Sydney
November 6-8, 2017

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A slimmer, thinner, lightweight OpenStack – why it is needed for the success of Edge Cloud?
Telecom & NFV

Telecommunication industry traditionally deployed OpenStack in a datacenter or central office. Advent of 5G, IoT, Augment Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and universal Customer Premise Equipment (uCPE) requires applications processing closer to the customer, i.e., at the edge.

Edge brings up additional use cases that were not originally addressed by OpenStack hosted at the traditional datacenter deployments. The additional use cases include thin deployments (2-3 servers), 10K small to medium sites, zero touch provisioning, support of GPU and other special video processing hardware, complete software defined storage, single pane view of all logs and events, etc.,

We have explored several architecture options to run OpenStack at the Edge, including running OpenStack as containers, a regional controller, etc. OpenStack needs to be modified to extend it to run efficiently at the edge.

In this talk we will share our insights of deploying OpenStack at the edge.


What can I expect to learn?
  • Use of special hardware or no special hardware at the edge?
  • What are the real use cases of edge from 5G, IoT, AR, VR, etc.?
  • Container versus virtual machines at the Edge, what make sense from business and economic aspects?
  • Architecture recommendation to the OpenStack in support of Edge requirements.
Tuesday, November 7, 5:00pm-5:40pm (6:00am - 6:40am UTC)
Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre - Level 2 - Pyrmont Theatre
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Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Tags: Telecom CI/CD Infra Container Management Container Orchestration Magnum Orchestration
Haseeb Akhtar
Principal Solutions Consultant, Ericsson
20+ years of experience spanned across various roles within the research and product development of telecommunication systems, with a special concentration on wireless and packet based networks. In depth knowledge of IETF (TCP/UDP, IP, LDAP, SIP, SNMP, RTP/RTCP, IPSec, Mobile IP, Radius/Diameter etc.), wireless (TDMA, CDPD, CDMA, 1XRTT, GPRS, UMTS, WiMAX, LTE, 802.11x based WLAN etc.) and... FULL PROFILE
Gnanavelkandan Kathirvel
AT&T, Lead System Architect
Kandan Kathirvel is Director at AT&T and responsible for AT&T's Cloud Strategy and Architecture. Kandan is the TSC-Chair at Akraino Edge Stack, Linux Foundation. Kandan served on the OpenStack board of directors from 2017 to 2018. Kandan leads AT&T’s technology efforts around Edge Computing, NFV, and SDN. Kandan has led several opensource initiatives, and a big Open Source... FULL PROFILE
Christopher Price
President, Ericsson Software Technology
Chris works with open source industry collaboration and development across projects, foundations and industry segments.  He is passionate about open technology and works toward finding the balance in corporate objecives and community needs through open source technologies. FULL PROFILE