Event schedule

Welcome

Morning Tea

Lunch Break

Afternoon Tea

FAUCET Interop Demonstration

Intro to gNMI/ZTN

gNMI FAUCET Test Runs

Welcome

Deploying FAUCET in the Enterprise

Deploying FAUCET at an IXP

PlugFest review and gNMI for ZTN

What does SDN mean for a CIO?

Open vSwitch for High-Performance Virtual Routing

This talk covers how Open vSwitch can be deployed for virtual routing. In addition to the basics, it talks about OVS testing and troubleshooting features that can simplify debugging. It also talks about performance, including how caching and flow table design influences performance, and how DPDK and multiple kinds of hardware offload fit into the performance picture.

How to Deploy a FAUCET Enterprise Network (live coding tutorial)

FAUCET Architecture and Design Principles

OpenFlow Pipeline Design for Efficient Hardware Data Planes

OpenFlow is a highly flexible networking paradigm that is capable of addressing a wide range of networking protocols and applications. An abstract model of an Openflow pipeline may be expressed as a series of Match-Action Tables (MAT) that match on one or more packet and/or packet metadata fields, and actions that may involve forwarding decisions, packet modifications and production of metadata. While such flexibility is very powerful in terms of capabilities, it requires complex ASICs that may not support large scale or performance, or will do so at great cost. FAUCET is an open source SDN/OpenFlow controller that specifies a relatively limited subset of OpenFlow that may be efficiently implemented on a wide variety of platforms, while meeting the needs of enterprise networks. We explore how this pipeline could be redesigned in order to use hardware resources such as pipeline stages, TCAMs and Hash Tables more efficiently to maximize scale and performance without compromising capability. The conclusions of this study may be used to inform the hardware-software co-design of Openflow based networking devices.

Lightning Talks

802.1x and FAUCET

Scalable Provider Edge Routers

Developer Workshop

FAUCET and Enterprise SDN

Google has been developing solutions for enterprise networking using SDN, including contributing to the open-source FAUCET project. This talk discusses how the FAUCET approach enables security, development velocity, and other innovation.

Faucet on ZOF: OpenFlow as a Micro-Service

This talk will introduce the ZOF framework and show how it's capable of running Faucet. ZOF replaces Ryu while providing a simple programming model built on the async/await language features added in Python 3.5. ZOF relies on a separate OpenFlow micro-service (written in C++) to handle its message serialization needs. I will talk about how ZOF compares to Ryu and how I maintain a downstream port of Faucet that targets ZOF.

Flexible ASIC-based OpenFlow Pipeline

HPE Aruba switches support the FAUCET pipeline using flexible ASIC technology. We'll review how this works starting from the flexible ASIC table allocations, to using tools to construct the pipeline, and finally how FAUCET communicates the pipeline to the switch.

Introduction to the Faucet Foundation

Group Photo

We will take a group photo of the first ever FAUCET conference.

Great Shakeout Earthquake Drill

At 10:19 a.m. on Oct. 19, personnel should Drop, Cover, and Hold On during the drill, then evacuate the building and report to an Emergency Assembly Area. Once there, Building Emergency Teams and Protective Services will account for personnel.

Shuttle buses leave for conference dinner

There will be two shuttles provided from the building 66 to the dinner venue that leave at 5.15pm.

Conference Dinner

There is a no-host dinner on Thursday night - if you'd like to attend the cost will be approx $25-$30. There will be two shuttles provided from the lab to the dinner venue that leave at 5.15pm.

Link022: an open WiFi access point

LBLnet

To be announced