-optimized across the tens of thousands of compute, storage, and network elements.

Speakers

Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan

Distinguished Engineer, Google

Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan is currently a distinguished engineer and area technical lead for server systems and datacenters at Google. Prior to this, he was a HP Fellow and Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs where he led their research on systems and datacenters. Partha... Read More →

Amin Vahdat

Engineering Fellow and Vice President, Google

At Google, Vahdat focuses on Cloud Computing, Software Defined Networking, Network Virtualization, Data Center and Wide Area Networking. Vahdat has published more than 200 papers in computer systems, with fundamental contributions to cloud computing, data consistency, energy-efficient... Read More →

Thursday September 12, 2019 9:30am - 10:45am PDT
Salons 5-6

11:00am PDT

Plenary: Next-Gen SDN Stack

Next-Gen SDN open source stack is creating truly programmable and verifiable network infrastructure. Learn about how P4, Stratum, and µONOS are all playing a role to create a comprehensive stack to enable the next major innovation in network infrastructure.

Speakers

Nate Foster

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University

Nate Foster is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. The primary goal of his research is to develop languages and tools that make it easy for programmers to build secure and reliable systems. His current work focuses on the design and implementation of... Read More →

Timon Sloane

VP, Marketing and Ecosystem, Open Networking Foundation

Timon Sloane is the vice president of marketing and ecosystem of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). He leads the organization’s efforts building an open source ecosystem, thus helping to enable the broad transformation of the networking industry through the adoption of open source... Read More →

Brian O'Connor

MTS, Open Networking Foundation

Brian O’Connor works on open source SDN platforms at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). He is currently serving as the technical lead for the Stratum project and is a member of the ONOS project’s technical steering team. Brian has given SDN talks and tutorials at several conferences... Read More →

Thomas Vachuska

Chief Architect, Open Networking Foundation

Thursday September 12, 2019 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Salons 5-6

11:45am PDT

Panel: Edge Cloud - Different Perspectives on Edge

The edge cloud has tremendous potential, with the promise of supporting low-latency/high-bandwidth applications ranging from Internet-of-Things (IoT) to Immersive UIs to Autonomous Vehicles. At the same time, ONF is working with network operators to transition their access networks from closed and proprietary hardware to disaggregated and virtualized software running on white-box servers and switches, the very same platform architecture as will power the edge cloud. The panel will bring together technical leaders from three startups that are bringing innovative "edge cloud enabling" products to market. Moderated by ONF CTO Larry Peterson, the panel will discuss their respective company's insights into where the opportunities are, and what this means to network operators and commodity cloud providers.

Speakers

Zack Butcher

Founding Engineer, Tetrate, Tetrate

Zack helps large enterprises adopt Envoy and Istio. An early engineer building Istio at Google, he served on its Steering Committee and co-authored “Istio: Up and Running” (O'Reilly). He works with NIST and co-authored a series of Special Publications defining microservice security... Read More →

Larry Peterson

CTO, Open Networking Foundation (ONF)

Larry Peterson came to ONF from Princeton, where he was the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Princeton-hosted PlanetLab Consortium. He served as chair of the CS Department from 2003-2009. In 2007, Peterson co-founded CoBlitz LLC to commercialize CDN... Read More →

John Dilley

Chief Architect, Rafay Systems

John Dilley (Jad) is Chief Architect at Rafay Systems, a 2017 start-up that eases the management and operation of container-based applications. He helps design systems that enable global, multi-cloud placement, distribution, and traffic managementPrior to Rafay he spent 16 years... Read More →

Wiqar Chaudry

COO, NALEJ Corporation

Thursday September 12, 2019 11:45am - 12:30pm PDT
Salons 5-6

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Elad Nafshi, Sr. VP, Next Generation Access Network, Comcast

Speakers

Elad Nafshi

Sr. VP, Next Generation Access Network, Comcast

Friday September 13, 2019 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
Salons 5-6

9:30am PDT

Distinguished Contributor Team Award

Speakers

Elad Nafshi

Sr. VP, Next Generation Access Network, Comcast

Friday September 13, 2019 9:30am - 9:45am PDT
Salons 5-6

9:45am PDT

Keynote: Trellis – The First ONF Production-Ready Solution

Speakers

Nitesh Bansal

SVP and Global Head Engineering Services, Infosys

Nitesh is passionate about bridging the physical-digital divide, advocating AI, machine learning and process automation to amplify business value. He has worked with numerous clients helping them understand ways to leverage Industry 4.0 and IoT technologies leading to digitization... Read More →

George Tchaparian

President & CEO, Edgecore Networks

George is a seasoned technology executive who brings more than 30 years of industry experience to Edgecore Networks Corporation's networking business. George is also the GM for Accton Group's Open Networking Business, serves as the Co-Chair of Open Compute Project (OCP) Taiwan, and... Read More →

Saurav Das

VP of Engineering, Open Networking Foundation (ONF)

Over 20 years in networking & communications, Saurav has worked on systems as diverse as network virtualization at Big Switch Networks, datacenter switches at Arista, and WDM optics at Enablence. He currently serves as VP of Engineering at the Open Networking Foundation, where he... Read More →

Friday September 13, 2019 9:45am - 10:30am PDT
Salons 5-6

11:00am PDT

Keynote: Jochen Appel, VP Access Network Engineering, Deutsche Telekom

Speakers

Jochen Appel

VP of Access Network & Cost Engineering, Deutsche Telekom

Jochen Appel is the Vice President of Access Network Engineering at Deutsche Telekom Technik in Germany. In this role he is leading the development of Deutsche Telekom’s software-defined Gigabit access network. In a dual role, Jochen is also responsible as Vice President at Deutsche... Read More →

Friday September 13, 2019 11:00am - 11:30am PDT
Salons 5-6

11:30am PDT

Keynote: CORD TAM Research Update

"CORD is projected to used by a majority of network operators. Insight into the latest third-party research exploring the scale and scope of the market impact of CORD will be shared."

Speakers

Chris DePuy

Founding Analyst, 650 Group

Chris DePuy is Technology Analyst/Co-Founder at 650 Group, a leading market intelligence research firm for communications, data center, and cloud markets. He was previously a Vice President at Dell’Oro Group, responsible for the Carrier IP Telephony, Enterprise Edge, Wireless LAN... Read More →

Friday September 13, 2019 11:30am - 11:50am PDT
Salons 5-6

11:50am PDT

Panel: Technical Leadership Team (TLT)

ONF's Technical Leadership Team will share insights into the latest developments of ONF's work, and will take questions from the audience.

Speakers

Roy Chua

Founder & Principal, AvidThink

Roy Chua is founder and principal at AvidThink, an independent research and advisory service formed in 2018 out of SDxCentral's research arm. Roy was previously co-founder at SDxCentral and prior to that, he was a management consultant working with Fortune 500 and technology startups... Read More →

Wenyu Shen

Manager of Technology Development, NTT Communications

Wenyu Shen has over 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and currently serves as a technology development manager in NTT Communications. In this role, he drives NTT Communications’ SD-WAN/NFV strategy and leads a team developing a next generation SD-WAN/NFV... Read More →

Hank Kafka

VP, Access Architecture & Standards, AT&T

Hank is currently responsible for driving the transformation, virtualization, and convergence of AT&T’s advanced access technologies, including wireless technologies such as 5G and wireline technologies such as passive optical networks. Hank is also responsible for AT&T’s contributions... Read More →

Manuel Paul

Senior Expert Technology & Innovation, Deutsche Telekom AG

Deeply engaged in strategy, innovation and engineering projects (incl. leading roles) within the DT group, Manuel coordinates Software-Defined Networking standards & collaborative community activities. He has been involved into the SDN movement since the early days, has driven and... Read More →

Bora Eliacik

., Netsia

Bora is an ICT professional with more than 20 years experience in the telecommunications industry. Throughout his career, Bora Eliacik has participated in large-scale software integration and development projects as a project manager, product manager and architect in a wide variety... Read More →

Louis Donofrio

Sr. Director, Product Management, Comcast

Lou joined Comcast in 2015 working on Next Generation Access Networks within the Technology, Product and Experience organization. Lou is responsible for Product Management of Comcast's Trellis implementation, as well as, the virtual CMTS and Remote Phy Devices. Prior to Comcast, Lou... Read More →

Guru Parulkar

Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation

Guru Parulkar is Executive Director of ONF and ON.Lab, and Executive Director of Stanford Platform Lab, and Consulting Professor of EE at Stanford University.Guru has been in the field of networking for over 25 years. He joined Stanford in 2007 as Executive Director of its Clean Slate... Read More →

Friday September 13, 2019 11:50am - 12:30pm PDT
Salons 5-6