 All right. Good morning. Thank you So networking is cool again in in the past 30 years. We were like boring, right? The only time we got called was When an IP address didn't you know work or a network was down or an app was broken and was all networks fault and Now it's no longer the case where it disaggregated. We are software defined Were virtualized You don't know where the fault is So you can't blame us anymore, but what I what I want to talk about today is Where things are heading and it is an extremely important time for our industry Whether you're working in an enterprise cloud or carrier And so let me walk you through the vision of where things are heading and how we see the world But before we go there. I want to set some context of open source in general We always you know Jim always talks about this slide and and you know, it didn't do that yesterday So I said let's do it here, but this is important. There's open source projects 23 plus million developers, you know over 2,000 of those are here in this room Billions of lines of code lots of new projects which projects matter The ones that have a sustainable ecosystem and those are the ones that we host at Linux Foundation And we group them into areas and we all know the acronyms, right? So starting from the left you got Linux and no JS and let's encrypt and sort of more of the platforms if you may Moving to data blockchain, etc, right? We talked about the cloud huge huge momentum and then of course embedded in IOT where you have, you know Things like gadgets foundry or automotive grade Linux, etc And the one on the right is networking, which is what I was going to talk about today and and in networking It's a very interesting proposition because According to Network World Linux Foundation hosts eight of the ten top networking projects or the most important projects So we have the critical mass to move this industry forward And I'll tell you how we're doing it all of the networking vendors the top ones are active With the tipping point reached in terms of the global population participating in open source Lots of millions of dollars being spent on this all for one simple Simple use case, which is can I get services faster and more alive, right? That's it and it's all the complexity just because of that So let me sort of walk you through how far we have come so the past 137 years ever since the telephone was invented. It was all proprietary solutions. Okay It was bookend from one point to the other and Then the last five years Disaggregation came in and this word is a heavy word and it's used left and right by the industry But what disaggregation means is? Hardware is separated from software Components of software are separated from each other with standard APIs So if you are a hardware engineer hard to find in this room, but let's say you are a hardware engineer You're the way you build hardware is exactly how we're building software these days with APIs and Reusable blocks and modules and the way hardware is getting built is exactly how software was getting built, right? so, you know where we're kind of disaggregating this world where All these components now have become production ready They are running some of the most powerful networks in this world globally, okay? And that's what started off last year and Then where we are heading is how do you bring these components together and? Scale the deployment in a more harmonized manner Okay, so that's kind of where the big big trends are and I want to show you visually and architecturally Where the challenges lie and what we are trying to do to fix them on the top very simple cloud services? residential services enterprise services IOT services those are kind of the bulk of the things that everybody makes money on right and and you have You know the carriers or the operators sort of trying to get the middle part of it IOT is still a battle that's being fought right now Obviously we talked about the cloud cloud native services and all that and on the bottom you have infrastructure very simple Either you are have an enterprise data center which has moved to software defined You have the carrier network. It could be a cable or a or an MSO or it could be just a straight cloud and these services and applications are going through a layer of software that goes between these three cylinders at the bottom and Today it is completely fragment and disjoint manual tooling Imagine a service that you want to start that goes across these You got a call you got to ask you got to put a request you got an interface with the web and all that that tooling is Not acceptable in a 5g world It's mandatory to automate it you can't have an IOT device on the phone waiting for a service It's going to come in milliseconds and go off log your log a meter or a device or any of these things and get out right So it's mandatory and the way we want to do that and and why we want to do that is just the sheer volume That is going to be brought inside The network is just beyond human power Thousand next the volume hundred X the data rate hundred X the devices And now it's it could be a car it could be an oven it could be anything of course It'll be a phone but a lot of things come in okay, so that's where we have projects in Lenox foundation that are pulling it all together The middle part is what I'm going to focus on which is open network automation which a set of projects Chris just talked about the left side, which is cloud automation with applications being developed by the cloud foundry platform where You know a lot of Infrastructure independent applications are being developed for cloud native apps and then of course CNCF and and the automation and the orchestration of cloud native right on the right hand side You got the edgex foundry, which is a lot of IOT Automation comes in and then you see that these clouds intersect right and There was a reason for that the network portion of cloud native is the CNI The cloud native interface right or networking interface and and we come together there there you have to transport policies and orchestration information between Apps that are running in a service provider network and in a cloud There's a lot of requirements that go back and forth between Kubernetes and or our own app and and networking projects The same thing is true for the IOT and open network, right? They intersect at what's called mobile edge computing or Mac and mark will come after me and you know He'll talk about some of the innovations that are happening, you know from an Intel perspective in that zone very very important and an Interesting aspect, so that's kind of where you know, we want to focus and automate things on So now if I go one level down into the proprietary stack and and show you the technologies that are being used to do this It's very simple from a high-level perspective the left-hand side is vendor a you know the hundred and thirty seven years of work Proprietary work that we all did in networking not we I mean for those of you are still alive that long But you know you're talking about hardware silicon layer Then you come into the OS control plane management services and then on the right-hand side We became Horizontalized with these layers Disaggregating from each other and each of these projects which are sort of the symbols that are coming in Aimed at innovating that layer of software So the hardware became disaggregated the control became software defined and all the applications became virtual functions That could run on a standard x86 hardware that could be virtualized and put in any of those cylinders local enterprise data center Public network or public cloud Okay So given that What is the landscape looking up like Chris put up a slide with all the companies? I'm putting up a slide with just the open-source project So for those of you are not familiar with the networking stack This is fairly standard all the way from hardware up to software and application And here is the entire set of open-source networking stack This includes projects from the Linux foundation as well as projects outside the Linux foundation now keep in mind Some of these projects are there's many choices at each of these layers So for example you have two hardware projects outside Linux foundation That's focusing on on the hardware openness open compute and tip. Okay, you bring go up a layer You're talking about the IO abstraction the data acceleration that's where Basically take hardware and make sure that the the amount of traffic That's thrown at that hardware can easily go through and accelerate at a very very high speed level, right? That's kind of the data plane acceleration as we talk and there's many of these some of you might be working on on Projects that are like IO wiser for example, that's a acceleration inside the kernel right and and kind of put it From that perspective DPDk set of libraries that sort of go into and help projects like FD IO Accelerate and and push a lot of information through a server So you move up there obviously everybody's familiar with the OS is that run on it And then you get into the control plane and then the application analytics management layer Which is where bulk of the action is right? We have solved some of the lower layer problems, but the middle layer and the orchestration and automation is where bulk of the People are focusing on and by the way, there's projects there Which is kind of on app and and an opnfv that kind of cut across the entire thing I'm also showing the the containerized version of that sort of in the middle right where cloud native and cloud Foundry and OCI fit in like the open container initiative and then a very important thing in networking that we need to not like ignore our standards right standards have been around forever and We want to make sure that we harmonize them as much as possible as you know You know it becomes a de facto software big open source software becomes a de facto standard and if we can work with the With the community of stand standards folks and as the organization It's much better and much more effective for the end-users. So we're working extremely Tightly with these folks now. Let me focus on a couple of things and have a couple of announcements So the first one is on app and then the next one is opnfv. So How many of you in this room have heard about on app? Oh More than I expected very good. So this is a very interesting project It started off with two open-source projects one called e-comp and one called open. Oh, open. Oh was hosted open Oh stands for open orchestration It was hosted by Linux foundation and e-comp was kind of an AT&T led project that also came into the open Into the Linux foundation last year we combine the two and we combine the two because the community was similar They were going after the same problems and we wanted synergies And so we when we did that the value just tripled Okay, it created really fast automation services for 4g and 5g and businesses You know, the value was eliminating manual steps and complete design for automation It's a huge project right now It's one of the fastest growing networking projects under the Linux foundation right now and it and I'll show you some of the Ecosystem that Has has has pushed this it's pretty much all the vendors and today we have over 55% of the global subscribers represented by this project. By the way, just think think of this. This is six Six weeks or six months into the project 50 plus members growing very very very rapidly. Okay I won't go into the details if you're interested on app.org this wiki But it's a collection of modules with a very modular architecture that allows for Stitching together of these 11 components from design time to runtime. Okay Over 10 million lines of code combined So it's not a trivial project that any one single vendor can do but it is the most important project to automate the layer of Network that that I've been talking about Okay Model-driven design virtual functions physical functions. It supports all the clouds. So open stack is your VM there You know working on Kubernetes working with Kubernetes, etc. Goes across carriers Okay, huge community here. We're talking about 1500 developers working on this, you know, not a single vendor will be able to do this And this is just in the last six months a lot of a lot of Great great contribution and we are we are really really excited about this. Okay This couple of weeks ago, we just announced partnership with mef mef is the metro ethernet forum And think of it this way when you're going across carriers So when you're growing across network operators or when you're growing across going across an Enterprise and an operator or a cloud and an operator right the remember the picture I showed you You need a set of Standards-based APIs now there are people like TM forum and an MEF that are working on that and we're going to look at it and adopt a Portion of that modify a portion of that and basically give one set of APIs that connect What is known as BSS systems right or business support systems in the telco world and it's very very critical that we all sort of Harness the power of of standards and open source here So we announced this and and so on app in general is Focused on automation and it is becoming the de facto automation platform So if you're not already participating or if not, you know, go ahead and do that It's got full support from a lot of members and developers and we're leading the harmonization effort So that's one of the projects and then the second one that we have a couple of announcements on today is obviously opnfv opnfv as you know is Across community project and it kind of tests and Facilitates the CICD or test the integration of components, you know version 3.2 of this works with 4.7 of this with this and there's a backward compatibility issue and etc And it provides that system level test and automation framework for NFV So what we're doing is we are announcing today and the press lease just crossed the wire is Announcing opnfv's latest software release euphritis Now the most important thing about this is it has Container support with Kubernetes orchestration engine. So we're really excited about that, you know It also has containerized open stack integrated in it Along with that cloud native aspects of opnfv We also have enhanced a lot of visibility a lot of service assurance frameworks We have provided tools that actually do Benchmark VNF onboarding etc etc and it's across community Continuous integration XCI as we call it there's a session on that as well if you want to attend it But essentially what we are able to do is allow You know integration and tests to be done constantly and pull in all these components and clearly you can see there's there's a lot of Support on this and and we're working with communities like on app and ODL and open stack to bring it all together Okay, so I can't go into all the projects, but you can see the amount of energy that is being spent into Getting all the networking projects harmonized and all the standards come together in one umbrella And that's what we're doing at at the Lenox foundation There's a white paper on the Lenox foundation website that talks about the harmonization story if you have not already Please download it. It's a great It's a great tutorial on how standards and open source work together and how they can come together So with that, thank you very much and if there are any questions will be there on on the networking floor. Thank you