Speakers
Hélder Barata - Nokia
SDN in the context of NFV automation (download)Abstract:
SDN is intended for automating the network connectivity in a variety of different scenarios. This presentation will focus on the automation of the connectivity of Virtualized Network Functions (VNF). With a centralized Controller and Policy Manager, it is easy and flexible to run applications where it makes more sense being it in the public cloud, the datacenter or even at the Branch Office.
Bio:Helder Barata received its degree in Electronics and Telecommunications in 1993 from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa. Since then he has been working in multiple technologies including IP/MPLS Provider Edge Routers from Alcatel-Lucent and SDN from Nuage Networks (now Nokia).
Today Helder is working as solution designer in an international team, focusing on SDN solutions from Nuage Networks for both Datacenter and WAN.
João Santos - Coriant Portugal
A perspective on software-defined networking for optical transport networks (download)Abstract:
Looking at the traditional vertically-integrated optical equipment market, software defined-networking has the potential to greatly disturb the status-quo. This presentation provides an outlook on how the most essential principles of SDN can be incorporated into the optical technology, enabling dramatic changes at both software and hardware ends. On the software side, a feature-rich control plane with access to powerful computation resources can absorb many functions currently residing on hardware boxes to enhance network usage. With network disaggregation also becoming attractive to operators, the SDN-based control plane must be designed to simultaneously manage multi-layer and multi-vendor equipment. An overview on Coriant's adoption of the SDN principles will also be provided.
Bio:João Santos received the Licenciatura and Ph.D. degrees from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, in 2006 and 2014, respectively. Since 2012, he is a System Architect at Coriant Portugal where he first worked on planning tools and is currently the responsible for the design of the path computation element within the software-defined networking solution for optical transport networks. His main research interests include multi-layer networks, SDN architectures, routing algorithms, and optimization methods. He authored more than 30 publications in conferences and journals on optical networking topics.
Rui Carmo - Microsoft
SDN at Hyperscale - Azure networking services for modern infrastructure (download)Abstract:
Overview of Microsoft´s global WAN and datacenter infrastructure, core SDN services provided by Azure for conventional virtualization workloads and the challenges involved in mapping traditional networking concepts onto containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
Bio:Rui Carmo is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, working exclusively on Azure cloud solutions spanning networking, modern infrastructure (serverless and containers) and advanced analytics. He has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry (in both global and national telcos), holds an engineering degree in Information Systems and Computer Engineering by Instituto Superior Técnico (grad. 1994) and several industry certifications. He can be found online at http://carmo.io
Rui Aguiar - IT/UA
Current Challenges on SDN Research (download)Abstract:
The presentation will discuss the mechanisms that lead to the current SDN concepts, and will highlight the multiple challenges that remain to be addressed in order to move from an academic concept into a widely accepted technology. Most of the discussion will be centered on the future visions of SDN for cellular networks, in particular the future 5G networks. Visionary aspects as the dynamic instantiation of telecom slices will also be addressed.
Bio:Rui L. Aguiar received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2001 from the University of Aveiro. He is currently a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, responsible for the networking area, and has been previously an adjunct professor at the INI, Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Visiting Research Scholar at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil. He is coordinating a research line nationwide in Instituto de Telecomunicações, on the area of Networks and Multimedia. He is leading the Technological Platform on Connected Communities, a regional cross-disciplinary industry-oriented activity on smart environments and is the current Chair of the steering board of the European Networld2020.
José Palma - Altice Portugal
Software Defined Operator (download)Abstract:
Software defined network (SDN) is an emerging network architecture where control plane is decoupled from forwarding plane. With SDN, the separated control plane resides on a centralized controller that sees and knows all about the network. SDN has been adopted by ICT industry as the solution for solving complexity, achieving network flexibility and service agility. This presentation will analyze SDN's architecture in an operator's view, for Altice Portugal, and discuss SDN applications for telecom networks and its influence for the future of ICT industry.
Bio:José Lampreia Palma is a senior networking engineer for Altice Portugal, where he heads the Core Network Strategy Unit. In his role he provides definition of architectures and strategic orientations for Core Network´s technologies.
José Lampreia Palma has accumulated more than twenty years on ICT, engineering and telecommunications experience, with broad organization and technologies Operator’s overview. He has more than six years experience on Telco Cloud virtualization technologies, evangelizing and paving the way for Software Defined Operator transformation, and persuading business efficiency and agility.
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