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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium : A New Approach to Network Functions
DTSTART:20170320T101500
DTEND:20170320T113000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By : Aurojit Panda - UC Berkeley\nIC Faculty candidate\n\nAbst
 ract :\nModern networks do far more than  just deliver packets\, and prov
 ide network functions -- including  firewalls\, caches\, and WAN optimize
 rs — that are crucial for scaling networks\, ensuring security and enabl
 ing new applications.  Network functions were traditionally implemented u
 sing dedicated hardware middleboxes\, but in recent years they are increas
 ingly being deployed as VMs on commodity servers. While many herald this m
 ove towards network function virtualization (NFV) as a great step forward\
 , I argue that accepted virtualization techniques are ill-suited to networ
 k functions. In this talk I describe NetBricks — a new approach to build
 ing and running virtualized network functions that speeds development and 
 increases performance. I end the talk by discussing the implications of be
 ing able to easily create and insert new network functions. \n\nBio :\nAu
 rojit Panda is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Ca
 lifornia Berkeley\, where he is advised by Scott Shenker . His work spans 
 programming languages\, networking and systems\, and his recent work has i
 nvestigated network verification\, consensus algorithms in software define
 d networks and frameworks for building network functions. He has received 
 best paper awards at SIGCOMM and EuroSys\, and was previously awarded a Qu
 alcomm Innovation Fellowship.\n\nMore information\n 
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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