Name: Optimizing vRAN with Intel® FPGA Platform
Start: 2022-02-15T16:00:00Z
End: 2022-02-15T16:00:38.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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The Intel® Network Builders webinar program is a recurring webcast series in which ecosystem members and Intel technology experts delve into the technologies, topics, and issues facing the networking industry. Presenters delve into the network transformation taking place through the adoption of software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) across telecommunication and enterprise organizations.

Intel® Network Builders also offers a comprehensive  NFV and 5G training program through the Intel® Network Builders University, which offers a broad collection of online content for technical professionals in the network industry. Learn more at https://networkbuilders.intel.com/.

Stürmsfs is a leading steel and metal processing company. They excel in webshop and frontend digital processes, however there is room for enhancement of their production related digital processes. As a result they have launched the smartfactory@stürmsfs project, where the company has defined priority use-cases and is building up digitalization know-how in an “open Lab” together with technology partners and implementation partners since 2022.

A private 5G network based upon Nokia DAC technology and implemented by Datwyler plays an important role at the smartfactory@stürmsfs. It has become an indispensable connectivity backbone for machine integration and data mining, without limitations – flexible performant and reliable.

During the webinar the audience will learn more about the characteristics of a Private 5G network in comparison to WiFi for customer needs in an industrial IT/OT environment. Current use-cases and a future outlook will be presented.

Presenters:
- Raoul Harlacher, Nokia 5G Mobile Private Network Account and Partner Manager for the Swiss market
- Karsten Lengnink, Head of Partner Management at Datwyler

5G enabled – Smart Factory @ stürmsfs

Disaggregated and virtualized Radio Access Network (RAN) enables 5G market competition and customer choice with lower equipment costs, and improved network performance. Open RAN deployments can be implemented in vendor-neutral hardware and software-defined technology, based on open interfaces and community-developed standards. Many 5G use-cases run well on pure CPU platforms, but as bandwidths increase and advanced antenna systems are deployed, hardware oftentimes struggle to keep up and start driving impractical levels of power consumption. Hardware acceleration is needed for the compute-heavy Layer-1, or physical layer. Our Intel® Agilex™ FPGA based reconfigurable SmartNICs can bring in flexible hardware acceleration options with in-line or look-a-side LDPC and SD-FEC related workload offloading.

Presenters:
- Istvan Szonyi, VP of Engineering 
- Lars Munch, Senor Software Engineer

5G Hardware Acceleration with Intel® Agilex™ FPGA Based Silicom SmartNICs

Edge-ready performance, rapid deployment, and zero trust security with the power of 5G for responsive decision-making in the field. Cybersecurity across hardware, firmware, software, and network layers leaves no room for compromise. Certified to the most stringent standards to operate in harsh environments.

Presenters:
- Robert Haag, Chief Commercial Officer at Trenton Systems
- Subramanian 'Subbu' Srinivasan, Senior Director Of Engineering - Emerging Technology at Zscaler

Presenter Bios:
- Robert Haag is Trenton Systems’ Chief Commercial Officer. He is responsible for working across the company to help position Trenton Systems for accelerated business growth. With his background in strategic planning and partnerships, sales, engineering, operations, and marketing, he is an invaluable asset to Trenton’s executive leadership team, led by experienced professionals focused on the company’s continued customer and business expansion. Formerly Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Crystal Group, General Manager of Rockwell Collins’ military business, and President and General Manager of Wabtec Corporation, Haag brings decades of business management, sales, strategy development, and marketing experience to Trenton. A graduate of Iowa State University, where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer engineering, Haag’s passion lies in helping engineering and program management customers in the defense, aerospace, and heavy industrial sectors satisfy their battlefield and harsh-environment-system challenges with high-performance computing and storage solutions.

- Subramanian 'Subbu' Srinivasan is Senior Director Of Engineering - Emerging Technology at Zscaler, currently responsible for delivery of products for securing 5G ecosystem.  Previous stint was co founder and director of engineering for the zero trust based ZPA product line. Subbu holds a master’s degrees in computer engineering, been in cyber security products for last 25 years.

Cybersecure Private 5G In-A-Box for Edge Deployments

Most key exchange methods used to secure data in networks today use mechanisms that are broken by quantum computers. Even before quantum computers become available, it’s possible for attackers to store data today and decrypt it later. Information that needs to be kept secret for a long time (state secrets, personal health and genomics data, trade secrets, financial data, etc.) is already at risk since it can be easily siphoned from public networks and stored encrypted in a data silo until it can be decrypted.

Arqit’s Symmetric Key Agreement™ Platform (SKA) is a cloud-hosted or on-prem service that can secure networks with encryption that is unbreakable by a quantum computer. This allows endpoints to upgrade the security of communication channels they create, like an IPsec tunnel. 

Arqit and Intel have joined forces to produce a number of out-the-box post-quantum cryptography (PQC) solutions. Combining Intel's existing FD.io Vector Packet Processing (VPP) and strongSwan tools with Arqit SKA™ enables a PQC IPsec solution, demonstrating how the 1.89 Tb IPsec throughput previously achieved on 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors can be protected against quantum attack without compromising performance.

The solution can also be deployed directly on the Intel® NetSec Accelerator Card, providing all the functional performance benefits of the smart NIC alongside world class quantum safe encryption capability. This is made possible due to the lightweight nature of the software and provides use cases across a diverse range of industries, such as Defense, Telecommunications and Internet of Things (IoT).

Join the webinar to find out how Arqit's technology integrates seamlessly with Intel's products to create out-the-box solutions that mitigate against the quantum threat.

Presenters:
- Divya Pendyala, Cloud Software Architect at Intel
- Dr. Michael Murphy, Deputy Chief Technology Officer at Arqit
- Phil Burn, Solution Architect at Arqit

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Without Compromising Performance

24 Gigabit SD-WAN - Unlocking New Use-Cases using Intel® Processors and Turnium SD-WAN to Build Networks
Join us to learn about challenges in designing a highly scalable, 100 Gigabit capable Software-Defined Wide Area Networking Platform and how Turnium and Intel collaborated to test Turnium's new version 7.0 software release.

Presenters:
- Josh Hicks, VP Product & Development
- James Oakley, Senior Software Architect

Presenter Bios:
- Josh Hicks: Josh is Turnium’s VP of Product and Development and has 10 years of experience in the SD-WAN space. Previously, he led a cloud infrastructure implementation team at Microsoft working with Fortune 500 companies, managed data center and infrastructure implementations at Abgenix Biopharma (now Amgen), and project managed campus-wide technology initiatives at Simon Fraser University.
- James Oakley: James is a Senior Software Architect at Turnium, having joined the company in 2013. Since beginning as a software developer in 2000, James has worked almost exclusively in the networking space. Previously he worked on routing gateways for hospitality guest networking and IPTV distribution, deployed in some of the largest hotels in the world. He has also contributed to a number of well-known open-source projects.

Unlocking New Use-Cases using Intel® Processors and Turnium SD-WAN

The success of enterprise edge services such as analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), network as a service (NaaS), and Internet of Things (IoT), requires a solution that has high performance, low latency, security, and standalone resiliency. These types of edge services are typically poorly served by centralized cloud offerings mostly because of high transport latency, data egress costs, and security inefficiencies.

Instead, enterprise success will be driven by next gen solutions specifically designed for enterprise edge use cases and requirements.

In this webinar, Supermicro and Adtran will show you why enterprises should look for a solution that integrates best-in-class servers, scalable processors, network security acceleration, an edge cloud operating system, management & orchestration, and embraces an open architecture for multiple SASE software application providers.

Join us to learn how you can deliver next gen SASE workloads that:
• Leverage edge servers with exceptional performance per watt to drive down the total cost of ownership
• Can transparently be deployed at a network edge point of presence or on customer premises locations with the ability to scale to meet multiple customer demands
• Are orchestrated and instantiated as either virtual network functions (VNFs) or cloud native network functions (CNFs) 

Walk away from the webinar knowing how you can successfully deploy and scale an integrated solution for all your customer’s requirements for SASE workloads.

Presenters:
- Jeff Sharpe, Senior Director of 5G/IoT Edge AI Solutions at Supermicro
- Michael Heffner, GM of Business Solutions at Adtran

Can You Easily Deploy & Scale Your Secure Access Service Edge?

The radio access network (RAN) is the bulk of a mobile network operator’s (MNO’s) network investment, and its performance and functionality are critical to successful service delivery and innovation. 
Before Open RAN, MNOs built their RAN with proprietary and specialized systems that offered no widespread interoperability, thus resulting in inflexibility and high costs. Open RAN provided a new way to build the network by disaggregating the BBU, virtualizing the network functions, and replacing proprietary hardware with open Intel® architecture CPU-based servers. Industry standards for interfaces created interoperability that allowed MNOs to mix-and-match network functions for the best of breed solution.

Mavenir is pioneering Open vRAN software that is cloud native and with fully containerized microservices allowing it to be deployed easily with Intel® architecture CPUs on private, hybrid or public clouds. This talk presents the evolution of Mavenir’s Open vRAN solution leveraging various generations of 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® scalable processors to deliver high network and user performance, energy savings features, expanded RAN capacity, and paving the way for AI/ML powered SLAs.

Presenter:
Kamakshi Sridhar, PhD
VP of RAN Technology and
Strategy, Senior Fellow
Chief Technology and Strategy Office (CTSO)

Presenter Bio:
Dr. Kamakshi Sridhar is VP of RAN Technology and Strategy and Senior Fellow in Mavenir Chief Technology and Strategy Office (CTSO) where she leads 5G Open RAN, 6G and select Packet Core initiatives in network performance optimization, AI/ML and GenAI, energy savings and network slicing. Kamakshi engages with PLM, Systems Engineering and Account Teams and explores various external partnership opportunities to bring differentiated features to RAN products. She is the lead author of 60+ US patents and several industry whitepapers and has a Ph.D from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Pioneering Open vRAN with Mavenir software and Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors

Security gateways are essential for preserving the reliability, integrity, and resilience of 5G networks in the face of evolving security challenges. They play a crucial role in securing xHaul networks, which connect RAN elements to the core network. Security Gateways are used to authenticate, authorize, and encrypt communication, preventing unauthorized access and mitigating various cyber threats such as data breaches and denial-of-service attacks. Furthermore, they ensure the integrity of data transmission and support network slicing, maintaining strict security boundaries between different network services and user groups.

In this webinar, 6WIND highlights the capabilities of its virtualized security gateway solution (vSecGW) and demonstrate the performance it achieves in a telco cloud environment running on 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor. 

This webinar aims at showcasing the relevance of virtualizing the security gateway to seek for higher flexibility and better efficiency while delivering high performance. It will help understand how the combination of 6WIND and Intel solutions help CSPs & MNOs transform their networks and cost effectively replace existing proprietary network appliances.

Presenter:
Karim MCHIRKI, VP of Product Management at 6WIND

Presenter Bio:
As VP of Product Management, Karim is leading the 6WIND product roadmap definition and is helping the product committee, in accordance with the company business strategy, in cultivating product vision and enriching the product solutions.

Powering Mobile Network Security with Virtualized Security Gateway

New technologies will change the economics of Open RAN. This webinar explores how hardware and software technologies from Intel and Rakuten Symphony that will significantly reduce ORAN’s total cost of ownership (TCO) by integrating Intel’s embedded acceleration with efficient Cloud Native platform and automation platform. Join us for key insights into cutting edge technologies that promise to enhance network performance and cost efficiency in ORAN deployment. 

Presenter: Mehran Hadipour, VP of Global R&D, Rakuten Symphony 
Mehran leads alliances at Unified Cloud BU at Rakuten Symphony and is responsible for industry Partnerships and Alliance strategy. A respected industry veteran, who is passionate about driving business success through alliances and win-win partnerships, Mehran brings to the table years of experience in executing and driving change at major infrastructure and Enterprise software players such as EMC and IBM as well as at several Silicon Valley-based startups and high technology firms. Earlier, Mehran was Director of Global Business Development at Boston-based Zerto Inc, an enterprise level IT Resiliency Platform. Before that, Mehran was Director of Sales at EMC and Director of Business Development at Kashya. He holds an MSCE degree from Syracuse University and an MBA.

Technologies for Lowering the TCO for Open RAN and Edge

In this webinar, GateSpeed will present the GateSpeed software stack within the context of a private CDN use-case architecture from the data center to the edge exclusively leverage Intel® Architecture powered whiteboxes and unmanaged switches.

Presenters:
- David Giannini, Founder & Executive Chairman, GateSpeed
- Julian Lin, Principal, GateSpeed
- Onkar Sangha, Chief Technology Officer, GateSpeed

Flexible High-Performance Networking Using Intel® Architecture Based Whiteboxes

CAMARA APIs gives developers visibility and control over infrastructure (compute and network);  opening the door to a new generation of “smart”, self-managing applications. However, with great power, comes great responsibility. These new interfaces must be secured-by-design to protect telcos and their enterprise customers from exploits. The demo shows how CAMARA APIs can be safely leveraged for exciting new use cases. It features end-to-end security of data in-motion, at-rest and in-memory across cloud, data centers and edge nodes assured by Intel® Trust Authority Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) and Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX) services. The presentation is based on a 5G MEC Network scenario. The use case is a computer vision application based on OpenVINO triggering calls across a set of CAMARA APIs to support new functional requirements on-demand.

Participating vendors include:
- Microsoft (Azure cloud services, including GPT-4);
- KX (vector-native, analytics database;
- Fortinet (FortiGate, FortiWeb);
- Keysight (CyPerf);
- Intel (Intel® SGX, Intel® TDX, Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit, Infrastructure Programmer Developer Kit (IPDK), Intel® FlexRAN™ software); and
- EnterpriseWeb (no-code automation platform)

Presenters:
- Dave Duggal, Founder and CEO, EnterpriseWeb: Dave has spent his career building & turning around companies. He anticipated the challenges of increasingly fragmented business operations and founded the company to enable to highly-automated and agile digital businesses. Dave is the inventor of 20 US patents on complex distributed systems. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences and an occasional blogger.

- William Malyk, Chief System Architect, EnterpriseWeb: Bill is responsible for the design of EnterpriseWeb’s core technology. He is out of the PhD program at the University of Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science, studying Generative Technology.

Enabling Telco Cloud & Edge with CAMARA

Discover the transformative power of NEXCOM’s cutting-edge network appliance, the NSA 7160, serving as the multi-purpose Edge server for video infrastructure needs. Driven by dual 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and validated with Intel software tools, it represents a comprehensive solution, streamlining your path to the markets related to visual data processing. 

With support for k8s containerized services, it ensures swift deployments, supercharging AI applications. Plus, it offers robust capabilities to effortlessly manage excessive workloads and efficiently store Big Data, setting new benchmarks in the realm of Edge video innovation.

Presenter: Daniel Man, Solution Architect at NEXCOM USA

Unleashing the Power of  Edge AI Video Servers

QCT, in collaboration with Intel, is leading the open vRAN evolution with servers featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® vRAN Boost. These servers exhibit remarkable performance improvements, offering twice the capacity, a 50% boost in downlink throughput, and an 18.2% reduction in power consumption compared to the prior generation. QCT's commitment to open vRAN showcases innovation and efficiency in telco systems, positioning the company as a top player in the rapidly advancing market, while contributing to the development of more sustainable and cost-effective telecommunications infrastructure.

Presenters:
- Charles Hsu, Director at QCT
- Rachel Chu, Associate Manager at QCT

Transforming Telco with Intel's Innovative vRAN Solutions

As ISPs build out networks to unserved and underserved communities, they need to reconsider the effectiveness of their networking and security infrastructure for long term growth.  The threat landscape has grown and rural communities are especially vulnerable to DDoS and other cyberthreats. A10 Networks is an Intel® Network Builders ecosystem member and uses Intel technology in its hardware appliances. This webinar will discuss:
• The growing DDoS threat and why rural communities should be concerned
• The important role of DNS security
• What is CGNAT and why IPv4/IPv6 support should still be an important build-out consideration
• Case studies from regional ISPs

ISPs attending will gain visibility into today's security challenges and provide concrete recommendations on critical investments that should be made along with their fiber and fixed wireless buildouts.

Speakers:
• Terry Young, Director of Service Provider Product marketing
• Jose De Abreu, SE Director North America Service Providers, Latin America and Caribbean

Core Network Resilience for Sustainable Business Growth

This webinar will discuss Radisys products and solutions for the multi-access edge, supporting both broadband connectivity and inferencing. We will describe RAN and wireline architectures that use Intel products including 3rd Gen and 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, Intel Agilex® FPGA and SoC FPGA family. We will focus on a range of use cases around public/private, neutral host and CBRS networks. During this webinar, we will also reference our deep strategic partnership with Intel for hardware, software, and related technologies like FlexRAN™ Reference Architecture for Wireless Access, Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) and Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit.

Presenters:
- Prakash Siva, SVP and Head of Technology and Architecture at Radisys
- Kevin Cackovic, Intel PSG

Building the Broadband Access Edge with Radisys and Intel

5G, variation of device types, transports devices use, users and devices connecting from anywhere are well documented challenges that continuously drive enterprise network edge transformation. At the same time the transformation seeks new possibilities of new technologies and new use case requirements. Network security solution providers are delivering innovative solutions incorporating zero trust architecture and tailoring solutions that are deployed on-prem, at the edge and in the cloud with specific industry use case requirements in mind. As more workloads are deployed at the edge and the needs to protect them expand, Intel has delivered Intel® NetSec Accelerator Reference Design for network security solution providers to accelerate integration and delivery of solutions at the edge. This webinar discusses Intel® NetSec Accelerator Reference Design and its features and capabilities, as well as leading network security solutions deployed using the technology where the solutions address today's complex and dynamic security requirements and use cases.

Moderator:
- Sarabjit Gosal, Senior Director at Intel NEX Group

Panelists:
- Michael Heffner, GM at Adtran Business Solutions
- Keyur Patel, Founder and CTO at Arrcus Inc.
- Subramanian (Subbu) Srinivasan is Senior Director of Engineering & Innovation at Zscaler

Network Edge Transformation using Intel® NetSec Accelerator Reference Design

Next Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) come with a variety of deployment models - hardware, software, virtual and containers but how do you measure the efficiency of each model and what's fit for your needs. Learn from Intel and Clavister as experts share the test results coming straight from Intel Partner Alliance Lab comparing virtualized NGFW vs containerized NGFW.

Presenters:
- Nils Undén, CTO at Clavister
- Mattias Fredriksson, Product Owner at Clavister
- Dave Cremins, Cloud Software Architect at Intel

Network Security - Efficiency of Virtualized Vs Containerized Firewalls

Multi-G is an initiative targeted at creating a fully Programmable Layer 1 PHY that opens the lowest layers of the 3GPP base station architecture for innovation. In this webinar, the value of a truly programmable Layer 1 PHY will be explored by Cohere and Intel while sharing how Intel’s latest FlexRAN™ Reference Architecture is evolving within the framework of the Multi-G initiative. The Multi-G initiative includes the 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors for better O-RAN economics, boosting single base station spectral capacity via the spectrum multiplier effect, and sharing the PHY layer between multiple waveforms like OFDM/OFDM or OFDM/OTFS.

Presenters:
- Art King, Director of Product Management and Marketing at Cohere Technologies
- Ranjit Cavatur, Senior Director at Intel NEX SW

Universal Spectrum Multiplier (USM) on a Programmable Multi-G Network

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This webinar will describe the architectural elements, design criteria, technology choices and key chipset employed to build a full layer 1 offload Intel® SmartNIC for a DU in a 4G/5G RAN rollout for any market. With the O-RAN Alliance’s drive to move towards an open ecosystem and interoperable building blocks, Silicom has created an O-RAN standards-compliant Layer 1 High PHY solution over an open, fully programmable platform based on Intel® FPGA, and implemented it as a PCIe add-in card. This webinar aims to demonstrate a design example of this advanced integration and the benefits it can bring to network infrastructure solutions providers.

Presenters:
- Nadav Yafe, VP Product and Product Marketing, Silicom
- Oren Benisty, VP Sales, Silicom

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