[Nets-seminars] talk by Bruce Davie of VMware (formerly Nicira), Mon 17 Mar, 1 PM

Brad Karp B.Karp at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Fri Mar 14 18:39:15 GMT 2014


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Greetings, everyone.

A late-breaking announcement: I've just heard from Bruce Davie that
he'll be in London on Monday, and he's kindly agreed to give a talk.

Bruce is a renowned senior figure in networking. You may know him as
co-author of Peterson and Davie, the widely used networking textbook.
In his long career at Cisco, where he held the rank of Cisco Fellow,
he was a lead MPLS architect. More recently, Bruce joined Nicira, the
SDN startup later acquired by VMware, where he works on network
virtualization.

Title, abstract, and bio below. Please join us!

- -Brad, bkarp at cs.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL CS Systems and Networks Research Group Talk

Speaker:        Bruce Davie, VMware
                http://nms.cail.mit.edu/~bdavie/

Time and place: 1 PM Mon 17 March, MPEB 1.02

Title:

     Network Virtualization in the Software-Defined Data Center

Abstract:

The vision of the software-defined data center is one in which every
aspect of the data center - computation, storage, and networking - is
provisioned in software. Networking has historically been the laggard
in this regard, but that is changing with the advent of network
virtualization. By allowing the creation and management of complex
networks in software, using programmatic APIs, network virtualization
is enabling a much higher level of automation in modern data centers.
 This talk will provide an overview of network virtualization,
describe the architecture that we have implemented at VMware/Nicira,
along with some of the open research questions, and explore the ways
in which virtualization can fundamentally change networking.

Bio:

Bruce Davie is a Principal Engineer in the Networking and Security BU
at VMware. He joined VMware as part of the Nicira acquisition, and
focuses on network virtualization. He has over 25 years of networking
industry experience, and was a Cisco Fellow prior to joining Nicira.
At Cisco, he worked closely with leading service providers to enhance
the capabilities of their networks. He led the team that developed
multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) and contributed to the standards
on IP quality of service. He has written over a dozen Internet RFCs
and several networking textbooks. Bruce received his Ph.D. in computer
science from the University of Edinburgh in 1988 and is an ACM Fellow.
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