Speakers
Vint Cerf
Keynote SpeakerVice President and
Chief Internet Evangelist
About Vint
Vinton G. Cerf has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services from Google. Cerf is the former senior vice president of Technology Strategy and Architecture and Technology for MCI. Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. The Turing award is sometimes called the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science.” In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens. In April 2008, Cerf and Kahn received the prestigious Japan Prize.
Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet. During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related packet data and security technologies. Cerf also holds an appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet.
Vinton Cerf served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007. Cerf also served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. In addition, Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and serves on several national, state and industry committees focused on cyber-security. Cerf sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, the Broadband for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Corporation, StopBadWare, the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel governing board and the Intaba Institute (for the Deaf). He serves on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Advisory Committee and serves as Chair of the Visitors Committee on Advanced Technology of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. He also serves as 1st Vice President and Treasurer of the National Science & Technology Medals Foundation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum, the Annenberg Center for Communications at USC, the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the National Medal of Science from Tunisia, the St. Cyril and St. Methodius Order (Grand Cross) of Bulgaria, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, the Kilby Award , the Rotary Club International Paul P. Harris Medal, the Joseph Priestley Award from Dickinson College, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award and the Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend medal. Cerf was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2006. He was made an Eminent Member of the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) honor society of the IEEE in 2009.
In December, 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People."
Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA and eighteen honorary degrees.
His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.
Bethany Mayer
Keynote SpeakerSenior VP and General Manager, Networking
Hewlett-Packard Company
About Bethany
Bethany Mayer is the senior vice president and general manager of the HP Networking business unit, which has grown12 consecutive quarters and delivers $2.5B in annual revenue for HP. In this role, she oversees the group’s worldwide business operations, with a focus on expanding its market share position as a leading networking supplier in the market. Prior to her general manager role, Bethany was responsible for worldwide marketing and alliances for Enterprise Business Group.
Bethany brings more than 25 years of experience in leading product management, marketing communications, operations and engineering from start-up companies to Fortune 500 corporations.
Bethany joined HP from Blue Coat, where she was senior vice president, worldwide marketing and corporate development. While at Blue Coat, Bethany’s marketing leadership moved the company to market share leader in Secure Web Gateway and WAN Optimization markets which drove Blue Coat’s revenue growth of more than 300% during her three-year tenure. She was also responsible for the acquisition of Packeteer Inc.
Prior to Blue Coat, Bethany served as chief marketing officer with Mirapoint Incorporated in the email and email security market. She has held executive positions at JDSU, Vernier Networks and Skystream Networks (now Ericsson). Bethany also held management positions in product management, engineering development and operations at Cisco Systems and was responsible for Cisco’s initial channel products and supply chain design. Earlier in her career Bethany held positions at Apple and Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Bethany holds a bachelor of science from Santa Clara University and an MBA from California State University, Monterey Bay. Bethany recently won the Stevie Gold Award for Female Executive of the Year for 2012. She was also recognized as one of the Top Women of Influence in Silicon Valley in 2008.
Rose Schooler
Keynote SpeakerVP, Intel Architecture Group, GM, Communications and Storage Infrastructure Group
Intel Corporation
About Rose
Rose Schooler is the Vice President of the Intel Architecture Group and General Manager of the Communications and Storage Infrastructure Group at Intel Corporation. Her organization is responsible for delivering platform solutions for the communications infrastructure and storage markets segments. Rose graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Ceramic Science & Engineering. She joined Intel as a graduate rotation engineer and held several positions in new package development, fab process engineering and Q&R. From 1990 to 1994, Rose held positions in process engineering in wafer manufacturing and Corporate Q&R program management. Rose transitioned into product marketing in the mass storage operation in 1994 and then served as a market development engineer in an internal start up activity focused on digital imaging. Beginning in 1998, Rose entered the Embedded Intel Architecture organization. She held various marketing roles before transitioning into the GM role for the Communications Infrastructure business in early 2008. Rose recently assumed responsibility for not only the Comms but also Storage infrastructure business at Intel. Rose has been a member of the ATIS (Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions) board since 2009 and has spoken at industry events about the telecommunications transformation such as TIA and 4G World. Rose enjoys spending free time with family and friends. Since her daughter plays competitive soccer, many weekends are spent at the soccer field. Rose also enjoys daily morning runs and traveling.
Jayshree Ullal
Keynote SpeakerPresident and
Chief Executive Officer
Arista Networks
About Jayshree
How did you get involved in SDN and/or OpenFlow - so called the new paradigm of networking?
Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System), from its inception, was designed to deliver on the promise of SDN. The programmability of EOS at all levels with distributed software-defined control planes, data planes and APIs allows us to work across physical, virtual and cloud networks.
We are also excited about Arista's unique Openflow extensions to allow hybrid use cases of IPs and Openflow networking to work together using direct flow-based programming.
How are you as an individual and your company influencing and shaping SDN?
Arista's approach to SDN boils down to two key words: open and programmable. There's been so much vendor lock-in and closed- networking that to truly shape this new paradigm these two aspects must be considered. SDN has a tremendous opportunity to offer new models and apapplications if we're pragmatic about use cases.
Can you give us a teaser of your talk? What would be the highlights that you want to share in advance with a participant?
I am looking forward to getting a common definition of SDN and what the guiding principles are, as well as real-world applications.
What are you looking forward to at ONS this year?
I look forward to hearing what customers have to say about SDNs and the value they're extracting from them. Understanding use cases is key to the development of applications and software features that fuel customer adoption.
Do you want to make any predictions about SDN and all the excitement surrounding it?
I predict that SDN will go from hype to reality in phases in the next few years. Early adopters will begin trials now with key projects especially in key verticals such as research and education, cloud providers and data centers while legacy enterprises will need more time to cope with the operational aspects. SDN has made networking cool again!
Jayshree Ullal is a networking executive veteran with 25+ years of experience and was named one of the "50 Most Powerful People" in 2005 Network World and one of the "Top Ten Executives" at VMWorld 2011. As President and CEO of Arista Networks, she is responsible for building the company's business in cloud networking.
Formerly, Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco and responsible for $10B in annual revenue from Data Center, Switching and Services, including Cisco's flagship Nexus 7000 and Catalyst 4500 and 6500 product lines. During her tenure at Cisco, Jayshree forged key alliances with EMC, VMware and Microsoft in virtualization and application acceleration. Prior to joining Cisco, Ullal was the Vice President of Marketing at Crescendo Communications, which was Cisco's first acquisition in 1993.
Jayshree holds a B.S. in Engineering (Electrical) from San Francisco State University and an M.S. degree in engineering management from Santa Clara University.
Guido Appenzeller
Big Switch Networks
Guido Appenzeller
CEO and Co-founder
Q&A with GuidoHow did you get involved in SDN and OpenFlow - so called the new paradigm of networking?
I was was a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University and head of the Clean Slate Lab where I led the team that developed the OpenFlow v1.0 standard and the reference switch implementation. In 2010, I founded Big Switch Networks with Kyle Forster, to bring to market what I believe to be the most transformative networking technology the industry has seen in over 20 years.
How are you as an individual and your company influencing and shaping SDN?
Big Switch believes that open source, open standards and open architectures are absolutely essential to the growth and adoption of SDN. There is unprecedented user demand for networking to follow the same open source model that enabled explosive growth and innovation in servers and storage, and there is no company that has done more to develop an open source community, develop open source commercial products and contribute more to open source technologies than Big Switch. We contribute the talents of some of our brightest minds to the user-lead Open Networking Foundation's architecture and technical advisory groups and run the largest open source community, Project Floodlight.
Can you give us a teaser of your talk? What would be the highlights that you want to share in advance with a participant?
I will be outlining the next major innovation in SDN, which we will have announced shortly before. Since we have not announced it yet, I can't say too much about it, but it promises to really fuel the user revolution around open source, open standards, and open architectures. Ever more open, Open SDN.
What are you looking forward to at ONS this year?
I am looking forward to seeing the continued innovation and collaboration that is bringing about commercial reality of the innovations we started over five years ago at Stanford's Clean Slate Lab.
Do you want to make any predictions about SDN and all the excitement surrounding it?
I predict the 2013ONS will be when we truly see SDN moving into commercial reality, and begin to hear about deployments. I think the PhDs who normally attend the event will be increasingly joined by network operators.
Guido Appenzeller is the CEO and co-founder of Big Switch Networks, the leader in Open Software-Defined Networking. The company’s Open SDN platform embraces industry standards, open APIs, open source, and vendor-neutral support for both physical and virtual networking infrastructure. Big Switch Networks product suite supports a broad range of networking applications, including network virtualization for public and private cloud data centers built upon OpenStack, CloudStack and other platforms.
Before co-founding Big Switch Networks, Guido was a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University and head of the Clean Slate Lab where he led the research team that developed the OpenFlow v1.0 standard and the reference switch and controller implementations. Guido previously was CTO of Voltage Security, an enterprise software company that he co-founded and grew from zero to profitability and over 1000 Enterprise customers. He was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a MS in Physics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Axel Clauberg
Deutsche Telekom AG
Axel Clauberg
VP Aggregation, Transport & IP, member of ONF Board of Directors
Q&A with AxelHow did you get involved in SDN and OpenFlow - so called the new paradigm of networking?
My first touch with SDN and OpenFlow was during my time at a major networking vendor - the huge potential impact of the technology, changing forever the way we run networks and deliver services, really caught me.
How are you as an individual and your company influencing and shaping SDN?
Since joining DT in September 2011, I am pushing for SDN technologies to be used in our architecture roadmap for current and future production networks. As DT's representant in the ONF board, I am evangelizing SDN and OpenFlow technologies within the DT group and the global market.
Can you give us a teaser of your talk? What would be the highlights that you want to share in advance with a participant?
The reason for us doing SDN is that we can program services instead of rearchitecting the network and the OSS for every new service.
We are not necessarily interested in programming the network, programming the network services is key for us. SDN drastically reduces our time to market - from years to weeks. For wide area networks, the carrier route into the SDN world in my view goes through the OSS - I will present what we deployed within the TeraStream network in Croatia, together with my co-presenter Hakan Millroth, CTO for tail-f.
What are you looking forward to at ONS this year?
Learning more on how others deploy SDN technologies, networking with the other attendees.
Do you want to make any predictions about SDN and all the excitement surrounding it?
I forgot my crystal ball, but I expect that we see a growing number of SDN deployments over the next months. So, we are moving from Hype to SDN Reality.
Axel Clauberg joined Deutsche Telekom AG in September 2011. Within the Group CTO team, Axel is responsible for IP Architecture, Aggration and Transport. Since December 2011, he represents DT in the Open Networking Foundation Board of Directors.
Axel has more than 30 years of experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry. From 1998 until August 2011, he had various international leadership roles at Cisco Systems, his last role was Sales CTO in Cisco’s Emerging Markets theatre.
Bruce Davie
VMware
Bruce Davie
Principal Engineer
Q&A with BruceHow did you get involved in SDN and OpenFlow - so called the new paradigm of networking?
I followed developments in the SDN arena for a couple of years as a result of my involvement in the networking research community. Then in early 2012 I joined Nicira, as I had concluded that they were in a strong position to do something really innovative in networking and have a real industry impact.
How are you as an individual and your company influencing and shaping SDN?
Nicira was founded by the inventors of OpenFlow and SDN. Open vSwitch and the OpenStack Quantum API are a couple of the main projects to which Nicira (and now VMware) has made major contributions. As for my role, I've been focussing on how we can tie together the existing assets of service providers, such as VPNs, with the virtualized data center networks that Nicira has enabled.
Can you give us a teaser of your talk? What would be the highlights that you want to share in advance with a participant?
The talk will focus on Network Virtualization as the technology that is solving real customer problems in open networking. I'll highlight the fact that network virtualization actually delivers a lot of the benefits that were originally hoped for with the arrival of SDN. For example, network virtualization dramatically simplifies the operational model of networks, by allowing virtual networks to be created, snapshot, rolled back, etc., using programmatic APIs. And this is done in a way that is completely decoupled from the hardware - thus providing the ability to innovate at software speeds, and creating an ecosystem where software capabilities evolve independently of the underlying hardware.
What are you looking forward to at ONS this year?
Hearing from the people who have to build, deploy and operate networks. Hopefully we'll hear what challenges they are facing and to what extent the market is developing to meet their needs.
Do you want to make any predictions about SDN and all the excitement surrounding it?
I think we're already seeing the definition of SDN get broader and broader to the point where it's hard to figure out what someone means when they say that they have an SDN product or solution. And it's hard to see how it could live up to all the expectations that have been heaped on its shoulders. But I am willing to predict that we are going to see a greater decoupling between the software that delivers networking services to applications and the underlying hardware that moves packets. I also think we're going to see a lot of focus on open interfaces beyond OpenFlow, such as northbound APIs like Quantum and APIs or protocols to support federation.
Bruce Davie is a Principal Engineer in the Networking and Security business unit of VMware. He was previously Chief Service Provider Architect at Nicira. He has over 20 years of networking industry experience, and was a Cisco Fellow prior to joining Nicira. At Cisco, he led the team that developed the MPLS architecture and worked closely with leading service providers to enhance the capabilities of their networks. In addition to his work on MPLS, Bruce contributed to the standards on IP quality of service and has written over a dozen Internet RFCs and several networking textbooks. He currently chairs the ACM's Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) and is an ACM Fellow. Bruce received his Ph. D. in computer science from the University of Edinburgh in 1988
Justin Dustzadeh
Huawei
Justin Dustzadeh
CTO & VP of Technology Strategy, Networks
BioJustin Joubine Dustzadeh is the CTO & VP of Technology Strategy of Huawei Networks, USA, where he leads a team responsible for driving corporate-wide SDN technology direction, network architecture evolution and standardization strategy, including collaboration with ONF.
Most recently, he served as VP and Head of Network Architecture at Ericsson IP & Broadband Technology where he led a team responsible for network evolution, standardization and technology innovation for IP, transport and cloud networking. Other previous positions include CTO & Co-Founder of a Silicon Valley software technology startup, senior technology and management roles at AT&T Labs (CTO support including driving target architectures and transformation of AT&T’s networks & systems), as well as senior technology/R&D roles with French service providers Cegetel/SFR and France Telecom.
He holds a Ph.D. and master's degree in Computer Science and a bachelor's degree in Theoretical Physics and has graduated from ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications) and ENS Ulm (Ecole Normale Supérieure) in Paris, France.
Dr. Inder Gopal
IBM New York
Dr. Inder Gopal
Vice President, System Technology
BioDr. Inder Gopal is Vice President for Networking Development and is responsible for the development of all hardware and software networking products in IBM. Previously, Inder Gopal was Vice President of Analytical Applications in the Software Group at IBM.
He founded two venture-funded start-up companies, and worked in senior executive roles at AT&T and Prodigy. He has a long record of successful commercialization of leading edge technology, often creating new markets and product categories.
Dr. Gopal has also had a distinguished research career in the area of computer networks, with 20 patents and more than 70 technical publications to his credit. He has served as editor of several technical journals and was elected Fellow of the IEEE. He has a PhD from Columbia University, New York and a BA from Oxford University, England.
Albert Greenberg
Microsoft
Albert Greenberg
Partner Development Manager
BioAlbert Greenberg is the Partner Development Manager at Microsoft, where he leads design and development of cloud networking services and technologies at Windows Azure, for both logical and physical data center networking. Albert joined Microsoft Research in 2007, where he worked on data center networks, cloud service infrastructure, enterprise network management, and monitoring. Albert joined Microsoft after many years at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs Research, where he was an Executive Director and AT&T Fellow, and where he helped build the systems and tools for engineering and managing AT&T's networks. Albert is an ACM Fellow.
Jan Häglund
Ericsson
Jan Häglund
Vice President, Product Area IP & Broadband
BioJan Häglund joined Ericsson in 1993 and has held various management positions in R&D, Product management and Strategy in the Networks area. Before his appointment 2011 as head of Product Area IP & Broadband, he was Deputy head of the same organization since 2009. Beside recent years’ work with Silicon Valley, US, his international experience includes Sales and management roles in Japan.
Born in 1966, Jan earned his PhD in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and a Masters degree from École Nationale de Physique de Grenoble, France.
Yukio Ito
NTT Communications
Yukio Ito
Senior Vice President of Service Infrastructure, member of ONF Board of Directors
BioMr. Yukio Ito joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation in 1983 and worked on the PSTN Switching System and the Business Communication Network. After the reorganization of NTT in 1999, Mr. Ito designed the architecture of the Transport Network for NTT Communications Corporation and introduced new technology to the network. Since June 2010, he has been in charge of engineering, construction, and operation of the IP, L1, and L2 backbone networks for the NTT Communications Corporation. At present, he is in charge of the entire NTT Communications Corporation service infrastructure.
Colin Kincaid
Cisco
Colin Kincaid
Vice President, Marketing, Networking Software, Network Operating Systems Technology Group
BioAs Vice President of Marketing Networking Software for the Networking Software Group at Cisco, Colin Kincaid leads the teams responsible for the product management, marketing, and messaging of the operating systems software that is shipped on all Cisco routers and switches. His team works with development teams throughout the Cisco Engineering function to deliver the networking protocols, technologies and software that enable Cisco’s Intelligent Network.
Mr. Kincaid has been a long-time leader of Cisco innovation. He led the complete redesign and production of the extensible, modular, and componentized operating system, IOS-XE, the main operating system that is distributed on several enterprise platforms today. He also managed the Edge Services software development team in the NSSTG organization.
Mr. Kincaid spent five years leading international, cross-organizational development of Service Provider subscriber services for Cisco’s mobile wireless strategy and hospitality broadband strategy. He ran the Professional Services and integration teams through the deployment of software solutions in Carrier Network and OSS/BSS environments in close partnership with sales and marketing. He managed development efforts on Cisco’s 10K platform from its inception, and he was involved with VPN security product development.
Outside of Cisco, Mr. Kincaid served as Vice President of Engineering at TAZZ Networks, specializing in dynamic policy management for key applications in the Service Provider market. TAZZ products have been integrated into various Cisco carrier-grade products.
Mr. Kincaid has worked in start-ups as both a software and hardware engineer, guided by business instincts anchored in industry knowledge and market trending.
He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Boston University and has completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Dave Lambert
Internet2
Dave Lambert
President and CEO
BioH. David Lambert was named President and CEO of Internet2 in July 2010. In partnership with the Board of Trustees and the Executive Leadership Team, Lambert is responsible for leading and implementing the organization's strategic vision and ensuring its priorities are aligned with the technical and thought leadership of its membership. He worked with the Board and governance constituencies to quickly implement an agile organizational structure to construct conditions that spur innovation, respond to strategic priorities, and adapt to strategic directions driven by the community. Under his leadership, Internet2 is building on the organization's foundations to establish a unique set of unified capabilities that enable innovation for U.S. and global research and education institutions by leveraging the organization around the core principles of innovation, transformation, and community.
Lambert is leading Internet2 to focus on several key areas: advanced network services and leadership, national and regional collaboration, global reach and leadership, industry and research partnership development and engagement, CIO engagement, NET+ Services "above the network," and the U.S. Unified Community Anchor Network (U.S. UCAN). These areas have yielded extraordinary results in a very short period of time and include launching domestic and global end-to-end advanced networking capabilities, creating the first 100G transcontinental network with ESnet, strengthening relationships with regional and national networks, forming partnerships with Indiana University and the China Research and Education Network to link U.S. and Chinese research and education networks, working with Educause and more than 50 universities to pilot a new model for digital course materials, and forming new strategic industry partnerships with companies like Adobe, Box, Dell, ESPN, HP, McGraw-Hill and Microsoft to provide new cloud and network services to benefit faculty, staff and students to help the Internet2 community innovate and transform campuses.
Under Lambert's leadership, Internet2 is now positioned to take the lead in establishing the community's vision to enable innovation for U.S research and education facilities by combining Internet2's Advanced Network Services Portfolio, NET+ service capabilities, and the InCommon federated identity capabilities by integrating them through an intentional end-to-end architecture at the national, regional, and campus level. This Innovation Platform Initiative will result in the development of a layer 2 service, increase support for software defined networks, provide a robust environment for cloud services, and ensure Internet2's position at the forefront of advanced networks.
Prior to joining Internet2, Lambert was the first Vice President for Information Services and Chief Information Officer at Georgetown University, where he held the position of VP/CIO since early 1998. He was recruited to Georgetown University from Cornell University, where he served as Vice President for Information Technology from 1994 through 1997 and as Director of Network Services from 1989 through 1993. As Director of Network Services, Lambert was responsible for networking and communications technologies and services for the university and for Cornell National Supercomputer Facility.
Prior to joining Cornell in 1989, Lambert held several technical and leadership positions at Indiana University, Bloomington, including the position of Director of Academic Networking where he was responsible for the deployment of the first university-wide multi-service IP network.
Mr. Lambert's academic background includes a B.A. in Political Science from West Virginia University and doctoral studies in Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He also holds the Professional Manager Certificate from Indiana University's Graduate School of Business. Lambert has held a number of past leadership positions in higher education technology associations including service as Board Chairman of the New York State Research and Education Network (NYSERNet) served on the board of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO); and represented Georgetown University as Trustee of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) where he also chaired the Information Technology Committee and served on the SURA Board of Trustees Executive Committee. He served as a member of the EDUCAUSE National Telecommunications Task Force (NTTF) and is a Founding Member of the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) the regional networking organization for Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
He and his family live in Bethesda, Maryland.
Mike Marcellin
Juniper Networks, Inc.
Mike Marcellin
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Marketing, Platform Systems Division
Q&A with MikeHow did you get involved in SDN and OpenFlow - so called the new paradigm of networking?
In many ways, The New Network vision that Juniper announced back in 2009 embodied the principles of SDN. Our history is rich in abstracting the network, providing in-network automation and open interfaces to enable innovation. We were also the first to demo OpenFlow on a carrier class router and make the code and test harness available to partners.
How are you as an individual and your company influencing and shaping SDN?
I launched SDN as a specific product initiative and drove support of SDN/OF across our systems portfolio across all networking domains. My team, other Juniper leaders and I shape SDN through direct engagement with standards bodies, industry influencers and market leading customers.
Can you give us a teaser of your talk? What would be the highlights that you want to share in advance with a participant?
My talk provides a framework for SDN and shares insights into how customers are investing in and deploying SDN architectures.
What are you looking forward to at ONS this year?
I look forward to interacting with customers and sharing ideas on the most promising applications for SDN, innovative use cases, best practices and new applications enabled by SDN. A broad industry dialogue will help us strengthen our SDN offerings and drive faster SDN adoption.
Do you want to make any predictions about SDN and all the excitement surrounding it?
SDN has re-energized the networking industry and sparked new innovation. At Juniper, we are focused on architectural transitions and we’re excited about the opportunity to bolster the relevance of the network in today’s highly dynamic world. We will embed SDN capability into our systems and software and I could see the SDN controller becoming a key new value-creation and ecosystem-enablement platform.
Mike Marcellin is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Juniper Networks Platform Systems Division (PSD), responsible for business strategy and marketing for Juniper’s portfolio of high performance routing, switching, and data center fabric products, the Junos operating system and Juniper’s silicon portfolio. Marcellin’s team is responsible for business strategy and product marketing, go-to-market planning, sales and customer education and information experience, as well as competitive analysis worldwide.
Marcellin’s previous roles included Vice President of Global Managed Solutions for Verizon, responsible for product development and marketing of its $4B portfolio of managed IP networking, hosting, security and IT solutions for businesses around the world, Vice President of Global Product Marketing for Verizon Business and Executive Director of Verizon Business’ IP and Ethernet portfolio as well as leading the company’s eCRM marketing division.
A Rodman Scholar at the University of Virginia, Marcellin received a Bachelor of Science degree with Distinction in Systems Engineering. Marcellin is based in Sunnyvale, California.
JC Martin
eBay
JC Martin
Distinguished Architect
Q&A with JCHow did you get involved in SDN and OpenFlow - so called the new paradigm of networking?
Almost 2 years ago, at Ebay, we tried to design a truly shared infrastructure which can be reconfigured dynamically to create virtual environments to host different applications with different networking requirements. The only viable solution we found was to deploy Nicira NVP in conjunction with Openstack. Since then, we have been rolling out new types of virtual environments, creating overlay networks with different topologies, completly automated.
How are you as an individual and your company influencing and shaping SDN?
As the architect for cloud at eBay, I am more pushing for the properties and benefits of SDN than the technology itself. A key requirement driving our architecture is the possibility to run any application anywhere, and SDN's capability to virtualize networks is a key component of delivering this feature. We are working with vendors to make sure that this capability can be extended beyond the hypervisors, and be available on top of all our supported platforms.
Can you give us a teaser of your talk? What would be the highlights that you want to share in advance with a participant?
SDN and more specifically overlay networks are allowing eBay to consolidate multiple physical environments on a shared infrastructure, allowing both business agility and efficiency.
What are you looking forward to at ONS this year?
This is my first year attending ONS (please consider a date not conflicting with Openstack Summits), but I'm excited to be able to share our experience, and start a discussion on practical SDN utilization.
Do you want to make any predictions about SDN and all the excitement surrounding it?
I think there are two 'kinds' of SDN, one similar to what we use to build overlay networks, the other kind allowing more sophisticated traffic engineering. The first type is maturing, and can already be deployed in production. The second type is maybe where research will be the most vibrant, and we will see new innovative use cases for SDN.
JC Martin is a Distinguished Architect in the eBay Marketplaces Platform and Infrastructure group where he is responsible for the cloud technical strategy and architecture. As cloud architect, JC has been driving the transformation of the eBay's infrastructure to an internal cloud based platform, providing significant improvement in business agility and developer efficiency. He has recently been focusing on introducing network virtualization and Openstack at eBay.
Prior to eBay, JC was chief architect at BMC Software, were he led the Server Automation strategy and architecture. Previously, JC was Technology Director in the N1 division at Sun Microsystems, focusing, since 2001, on what was then called utility computing, and ultimately became Cloud Computing.
Nick McKeown
Stanford University
Nick McKeown
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Faculty Director, Board Member of ONF
BioNick McKeown is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Faculty Director of the Clean Slate Program at Stanford University. Nick is a Board Member of ONF.
Nick's early research was mostly on the design, architecture and analysis of Internet switches and routers. He was a co-founder of networking semiconductor companies Abrizio and Nemo. More recently he has been interested in network architecture, and how to enable innovation in networks. Nick is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.
Nick has been involved in OpenFlow/SDN since its beginning. He supervised Martin Casado's PhD thesis at Stanford that laid the foundation for OpenFlow/SDN. He is co-founder (with Martin Casado and Scott Shenker) of Nicira Networks and co-foudner (with Scott Shenker) of Open Networking Foundation. He led development of OpenFlow at Stanford and evangelized deployment and exploration of OpenFlow/SDN networks around the world.
Hakan Millroth
Tail-f Systems
Hakan Millroth
CTO
BioBefore co-founding Tail-f Systems, Mr. Millroth held an executive management position at Interpeak, an embedded software vendor that was acquired by Wind River in 2006. Previously, he was a co-founder and CTO of Bluetail, a software company that was acquired by Alteon Websystems in 2000. Mr. Millroth’s career also includes several management roles at Ericsson and Nortel Networks. He holds a PhD in computer science and has served as a faculty member in the computer science department at Uppsala University.
Dan Pitt
Open Networking Foundation (ONF)
Dan Pitt
Executive Director
BioDan Pitt is Executive Director of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). Dan helped launch ONF in March, 2011, following a distinguished and varied career in networking and engineering. As Executive Director, Dan manages ONF's strategy, technical activities, external relations, Board of Directors, finance, operations, and legal matters. Dan is instrumental in building the organization's infrastructure to serve members and fulfill ONF's mission of fostering a vibrant commercial market for SDN products and services.
Dan began his career with IBM Networking Systems in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, where he became the lead architect for IBM's local area network products, responsible for its architecture specifications and for its worldwide standardization and spending many years as a voting member of IEEE 802. In 1990 he was named manager of the customer-premises networks group at the IBM Zurich research laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, where he led the development of one of the industry's first operational gigabit LANs and created and standardized ATM LAN emulation, an important industry step in the harmonization of datacom and telecom technologies.
In 1992 Dan was appointed department manager for multimedia communications at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto. In that role he guided corporate R&D positions for residential broadband technologies and services, including some of the earliest Internet services for cable operators, and led the system architecture for the company's broadband video server. He served as chair of the server committee for the Geneva-based Digital Audio Visual Council (DAVIC) in its production of the DAVIC 1.0 spec for video on demand.
In 1997 he joined the new executive team at Bay Networks as Vice President and Founding Director of the Bay Architecture Lab, reporting directly to CEO Dave House. There he developed the company's strategy for IP, ATM, quality of service, and a wide range of networking issues, realizing them in ingredient technologies, DSP and networking-protocol libraries, and new products and standardizing them in the IEEE, ATM Forum, and IETF. When the company was acquired in 1998 by Nortel Networks Dan became Vice President of the Technology Center, comprising 300 people in nine cities in five countries on four continents and contributing numerous technologies and standards for routing, switching, voice-over-IP, powered and ten gigabit ethernet, and network control. His group also developed an experimental architecture for separating the control plane from the data plane for optical and packet networks (still browsable at www.openetlab.org). In 2001 he took on the role of Nortel's Vice President for Academic Partnerships, establishing best practices for both the research and the business aspects of academic-industrial relations.
From 2002-2007 Dan served as Dean of the School of Engineering at Santa Clara University and holder of the Sobrato Chair in Engineering. His major accomplishments include launching a sustainability thrust that led to the university's winning third prize in the U.S. DoE Solar Decathlon competition, twice; instituting a program in bioengineering; leading the school to become #1 in the U.S. in the percentage of tenure track women faculty; and raising the school's national ranking from #120 to #14.
Since the mid-1990s Dan has advised networking research programs in Australia, at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and National Information and Communication Technology Australia (NICTA). From 2007-2011, as president of Palo Alto Innovation Advisors LLC, he advised and served in executive operational roles in startup companies coming out of CSIRO and NICTA as well as companies in Canada and the U.S., most recently as an executive in residence at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California. He has served or continues to serve on advisory boards or boards of directors for nearly a dozen companies.
Dan also taught for ten years as an adjunct professor of CS and EE at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, maintained cooperative university research partnerships at IBM and HP, headed university relations for Bay Networks, and established a joint laboratory in Beijing between Nortel and Tsinghua University. He served on advisory boards at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and at UC Berkeley and was instrumental in the establishment and funding of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) there.
Professionally, Dan has served as technical program vice chair for IEEE Globecom (twice), TPC member and general chair for the IEEE LAN/MAN Workshop (longstanding), and general chair (and every other conceivable role) for the IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects ("Hot Interconnects") from 1994 to the present. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a proud member of the Society of Women Engineers and the National Society of Black Engineers. He has over forty publications and one patent to his credit and has lectured around the globe. Dan received a B.S. in mathematics (magna cum laude) from Duke University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois.
Steven Schwartz
Goldman Sachs
Steven Schwartz
Global head of Telecommunications and Market Data Services, member of ONF Board of Directors
Q&A with SteveHow did you get involved in SDN and OpenFlow - the so-called new networking paradigm?
Goldman Sachs places significant value on innovation and technology. It was clear to us early on, that SDN and OpenFlow presented substantial operational efficiencies and other benefits given the tight integration of this important resource with the rest of the technology environment. Our design philosophy has consistently been to leverage standards, where possible, to innovate and transform the network.
How are you as an individual and your company influencing and shaping SDN?
Goldman Sachs was an early member and participant in the ONF. The forum allows us to express views and help shape the direction of SDN. We participate on the ONF board as well as various Tech Advisory Group functions within the ONF, most recently leading dialogue around OpenFlow and SDN security.
Can you give us a teaser of your talk? What would be the highlights that you want to share in advance with a participant?
We believe there is untapped business value in the network. SDN will enable networks to deliver increased value by increasing flexibility, efficiency and agility. We have been laying the groundwork for SDN across the stack for a few years now, and enterprises that want to compare notes on our approach will find the discussion very useful, in terms of both theory and practice. No hype, just an on-the-ground perspective from a team who has been rolling up their sleeves. The discussion will focus on the benefits, implications, and approach to adopting SDN.
What are you looking forward to at ONS this year?
I am looking forward to collaborating with those interested in driving open standards and planning their transformation to a software defined model.
Do you want to make any predictions about SDN and all the excitement surrounding it?
I am often wary of any technology which has as much hype and excitement as SDN. In this case, however, I believe that the excitement and optimism is understandable. It has been over a decade since we’ve seen the opportunity to fundamentally shift the value proposition of networks and changes to the way networks fit into the datacenter ecosystem.
Steve is global head of Telecommunications and Market Data Services. He serves on the Technology Operating Committee, the Infrastructure Operating Committee (IOC) and the Americas Technology Diversity Committee. Steve is also Technology recruiting champion for Rutgers University, champion for Community TeamWorks, MD champion for the Technology Hispanic/Latino Network and co-chair of the Federation Hispanic/Latin Advisory Group.
Steve joined Goldman Sachs in 1990 as a telecommunications analyst and has held several roles across the technology organization, initially managing the creation and growth of the firm’s data network infrastructure. In 1999, he moved to the Investment Management Division, where he managed technology and computing infrastructure. Steve returned to Technology Infrastructure in 2003. He was named managing director in 2006.
Prior to joining the firm, Steve held analyst positions with IBM and Shearson–Lehman.
Steve is a member of the NYC FIRST Robotics Executive Advisory Board. He earned a BS from Fordham University in 1986 and an MBA from Pace University in 1994.
Keith Shinn
Fidelity
Keith Shinn
VP of Click2Compute Cloud Infrastructure
Q&A with KeithHow did you get involved in SDN and OpenFlow - so called the new paradigm of networking?
Via a series of meetings with leaders from the hyper scale space.
How are you as an individual and your company influencing and shaping SDN?
We worked with others to start the Open Network Users Group with the hopes of consolidating the Enterprise requirements for SDN.
Can you give us a teaser of your talk?
How Cloud Computing is requiring Network changes.
What would be the highlights that you want to share in advance with a participant?
Why is SDN important to the enterprise.
What are you looking forward to at ONS this year?
Hearing about progress made by developers and manufacturers in the open flow space.
Do you want to make any predictions about SDN and all the excitement surrounding it?
I do be believe this will disrupt the hardware space and move network to a commodity based model similar to the Evolution to x86 for compute.
Keith has a long history of developing Infrastructure Automation solutions to support the enterprise. Keith currently is leading efforts at Fidelity to develop a Private/Public Cloud (Click 2 Compute) and Multitenant solutions. The Team is striving to be fast followers to the Hyper-scale communities.
Shunichiro Tejima
NEC Corporation
Shunichiro Tejima
Senior Vice President
BioShunichiro Tejima joined NEC Corporation in April 1975, after graduating from the University of Tokyo (Department of Electronic Engineering). His career started as an engineer for the development of microwave communications equipment. After receiving his MSEE degree from the University of Pennsylvania (Science Electrical Engineering) in 1981, he devoted himself to the development of Satellite Communications Systems (VSAT). Tejima was then assigned to head the development and marketing of mobile terminals. He then became Executive General Manager of the Mobile Terminal Operations Unit and Associate Senior Vice President of the Network Platform Operation Unit. Since July 2011, he has lead the Carrier Network Business Unit as Senior Vice President, supervising the provision of a wide range of end to end telecommunication products and solutions, including SDN for operators throughout the world.
Amin Vahdat
Google
Amin Vahdat
Distinguished Engineer, member of the ONF Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
Q&A with AminHow did you get involved in SDN and OpenFlow - so called the new paradigm of networking?
I started working with OpenFlow in 2007 when my team at UC San Diego started working on scale out networking for data centers. Our initial work on Fat Tree topologies using commodity switches in the data center used OpenFlow to program our switch fabric.
How are you as an individual and your company influencing and shaping SDN?
As the Tech Lead for networking at Google, I am driving a number of internal efforts around SDN. For example, we embraced SDN and OpenFlow early because we saw the opportunity to build a substantially simpler, more robust, and more efficient network architecture. Google's data center WAN runs on OpenFlow and SDN.
Can you give us a teaser of your talk? What would be the highlights that you want to share in advance with a participant?
I will describe our SD WAN architecture in detail including our migration strategy from a legacy architecture to SDN. I will also describe some of the specific pitfalls we've faced as well as our work going forward.
What are you looking forward to at ONS this year?
I look forward to learning more about the work going on across the community.
Do you want to make any predictions about SDN and all the excitement surrounding it?
When I first learned about computer networks, the highlight was always around drawing contrasts between telecommunication and data communication networks. We learned how data networking was fundamentally different because of statistical multiplexing, soft state, and full decentralization. Intelligence was placed in the end hosts and switching/routing elements would be kept as simple as possible. Telecommunication networks of course were supposed to be the antithesis with all of the smarts in the switches.
SDN is the next wave in network architecture; it combines the best ideas of telecom and data communication networks. We will now able to treat communication systems as a whole, placing forwarding, control, and management functionality across control servers, end hosts, and switches to vastly simplify the complex and balkanized deployments we are currently left with.
Amin Vahdat is a Distinguished Engineer and technical lead for networking at Google. He is also on leave from a faculty position in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UC San Diego, where he holds the Science Applications International Corporation Chair. He has broad expertise across all aspects of large-scale computer systems, including distributed systems, computer networks, operating systems, and virtualization. He received a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and is a Fellow of the ACM.
Having led system implementations around OpenFlow since 2007, Amin Vahdat is currently employing Software Defined Networking to address challenges around network scale, performance, and reliability at Google.
The Open Networking Summit conference program features leading authorities and industry influencers who address the latest research, deployment experience and use-cases of OpenFlow and SDN. Speakers are selected based on area of expertise and we're constantly on the lookout for new speakers and topic ideas. If you are a network operator engaging in trial deployments of OpenFlow and SDN, an enterprise or service provider leading the development of SDN technologies, or an academic researching OpenFlow and would like to share your experience, we want to hear from you. We have a few slots open and would be happy to hear your idea for an exciting presentation that would highlight some aspect of OpenFlow or SDN architecture, technology, and use cases. Please send email to ons-speaker@opennetsummit.org. Please note our goal with the summit is to deliver helpful, practical, and real-world information to participants, so our presentations are not tied to sponsorship opportunities.
