 Please welcome to the stage Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zimlin. Hello, good afternoon. For those of you in the back, we've got a few seats over here, and I think we have some over here. We're kind of tight on seating here. So if you have someone trying to get in, please allow them to get in. Welcome to the Open Networking Summit 2017. We've got a great lineup this week, an amazing set of speakers and content and hackathons and all sorts of good stuff, and it's a tremendous year. I'd like to first start by thanking our sponsors, Intel as our Diamond sponsor, Platinum sponsors, Amdox and Huawei, and our Gold sponsors, Dell, EMC, and Ericsson. Another quick announcement, if you need any assistance, please contact the registration desk. We have lots of different tracks going on. If you get a little bit confused, go ahead and ask them for help. So I thought I would spend a few minutes at the opening here, talking a little bit about where we are as an industry and about some of the things that have been going on in 2017 in open source and networking. And I want to start by saying, and tipping the hat to John Gage of Sun Microsystems a long time ago, that after 25 years, this is now actually true. The network really is the computer, and my favorite story about this is one that was relayed to me actually last week by a gentleman named Min Jun, who's at Facebook. He works on their telecom infrastructure project, which is a really cool open source project around telecom infrastructure. He said that at Facebook, you have this six month boot camp, where all the engineers who work there come in, they take this six week boot camp, and they learn all about Facebook's infrastructure. And then after that six weeks, they go and sort of find a home in the different groups within Facebook, on the application side or whatever. And a few years ago, nobody wanted to go over to the network engineering side. But that now, that really the network is where all the action is happening. It's programmable. It really is this incredibly dynamic, software-driven piece of their infrastructure that tons of engineers now want to go there. And I think the same thing is happening across the industry, that the network now is this rich, managed, programmable orchestration tool that's driving so much of cloud computing. And open source is certainly a huge part of that. Just at the Linux Foundation, we've seen an explosion in the last five years, the number of open source projects around the networking sector. Our most recent project, the Open Network Automation Platform, is a management and orchestration platform that is in production at companies like AT&T. In fact, the Open Network Automation Platform, this MANO project that we have, it's even bigger than MANO, has representatives from China Mobile, China Telecom, China U-Com, Bel-Canada, AT&T, and others, essentially representing 40% of the world's mobile subscribers. This is open source code, production grade, and I can kind of keep on going. And it's not just at the Linux Foundation. Open source is all over the place, whether it's at the open compute project, at the hardware level, I already mentioned the telecom infrastructure project, things like the open source MANO project, the open networking foundation, you name it, there is lots and lots of code out there for everyone to play with and build really interesting solutions around. And today we're welcoming another project to our roster. The DPDK project is now housed at the Linux Foundation. We have a big set of supporters who are backing that project that we're announcing today. And you can see and you will see even more work going on here to allow for data plane service acceleration through this important critical project now at a neutral home at the Linux Foundation. We're also announcing free range router, an IP routing protocol suite for Linux and Unix platforms is home now at the Linux Foundation. And you can go to our website to find out more about this exciting project and all of the investment that will help there too. So all of this is good. We've got a lot of code out there, but it does create a problem. Lots of code, but not a lot of time. You see, there are millions of open source projects out there, right? I mean, it's not just even in networking, it's at every layer of the stack. GitHub alone hosts 54 million open source projects. The real question for all of you is there are all these projects, there's all this code. The real question is which ones really matter? Which ones should I invest my time in? Which one should I invest my career in? Which one should I take a meaningful commercial dependency upon? That is the real question that we want to talk about this week at ONS in particular around networking. And at the Linux Foundation, we think that projects that you can bank on, whether it's in networking or anywhere else, are projects that have sustainable ecosystems. This is the thing that you should be looking for. An ecosystem where you have a really good developer community from a diverse set of stakeholders who create great code, provide true value, which creates profit. If you're a company and you use that code, it could be cost savings. If you're a government, it could be transparency. And then that value creation is then reinvested back into the project. It looks like this. This is what all of the networking projects, whether it's ONOS, CORD, Open Daylight, OPNFV, you name it at the Linux Foundation, are all looking to achieve this same thing, working with the industry and developers to create sustainable projects that will endure for a very, very long time. And so the big theme for this week is how do we overcome the remaining challenges in the networking ecosystem to create these sustainable ecosystems? Well, the number one thing is it's the code. Without good code, you're not going to have any outcome at all. We still need to keep our eyes on building developer communities around all these projects that will solve really tough problems with really well-written code. But in addition to that, we need to harmonize these projects. That's one of the big themes this week at ONS, is how do we harmonize up and down the stack if we have three or four different projects at every, whether it's at data plane services or all the way up to mono, how do we harmonize those? How do we create a set of common APIs, configuration language and so forth so that this code works more effectively as a broad solution as opposed to an individual piece part? And it's not just that. The industry is going through a big cultural change. This is most predominant in the networking sector. You know, I was just at Mobile World Congress and I met with over 50 organizations. It was an incredible week. And none of those organizations, whether it was a global operator or a product vendor or a cloud service provider, wanted to talk about specific technology. They all wanted to talk about change management. How do I retrain the 20,000 network admins that I employ today to be software-defined networking DevOps professionals? How do I teach them how to code? How do I teach them about this new technology? How do I retrain, restructure my workforce to do that? This is going to be a critical challenge for in particular the networking sector because it's sort of over-invested in a way that will be challenging to convert to this new SDN world. So that's one of the things we really want to focus on and we're going to talk a lot about at this event. In addition, we need to continue to teach organizations how to manage open source, how to participate in these communities, both from a technical perspective but also from a legal and a business process perspective. How do you pull code in, share what you want to share, keep what you want to keep, how do you make that process work? This is something that we really want to focus on and will help us build this great shared technology asset together. And then finally, the last thing we need to do in networking that we're going to be talking about a bunch this week is harmonizing the process of standard setting and open source development. Open source development is now one of the leading ways where we create code that interoperates across a wide variety of networks but standards will still be critically important and you're going to hear from the folks at the Linux Foundation about efforts we are working on with the Metro Ethernet forum with IEEE, with other standard setting bodies to make sure that standards in code can exist harmoniously. These are big things that if we do them we can build an incredibly strong shared technology asset for networking. And so I hope you enjoy this event this week. I hope you learn a lot and we hope to see you back again next year. I want to thank you for attending and introduce our next speaker, who is a very special person. Many of you know him. Come on up, the executive director of ONF GuruPolicar. Good to see you. Guru, before you get started, before you get started we actually have a surprise for Guru. That's right. Come on out. So Guru, many of you probably know this if you've been attending ONS for a while, but this is the guy who started the Open Networking Summit years ago. But more than that, Guru has really been one of the people who has driven the concept of SDN throughout the industry. A tireless engineer, supporter, architect, leader. It can be said that he's one of the founders of this movement and in recognition of years of work, we wanted to give you this small token of our gratitude. Please give a hand to Guru Policar. Thank you. Thank you so much. Very nice of you. Really appreciate it. I didn't expect, I didn't know this, so I'm really touched and really appreciate what you've done. All right, you have to hold that your entire talk. Thank you. Thank you, Guru. Thanks. Again, thanks, Linux Foundation and Jim. So again, good afternoon and welcome to 2017 Open Networking Summit. As Jim mentioned that we have a very exciting program for you for the next three, three and a half days where we will try to showcase all the progress we have been making as a community in open networking, open source, SDN and NFV and so on. What I want to do is to take a few minutes to talk about the ONS journey and the SDN journey so far and what to expect going forward. So as Jim mentioned, actually Nick McEwen, Dan Pitt and myself started Open Networking Summit in 2011 at Stanford University and then last year we agreed to make Open Networking Summit a part of Linux Foundation as Open Networking was becoming more and more about open source and so that was the right thing to do and this year we completed the transition and you can see that this year it is completely a Linux Foundation event. During all these years, ONS has remained as the premier SDN open networking, open source networking event for all this time and I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for all your support as well as participation in Open Networking Summit for all these years. Also, more importantly, I want to both congratulate you and thank you for all the progress we have been making as a community about open networking, open source, SDN, NFV and so on as Jim mentioned. I also want to of course thank Jim and Linux Foundation for taking over ONS and taking it forward in a significant way. There is one more person that I want to especially acknowledge, her name is Sadef Askan, I don't know whether she is here in the audience so she has been my partner in Open Networking Summit for all these years and responsible for ONS operations and I could not have done ONS without her and maybe part of this whatever award I got from Linux Foundation belongs to her as well. So with that, let me turn my attention to the SDN journey. So until a few years ago, our industry can be best described or defined by what can be thought of as closed, proprietary and vertically integrated systems that inhibits innovation and that made that contributed to network operators high CAPEX and OPEX and network operators inability to create new services and create new revenue streams for them. As Jim already mentioned, we have made tremendous progress during the past several years and that progress can be best described or defined by disaggregation, disaggregation of networking devices, softwareization and virtualization that is programmable control planes, programmable forwarding planes as well as network virtualization and network function virtualization. And finally, of course, open source, emergence of many, many open source components and open source platforms and another way to look at this and I think Jim already covered this very well but at the bottom most, we have merchant silicon which can give you very high performance but as well as can give you programmability then we have these white boxes with open source component that can be used in production networks then you know SDN controllers then network orchestration and management and then all kinds of virtual network functions and services some open some closed. Now, so far when we think about disaggregation and open source, we think of it in terms of data centers and cloud providers. It is true that that is where disaggregation and open source started and have the biggest adoption so far but to me, the most exciting and most interesting thing about open source and open networking is this particular trend of disaggregation and open source is taking hold in all these markets that you see and that is together is pretty big and very significant and offers a lot of opportunities as well but as Jim also mentioned when you look at all this disaggregation when you look at all these open source platforms and you think about yourself as a network operator or even a vendor if you want to build integrated solutions and deploy them in the production setting doing that with all these building blocks and all these open source components represents a significant challenge and I will say that is our grand challenge for our industry today. So what we need more than anything today Jim already mentioned about harmonization and that is definitely very, very important. Another thing that we need to do is to now think about how we can build integrated solutions that can leverage network device disaggregation and many open source platform and deliver an integrated solution that is easy to consume and easy to deploy and finally, again as Jim also mentioned we need software defined standards that make it easier to plug and play as well as provide interoperability among all these different open source building blocks. Now if you don't mind I want to quickly tell you about what this open networking a new open networking foundation is doing which is a combination of ONF and the open networking lab. What we are trying to do with our mission is to help network operators and service providers transform their infrastructure into a platform for service innovation because that's what they are wanting to do that's what we want to make it happen but by leveraging this network disaggregation open source platforms as well as software defined standards and what we want to do is to help build integrated solutions that are easy to consume and deploy and then drive them through lab trials to field trials to production deployment. And as we do that we have an opportunity to build what we are calling software defined standards because once we have operational software and we are putting together in solutions and we are putting together with other open source building blocks we have an opportunity to define these standards that specify either APIs data models information models about how you can plug these open source components together and that's what the opportunity is and what we are trying to do and finally the idea is that if you are a vendor or a company we want to make it easier for you to plug your innovation into this end to end open innovation pipeline and make it easier to move that innovation all the way into customers production network with significantly reduced R&D investment as well as significantly lower time to market and that is the kind of value proposition we want to bring to the vendors. Now I want to give you a few examples the good news is that at open networking lab and open networking foundation there are few open innovation pipeline that are already in place for few big markets like broadband residential access mobile access enterprise wide area network and packet optical networks so if you look at the work we have been doing with onus and cod and some of the use cases and solutions that we have been building it turns out that we have created multiple open innovation pipeline as an example if you look at residential cod in residential cod if you look at the hardware infrastructure we bring white boxes for OLT devices for G-Pon we use white boxes for leaf spine fabric we use of course servers those are white boxes we build the coherent hardware infrastructure on top of that if you look at the software stack that software stack is built with many open source building blocks all the way from open stack Docker onus as an SDN controller then XOS and then many virtual network functions that are implemented as services that are managed and orchestrated by this XOS platform so and we are already putting this all together in a solutions form and some of this is going through lab trial and field trial and hopefully in a production deployment in multiple service providers before end of the year we are doing the same thing for mobile cod applying that to radio access network mobile packet core as well as the mobile edge computing and then we are doing something similar for enterprise card and the packet optical networks as well so we have this multiple innovation pipeline that are creating solutions that are easier to deploy now clearly ONF is not doing this in isolation we have brought two large ecosystems ecosystems of ONF and open networking lab there are like 200 companies with number of leading service providers software vendors, system integrators that are all coming together and working together on this particular thing and the idea is that we want to help service providers create platform turn their network into platform for service innovation and we want to help vendors take their innovation and move it into production network of their customers very quickly by reducing R&D cost as well as time to market ok now all of this is well and good but there are couple of challenges that we are still experiencing the first thing is when you talk about taking something to production readiness and deploying something all the way into the production network there is a significant amount of investment and skills that are required and when you look at many open source projects including open source project that are going on at for example ONF or other places we are able to create enough proof of concept lab trials maybe couple of deployment but that is it if you really want to do this for production you need significantly more investment and you need significant resources and you can see there is a resource gap and the question is who is going to make this investment where is how are we going to plug this resource gap specially given that there seems to be a major misalignment of incentives if you look at network operators yes they want to build open source SD and NFE networks obviously leveraging network disaggregation open source and all of that however they don't necessarily have enough development resources and they don't have investments to make to be able to do it on their own now if you look at vendors yes they have established products they have processes they have revenue stream they have large pools of developers but this whole network disaggregation and open source is quite disruptive to their business model now system integrators they see lot of opportunity with network disaggregation and open source but again they don't have necessarily the expertise, resources and investment to be able to make this work so what that means is that if the incentives are not aligned that leads to insufficient investment that means we cannot take some of this to real production deployment and really bring about the change we want to make so that is something to think about because as much as we are excited about all the progress we have made this is something to be thinking about so my last slide so what you have is yes we have made tremendous progress with disaggregation, softwareization and virtualization open source and we have lot of exciting work ahead of us in terms of harmonizing integrated solutions and all that but what we have to keep in mind is we have to find a way to align incentives create sufficient investment and that will lead to production deployment and that is the only way we are going to really bring about the kind of change we all are here for and what we hope for and again at open networking summit over the next three three and a half days hopefully you will see some of this in action so come and check out and then of course you will get to talk about some of these as well so again thank you so much really appreciate your participation our next speaker is Arpit Joshipura who is new to Linux foundation he will introduce himself alright excited to be at the Linux foundation and your host for this ONS let me tell you what we did when we joined or when I joined the Linux foundation you know I have been in your position I have been you know that right where Michael said I have been an attendee I have been a participant an exhibitor a sponsor a keynote speaker so I understand what we need as an audience and so we went back and looked at all your feedback and so of all the six years and so this ONS is designed based on that and let me tell you why we believe networking is cool again let's go and first tell you who is here and my goal today is just to tell you how you can make your time efficient that's it I am not giving any pitches there is an equal representation from service providers also known as carriers, cloud and enterprise we have about half and half technical as well as business architecture in terms of the attendee power in the audience we have a third that work and the other two thirds that make decisions not quite but that's kind of just the breakdown let me tell you a little bit more all of the major enterprise verticals are represented in this ONS where we have proactively requested a lot of enterprise presence and you can see why there is a lot of convergence between cloud, enterprise, carriers the boundaries are blurring so we have the top enterprise verticals whether it's financial, manufacturing, healthcare business etc of course all the vendors who supply to the enterprises are here we have keynote speeches from the top we have carrier infrastructure vendors in fact all of them we have the top five service providers here and most importantly as Jim alluded to in the audience if we don't align properly half of the global mobile subs will be impacted that's the power of this room so the quality of people we have today is just outstanding so take advantage of that in the hallway conversation and make sure you at least ping your neighbor on what they do let me give you a sneak peek at some of the keynotes they are insightful and visionary if you need to understand the role of networking and how 129 billion transactions are carried out just wait for 30 minutes Justin will be here and then we have all the buzzwords containers 5G, IoT so let me tell you one progress as a community we should all be proud of is in the next two years all our acronyms have moved from three letters to two letters AI, BI, CI, VR, AR you name it 5G so that you should all give yourself a round of applause for that just kidding we have another very interesting vertical represented here what does network do to transport all these passengers we all travel but how do you what's the data center networking's role listen to that this is a very different perspective and it's not just VLANs and IP addresses and port numbers we've done that before we've all been geeks there's another one networking is used and this is open source networking to solve cancer this is very interesting how do you do that get the behind the stories from how did two of the largest world operators come together AT&T and China Mobile Jim mentioned the own app project one thing is the architecture but the other thing is the culture how do you bring those communities together and of course you'll hear a lot about 5G one key takeaway if you remember nothing else 5G mandates network automation you can't have a smart meter on a call with an operator trying to register on a network it's not going to happen just remember that and there's a lot of that over the course of the session as far as the tracks are concerned it's a very simple algorithm there are five tracks for your inclination you can either go to a general track these are hardware and A6 and security in a basic common building blocks or you can take a carrier track or an enterprise cloud track and within that you're either a developer or you are a product management CTO architecture or you can take a carrier track so feel free to again you can cross boundaries but we have adjusted it so that it doesn't compete with itself and of course morning and evening we'll have keynotes beyond that we already started with the hackathon that's going to go through the day so do visit that educational tracks I saw most of them it's the most visited thing, the awards reception you name it last slide I want to show is there's a lot of announcements that'll go on but from a networking perspective and an open source networking which is what I own we're really proud to announce today one of our leading operators Reliance Geo from India this is the fastest growing over 100 million subscribers they just joined ONAP and just stay tuned I know I've gotten a lot of questions on when ONAP is going to be open to the community we're just doing a rebranding naming change just stay tuned it's happening the other piece of announcement for those of you working on OP NFV and the Danube release let me tell you it's flowing quite well this week and then Jim already covered the free range routing so with that what I wanted to do was bring up two keynotes this afternoon and while I introduce my first keynote I wanted to tell you that true to the tradition of ONS this is the only conference I've been to and I support where you can ask questions in keynotes so if nobody stands up we'll cancel that privilege so I'm hoping that people would have there are mics in the middle just line up and ask the questions to the presenters anything goes just don't pitch a product but otherwise anything goes and so with that said let me introduce our first keynote speaker we all know him so no introduction required CVP from Microsoft Azure networking, Albert Greenberg