This sesseion will consist of 4 talks as listed below.
1 - Carlos Cardenas, UTSA will lead the discussion on the following
Network specification
ONIE
How to adopt this further with vendors?
Potential governance of spec?
Test suite(s)
NOS (Network Operating System)
Shared requirements?
Configuration Management
How do users manage NOS configs?
Chef, Puppet, Ansible?
Real-time data monitoring
What’s needed from the HW?
What should the consumable interface look like?
Network testing (and potentially certification)
What should be included?
HW
L2/L3 forwarding packets per second
Frame size support
Full mesh vs partial
SFP/SFP+/QSFP+ cable inter-operability
SW
Number of BGP sessions
Re-Convergence times
2 - Accton product submission to Open Compute Networking group - Jeff Catlin
3 - Updates on Open Network Linux Project - Rob Sherwood
4 - Open Network Install Environment - Project Status - Curt Brune, Cumulus
The Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) is an open source initiative that defines an open install environment for bare metal network switches. ONIE enables a bare metal switch ecosystem where end users have a choice among different network operating systems.
If you are deploying bare metal network switches learn how ONIE can help you manage your network OS deployments and switch inventory.
This will be a working session where we discuss the current status of the ONIE project and work on the following: