Description: The perimeter has disappeared. Apps are either born in the cloud, or moving there fast. And here in 2020, we now see massive work from home. Secure communications, specifically using IPsec, are more important than ever. But as connection counts and speeds rise, networking costs become budget busters. Major breakthroughs in software-based packet processing, specifically VPP, have shattered previously limited economics. This webinar sheds light on how VPP does what it does, the remarkable results it achieves, in both performance and price-performance.

Description: The End User Advisory Group (EUAG) was created by LF Networking (LFN) to share views, challenges, and best practices between user organizations; highlighting new areas of opportunity for the developer community. As the voice of the end user, the EUAG supports the vision of ONAP and its adoption in the industry as well as contributes use cases and requirements to the project that deliver maximum value to the industry as a whole. The EUAG’s ONAP working group recently produced a survey and whitepaper, sharing views on the most important considerations, opportunities, and impediments towards a seamless end user adoption of ONAP. This webinar will cover the key considerations for consumption aspects of ONAP—what are the challenges, key concerns, models and references—as well as the opportunities for CSPs looking at projects like ONAP.

Register here. 

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• August 20, 2020, 8:00 AM PT | Evolution of the Cloud Infrastructure Reference Model and its Applications | Walter Kozlowski, Telstra & Tomas Fredberg, Ericsson | Learn More & Register

• September 2, 2020, 7:00 AM PT | CSPs Explore ONAP Consumption Models | Lei Huang, China Mobile Research Institute; Javier Ger, Telecom Argentina  | Learn More & Register

• September 17, 2020, 9:00 AM PT | FD.io’s VPP Smashes the Barrier to Wide Scale Adoption of Inexpensive High-Performance IPsec | Audian Paxson & Neal Hartsell, Netgate  | Learn More & Register [Note: This webinar registration uses the Linux Foundation’s Single Sign On (SSO). Learn more here.]

More webinars are added regularly to the LFN website here so check back often. Have an idea for an LFN Webinar? Read the LFN Webinar Guidelines  and fill out the Webinar Submission Form.

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LFN Communities:

The Cloud iNFrastructure Telco Taskforce (CNTT) has recently launched some new initiatives, including a Kubernetes based workstream and Cloud Native OVP badging, to help bring focus on cloud native network functions (CNF) and Kubernetes based platforms. A working group within RA-2 has kicked off a short survey to collect data on Kubernetes adoption in telecom. LFN communities are encouraged to contribute to the knowledge pool by taking the survey by August 31. This will help inform the importance and the required timeline of the CNTT Workstream 2. Please direct feedback/questions to the CNTT project lead, Bill Mulligan (bill@...). Thank you!

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July 7, 2020 | Why Edge Computing Requires Cloud Native Thinking | Bill Mulligan, Kubermatic | Learn More & Register

July 16, 2020 | Building CNFs with FD.io VPP and Network Service Mesh + VPP traceability in cloud-native deployments | Milan Lenčo & Pavel Kotúček, PANTHEON.tech | Learn More & Register

See all upcoming LFN webinars as well as past webinars available on demand here:

LFN members interested in hosting a webinar should read the guidelines and fill in the webinar submission form. 

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LF Communities:

For the second year, LF Networking staff have pulled together an LFN Operations Survey, AKA "staff survey of the community." The goal is to solicit feedback from LFN community members to learn how you are engaging with projects, what you are experiencing, what the challenges are, and how the LFN staff can better support you. Your feedback is very important so please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us. Responses are due by Friday, July 24th. 

Take the Survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KGZNK5Z

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As our physical event shifts to a virtual one, know that we are taking thoughtful actions to create an immersive digital experience that provides attendees with interactive content and collaboration experiences. Attendees will have the ability to network with other attendees, attend presentations with live Q&A, interact with sponsors real time and much more -- all virtually, from anywhere. 

We have now reached out to all event sponsors and regoistants, so if this applies to you, please look for this email. Thanks for your patience while we have continued to navigate through this fluid situation. While we are saddened to have to transition another face to face meeting, we do think we’ll be able to replicate a lot of the experience and we’re looking forward to giving the networking & edge communities a new forum in which to collaborate and grow.

After giving this some thought, we've decided to move forward with a cancellation of Open Networking & Edge Summit Europe this year entirely.

We'll have more information to share about the event format and structure down the road. In the meantime, if you have any ONES questions, please direct them to: events@....

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CNTT's "Baldy" release was announced on yesterday's webinar: The Cloud iNfrastructure Telco Taskforce (CNTT): What’s New? What’s Coming Up? If you missed the live webinar, you can view the on-demand version here.

We also published the following new assets on LFN.org and encourage you to catch up on the latest developments, see where this initiative is headed, and help spread the word:

Thanks to those who have joined us for the past 3 LFN Webinars. If you've missed any of them, you can access the on-demand versions here (at the bottom of the page). Attendance and participation from the community and the ecosystem at large have been phenomenal.

We wanted to let you know that the next webinar will be on the CNTT initiative and cover the latest "Baldy" release: The Cloud iNfrastructure Telco Taskforce (CNTT): What's New? What's Coming Up? and will take place next Wednesday, May 27th, 9:00 AM PT. Speakers will be Rabi Abdel, Voadafone and Bob Monkman, Intel. Learn more and register.

You can see other upcoming and pending webinar topics here. Topics are added frequently so check back often. Have a webinar idea? Please review the guidelines document and submit your topic.

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We wanted to make sure that you had the new format and dates for the upcoming LFN Developer & Testing Forum on your radar. The event was originally planned for the first week of June but has now been scheduled for June 22 - 25. Like the LFN Technical Meetings in April, this will be a virtual event.

As the principal technical event for the LF Networking projects, this bi-annual gathering provides the opportunity for each participating community to advance their project roadmaps and explore cross-community collaboration and integration points. The CNTT/OPNFV, ONAP, OpenDaylight, and Tungsten Fabric communities have confirmed their participation. Registration is required and we encourage you to register early. Please learn more and register at the links below and let us know directly if you have any questions or feedback. Thank you!