Podcasts by OVS Orbit

Sneak Preview: VMware Research High Bits, with Lalith Suresh from VMware Research from 2021-07-16T23:33:08

VMware Research High Bits is a podcast coming soon from VMware's research group. This episode is a sneak preview of episode 1, with Lalith Suresh.Lalith is a researcher in the VMware Rese...

Sneak Preview: VMware Research High Bits, with Lalith Suresh from VMware Research from 2021-07-16T23:33:08

VMware Research High Bits is a podcast coming soon from VMware's research group. This episode is a sneak preview of episode 1, with Lalith Suresh.Lalith is a researcher in the VMware Rese...

Sneak Preview: VMware Research High Bits, with Lalith Suresh from VMware Research from 2021-07-16T23:33:08

VMware Research High Bits is a podcast coming soon from VMware's research group. This episode is a sneak preview of episode 1, with Lalith Suresh.Lalith is a researcher in the VMware Rese...

The Systems Approach, with Bruce Davie, Larry Peterson, and Mark Twain from 2021-04-01T00:00

Bruce Davie and Larry Peterson are the authors of theSystems Approachseries of computer networking textbooks. Mark Twain has been called the...

Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, with Bruce Davie and Larry Peterson from 2021-03-16T00:59:30

Bruce Davie and Larry Peterson talk about theirSystems Approachseries of books on computer networking. These books began with the textbook Listen

The OVSDB Query Optimizer and Key-Value Interface, with Dmitry Yusupov from NVIDIA from 2021-02-27T02:47:19

Dmitry Yusupov submitted a talk to the Open vSwitch 2020 Fall Conference that we weren't able to fit into the schedule. This podcast, recorded inDecember 2020, is based on the material th...

Network Service Mesh, with Frederick Kautz and Nikolay Nikolaev from 2019-09-01T12:00

Frederick Kautz and Nikolay Nikolaev are developers on theNetwork Service Meshproject, which provides additional networking features for Kubern...

Long-Term Network Latency, with Nick Buraglio from ESnet from 2019-07-25T12:00

Nick Buraglio works in research and education and service provider networking, currently atESnet, the US Department of Energy's science network, which li...

User-Configurable Protocol Support for OVS, or Why Doesn't OVS Support P4? from 2019-06-03T12:00

There are several challenges toward making it easy for users to add support for new protocols in OVS or, equivalently, adding P4 support toOVS. This talk, given at the Dagstuhl seminar on...

The Faucet Controller at SC18, with Brad Cowie and Richard Sanger from University of Waikato from 2019-05-01T12:00

Brad Cowie and Richard Sanger are members of theWAND Network Research Groupat theUniversity of Waikato, in Hamilton, ...

The Discrepancy of the Megaflow Cache in OVS, with Levente Csikor and Gabor Retvari from Budapest University of Technology and Economics from 2019-04-01T19:07:53

Levente Csikor and Gabor Retvari from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics present their talk “The Discrepancy of theMegaflow Cache in OVS” at the Open vSwitch Fall Conferen...

OVS Hardware Offload, with Simon Horman from Netronome from 2019-03-01T00:00

Simon Horman has been an Open vSwitch contributor and committer since 2010. He currently works for Netronome, where his Open vSwitch workcenters around hardware offload using the" Listen

Encrypting OVN Tunnels with IPsec, with Qiuyu Xiao from UNC-Chapel Hill from 2019-02-01T00:00

Qiuyu Xiao is a Ph.D. student in the department of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During the summer of2018, he was an intern in the Open vSwitch team...

Introduction to OVSDB, Part 2 from 2019-01-01T00:00

This episode, recorded in April 2018, was the third in a series of internal VMware tech talks about Open vSwitch. This episode isparticularly about OVSDB, the Open vSwitch Database, and p...

Personalized Pseudonyms for Servers in the Cloud, with Qiuyu Xiao from UNC-Chapel Hill from 2018-08-29T14:01:03

Qiuyu Xiao is a PhD student studying computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This episode is a talk that Qiuyu gaveat VMware in May. It is based on the paper...

Generic Linux Debugging, with Ansis Atteka from VMware from 2018-08-29T13:44:06

Ansis Atteka is a developer on the Open vSwitch team at VMware. This episode is a recording of a talk that Ansis gave at VMware in May. Hecovers techniques for debugging on Linux, in par...

Networking with OVS at DigitalOcean, with Matt Layher and Armando Migliaccio from DigitalOcean from 2018-08-18T22:54:50

Matt LayherandArmando Migliaccioare engineers focusing on networking atListen

Oko: Extending Open vSwitch with Stateful Filters, with Paul Chaignon from Orange Labs and Inria Nancy from 2018-08-17T18:37:31

Paul Chaignon is a grad student at Orange and Inria. In this episode, Paul talks aboutOko: Extending Open vSwitch with Stateful ...

Incremental Processing with ovn-controller, with Han Zhou from eBay from 2018-05-23T03:46:04

Han Zhou is an architect working on highly scalable and reliable SDN solutions for eBay's cloud infrastructure. He is an active contributorin OpenStack and OVS/OVN. Before eBay, he has b...

Toward Leaner, Faster ovn-northd, with Leonid Ryzhyk from VMware Research Group from 2018-05-22T20:37:16

Leonid Ryzhyk is a senior researcher in the VMware Research Group. The main theme of his work is applying formal methods to build betteroperating systems and networks. Before joining VMw...

OpenFaaS, with Alex Ellis from VMware from 2018-05-17T02:29:41

Alex Ellis founded and leads theOpenFaaS project, which is an open source implementation of aListen

Flow Translation from 2018-04-29T15:57:08

This is the third in a series of Open vSwitch tech talks that we are starting to run internally at VMwareevery week or two. This episode is about flow translation, the process that ...

Introduction to OVSDB from 2018-04-07T21:22:32

This is the second in a series of Open vSwitch tech talks that we are starting to run internally at VMware every week or two. This episode isparticularly about OVSDB, the Open vSwitch Dat...

RCU in Open vSwitch Userspace from 2018-04-07T21:01:08

This is the first in a series of Open vSwitch tech talks that we are starting to run internally at VMware every week or two. This episode isparticularly aboutListen

Ten Years of Open vSwitch Success and Failure from 2018-04-07T18:50:15

This is a talk that I gave at an internal VMware event called"Open Source Day" in February. I prepared it as a kind of internal recognition of the ACM SOSR conference Listen

Enterprise SDN, with Greg Ferro from Packet Pushers from 2018-03-01T04:34:53

Greg Ferrois one of thePacket Pushers, a host of much more popular podcasts than this one. Greg's bio ...

Network Stack as a Service, with Henry Xu from City University of Hong Kong from 2018-02-15T04:00:05

Henry Xuis an assistant professor in thecomputer science departmentat theListen

Hardware Acceleration on NICs, with Andy Gospodarek from Broadcom from 2018-01-31T04:09:38

This episode features Andy Gospodarek, a Principal Engineer at Broadcom, where he works as a software architect on the NICs team. This interview,recorded at the DPDK summit in San Jose on...

Open Compute Project Networking, with Andrew"Puck"Ruthven from Catalyst IT from 2018-01-11T11:18:17

Andrew Ruthven, aka “Puck”, is a Data Centre Manager atCatalyst IT, a New Zealand open source specialist IT company whose services include operat...

What's New in OVN 2.8, with Ben Pfaff from VMware from 2017-12-15T18:12:59

This is a recording of a talk given by Ben Pfaff at the OpenStack Summit in Sydney on Monday, Nov. 6, with the follow abstract:

The Open vSwitch (OVS) community recently rel...

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Routing a Production Enterprise Network with Faucet, with Brad Cowie from WAND from 2017-11-30T21:26:10

Brad Cowieis a member of theWAND Network Research Groupat theUniversity of Waikato Listen

In-band Network Telemetry, with Chang Kim from Barefoot Networks from 2017-11-16T04:43:46

Chang Kim is an engineer atBarefoot Networks, where he has been intimately involved in the design of theP4domain-sp...

Faucet and OpenFlow at Allied Telesis, with Tony Van der Peet from 2017-10-31T03:24:41

Tony van der Peet is Chief Architect at Allied Telesis. In this episode, he speaks about using OpenFlow on Allied Telesis networking hardware forenterprise SDN.

The Allied Telesis i...

Cocoon-2, with Leonid Ryzhyk from VMware Research from 2017-10-24T02:18:39

Leonid Ryzhykis a senior researcher at VMware Research in Palo Alto. He focuses on applying formal methods to imp...

Fuzzing Frameworks, with Bhargava Shastry from TU Berlin from 2017-10-03T05:08:03

Bhargava Shastryis a Ph.D. student in theListen

FlowFuzz, with Nicholas Gray and Thomas Zinner from University of Würzburg from 2017-09-22T02:58:21

Nicholas Gray is a PhD student at the University of Würzburg, Germany, where he also completed his Master's thesis in 2015. His researchinterests include SDN/NFV architectures and their i...

DPDK Introduction, with Harry van Haaren and Dave Hunt from Intel from 2017-09-01T03:50:56

Dave and Harry are developers who work at Intel onDPDK, the Data Plane Development Kit, which is a library for high-performance packet processing in userspace...

OpenStack Cyborg, with Howard (Zhipeng) Huang from Huawei from 2017-08-20T19:07:31

Howard is an IT standards engineer at Huawei. He has been working on open source for about 6 years and attended the early Open vSwitchconferences, including the earliest one held at Cisco...

BigBug: Practical Concurrency Analysis for SDN, with Ahmed El-Hassany from ETH Zürich from 2017-08-01T03:35:23

Ahmed El-Hassany is a second-year Ph.D. student at ETH Zürich, who researches ways to make networks more programmable and to verify thecorrectness of programmable networks. I caught up wi...

Control and Management Plane for IO Modules, with Fulvio Risso from Politecnico di Torino from 2017-07-09T18:27:21

Fulvio Risso is an associate professor at Politecnico di Torino in Turin, Italy. His research is in the area of high-speed (10+ Gbps) packetprocessing and especially in programmable netwo...

New Approach to OVN Datapath Performance, with Jun Xiao from CloudNetEngine from 2017-06-12T05:26:12

Jun Xiao is the founder and CTO of CloudNetEngine, which is focused on innovating a next generation “engine” for cloud virtual networking. Hehas over 15 years experience in VMware, Huawei...

Baker: Scaling OVN with Kubernetes API Server, with Han Zhou from eBay from 2017-06-11T22:34

Han Zhou is an architect working on highly scalable and reliable SDN solutions for eBay's cloud infrastructure. He is an active contributorin OpenStack and OVS/OVN. Before eBay, he has b...

OVN Support for Multiple Gateways and IPv6, with Russell Bryant and Numan Siddique from Red Hat from 2017-06-11T18:17:01

Russell Bryant is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. He was on the OpenStack Technical Committee from Fall 2012 until Fall2016 and was elected to serve on the OpenStack ...

OpenStack Performance with OVS-DPDK for NFV and Connection Tracking, with Sugesh Chandran and Bhanuprakash Bodireddy from Intel from 2017-06-11T17:54:07

Sugesh Chandran is a network software engineer with Intel. His work is primarily focused on accelerated software switching solutions in userspace running on Intel architecture. His contr...

Lightning Talks, with Joe Stringer from VMware and Yusuke Tatsumi from Yahoo! JAPAN from 2017-05-20T22:05:25

This episode is a series of 3 lightning talks given at OpenStack Boston during the Open vSwitch Open Source Day on May 10.

The first speaker is Joe Stringer, a developer at VMware wh...

Deploying OVN on Windows with OpenStack and Kubernetes, with Alessandro Pilotti and Alin Balutoiu from Cloudbase Solutions from 2017-05-15T04:33:31

Alessandro is CTO of Cloudbase Solutions, a company focused on cloud computing interoperability and the main contributor of all the OpenStackWindows and Hyper-V components in Nova, Neutron...

NetBricks: Taking the V out of NFV, with A. Panda from Berkeley from 2017-05-13T23:49:31

Panda is a PhD candidate in the computer science department at the University of California, Berkeley. In this episode, we discuss thepaper “Listen

NEAt: Network Error Auto-Correct, with Bingzhe Liu from 2017-05-01T04:07:26

Bingzhe Liu is a first-year PhD student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this episode, we discuss the paper “Listen

DevPulseCon, with Rupa Dachere from VMware from 2017-04-07T05:04:25

This episode's guest is Rupa Dachere, an engineer at VMware and the executive director and founder ofCodeChix, a 501(c)3 charity dedicated to educa...

OVSDB Configuration for Hardware VTEPs, with Chandra Appanna from Arista and Bruce Davie from VMware from 2017-03-31T15:54:26

This episode's guests are Bruce Davie, a vice president CTO for APJ at VMware, and Chandra Appanna, an engineer and manager at Arista, who aretwo of the designers of the Open vSwitch datab...

DragonFlow, with Omer Anson from Huawei from 2017-03-16T02:28:07

Omer Anson is a software developer at Huawei. I caught up with him at OpenStack Barcelona back in October to talk about theDragonflow<...

The Evolution of OpenFlow, with Jean Tourrilhes from HPE Labs and Justin Pettit from VMware from 2017-03-02T02:53:05

Jean Tourrilhes is a networking researcher at HPE Labs who served as the chair of the Open Networking Foundation's OpenFlow standardizationworking group (the “extensibility” working group)...

Trumpet: Timely and Precise Triggers in Data Center Networks, with Minlan Yu from Yale from 2017-02-16T03:01:04

Minlan Yuis an associate professor of computer science at Yale and before that at USC.She works in several areas that are relevant to ...

Software Synthesis for Networks, with Nate Foster from Cornell from 2017-01-29T18:08:13

Nate Foster is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and a Visiting Researcher at Barefoot Networks. The goal ofhis research is developing programming languages ...

The IO Visor Project, with Brenden Blanco from VMware from 2017-01-16T17:56:21

Brenden Blanco is one of the most prolific developers working on theIO Visor Project, aLinux Foundation ...

Benefits of Intent Based Interfaces to IT Infrastructure and Design Problems for Deploying at Scale, with Dave Lenrow from Huawei from 2016-12-24T21:43:06

This episode is a recording of a talk that Dave Lenrow gave at theStanford Platform Lab Fall Seminaron Dec. 6. Dave is...

Container Integration with OVS, with Gurucharan Shetty from VMware from 2016-12-13T05:10:08

Guru Shetty has been working at VMware, and before that at Nicira, since about 2011. Guru has done a lot of work to integrate Open vSwitch withvarious platforms. This episode is a conver...

Protocol-Independent FIB Architecture, with Ryo Nakamura from University of Tokyo from 2016-11-29T05:43:43

Ryo Nakamurais a PhD student at The University of Tokyo, studying IP networking, overlaynetworking, and network operation. This episode is a r...

The Faucet SDN Controller, with Josh Bailey from Google and Shivaram Mysore from ONF from 2016-11-13T22:48:19

Faucet is an open source SDN controller developed by a community that includes engineers at Google's New Zealand office, the Open NetworkingFoundation (ONF), and others. This episode is a...

OVN Launch, with Russell Bryant from Red Hat from 2016-10-28T22:28:03

OVN is a network virtualization system that has been under development as part of the Open vSwitch project over about the last two years. On thispodcast, Ben Pfaff and Russell Bryant, two...

Debugging OpenStack Problems using a State Graph Approach, with Yong Xiang from Tsinghua University from 2016-10-13T14:22:16

Yong Xiang is a PhD student at Tsinghua University. This episode is a recording of his talk duringAPSys 2016, the Asia-Paci...

Tunneling and Encapsulation, with Jesse Gross from VMware from 2016-09-26T04:10:59

Tunneling and encapsulation, with protocols from GRE to Geneve, have been a key part of Open vSwitch since the early days. Jesse Gross, an earlyemployee at Nicira and major contributor to...

Lagopus, with Yoshihiro Nakajima from NTT from 2016-09-10T17:23:32

Lagopusis a high-performance, open source software switch, primarily for DPDK on Linux, developed at NTT inits Network Innovation Laboratories researc...

Converging Approaches to Software Switches from 2016-08-28T20:32:40

On Aug. 4 and 5, I attendedAPSys 2016, the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems. This episode is my own “industrytalk” from APSys, ti...

Time Capsule, with Jia Rao and Kun Suo from University of Texas at Arlington from 2016-08-20T03:05:27

On Aug. 4 and 5, I attendedAPSys 2016, the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems. I was impressed with how many of thepapers presented...

Open vSwitch Joins Linux Foundation from 2016-08-10T23:18:56

On August 9,Open vSwitch joined the Linux Foundationas a Linux Fou...

P4 on the Edge, with John Fastabend from Intel from 2016-08-09T01:40:05

Interview with John Fastabend, an engineer at Intel whose work in the Linux kernel has focused on the scheduling core of the networking stackand Intel NIC drivers. John has also been invo...

SoftFlow, with Ethan Jackson from Berkeley from 2016-07-20T03:39:06

Interview withEthan Jackson, a PhD student at Berkeley advised by Scott Shenker. Before Berkeley, Ethan worked onOpen vSwitch as an employee at Nicira Network...

Mininet, with Bob Lantz and Brian O'Connor from ON.LAB from 2016-06-18T03:19:11

Interview with Bob Lantz and Brian O'Connor ofON.LAB, aboutMininetsoftware for simulating networks.

Bob previously gave a t...

The OVS Development Process, with Kyle Mestery from IBM from 2016-06-11T19:59:35

Interview with Kyle Mestery, a Distinguished Engineer at IBM who has been involved with Open vSwitch since about 2012, about the Open vSwitchdevelopment process. Our conversation was base...

sFlow, with Peter Phaal from InMon from 2016-06-02T06:39:51

Interview with Peter Phaal ofInMon, aboutsFlowmonitoring and how it is used with Open vSwitch. In summary, an ...

nlog, with Teemu Koponen from Styra and Yusheng Wang from VMware from 2016-05-26T01:05:53

Interview with Teemu Koponen ofStyraand Yusheng Wang ofVMware, about the nlog language.

nlog, in this context...

Cilium, with Thomas Graf from Cisco from 2016-05-21T06:22:29

Interview with Thomas Graf of Cisco, regarding the Cilium project.

Cilium is a “science project” that Thomas and others at Cisco and elsewhere are hacking on, to address the question...

OVS in Production, with Chad Norgan from Rackspace from 2016-05-08T21:25:52

Interview with Chad Norgan of Rackspace, about use of Open vSwitch at Rackspace over the years.

Topics include:

• Chad's role at Rackspace and what he spends his time on. Listen

OPNFV and OVS, with Dave Neary from Red Hat from 2016-05-04T05:55:44

Interview with Dave Neary of Red Hat, concerning OPNFV and its relationship with Open vSwitch.

Topics include:

• The difference between SFC and NFV.
• Importance perfo...
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