OFC22 San Diego: March 6-9, OFCnet Booth

  
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OFCnet development

The development of OFCnet started sometime in 2018 when CIENA CTO Steve Alexander remarked : "OFC is a optical components conference, we need to show how to build networks for applications out of them". At OFC2020 I was supposed to talk with many people on the experiences from other conferences (mainly SC and SCinet & INDIS) to look what fits for the typical community meeting at OFC. Unfortunately 2020 imploded due to COVID. However development continued and in 2022 we got first light and a network connected to the Research and Education Networks running, literally in the weekend before the start of the conference.

Highlights:

  • OFCnet got first light working. Diagram:
  • Visitors at the booth:
  • Mr. OFCnet Marc Lyonais at the booth

OFC2022 presentations & involvement by UvA group members.

  • UvA participates with one demo and one presentation in the OFCnet booth
    • Demo: On Multilateral Agreements And Multidomain Applications", Reggie Cushing (presented by Cees de Laat) at OFC.
    • The SCasia Presentation: "Secure Data Sharing in the Responsible Internet", Cees de Laat and Paola Grosso.
  • UvA contributes one team member in OFCnet:
    • Cees de Laat, team-lead OFCnet developnment, workshop/BOF brainstorming and strategy

Demos:

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Demo

On Multilateral Agreements And Multidomain Applications", Reggie Cushing (presented by Cees de Laat) at OFC.

Moving forward...multi-domain coordination:
  • A multidomain application is a workflow whereby the (data|control)flow crosses domain boundaries.
  • Domain boundaries are controlled through rules/agreements derived from policies. A use case can be considered as having multiple facets.
    • The application functional components (functions)
    • The data assets
    • The coordination logic (controlflow)
  • Controlflow is a program in itself that is owned by multiple domains.
  • The challenge is:
    • How to execute a control program owned by multiple domains?
Materials:

full video

OFCnet contributions: Team members:

  • Cees de Laat, Team OFCnet