 Hi, welcome. My name is Warren Bayek. I'm in the CTO office of Wind River member of the Starling X community and I want to talk today about enabling the intelligent edge of Starling X Craig Griffin is on your your syllabus. He may be able to pop in a little later, but he's not here right now obviously So I want to talk about the intelligent edge in the new machine economy and Starling's X Starling X's place in it And what do we mean by this? Well a new intelligent machine economy is the next wave of digital transformation So the first or pre the previous wave Was about that were we've been taking a part in the past ten years was all about creating this cloud computing infrastructure that met the needs of Integrated public and private clouds regardless of size by being simple to implement and massively scalable So open-stack provided software defined infrastructure needed to create the data centers for this environment Capable of deploying VMs at massive scale right so it infrastructure that was scalable and automated collecting data analyzing in a central location Creating improved customer options and experiences along with leveraging that data to create business and operational advantages Those were the keys to the previous generation It was really centered on The cell phone right connecting people to people and people to processes and systems data centers And using that data intelligently to enable us to have a better experience with each other and with With companies to be able to use that data to create products and services that satisfied our needs In terms of connectivity as I said the cell phone was really the primary way that This came to light so think about ten years ago and how different the world was than the world We live in today and things you do today without thinking ten years ago would have been science fiction Right a lot of things that happened in our daily lives would have been science fiction just ten years ago No one had any idea what impact the cell phone and other things other ways We interact with each other and interact with the internet and the data center world would be possible Ten years from now I want to say the world will be equally different Things we consider science fiction today. It's gonna be part of our everyday lives What those things are I don't know, but I do know they will be happening So that's what the next wave is about We've already entered this way that It's enabling the new machine economy So I said the first wave is really about connecting us people with each other and with information Well, the next wave is going to be more about connecting The the devices at this intelligent edge with each other having them interact communicate and do interesting and intelligent things As part of as Jeff Gowan if you listen to the keynote yesterday mentioned as part of sort of a rolling data centers One way we like to look at it So in the data center paradigm is shifting Many of the tasks performed today in those massive centralized data centers They're gonna be moving further and further out to this new machine economy edge Some of the requirements to make this happen are gonna be things like low latency ultra-connectivity highly available systems There's some statistics up there that show how important this is going to be Obviously, it's well underway, but even said you can see aerobatics 70% of GDP between now and 2030 70% of the growth is going to be in this area Every business is thinking about this So we're all on a path to the future where The data produced by these devices is expanding exponentially and the way they need to communicate with each other And the things the devices are going to need to be able to do at the device level as well as at the network Infrastructure level and the data center level are increasing exponentially as well So we need an infrastructure that can support this new intelligent edge economy according to Gartner This new world will be worth two trillion dollars in economic activity by 2030 two trillion dollars So What's happened so far you may have seen this picture if you've been to some of these talks before but Open stack and Starling X have taken this idea of software-defined infrastructure from the core To the infrastructure edge, which is where currently today in Virtual-rand environment Starling X is running in the Verizon network as Jeff mentioned yesterday With it with a 5g virtual ran deployment across North America So that's the second bullet in the infrastructure edge We call that but beyond that is the device that's where the intelligent machine economy is going to happen that's the Big growth pattern that I just you just saw in those previous statistics That's where all the new infrastructure that we're putting into place has to support that last mile intelligent edge You know think about what it is. It's really the way to think of it is as a place not a thing, right? It's it's the manufacturing floor a campus a city a car Airplanes underwater things Sports arenas battlefields all of these areas that is the last mile the device intelligent edge that we're talking about enabling with this new infrastructure That's happening now because at this edge As I said these devices are going to be able to need to perform AI as you AI Obviously in the last six months all of us have heard non-stop Stories about where AI is going that's going to play out in this intelligent edge So where those devices need to be able to use this infrastructure to communicate with each other and do AI things that they're Capable of doing within the device, but they also need to share that data at each of these levels so that each level can Process and do the correct thing based on the requirements of the device AI Implementations So how does Starling X play play into this? What is it first? I'm going to run through a quick overview of what Starling X is I'll be massively simplification simplify it here If you want to get into deeper depth of what Starling X is how you use it the the nuts and bolts kind of the sausage making if You will there's nine ish sessions coming over the next two days This is more intended to be more of a little bit high level so bear with me as I kind of blast through this But if you want to get into the deeper level meet with some of the engineers in the other sessions And they can they'll go through some really specific things and the others just if you search for Starling X in the program You'll see all the sessions that are coming up, but to massively over simplify it So Starling X was formed five years ago in response to thinking about the differences Required to support the kind of edge infrastructure that I talked about versus the open stack type data center infrastructure If you think about the biggest differences while the scalability and other things I'll talk through a few specifically are the same The differences they're geographically separated for take for instance your Nova compute instances Could be the controllers here the workers miles away very different paradigm than in a data center Same thing with Kubernetes your masters could be potentially tens or hundreds of miles separated from the worker nodes, right? That just won't work with the kind of connectivity and the availability of the networks between those systems So a new infrastructure had to be designed so five years ago Wind River co-founded Starling X along with Intel to manage some of those problems So as you it's an open-source project. It's part of the open infrastructure foundation confer It's a open infrastructure Confirmed project, so it's open source open design open development a very open community It's a full stack supplying a complete cloud and infrastructure solution It's distributed as I said geo distributed so that the workers that the sub-clouds we call them nodes can be Distributed geographically separate from the controllers and the optimized edge sub-cloud is really the part I want to focus on today So what do we mean by optimized? Well the scalability is critical Just like the current data center the scales has to go into the thousands Of course the difference is again this scalability happens geographically So that creates a new set of problems that had to be solved In terms of reliability unlike the data center where you're three and four nines Reliability some of the applications that live at those edge if you thought about what was happening out there We're talking about cars. We're talking about aeroplanes data telecom centers I'm a data telecom connections out there you expect five and six nines reliability very very different paradigm than the typical data center It requirements because lives could be at stake Small footprint is obviously critical as you scale to the thousands or tens of thousands of edge sites If you have a solution that takes two or three or four or five servers under the typical model with a controller workers storage servers Do the math on the equation as you get to the the cost equation becomes very different if you have a Hyperconferred solution like Starling X so we can bring all of that into one server and in the server itself is optimized And I'll touch on that a little bit later Ultra low latency as I mentioned when you're at the far edge We're talking latency at that out there is measured in microseconds So latency is not data center. It's not at the same scale as a data center And finally it's at security and life cycle management security is important everywhere at the edge It's a different it's again a different discussion because you don't have kind of a walled area where everything's in one place Everything can kind of be controlled. You're geographically separated. You have physical security problems You have an unsecured network connecting you to the back to the core so there are new security concerns that had to be addressed and in terms of the The life cycle management we do we knew from open stacks experience that the requirements to put life cycle management Into the product from the beginning natively was very important for those of you who Worked with open stack early on how difficult it was to upgrade and keep track of was Something we realized we had to get into Starling X from the beginning So that's a quick overview of where Starlet how Starling X came to be and where it's gone So what do we use this infrastructure for? Well today as I mentioned about two and a half years ago Verizon started rolling out the first virtual ran environment using Starling X at the as their VRan host hosted infrastructure Vodafone and KDDI are also following along. So what's happened is we've proven Scalability and reliability at massive scale now that question's been answered for Starling X But we're here to talk about additional use cases beyond Telco it's interesting to me that Starling X has become kind of the de facto virtual ran Telco solution because there's really nothing specific in Starling X to do with telco It just happens to be a great use case that is monetizable today in the first place that Customers were willing to give it a shot. So as Jeff said yesterday, this is really important We've used two and a half years to harden Starling X to the point where it's ready for any environment now So other use cases, we just threw a few up on here Software-defined vehicles Really important one. We know that's coming enabling has an information sharing autonomous driving enhanced safety A&D the aerospace and defensive part of the United States is already starting to define advanced battle management systems So they're creating a network environment that Starling X fits into perfectly smart electric grids not just smart devices where Starling X can help applications host applications that are Intelligent device management of energy, but also energy grids who can share information and manage the grid more efficiently Industrial manufacturing some obvious use cases there with low latency hyper available hyper secure environments Medical already we're already starting to see tele-surgery things happening Obviously, you need massively available and reliable systems there with incredibly low latency Robotics drone delivery the list goes on and on but really the important thing is I don't know the killer app neither do you But someone in here is gonna come up with ideas that can use this infrastructure and that's we're gonna talk about today I'm going to go through a couple use cases Because I know as I said earlier I know in ten years this world will be very different some of the people in this room And at this conference will play a part in that and we want them to think about Starling X being the infrastructure to host The applications that are going to change our world So I'm going to talk about a few examples today one. That's obvious Monetizable and is happening and the other that's quite exotic and really I'm just going to bring it up as an example of what could be Just to get your mind thinking a little bit out of the box The first is The software-defined vehicle we talk about this a lot One of the differences here with the existing telco infrastructure think about what the telco use cases Telco is near if you think about that drawing that I had with the as you work further to the left You were getting more to the device edge at the very far edge of that in the telco environment are the radio towers Starling X sits one Place in from that on the on the infrastructure of the telco So we host applications like VRN applications Mac applications that control things at the radio edge The autonomous vehicle is potentially a little different in that we actually could extend Starling X into the device So this device would essentially become a sub-cloud in our known in the Starling X nomenclature And that's happening today the these companies are beginning To create this environment GM has said They expect publicly in their reports to the walk to the street 20 to 25 billion dollars in annual revenue via software By 2030 I believe the date and today that's about two billion So you can see where GM expects to see a massive part of their growth over the next six or seven years Fords followed suit all the car companies are saying the same thing to their investors car companies are quickly becoming software companies Obviously Tesla is the the poster child in this right the software that the software in a Tesla is Essentially the car all car companies are going to be software companies 10 years from now And we believe with this type of an architecture the car is going to be it literally is going to be a rolling data center the difference with a car It has to be hyper connected If it's if we're going to innate if we're going to realize the v2x things that I've listed here vehicle a vehicle communication device Infrastructure some of these are happening already and they use well-defined protocols within the car Some need to communicate to devices street signs Some will need to communicate with each other for intelligent traffic control the use cases are Enormous and one of the interesting things that has to happen within a car Is there a mixed criticality services running some of those things your your infotainment system not so important, right? Your your ability to realize a kids running in front of the car critically important those have to live together and Starling X provides a way to separate and keep each Pod each container in its own box and let the critical systems have preference over the other systems There's some other things that could happen in a car too for instance Some of the applications or pods don't need to run when you're driving the car the things that unlock your door You know if that's a software system when you get near the car that has to be enabled But once you're in the car running you don't have to have some of the things running So Starling X gives you an easy way to manage applications within the car so you can use the resources more efficiently Unlike a data center the resources in a car are basically an elastic once you're in the car You have what you have so you have to have an intelligent way to use those resources and not have everything running all the time and Starling X gives you good ways to manage the applications and the resources within the car So in this world, this is this is where people like GM Ford and others are looking to figure out an infrastructure that will support this Starling X has the perfect answer for all the questions that are being asked about the infrastructure and all the demands being put on it And as I said, this is happening. It may be a few years away But this vision is is on route and we expect Starling X to play a major role in it Now I'm gonna take you down a little different path And this is just to get you thinking. I I actually just was listening to a podcast last week and came across this company I Don't know how it's pronounced Pidgey. Oh, maybe fast info. It's a Boston based company and they create basically robotic Sherpas to follow you without you requiring to be managing a joystick without you You know having to interact with it in any way It's an intelligent device that knows how to manage It's really built for kind of the 15 minute city that you've heard about and it allows people such as this woman Who's carrying baby? Typically she wouldn't be able to do things in that environment She couldn't go shopping because I have to take my kid and do those sorts of things Well, this gives you an option to have the Sherpa follow you along you can go to the market throw things in it And it will come take care to take care of everything and go home with you Well, it has to manage things like how do I get across the street? How do I wait for no it's time to stop here and I have to wait You notice she doesn't have a joystick in her hand or her cell phone out and watching it It's the machine itself is intelligent enough to know what she needs to have happened and make it happen It's pretty rudimentary right now But if you go to Seattle or Boston or London, you may see some of these wandering around the streets. It's kind of interesting Very exotic today, right who would ever Who would ever think this is going to take off? But again ten years from now things like this and I'm not saying this will be it But something like this will be part of your life And if you're in the development environment of this and you have some need in a network infrastructure Come talk to us at Starling X come by the booth and let's discuss it We can talk about ways we can make this happen for you in terms of that I just want to say one. I want to talk about one interesting successful collaboration like this. We've recently had Again, it's in the telco environment because that's where this market is already taking off for Starling X a few years ago Intel started a project for a new silicon for the fourth generation sapphire rapids So we talked with Intel about what we could do in the telco space to make that an attractive offering and Decided that we would try to minimize the footprint of Starling X to give Applications more room on these servers Just like the car which has an inelastic amount of resources once it's built Without obvious upgrades cell towers are the same right if you you see your cell tower at the bottom There's a building in that building is a server or two or three or whatever they put in once they're in there That's it. That's what you have so minimizing the footprint of things like infrastructure is critical So with Intel and in core it joined us. We're happy to have them join the Starling X group and When River we collaborate on the requirements We work through the Starling X community to get the things into place that needed to be done to enhance and optimize that use case And the most recent release has Starling X running on one core of the sapphire rapids silicon and I bring that up just to say it's a place where a Silicon vendor had a use case. They came to the community. We figured out what they needed within the infrastructure We made it happen and we delivered something to the market that is going to change the the shape of the Verizon network and Other for telco networks to come So again as you come up with use cases where you can use low latency high high availability You know all the things that I mentioned earlier all the benefits and advantages of Starling X Please come by the booth join the join the community. Let us talk about what we can do within the infrastructure together To enable your use case and bring it to market faster. So we have some Yeah, we kind of talk we have some resource resources at the end here Here's some ways to get to start the Starling X community We have a booth here as I said the rest of this the rest of these two days You're gonna have eight or nine or ten Starling X presentations that will get into detail of how we do things like upgrades How we did the Starling X project how we some of the new deployment models We're looking at but there's some engineers here who are gonna drill very deep and give you some really good examples So I encourage you to look through your your syllabus and see what Starling X opportunities make sense to you to go See and to come visit us at the booth if you need any help With your application your service your infrastructure decisions anything you need This kind of an infrastructure. Please come talk to us and we'll be happy to help any questions Well, that was a pretty specific instance and I I don't know if I can get into details But when River had you know, we're part of the Starling X community We knew that Going forward there would be Intel was interested because they obviously will sell more silicon, which is their business and core is interested because they're gonna go they're helping with the Starling X project and when River the we have a Engineering group obviously it already contributes to Starling X. We have a upstream first development model So everything we do goes into Starling X. So really all the companies had a End goal that I mean an end revenue model that made sense So we all contributed some of the money together to help each other get there. Does that help? Well, like so that the the nuts and bolts of the collaboration We literally had teams from each of those groups getting together regularly So everybody was kind of contributing manpower more than anything and we we had very close weekly if Mostly weekly meetings and made sure you know made sure from an engineering perspective the right things were being done in the community You know it was a long project Intel is an interesting partner to work with obviously and it was a year plus Effort to get there and we used the you that because that was a specific use case And I assume y'all would have the same kind of thing we went kind of the agile model We brought in the Verizon and we talked them through it as well to make sure that it was landing right and then had a market When we were finished and and again Wind River can help with that if you have you know customers We have a lot of reach being a 30-year company doing some a lot of you probably have heard of Wind River from the Vx Workstays so we have a lot of reach and a lot of customer output So we can help the Starling X community get into maybe some places and get conversations with customers that may be unreachable for some Any other questions? All right. Good. Thank you