 Please welcome to the stage general manager of networking at the linux foundation Arpit Joshi pura. All right Morning welcome. I know folks are still walking in and We're gonna start on time and end on time as as usual with all the ONSS. So I'm really excited. Thank you all for coming before we get started Let's just walk through a few logistics and and housekeeping things Nothing can happen without our sponsors. So thank you very much To the diamond sponsor Ericsson Intel lean and FV and open Networking Foundation as well as our platinum sponsor Ali Baba Cloud and Huawei I Would point out that the programming of this Event has been even harder than last year We had 5x the number of subscriptions or the submissions I should say and and These fantastic people all kind of quote nerds and techies They had to sift through all the submissions and so a big thanks to the program committee for picking the best content for you Can we give them a big round of applause? Assuming they're all here, but if not just thank them when when you see these pictures, okay? Also a few other announcements There's a schedule App if you may so please download it through the QR code that'll be really helpful to get most of the sessions going If you have not met people and would like to meet people there's a networking app No pun intended In the networking conference, there's a networking app to network with people but you know who cares Just do that. It's been proven very useful in the past. So please do that and We really love your feedback. So every year I personally go through the feedback. Obviously the events team does You can see slight changes we make, you know, everybody wants This or that and we listen to these feedback Forms very very carefully. So please give us this feedback on the sessions and and on everything And then the way the the tracks are set up There are five tracks as you know from the from the schedule. There's a track on innovation so all the new stuff what's going on there's a track on Service providers dev ops and cloud what's happening there There's a track on enterprise and IT from a networking perspective and then we added two new tracks this this time There's an edge track for the first time and we've received some amazing content for that and then there is a cloud native track So there's cloud native networking right how does Cloud native come together. So please Along with that there are two Unconference tracks. So this is the first time we are introducing something called our conference What that means is you're gonna bring, you know, if you have a topic and there are peers who want to discuss it mark it up You will have it published on the schedule, right? It's like on-demand speaking so please do that and With that said, let me start off by You know taking a very very Short overview in the open networking brave new world of today It's been about a year since we had this ONS last year right and We had three big Questions in front of us people were saying, ah, but you can't do this. Oh, but this is a problem. Oh, but this will not work, right? And so what I thought today we would do is we will bring in The context of that discussion in what I call three myths in open networking And I think we have debunked those three in one year And it's important to know this is no small achievement Okay, so let me go through the three myths very quickly and you will realize what I'm talking about myth number one Telecom service providers legacy of a hundred plus years and so that's all that Baggage is going to prevent collaboration Creation and deployment of open networking That was the big, you know Headlines years ago right couple of years ago a year ago. Well, guess what happened that what happened was we started with virtualization Then came disaggregation So SDN NFV paved the way to start thinking about the brave new open world Then came automation which led to orchestration solutions in complete open source landscapes and and we are today in the world of open collaboration collaboration across multiple industries multiple technologies right multiple Markets and and and so we're in a huge journey and I'm not saying the first step of the journey is not done yet We're we're just traversing different markets are going at a different level. Let me show you some proof points The collaboration was huge We brought in nine of the ten top open source projects all in one entity We brought in operators to come together and start collaborating. We had all the vendors come in These are just some example samples right that really pushed the button, right? We did not leave any networking vendor behind and I think that's a big statement to make here on the stage That's the collaboration Once you have collaboration and creation you move to deployment and you have seen multiple of these examples I won't even go through this right and on what some of the big carriers small carriers some of them We don't even know what they've deployed, right? So it's it's just happening as we speak there are challenges But people are moving past those challenges right so the collaboration and creation have led to major automation and they all want to do that because 5g is coming or Has come depending on your perspective and then on top of that the impact of open networking is completely global and When we see diversity diversity across people diversity across geography Diversity across companies That's a true mark of open source if you look at projects on the right-hand side These are just some examples You know the circles are just showing release after release the colors keep increasing Right open daylight for example when it started to where it's now Very colorful right that means multiple people have Contributed it's it's it's a steady-state open source project that is productized and deployed so we're feeling very excited to drive this level of open source and Where we need to do is do a couple of announcements obviously to take this to the final frontier So the first announcement I think will be put out is In a year mark with the left networking, which is the umbrella that is hosting some of this We are announcing what we call people certification, right? So there's a deep on app training certification where Including several e-learning courses where you can put your Operation staff your network admins who need to be trained on next generation of open source Courses are available. Certification is available. There's a commercial certification and an ecosystem that goes along with that to make become a certified provider and and and Along with that There's a huge Industry that needs to come together, which is across nfvi Vim Mano and VNF and What we are really excited to announce is an OVP program, which is a compliance and verification program That brings and expands the interoperability and the deployment challenge Okay There's a lot more detail in the sessions on this, but this announcement is really exciting It wraps up the final two stages of you know full-scale deployment. So we're excited about that So don't tell us that we cannot collaborate create and deploy right? That's kind of the first myth the second myth is Standards and consortiums and open source will always compete. I Hate to break it to the press right who love writing about it But that myth is definitely debunked and I'll show you why we started off with a an appeal to Bring the two communities together there were white papers published there were governance changes there were Collaboration entities we brought the communities together to the credit of pretty much all the SDOs Very very proactive in how they came up together. Remember this line This is the open source world on the left and they open standards world and Let me tell you Only at ONS will you see a keynote panel which is so star-studded. This is a Friday keynote You have meff tip 3g pp at Co Cptm forum all Discussing how Successfully we have collaborated. Okay, and then there's a detailed sessions Session where you know, we'll all come together. So I'm just saying this is a very important Milestone in the history of networking right and we're really excited that so for that I want to give a big round of applause to our standards Ecosystem and the open source community. Can we just quick quickly thank them? Thank you And bait but wait we're not done That was a poor man's version of Steve Jobs. Sorry Oran You may have seen this announcement, you know through 3g pp another, you know standards STO type and organization We just announced the creation of a software community the software community is going to come together and collaborate and build Software and that software is not just for oran But it is also for collaboration across the ecosystem to give an end-to-end perspective of The entire telecommunication stack. So really excited about this and you know, feel free to attend several sessions on this as well Okay finally myth number three and This is a little bit complicated, but I will start by saying that The myth was that every technology or a market whether it's cloud enterprise Telecom or technologies like edge IOT AI it's all these things will never Be brought together. Okay? That's not true, right? We started off with Edge we brought IOT cloud enterprise and telcos together in something called LF edge. It was a huge collaborative effort from the community and then What we are announcing today is The continued momentum. There are more blueprints as people come together to give out edge solutions optimized for their market There are amazing projects that you all need to be participating and there are consortiums, right like Etsy IIC ACC this is the automotive edge We are collaborating and we are starting off day one by putting it all together So with that I'm going to summarize and say all the three myths Collaboration creation SDOs and marketing technologies We're happy to report that we have demystified it now on the third one I'm going to come back and give you some more Directional guidance in my closing keynote on where we are heading but for now I want to sort of just say thank you for supporting this and thank you for being part of this amazing journey on Open source open standards and just open networking in general. So thank you All right. So with that, let's go ahead and start off by Introducing the first keynote speaker Dr. Fang from China Mobile as you know the largest network if not the largest She's the chief scientist and general manager of AI and intelligent operations R&D and She's been there and today she's going to talk about Practicing network intelligence. So before we welcome dr. Fang a short video will play and then please welcome dr. Fang