<div dir="ltr"><br><div>Hi Luke,</div><div><br></div><div>Very pleased to see this initiative in the OpenStack/NFV space.</div><div><br></div><div>A dumb question - how do you see this related to the ongoing</div><div> "[openstack-dev] [nova] [neutron] PCI pass-through network support"<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>discussion on this list?</div><div><br></div><div>Do you see that work as one component within your proposed architecture for example</div><div>or an alternative implementation?</div><div><br></div>
<div>Regards,</div><div>Mike.</div><div><br></div><div>SDN/NFV Solution Architect</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 January 2014 16:11, Luke Gorrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke@snabb.co" target="_blank">luke@snabb.co</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Howdy Stackers!<br>
<br>
We are developing a new open source Network Functions Virtualization<br>
driver for Neutron. I am writing to you now to ask for early advice<br>
that could help us to smoothly bring this work upstream into OpenStack<br>
Juno.<br>
<br>
The background is that we are open source developers working to<br>
satisfy the NFV requirements of large service provider networks<br>
including Deutsche Telekom's TeraStream project [1] [2]. We are<br>
developing a complete NFV stack for this purpose: from the DPDK-like<br>
traffic plane all the way up to the Neutron ML2 driver.<br>
<br>
We are developing against Havana, we attended the Icehouse summit and<br>
had a lot of great discussions in Hong Kong, and our ambition is to<br>
start bringing running code upstream into Juno.<br>
<br>
Our work is 100% open source and we want to work in the open with the<br>
wider OpenStack community. Currently we are in "heads-down hacking<br>
mode" on the core functionality, but it would be wonderful to connect<br>
with the upstream communities who we hope to be working with more in<br>
the future (that's you guys).<br>
<br>
More details on Github:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/tree/snabbnfv-readme/src/designs/nfv" target="_blank">https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/tree/snabbnfv-readme/src/designs/nfv</a><br>
<br>
Thanks for reading!<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
-Luke<br>
<br>
[1] Ivan Pepelnjak on TeraStream:<br>
<a href="http://blog.ipspace.net/2013/11/deutsche-telekom-terastream-designed.html" target="_blank">http://blog.ipspace.net/2013/11/deutsche-telekom-terastream-designed.html</a><br>
[2] Peter Löthberg's presentation on TeraStream at RIPE 67:<br>
<a href="https://ripe67.ripe.net/archives/video/3/" target="_blank">https://ripe67.ripe.net/archives/video/3/</a><br>
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