Network slicing is one of the significant topics in the 5G era to fulfill various use cases. QCT joins this collaboration development to make network slicing use cases coming true. During this session, QCT talks about the contribution and how these features play the key roles in this use case. At the same time, we address QCT’s planning on 5G and the role of ONAP.

This session delivers suggestion for further development on extending the network slicing use case. QCT works with communities and operators to integrate the network slicing feature with ORAN-based 5G NR solution to have the end to end network slicing integration. Lastly, QCT’s accomplishment on integrating ML-model into the ONAP framework to provide the predictive automation mechanism based on AI models.

Karl Chiang is the software developing team lead in QCT. He focuses on the architecture design and the software development on ONAP, MANO, AI, telemetry system on the NFV environment, and the management portal. He worked on cloud-based software development at his previous job which provides the cloud infrastructure management system, distributed storage system, Android cloud file system, and the EFSS solution. Karl is also a professional in the development of enterprise storage systems. He leads the teams to deliver the first RAID system in Quanta.

This session will demonstrate how the system comprehensively collects different data from NFV architecture components, including hardware, NFVI, and VNFs. It provides a methodology to train the prediction model of resource allocation through deep learning via workload, software, and hardware performance metrics. Through the trained model, the MANO system coordinates the resource allocation of VNF/NFVI/Hardware to achieve power management on demand.
This session ends with demonstrating a real use case. In the case, MANO makes decision via the trained model to adjust the frequency of the server CPU, closing the program, or further temporarily turn off the server to save energy.

Kate Hsuan is a Ph. D. in computer science. She was a principal software engineer of Delta Electronic Inc. and Hopebay technology Inc. and developed products covering bare metal management, Ceph storage, and OpenStack from 2011 to 2017. Moreover, in Delta Electronics Inc. she developed a physical machine management system that can automatically orchestrate and deploy the physical machines for Delta BMCless OCP racks. Currently, she is a technical manager of QCT. She focuses on software development of ONAP, MANO, and 5G services.

To deliver on its promise of ultra-low latency and a high volume of connectivity, 5G uses a large number of Edge Datacenters located close to the market they serve. Agile, composable infrastructures are must-haves in such Edge Centers that can cater to changing customer demands from evolving 5G/IoT use-cases. If you are deploying or managing such a 5G infrastructure, how do you secure your Edge Infrastructure and make sure it is not compromised? How do you ensure that your VNFs (virtual network functions) are getting deployed on a secure platform? What are your options for remediation if one of your Edge Infrastructures are compromised? Attend this session to learn how you can leverage Quanta’s Edge Servers along with AMI Composer to solve these questions.

Her work focuses on QCT NFVi solutions development and implementation, which includes Red Hat OpenStack, OpenShift, Service Assurance Framework, upstream Kubernetes. Michelle is also responsible for Cloud infrastructure architecture design with network topology design and Cloud-native service integration, as well as Service Assurance Framework development, data-plane performance evaluation for QCT NFVi.

To deliver on its promise of ultra-low latency and a high volume of connectivity, 5G uses a large number of Edge Datacenters located close to the market they serve. Agile, composable infrastructures are must-haves in such Edge Centers that can cater to changing customer demands from evolving 5G/IoT use-cases. If you are deploying or managing such a 5G infrastructure, how do you secure your Edge Infrastructure and make sure it is not compromised? How do you ensure that your VNFs (virtual network functions) are getting deployed on a secure platform? What are your options for remediation if one of your Edge Infrastructures are compromised? Attend this session to learn how you can leverage Quanta’s Edge Servers along with AMI Composer to solve these questions.

Technology executive with around 24 years of experience in providing engineering leadership, product development and product management. At AMI, Joseprabu oversees implementation of Manageability and Security Solutions for Telco infrastructure. In his previous roles, he was instrumental in creating several remote infrastructure management products from concept to completion, targeting Enterprise and Datacenter market. He has extensive experience collaborating with Fortune 100 customers, vendors and strategic partners. His diverse background covers technology leadership, setting product strategies, vendor management and process improvement. He was awarded around 25 patents across different technology areas like Platform Management, SDI, VDI and IOT. He holds two Master's degrees, one in Business Administration and another in Computer Applications.

This presentation will discuss how Open Source software is changing the landscape for Telecommunication Service Providers, citing examples of NFV, VNF, and CNFs on Red Hat OpenStack and Red Hat OpenShift.

Paul has been with Red Hat for over 6 years, working in the Cloud Platforms Business Unit with strategic partners in the Telecommunications ecosystem.

When deploying virtual functions/services at scale, network admins quickly realize the high CPU utilization and low overall performance. This poor performance is mainly attributed to the virtual switch – a logical switching entity usually built into the software infrastructure. The virtual switch is responsible for connecting Virtual Machines in a virtual network. At scale, and with increased data center traffic, this type of switching consumes precious CPU cycles. Mellanox ASAP2 - Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing® solution combines the performance and efficiency of server/storage networking hardware with the flexibility of virtual switching software. ASAP2 offers up to 10 times better performance than non-offloaded OVS solutions. This provides the NFVi & SDN with the highest total infrastructure efficiency, deployment flexibility and operational simplicity.

Gopan is Senior Director of Business Development for the Telecom Vertical @ Mellanox. He leads segment strategy, end user and eco system engagement and product/solution strategy for the Telecom Service Provider Market. Gopan has spend over 25 years in the hi-tech industry managing various portfolios from product management to services. Prior to Mellanox, Gopan used to work for Intel’s Datacenter groups Cloud Service Provider segment for EMEA and manage APAC DCG business. He also was responsible for the Intels industry engagements like Open Compute Project. Gopan holds a BE in Electronics Engineering from Cochin University.

With the emerging and diversified needs on 5G, the definition of new architecture of 5G SA Core Network only marks the beginning of architectural evolution. There are more challenges in designing and deploying the 5G SA Core to suit needs, e.g. edge computing, enterprise on-premise, cloud native. In additions, the virtualization architecture to provide flexibility to deploy, scale and manage plays important roles for 5G. We will explore those challenges in 5G SA Core in this talk and how QCT and ASTRI work together to address them.

Alex Mui is the Director of Network Software in ASTRI managing R&D on 5G core network and Smart Mobility. Alex has over 20 years of experience in communications software industry. He and his team are now focusing 5G core network R&D with considerations on how to enable new deployment models, including on-premise, distributed edge, and cloud based architectures. ASTRI is also working closely with operator and government agencies in realizing 5G based Smart City adoptions in Hong Kong.

Ensuring interoperability is critical for a multi-vendor ecosystem to be commercially viable, and the Open RAN ecosystem is no exception. The role of the systems integrator in these new open ecosystems is to integrate the software and white-box hardware to deliver a complete end-to-end solution. The Open Test and Integration Center (OTIC) initiative is focused on facilitating product readiness and interoperability for next-gen 5G wireless networks based on the O-RAN Alliance architecture, specifications, and interfaces. This presentation will provide lessons learned from a systems integrator that was tasked with ensuring end-to-end compliance with O-RAN specifications in a multi-vendor environment for the China Mobile plugfest held at OTIC-Beijing.

Rishi serves as a sr. product line manager for Radisys, focusing on the company’s mobility access technologies. Rishi works directly with the RAN eco-system & service providers to re-architect and move their networks to open software-centric architectures. He joined Radisys in 2009 and has held both engineering & product management positions. Rishi holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science.

Data centre costs are rising, with reports citing double digit growth over the next five years driven by increased demands for cloud-based services, IoT, analytics, and other factors. Taming these costs require cloud service providers to utilize their resources more efficiently by spinning workloads up and down in accordance with demand. Techniques such as elasticity and cloud bursting (placing loads on third-party clouds) can help cloud providers stabilize costs through higher efficiency and right sizing. This session examines how cloud providers can use automation in optimization use cases which would normally overwhelm manual processes due to the variety and scale of data centre applications. Coupled with advanced analytics, such automation can realize the efficiency goals and service guarantees of an intelligent cloud.

René is responsible for leading the launch of RIFT’s new products and evolution of existing products, to meet the needs of RIFT’s global customer base. René has over 20 years of experience in mobile and broadband data networks and has been directly involved in the successful placement of new, innovative products in Tier 1 Service Providers worldwide. Prior to his current role, René was Vice President of Product Management at Movik Networks (now part of Ribbon Communications) where he was responsible for leading Movik’s product strategy, and Senior Director of Product Management at Starent Networks where he was responsible for the GSM/UMTS, LTE, CDMA, and WiMAX packet core product portfolios. René has also held senior positions in product management and engineering at Redback Networks, Cisco Systems, and Nortel Networks.

Jason Hoffman, CEO MobiledgeX, describes the edge to help us understand how it is best to view the structure of the edge market, why it will exist in certain ways and with the build out of 5G, how it will co-exist across the actual merging of the two very different worlds of telecom and the internet, how and why and when and where. As an enterprise, what does edge mean to you? One definition of edge by the enterprise is that edge is everything that cannot be moved to public cloud and must stay on-premise. Everything that is location specific requires edge, if location of execution is not important then it does not have to be edge. Edge is the next evolution of cloud where it is enough if an evolutionary step that it is labeled as a new species. Hoffman introduces the new Seamster.io initiative that is focusing on identifying the most interesting edge use cases today, that have customers who want to buy now, why they want to buy and the best ways to solve the problem.

Jason Hoffman is President and CEO of MobiledgeX, where his decades of experience in telecommunications and cloud infrastructure have driven him to design the future of mobile edge services, applications, and devices. Jason is considered one of the architects of large scale cloud computing, having led the development of container technologies, asynchronous, high concurrency runtimes, and converged server, storage, and networking systems. For over a decade, he was CTO and Founder of pioneering IaaS and software provider Joyent (now owned by Samsung). Jason ran product, engineering, and operations launching the most popular asynchronous runtime (node.js), most secure KVM-based VMs, and the world’s first serverless and first container-as-a-service offering. Most recently, Jason was CTO for Digital Services at Ericsson, where he led a 30,000 person unit responsible for multinational cloud and datacenter infrastructure. Jason’s group led the market in the modernization of telecom infrastructure, creating the world’s first hyper-scale, disaggregated system.

Wind River will overview the StarlingX open source initiative which provides a geo-distributed, single cloud solution designed to host 5G vRAN functions such as vCU and vDU. The architecture supports a low OPEX and low CAPEX environment for hosting next generation wireless infrastructure, including significant technical differentiators to enable best in class 5G virtualization.

As Vice President of Industry Solutions at Wind River, Paul Miller is responsible for the company’s strategic vision and market support for solutions spanning the aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial, and telecommunications sectors. With more than 25 years of telecommunications and advanced applications technology leadership at both large companies and successful startups, he is currently focused on Wind River’s NFV and SDN enabled products for the carrier market.