2018 March LFN Developer Forum

This is a developer-focused event that takes place prior to the Open Networking Summit kick-off.  There will be a mix of plenary sessions plus opportunities for breakout meetings/hacking (aka unconference) in several rooms for each LFN projects (e.g. fd.io, ODL, ONAP, OPNFV, etc.)  

• Date: March 26-27, 2018

• Location: Intercontinental Los Angeles Downtown

Possible Tracks

• Container networking: 

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  • Using container technologies for building applications, deployment, testing, etc. 

  • Cloud native development

  • Working in heterogeneous environment with containers and VMs

  • Acceleration in packet processing

• Cross-community CI/Lab infrastructure: 

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  • Cross community effort to shorten development & feedback cycles 

  • Tooling for streamlined XCI

  • Lab infrastructure/resource available for LFN projects

• Integrated testing: 

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  • Opportunities for streamlining/removing duplicate testing efforts across LFN projects

  • Analyzing test results 

  • Long-duration/stress testing and other frontiers 

  • Security testing

  • Performance Improvements & Benchmarking results

• Standards & Open Source: 

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  • How open source projects can work more effectively with standards organizations (e.g. ETSI, MEF, IETF, etc.) to address new industry challenges

  • Complementing each parties' (i.e. open source projects' & SDO's) strengths

  • Feedback mechanism between open source projects & SDO's

• VNFs: 

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  • Onboarding and deployment

  • Lifecycle management

  • Testing VNFs

  • Acceleration in packet processing