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LFN Webinar: 5G Dynamic Network Slicing via Open Source Projects
2021-03-25 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
5G network slicing enables a single physical infrastructure to be partitioned into multiple virtual instances, each optimized for the different needs of specific users. This opens up a new world of business opportunities for use cases like smart cities, autonomous driving, healthcare, and more. This also allows for greater operational efficiencies to network operators for only deploying the functions required to support a specific customer. Network slicing also benefits Enterprises by expanding their services geographically, creating private networks, and deploying Edge services. Though network slicing is a common topic across the industry right now, slicing implementations and discussion are often limited to eMBB, mIOT and URLLC. The next step on the slicing journey is servicing dynamic network slices.
In this talk, Srinivasa Addepalli, Chief Principal Engineer, Intel; and Tushar Doshi, Technical Director, Robin.io will discuss various use cases and deployment models for dynamic slices and explain how they enable Enterprises to deploy MEC services. They will dig further on slicing orchestration to automate dynamic slice life cycle management and discuss enhancements required in NFVO tools and platforms for managing resources to ensure that slice SLAs are satisfied. They will highlight the open source projects active in this space, like K8s, ONAP, OpenNESS/EMCO, and how they contribute to dynamic slicing orchestration and show to benefit from this innovation.
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LFN Webinar: VPP in your home lab? Yep. Right now.
2021-03-24 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Note: This event will start at 8:00 AM Pacific Time.
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Vector Packet Processing (VPP) enables astounding software packet processing. It represents where the world is heading for many packet processing needs across edge networking, cloud native networking, and 5G infrastructure.
Many network engineers are aware of VPP, but really don’t have a fast, easy way to try it out for themselves, just to see what it’s all about. But if they could, who knows what they might do with it?
Good news. There is a way to kick the VPP tires!
One of the companies that has integrated FD.io’s VPP into a high-performance software edge router solution is Netgate. Netgate has a free version of VPP, ready to go as a product, known as TNSR. TNSR integrates a number of open source projects – VPP, DPDK, FRR, strongSwan and Clixon – into a ready to install, configure and deploy high speed router.
In this webinar we will hear directly from three independent network engineers on how they got interested in VPP, how quickly and easily they were able to install and test it for their needs, and what outcome they achieved.
VPP is for real. It is seeing rapid and broad commercial deployment. But it is still early. We at FD.io would like to see as many network engineers becoming familiar with it as possible!
Learn how you can do this in your home or work lab – right now, for free!
In this webinar, Audian Paxson from Netgate will walk through how this is done while engaging with end users of the technology: Mike Jennings. Voxtelesys; Dan Streufert, ADS-B Exchange; and Jerry Wilson, Region 5 ESC for their insights.
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Speakers
Audian Paxson,Senior Director of Product Line Management, Netgate
Audian Paxson has worked in consumer, enterprise and cloud IT infrastructure and security for over 18 years. In his roles leading product management and product marketing teams he has delivered multiple products from concept to launch and has been awarded three USPTO Patents for inventions focused on consumer and enterprise security. He joined Netgate in 2019 as the Senior Director of Product Line Management.
Mike Jennings, COO and Network Operator
Michael Jennings has two decades of experience with the opensource community, starting with FreeBSD 3.0 for server and Caldera for the desktop in 1999. In mid-2000 migrated to Fedora 7 and Centos4. Michael established a goal at Voxtelesys to harness opensource technology wherever possible where they currently run Debian 10 on servers, a Debian derivative on desktops, and are currently experimenting with Arch as a possible replacement for dev workstations.
Dan Streufert, President/Founder, ADSBexchange.com1
Dan Streufert has worked in the IT field, since 1990. He ran a small ISP and consultancy in the mid-90s, and transitioned to corporate IT operations a few years later. Starting off as Sr. Network Engineer for a midsize global manufacturing firm. Most recently, Dan served as VP of Information Technology for a $1b global manufacturing firm, and as the Principal Systems Architect for WeWork. In 2016, Dan founded ADSBexchange.com – an aggregator of worldwide flight data currently operating over 6000 receivers globally.
Jerry Wilson, Network Manager at Region 5 Education Service Center
Jerry Wilson is a network manager at Region 5 ESC where he leads the implementation and management of the participating schools district’s infrastructure and IT services; specializing in researching and analyzing cost effective solutions from vendors and open source projects for school district technology staff. Jerry has led network admin teams and programs for a startup ISP, a public hospital, and a managed service provider. Over the years Jerry has provided expert consultation, and instruction on technology coordination, programming, and robotics for school districts, and UIL Computer Science and VEX Robotics competitions.
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Note: This event will start at 8:00 AM Pacific Time.

Open Networking & Edge Executive Forum
2021-03-10 - 2021-03-12
Join us for this special executive edition of Open Networking & Edge Summit, the industry’s premier open networking and edge computing event. You’ll hear from ecosystem executive leaders as they discuss deployment progress and provide critical insights into Service Provider, Cloud, Enterprise Networking, and Edge/IOT requirements, the state of industry, and ecosystem priorities.
We’ve also taken this opportunity to evolve the virtual event format to better serve our global audience. Keynotes will begin at a different time each day with start times friendly to the Americas, APAC, and Europe.
The event is free for LFN Members, please email events@linuxfoundation.org for the code. All others pay just $50.
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Linux Foundation Spring Member Meeting
2021-03-09 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Linux Foundation Member Summit is the annual gathering for Linux Foundation member organizations. Due to COVID-19, we will be delaying the next in-person Member Summit to November 2021 so that attendees can get the full benefit of the event which includes face-to-face collaboration and interactions.
In the interim, we will be hosting this special Member Meeting on March 9, 2021 so that The Linux Foundation can share timely information and announcements with members on new project launches, exciting project updates and the latest on what’s happening at The Linux Foundation.
Attendee Registration
The Linux Foundation Member Summit is an invitation-only event for member companies of The Linux Foundation and Linux Foundation Projects. Invitation codes are sent directly to member companies.

Platinum members receive 6 passes
Gold members receive 4 passes
Silver members receive 1 pass

If you are a Linux Foundation member company and need information regarding your invitation code, please contact us at events@linuxfoundation.org.

LFN Developer & Testing Event February
2021-02-01 - 2021-02-04
The LFN Developer & Testing Forum is being held over four days, February 1 – 4, 2021. Once again we will be virtually gathering the LFN project technical communities to progress our releases; discuss project architecture, direction, and integration points; and further innovate through the open source networking stack. We will use a combination of online tools to create a productive and interactive virtual meeting environment. The event is free of cost and registration is required.
Current confirmed projects are the following:
Anuket: Anuket delivers standardized reference infrastructure specifications and conformance frameworks for virtualized and containerized network functions. “Anuket delivers a common model, standardized reference infrastructure specifications, and conformance and performance frameworks for virtualized and containerized network functions. We invite you to come learn about this exciting new project.
ONAP: The ONAP community will be hosting meetings for alignment of architecture, modeling, security and other aspects of system design as we look toward future releases of the platform.
OpenDaylight: OpenDaylight will be hosting some “how to get engaged” discussions and introduce new projects that aim to scale OpenDaylight for 2021 and into the future.
Tungsten Fabric: The Tungsten Fabric community will focus on “hands-on” development work for the next release of Tungsten Fabric, refining the Release Process, improving the CI/CD pipeline, and exploring cross-community integration with projects such as ONAP, DPDK, and more.For questions, please contact events@lfnetworking.org.
XGVela: As the newest project under the LFN Umbrella, XGVela will be discussing Operators requirements for PaaS and XGVela, a walk-though of XGVela seed code, a discussion on infrastructure tooling and CICD, and an Open House to exchange thoughts with the community about XGVela, PaaS, requirements, architecture, and collaboration.
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Anuket Launch Event
2021-01-27 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Anuket is a new project in the LF Networking umbrella — formed by a merger of OPNFV and the Cloud iNfrastructure Telco Taskforce (CNTT) — in order to empower the global communications community. Anuket delivers standardized reference infrastructure specifications and conformance frameworks for virtualized and containerized network functions, enabling faster and more robust onboarding into production, reducing costs and accelerating telecom digital transformation. The project supports ongoing strategic activities and evaluation of emerging technologies for the Telecom industry. In this kickoff event, you’ll hear from community leaders and participating network operators about what Anuket is, the value of participation, and how to get involved.
Schedule
8:00 – 8:10: Heather Kirksey, VP of Ecosystem & Community, Linux Foundation
8:11: Industry Leadership Spotlight: Sandra Rivera, EVP & Chief People Officer, Intel
8:12 – 8:13: Al Morton, Anuket Co-Chair, Lead Member of Technical Staff, AT&T
8:13 – 8:14: Walter Kozlowski, Anuket Co-Chair, Principal, Cloud Infrastructure Architecture, Telstra
8:15 – 8:22: Community Message: Fu Qiao, Project Manager, China Mobile; Trevor Cooper, Principal Engineer, Intel; Mark Beierl, Software Engineer, Canonical; Pierre Lynch, Lead Technologies, Keysight Technologies
8:22 – 8:25: Message from the LFN Board: Dr Junlan Feng, Chief Scientist & GM of AI and Intelligent Operation R&D Center, China Mobile
8:25 – 8:26: Message from the LFN Board: Vincent Danno, Director, Broadband, Virtualisation, Strategy, Architecture, Standards, Orange
8:27 – 8:37: Operator Perspective: Anuket Business Value: Beth Cohen, Cloud Technology Strategist, Verizon & William Diego, Open Source Manager, Orange
8:38 – 8:43: Analyst Perspective, Caroline Chappell, Research Director, Analysys Mason
8:43 – 8:45: Message from the LFN Board: Jonne Soininen, Head of Open Source Initiatives, Nokia
8:45 – 8:54: Community Message: Uli Kleber, Chief Engineer Standardisation, Huawei; Cedric Ollivier, Network Automation Expert, Orange; Lincoln Lavoie; Senior Engineer, InterOperability Laboratory, UNH; Tomas Fredberg, Chief Architect, Ericsson
8:55 – 8:55: Industry Leadership Spotlight: Stéphane Demartis, VP, Cloud Infrastructure, Orange Labs
8:55 – 9:14: Technical Deep Dive: Georg Kunz, Cloud Open Source Coordinator; Gergely Csatári, Senior Specialist, Open Source, Nokia
9:14 – 9:15: Industry Leadership Spotlight: Mr. Duan, Vice General Manager of China Mobile Research Institute
9:15 – 9:16: Industry Leadership Spotlight: Priyanka Sharma, Executive Director, CNCF
9:16 – 9:24: Community Message: Tom Kivlin, Principle Cloud Orchestration Architect, Cloud Centre of Excellence, Vodafone; Emma Foley, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat; Sridhar Rao, Solutions Architect, Spirent
9:24 – 9:25: Industry Leadership Spotlight: Andre Fuetsch, President and Chief Technology Officer, AT&T Labs\n9:24 – 9:26: Closing Remarks: Heather Kirksey, VP of Ecosystem & Community, Linux Foundation
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OSN Days Taiwan
2020-12-18 09:50 - 16:00 (Asia/Taipei)
Friday, December 18th, 9:50 AM – 4:00 PM (local time), National Chiao Tung University
Open Source Networking Day (OSN Day) Taiwan is a one-day mini-summit hosted by National Chiao Tung University (NCTU交通大學). This event will be held in the international conference auditorium in the first floor of Microelectronics and Information Systems Center (MIRC電子資訊大樓) at the NCTU campus in Hsinchu. It will feature keynote speeches and in-depth technical updates from both oversea and local academia and industry experts. Attendees will hear about the state of the industry, the projects of the open source networking stack and their use cases, the business opportunities enabled by network transformation, how to get involved in open source communities, and get connected with industry and academia groups actively involved in open source networking in Taiwan. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. There is no cost to attend but registration is required.
Learn more and register here.

LFN Technical Meetings - Fall
2020-10-13 - 2020-10-15
The LFN Technical Meetings are being held concurrently over three days, October 13 – 15, 2020. Once again we will be virtually gathering the LFN technical communities to progress our releases, discuss architecture, and continue the forward momentum of open source networking. We will use a combination of online tools to create a productive and interactive virtual meeting environment. Registration is required and registrants can attend any of the LFN Technical Meeting sessions as desired.
Current confirmed projects are the following:
CNTT / OPNFV: The Common NFVI Telecom Taskforce (CNTT) is a collaborative effort from GSMA and the Linux Foundation. These sessions will focus on the Reference Architecture and Reference Model and address implementation considerations for OPNFV and the OPNFV Verification Program (OVP).
ONAP: The ONAP community will be hosting meetings for alignment of architecture, modeling, security and other aspects of system design as we look toward future releases of the platform.
OpenDaylight: OpenDaylight will be hosting some “how to get engaged” discussions and introduce new projects that aim to scale OpenDaylight for 2021 and into the future.
Tungsten Fabric: The Tungsten Fabric community will focus on “hands-on” development work for the next release of Tungsten Fabric, refining the Release Process, improving the CI/CD pipeline, and exploring cross-community integration with projects such as ONAP, DPDK, and more.
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Note: Our registration system is now integrated with the Linux Foundation Single sign-on (SSO) platform. After clicking “Register Now”, you will be prompted to log in with your existing SSO account or to create a new one. If you have forgotten the password for an existing account, reset it by clicking “Forgot Password.” You will also be able to use 3rd party authentication providers (Gmail, GitHub, LinkedIn, and Facebook) to automatically generate your SSO Account. If you experience issues, click the “Contact Us” link on the Registration page to connect with our support team. For questions, please contact events@lfnetworking.org.

Open Networking & Edge Summit (ONES)
2020-09-28 - 2020-09-30
Distributed But Always Connected
That’s a wrap on the Open Networking & Edge Summit 2020 Virtual Experience! We welcomed over 1300 attendees, from 71 countries – thank you to all the attendees, sponsors and speakers that joined us virtually this year. Read the full event report recap here.
The event platform will continue to be accessible for one year where you can view session recordings, visit sponsor booths and enjoy many of our experiences, including our Slack workspace which will remain open indefinitely. Additionally, all session recordings will be uploaded to our YouTube channel.
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