 Good afternoon everyone. Wow, we've got a full house. Thank you everyone for coming to beautiful Los Angeles. The weather is amazing down here. You know, it was rainy up in San Francisco for the last couple of weeks, so we were happy that we were able to plan this event down here in beautiful Southern California and we're glad to see you all here today. I want to start by first welcoming you and thanking our sponsors. I'd like to thank our Diamond sponsors, ARM and Intel. Without them we could not make this happen, so let's give a big round of applause for them. Also like to thank our Platinum sponsors, Alibaba Cloud, Dell EMC, Ericsson, and Huawei. Thanks again for all your support. So a couple of years ago we declared that it was the year of open source in networking and that has been proven really true. I think today what we're really seeing is in almost or certainly on every level of the stack there's an open source project that's innovative and solving big problems and creating value, whether it's you know at the low layer and data plane services or all the way up into the management and orchestration frameworks, open source is really leading. But this year we're seeing a big shift in the networking sector as it relates to open source and I want to just take a couple of minutes to remind us all of just how powerful that is and how we're really at the beginning of the real innovation that is here to come. You know what's really happened is you see all these different open source projects that have come up whether it's cord or open daylight or more recent projects like ONAP that are really solving these tough problems. The important thing now is that that open source project or collection of projects is being turned into real market solutions. ONAP as example is being used in production in operator networks like Bell Canada and AT&T. Open Daylight another example is being used to run networks that powers over a billion subscribers. You know we're really now starting to see industry and the telecommunications sector take this open source and build real solutions on top of it. And what happens when you start building real solutions with open source is you start creating a lot of value whether it's in network automation enabling 5G transformation whether it's in you know investment and additional new companies that are invested in to support these open source projects profit and values being created and what happens then is that value gets reinvested back in the open source project in the form of new requirements that unearth themselves when they're being when that project is being used to run a global operators networks. It takes the place in terms of new features and services in that project which then begets better solutions better commercial products which begets more value which begets more code more innovation better products and solutions faster networks more secure networks more value more reinvestment and you can see how this flywheel really really happens and that's really what we're all here to do today is to invest in making this flywheel this open source project turning into commercial products and services creating value that is then reinvested to go faster and faster and faster and it's working and I want to thank all of you for participating in it and give each of you a round of applause for helping but we're not stopping there we've been working on networking and now what we're seeing is new technologies coming in to help networking and all a bunch of other sectors of technology improve and that's in the area of deep learning and artificial intelligence. Today the Linux foundation is announcing the LF deep learning project actually I think it was yesterday we've got so many different announcements but this project was announced with 10 initial members it has an open source seed project in the Akumos project how many people here have heard of Akumos? If you haven't go check it out this is an amazing framework for the discovery and sharing of AI models and AI workflows so this was initially contributed by AT&T and Tech Mahindra but it's just a tremendously useful tool to be able to take an AI model deployed in a production environment and then share those models with others whether it's within your organization or other organizations outside of your own and when we got started on this we got so much interest in other technologies around AI that we started a whole umbrella organization for artificial intelligence called LF deep learning that's been joined like I said by 10 new organization we're going to see more projects in this Baidu for example is contributing their elastic deep learning project 10 cent is bringing in their angel project and we'll see more projects to come so go and check out the LF deep learning project we think this is going to be a big one finally I have one final piece of news from the Linux Foundation which is a new member of our staff today I'm excited to announce that Jamie Smith is going to be joining the Linux Foundation as our new chief marketing officer you know the Linux Foundation this year passed a thousand members there are a thousand organizations that are working all over the world on the open source projects at the Linux Foundation host it is actually a remarkable amount of work to communicate on an ongoing basis and get people to engage in these projects all over the world and Jamie brings just the kind of background we need to handle a complex communications task her previous roles include the special assistant and spokesperson for president Barack Obama and deputy White House press secretary she was the director of public affairs for the office of the director of national intelligence under James Clapper she worked as a spokesperson for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign she worked for Madeline Albright for a number of years former secretary of state Madeline Albright at the Albright group she's got a great tech background also working for a blockchain organization recently called Bitfury also heading up the global blockchain business council she's worked in the PR arena she has handled some really really tough communications tasks and we're happy to have her here to help us communicate to all of you and the thousands of organizations all over the world that we work with and she's joining me via Skype from Washington so welcome Jamie please meet everyone from the open networking summit welcome hi everyone you'll have to forgive me um I can't see you but you can see me so it's uh it's an honor to be there I definitely wish I was in LA more than I wish I was in Washington DC at the moment um but I wanted to just say thank you um thank you to Jim and thank you for the opportunity um to work with all of you it's such an honor such a humbling honor to have an opportunity to represent the work that you're doing I truly wish I could be at this event it's it's designed to not only improve your business but also make the world more functional and better and that's my kind of event so I'm I'm really just thrilled to have the opportunity um and I just want to take a moment to say that you know I joined the Linux Foundation wholeheartedly and with with just so much excitement because the work that is happening across the board is touching literally every single fabric of our society and growing every day and so I I just can't imagine a better a better set of challenges hurdles and opportunities for all of us to work together I truly wish I was there but I look forward to meeting all of you and thanks for the opportunity to say hi hi thanks Jamie thank you so more news to come uh but uh with that I'm going to introduce uh Arpit Joshi Puro who heads up the Linux Foundation networking group please welcome Arpit all right networking actually worked we were scared that the call would not go through all right uh so welcome everybody uh again I'm honored to be the voice of the community here and really humbled by the progress we have made in just one year right whether it's developers programmers project managers program managers members executives end users you know you name it even press an analyst you know they are keeping up with what we do so it's it's really really amazing uh and I think the key here is you know the willingness to work together has really made a difference so I'm I'm really uh you know excited about this event uh we're more today than we were at the previous ONS so that's really exciting and we're not even in the Bay area we're in Hollywood right so that's really exciting so in the next few minutes I'm going to walk you through the progress and um you know I'll show you where we are heading next so a year ago at ONS I sort of gave out two messages one was networking let's make networking cool again okay and let's harmonize harness and consume and what that meant really was let's all work together within networking and the key here is within in terms of you know open source projects standards etc and I think we have done a great job and I want to thank you right so the community came together very nicely and I'll show you some highlights here but I think everybody here in the audience and people who are listening will uh agree with me so please give you a give yourself a round of applause thank you very good so let me explain a few highlights uh the two most important things that our members were focusing on was can you merge open source communities that are either adjacent complementary or overlapping and we did that we did that the largest hit merge in the history has been pulled in terms of open source and that was the ecomp and open o with onap now becoming the de facto platform because the merge global adoption etc the other thing we did was we merged six projects into a single LF networking umbrella from a governance perspective while keeping the technical communities independent and that has been really well received from and well coordinated across across the community and that was not just within LF as part of ONS we announced partnership with OCP as as you well know last week and it it was extremely you know well received coming from giants of open source hardware and open source software and the collaboration is not just on end to end testing but also on that common layer of operating systems that touch both hardware and software we also had an announcement going with onap and cord coexisting in an AT&T access network and the collaboration there so a lot of good progress these are just few examples that I want to sort of give out and that's the open source community open standards you know have really fascinated and the way you know there is willingness on both sides to make this happen this was a big sticking point last year and we started off with collaboration with ONF and you know standards in the open flow area etc for sure but very soon we had MEF and Linux Foundation and ONAP collaborate and that collaboration allowed us to talk carriers to carriers you know the legato interlude sonata interfaces that we all love and and we want to go across carriers right and that demo was shown by a whole set of member community very well received okay and then we made even further progress when last week you know the baseline p4 was announced as moving or joining both LF networking and ONF led by ONF into LF networking and that again shows the preharmonization aspect of it which brings everything together and then yesterday we announced a TM forum from an API perspective so you can see that we are moving forward we are facilitating enabling any roadblocks that you know prevent deployment or prevent our members from collaborating so we're really excited about that okay and why is this really important and why does it matter because the community likes it and so the results are in we just touched 100 members in LF networking in less than 100 days okay so this is really exciting because this is like one of the fastest times to get 200 members and this is just a result of how efficient it is to just become and participate and and look at multiple projects all in one so again thank you very much so with that said this is all clubbed under what I call harmonization 1.0 okay and 1.0 again is within networking both open source projects and open source and standards and so why is this important it's all about money 11 billion dollars is at stake in the next five years one of the analyst firms acg research came out with a report today that has analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively what it means to be participating in the next five years of spend that the end users are going after and there are significant you know data in there but the one I thought was very interesting was you know the amount of money at stake and another key observation that that I want to sort of highlight here is the future strategic vendors that are participating in this unfair share of of spend will be the ones that embrace open source okay and most of this open source is at the interface layer it's at the boundaries right it is what I have lovingly called the boring part of networks okay but that's the most complex and the most important so with that said where are we heading we're heading to harmonization 2.0 and what does 2.0 mean 2.0 means how networking impacts adjacent areas whether it's adjacent technologies adjacent clouds projects areas you name it right I don't have a word for it but what it means is it's not just within networking it's beyond networking and so what we have looked at as a networking group is you know how do I get the best of network automation with the best of cloud and container portability right that's kind of the kubernetes and networking sort of collaboration how do I get the best of hardware and software to be you know independent of each other with a layer of operating system that we are announcing today called denos disaggregated network operating system the interesting thing about denos which the most of the seed code comes from an AT&T project called denos but the interesting thing is it comes in pre-harmonized with all five of the pieces in the operating system landscape right we've had the bright brightest of the bright come together in a room for multiple times and figured out how say the sonic and the psi layer how the stratum and the forwarding layer how FRR and open switch and denos they all work together and how the interfaces are all coming together so stay tuned for more details but we're really excited because we want to go in with a view and an architecture view of how these five you know switches come together including you know open switch and a couple of them are already Linux foundation projects okay the other area that is important to networking is what Jim announced deep learning acumos and obviously there is a network tie-in for this but we want to make sure that there is more analytics and machine learning applied to the network automation to get more powerful use cases and then finally what was announced you know or what will what was announced in january which was the acreno statutes is the new edge stack and you will see some more exciting news around that as well so again the key here is the zero touch vision of end-to-end services including next-gen services so how does it all fit together i think it's fairly straightforward for those of you who have seen the architectural vision from from lf it's a very simple problem you have to connect these services at the top to the infrastructure at the bottom and the middle layers is all this joint and manual and things like that and you have a bunch of our open source organizations working together to create that automation layer and that framework so we are really excited and to show harmonization 2.0 i was i just said let's let's do a quick demonstration on you know one of the projects on how you know we can see the power of containers and cloud working with network automation so this is a demonstration of onap on on on kubernetes and effectively what we have is two high velocity projects that are coming together now i was going to do the demo live and then i chickened out sorry right i just can't trust myself going down to the cli and the shell level so i've done that before but i'm not going to do it there's too many engineers here you can who can see through my fluff so i'm just going to give you a high level view of what the power is and then if you need to see the real demo there's a there's a boot that has the demo going on so let me just show you where some of the interesting things are happening so this is a dashboard and this is a cross cloud ci so again remember cncf the umbrella organization has kubernetes as a project there's a cross cloud team under that that's working on this on onap you have a team under you know a project called oom that is working on this and and what they do is you know they work and collaborate on that plus there's a multi vim or multiple clouds team so this is a dashboard all you can see here is on the top you have all the clouds so amazon azure google ibm bare metal open stack etc and kubernetes and all its projects including onap right here is what we are going to show running on on kubernetes okay so effectively this is a daily build you know you display the test results and and you know all sorts of the cloud so let's go ahead and get started the first thing you would end up doing is creating a pipeline now we have taken a portion of onap here just for expediting thing and and it takes the latest stamps to them release for those of you are familiar with onap 1.1.1 and and all we are going to do is you know is create this pipeline here and so let's say the pipeline gets started you know and and it has its what it's doing is onap has its own ci system they have a release build system the to talk and now you take the orchestrator put it down for testing and now you're going to sort of compile this i can't put the laser pointer all the way there but that's fine and then it starts compiling and then in about 10 or 15 minutes this whole thing builds takes the latest version the next thing that happens is kubernetes starts deploying in parallel across all these clouds right and it runs in parallel right which is what we want and then when completed that task gets to deploying the onap on each of these cloud service providers right and once that happens and you know it's going to run through its completion you get to everything is good to go so let's kind of look at the couple of clouds so let's say if i go and look at the aws portion of it here's your console output here obviously i'm not expecting anybody to read this the key here is it's it's kind of aws where onap has been deployed with the amsterdam release all the tests have passed so these are health care checks health checks consoles logins database services things like that and and kind of you know if you let's take open stack for example here if you sort of double click into that that console looks similar you know it's it's just simple enough right so my point here is you now have an example of how you know cloud portability and you know kubernetes comes in and our container portability and onap our projects like onap can take advantage of right now this is again a demo and you know we'll work with the community and and make this happen but i thought it is interesting to just show you the power of how harmonization two and two open source projects can come together and of course you know you can contact dan or the cross cloud team at the booth uh and of course special thanks to the onap team in in the amdak's organization so that's it and then one final slide uh i have to put this up this is my favorite slide and we just updated it so there was a slide here last year so the two updates i want to show is uh as harmonization two happens we are now beyond the networking we are you know going across multiple other projects and so we have emphasized the lower layer of the stacks if you may with the operating systems and how they all fit together we've also emphasized not just linux foundation projects but the linux foundation projects that are part of networking as well as linux foundation and non linux foundation projects so they they all come together and i i know it is hard to understand how they you know how they harmonize but once you participate in the community it's a really really powerful thing to do okay so uh that's kind of the start of ons and my statements and thank you all for coming