P4 for Custom Identification and Flow Tagging

Register for Open-NFP Summer Webinar Series: http://open-nfp.org/the-classroom/ This tutorial will show the use of P4 on an Agilio CX intelligent server adapter (ISA) to enable identification and custom tagging for the rerouting of elastic traffic within a telecoms data center for virtualized compute nodes. The identification is done using real time dynamic measurements of flows on the ISA. Real time dynamic measurement of flows on the ISA is critical for cloud centric service models and service automation. Enabling applications such as security, root cause analysis, big data analytics, and traffic engineering to adjust the depth and complexity of flow monitoring could enable a new wave of sophisticated features and opportunities. The purpose of the talk is to illustrate how these types of applications would benefit from a P4 framework through utilizing P4 interfaces for advanced and customized flow measurements. Nic Viljoen Software Engineer Nic Viljoen is a Software Engineer at Netronome, focusing on the enablement of real time analytics at the compute node in the data plane using intelligent server adapters. He is currently collaborating with the CORD project at ON.Lab to apply this within the context of the next generation mobile edge network (MCORD). Nic spent four years at the University of Cambridge where he received his undergraduate degree and an MEng in Information Engineering, focusing on Causality and Machine Learning. For more information, please visit: http://www.open-nfp.org