Speaker: Guru Parulkar, Professor, Stanford & Founder/Executive Director of ON.Lab, USA
Title: CORD: Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter
Abstract:
CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter, http://opencord.org) combines NFV, SDN, and the elasticity of commodity clouds to bring datacenter economics and cloud agility to the Telco Central Office. CORD lets the operator manage their Central Offices using declarative modeling languages for agile, real-time configuration of new customer services. CORD leverages all OCP hardware and merchant silicon and white boxes for CO fabric, servers, and access; open source platforms such as OpenStack, Docker, ONOS, and XOS; and a set of open and closed services. Major service providers like AT&T, SK Telecom, Verizon, China Unicom and NTT Communications and a long list of vendors and systems integrators are already supporting CORD.
The CORD partnership has created and demonstrated three versions of CORD: (1) Residential-CORD for residential customers over GPON (2) Mobile-CORD for mobile customers with disaggregated and virtualized RAN and EPC and mobile edge computing; and (3) Enterprise-CORD to support enterprise customers with MEF and SD-WAN services including virtual network on demand. The CORD partnership plans to create and support open reference implementation of [R,E,M]CORD for the community to use and build on.
The talk will provide an overview of CORD, its progress so far and the future plans.
Bio:
Guru Parulkar is Executive Director of Open Networking Research Center, Executive Director of Open Networking Lab, and Consulting Professor of EE at Stanford University.
Guru has been in the field of networking for over 25 years. He joined Stanford in 2007 as Executive Director of its Clean Slate Internet Design Program. At Stanford Guru helped create three programs: OpenFlow / Software-Defined Networking, Programmable Open Mobile Internet 2020, and Stanford Experimental Data Center Laboratory.
Prior to Stanford, Guru spent four years at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and worked with the broader research community to create programs such as GENI, Future Internet Design, and Network of Sensor Systems. Guru received NSF Director’s award for Program Management excellence.
Before NSF Guru founded several startups including Growth Networks (acquired by Cisco) and Sceos (IPO’d as Ruckus Wireless). Guru served as Entrepreneur in Residence at NEA in 2001 and received NEA’s Entrepreneurship Award.
Prior to this Guru spent over 12 years at Washington University in St. Louis where he was a Professor of Computer Science, Director of Applied Research Laboratory and the head of research and prototyping of high performance networking and multimedia systems.
Guru received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Delaware in 1987. Guru is a recipient of the Alumni Outstanding Achievement award and the Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Achievement award.