OVS Orbit

By Ben Pfaff

What's OVS Orbit about?

Interviews and topics of interest to Open vSwitch developers and users, published twice a month, hosted and produced by Ben Pfaff.

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OVS Orbit episodes:

07.16.2021
Sneak Preview: VMware Research High Bits, with Lalith Suresh from VMware Research
VMware Research High Bits is a podcast coming soon from VMware's research group. This episode is a sneak preview of episode 1, with Lalith Suresh. ...
04.01.2021
The Systems Approach, with Bruce Davie, Larry Peterson, and Mark Twain
Bruce Davie and Larry Peterson are the authors of the Systems Approach series of computer networking textbooks. Mark Twain has been called the greatest ...
03.16.2021
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, with Bruce Davie and Larry Peterson
Bruce Davie and Larry Peterson talk about their Systems Approach series of books on computer networking. These books began with the textbook Computer Networks: A ...
02.27.2021
The OVSDB Query Optimizer and Key-Value Interface, with Dmitry Yusupov from NVIDIA
Dmitry Yusupov submitted a talk to the Open vSwitch 2020 Fall Conference that we weren't able to fit into the schedule. This podcast, recorded in ...
09.01.2019
Network Service Mesh, with Frederick Kautz and Nikolay Nikolaev
Frederick Kautz and Nikolay Nikolaev are developers on the Network Service Mesh project, which provides additional networking features for Kubernetes above what is available...
07.25.2019
Long-Term Network Latency, with Nick Buraglio from ESnet
Nick Buraglio works in research and education and service provider networking, currently at ESnet, the US Department of Energy's science network, which links sites...
06.03.2019
User-Configurable Protocol Support for OVS, or Why Doesn't OVS Support P4?
There are several challenges toward making it easy for users to add support for new protocols in OVS or, equivalently, adding P4 support to ...
05.01.2019
The Faucet Controller at SC18, with Brad Cowie and Richard Sanger from University of Waikato
Brad Cowie and Richard Sanger are members of the WAND Network Research Group at the University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand. They are both associated with the...
04.01.2019
The Discrepancy of the Megaflow Cache in OVS, with Levente Csikor and Gabor Retvari from Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Levente Csikor and Gabor Retvari from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics present their talk “The Discrepancy of the Megaflow Cache in OVS”...
03.01.2019
OVS Hardware Offload, with Simon Horman from Netronome
Simon Horman has been an Open vSwitch contributor and committer since 2010. He currently works for Netronome, where his Open vSwitch work centers...
02.01.2019
Encrypting OVN Tunnels with IPsec, with Qiuyu Xiao from UNC-Chapel Hill
Qiuyu Xiao is a Ph.D. student in the department of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During the summer of ...
01.01.2019
Introduction to OVSDB, Part 2
This episode, recorded in April 2018, was the third in a series of internal VMware tech talks about Open vSwitch. This episode is ...
08.29.2018
Personalized Pseudonyms for Servers in the Cloud, with Qiuyu Xiao from UNC-Chapel Hill
Qiuyu Xiao is a PhD student studying computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This episode is a talk that Qiuyu gave ...
08.29.2018
Generic Linux Debugging, with Ansis Atteka from VMware
Ansis Atteka is a developer on the Open vSwitch team at VMware. This episode is a recording of a talk that Ansis gave at VMware in May. ...
08.18.2018
Networking with OVS at DigitalOcean, with Matt Layher and Armando Migliaccio from DigitalOcean
Matt Layher and Armando Migliaccio are engineers focusing on networking at DigitalOcean, a cloud service provider. In April, Justin ...
08.17.2018
Oko: Extending Open vSwitch with Stateful Filters, with Paul Chaignon from Orange Labs and Inria Nancy
Paul Chaignon is a grad student at Orange and Inria. In this episode, Paul talks about Oko: Extending Open vSwitch with Stateful Filters,...
05.23.2018
Incremental Processing with ovn-controller, with Han Zhou from eBay
Han Zhou is an architect working on highly scalable and reliable SDN solutions for eBay's cloud infrastructure. He is an active contributor in...
05.22.2018
Toward Leaner, Faster ovn-northd, with Leonid Ryzhyk from VMware Research Group
Leonid Ryzhyk is a senior researcher in the VMware Research Group. The main theme of his work is applying formal methods to build better ...
05.17.2018
OpenFaaS, with Alex Ellis from VMware
Alex Ellis founded and leads the OpenFaaS project, which is an open source implementation of a serverless framework. This episode is an interview...
04.29.2018
Flow Translation
This is the third in a series of Open vSwitch tech talks that we are starting to run internally at VMware every week or two. This episode is ...
04.07.2018
Introduction to OVSDB
This is the second in a series of Open vSwitch tech talks that we are starting to run internally at VMware every week or two. This episode is ...
04.07.2018
RCU in Open vSwitch Userspace
This is the first in a series of Open vSwitch tech talks that we are starting to run internally at VMware every week or two. This episode is ...
04.07.2018
Ten Years of Open vSwitch Success and Failure
This is a talk that I gave at an internal VMware event called "Open Source Day" in February. I prepared it as a kind of internal recognition ...
03.01.2018
Enterprise SDN, with Greg Ferro from Packet Pushers
Greg Ferro is one of the Packet Pushers, a host of much more popular podcasts than this one. Greg's bio says: ...
02.15.2018
Network Stack as a Service, with Henry Xu from City University of Hong Kong
Henry Xu is an assistant professor in the computer science department at the City University of Hong Kong, where...
01.31.2018
Hardware Acceleration on NICs, with Andy Gospodarek from Broadcom
This episode features Andy Gospodarek, a Principal Engineer at Broadcom, where he works as a software architect on the NICs team. This interview, ...
01.11.2018
Open Compute Project Networking, with Andrew "Puck" Ruthven from Catalyst IT
Andrew Ruthven, aka “Puck”, is a Data Centre Manager at Catalyst IT, a New Zealand open source specialist IT company whose services include operating an ...
12.15.2017
What's New in OVN 2.8, with Ben Pfaff from VMware
This is a recording of a talk given by Ben Pfaff at the OpenStack Summit in Sydney on Monday, Nov. 6, with the follow abstract: ...
11.30.2017
Routing a Production Enterprise Network with Faucet, with Brad Cowie from WAND
Brad Cowie is a member of the WAND Network Research Group at the University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand. He is also a core member of the...
11.16.2017
In-band Network Telemetry, with Chang Kim from Barefoot Networks
Chang Kim is an engineer at Barefoot Networks, where he has been intimately involved in the design of the P4 domain-specific language for controlling a ...
10.31.2017
Faucet and OpenFlow at Allied Telesis, with Tony Van der Peet
Tony van der Peet is Chief Architect at Allied Telesis. In this episode, he speaks about using OpenFlow on Allied Telesis networking hardware for ...
10.24.2017
Cocoon-2, with Leonid Ryzhyk from VMware Research
Leonid Ryzhyk is a senior researcher at VMware Research in Palo Alto. He focuses on applying formal methods to improve operating systems and ...
10.03.2017
Fuzzing Frameworks, with Bhargava Shastry from TU Berlin
Bhargava Shastry is a Ph.D. student in the Chair for Security in Telecommunications at Technical University Berlin. Bhargava...
09.22.2017
FlowFuzz, with Nicholas Gray and Thomas Zinner from University of Würzburg
Nicholas Gray is a PhD student at the University of Würzburg, Germany, where he also completed his Master's thesis in 2015. His research ...
09.01.2017
DPDK Introduction, with Harry van Haaren and Dave Hunt from Intel
Dave and Harry are developers who work at Intel on DPDK, the Data Plane Development Kit, which is a library for high-performance packet processing in userspace. This ...
08.20.2017
OpenStack Cyborg, with Howard (Zhipeng) Huang from Huawei
Howard is an IT standards engineer at Huawei. He has been working on open source for about 6 years and attended the early Open vSwitch ...
08.01.2017
BigBug: Practical Concurrency Analysis for SDN, with Ahmed El-Hassany from ETH Zürich
Ahmed El-Hassany is a second-year Ph.D. student at ETH Zürich, who researches ways to make networks more programmable and to verify the correctness of...
07.09.2017
Control and Management Plane for IO Modules, with Fulvio Risso from Politecnico di Torino
Fulvio Risso is an associate professor at Politecnico di Torino in Turin, Italy. His research is in the area of high-speed (10+ Gbps) packet ...
06.12.2017
New Approach to OVN Datapath Performance, with Jun Xiao from CloudNetEngine
Jun Xiao is the founder and CTO of CloudNetEngine, which is focused on innovating a next generation “engine” for cloud virtual networking. He ...
06.11.2017
Baker: Scaling OVN with Kubernetes API Server, with Han Zhou from eBay
Han Zhou is an architect working on highly scalable and reliable SDN solutions for eBay's cloud infrastructure. He is an active contributor in...
06.11.2017
OVN Support for Multiple Gateways and IPv6, with Russell Bryant and Numan Siddique from Red Hat
Russell Bryant is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. He was on the OpenStack Technical Committee from Fall 2012 until Fall ...
06.11.2017
OpenStack Performance with OVS-DPDK for NFV and Connection Tracking, with Sugesh Chandran and Bhanuprakash Bodireddy from Intel
Sugesh Chandran is a network software engineer with Intel. His work is primarily focused on accelerated software switching solutions in user space running...
05.20.2017
Lightning Talks, with Joe Stringer from VMware and Yusuke Tatsumi from Yahoo! JAPAN
This episode is a series of 3 lightning talks given at OpenStack Boston during the Open vSwitch Open Source Day on May 10. ...
05.15.2017
Deploying OVN on Windows with OpenStack and Kubernetes, with Alessandro Pilotti and Alin Balutoiu from Cloudbase Solutions
Alessandro is CTO of Cloudbase Solutions, a company focused on cloud computing interoperability and the main contributor of all the OpenStack Windows and Hyper-V...
05.13.2017
NetBricks: Taking the V out of NFV, with A. Panda from Berkeley
Panda is a PhD candidate in the computer science department at the University of California, Berkeley. In this episode, we discuss the paper...
05.01.2017
NEAt: Network Error Auto-Correct, with Bingzhe Liu
Bingzhe Liu is a first-year PhD student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this episode, we discuss the paper “NEAt: Network Error...
04.07.2017
DevPulseCon, with Rupa Dachere from VMware
This episode's guest is Rupa Dachere, an engineer at VMware and the executive director and founder of CodeChix, a 501(c)3 charity dedicated to education,...
03.31.2017
OVSDB Configuration for Hardware VTEPs, with Chandra Appanna from Arista and Bruce Davie from VMware
This episode's guests are Bruce Davie, a vice president CTO for APJ at VMware, and Chandra Appanna, an engineer and manager at Arista, who are ...
03.16.2017
DragonFlow, with Omer Anson from Huawei
Omer Anson is a software developer at Huawei. I caught up with him at OpenStack Barcelona back in October to talk about the Dragonflow project, ...
03.02.2017
The Evolution of OpenFlow, with Jean Tourrilhes from HPE Labs and Justin Pettit from VMware
Jean Tourrilhes is a networking researcher at HPE Labs who served as the chair of the Open Networking Foundation's OpenFlow standardization working group (the...

What's OVS Orbit about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

OVS Orbit episodes:

Sneak Preview: VMware Research High Bits, with Lalith Suresh from VMware Research

The Systems Approach, with Bruce Davie, Larry Peterson, and Mark Twain

Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, with Bruce Davie and Larry Peterson

The OVSDB Query Optimizer and Key-Value Interface, with Dmitry Yusupov from NVIDIA

Network Service Mesh, with Frederick Kautz and Nikolay Nikolaev

Long-Term Network Latency, with Nick Buraglio from ESnet

User-Configurable Protocol Support for OVS, or Why Doesn't OVS Support P4?

The Faucet Controller at SC18, with Brad Cowie and Richard Sanger from University of Waikato

The Discrepancy of the Megaflow Cache in OVS, with Levente Csikor and Gabor Retvari from Budapest University of Technology and Economics

OVS Hardware Offload, with Simon Horman from Netronome

Encrypting OVN Tunnels with IPsec, with Qiuyu Xiao from UNC-Chapel Hill

Introduction to OVSDB, Part 2

Personalized Pseudonyms for Servers in the Cloud, with Qiuyu Xiao from UNC-Chapel Hill

Generic Linux Debugging, with Ansis Atteka from VMware

Networking with OVS at DigitalOcean, with Matt Layher and Armando Migliaccio from DigitalOcean

Oko: Extending Open vSwitch with Stateful Filters, with Paul Chaignon from Orange Labs and Inria Nancy

Incremental Processing with ovn-controller, with Han Zhou from eBay

Toward Leaner, Faster ovn-northd, with Leonid Ryzhyk from VMware Research Group

OpenFaaS, with Alex Ellis from VMware

Flow Translation

Introduction to OVSDB

RCU in Open vSwitch Userspace

Ten Years of Open vSwitch Success and Failure

Enterprise SDN, with Greg Ferro from Packet Pushers

Network Stack as a Service, with Henry Xu from City University of Hong Kong

Hardware Acceleration on NICs, with Andy Gospodarek from Broadcom

Open Compute Project Networking, with Andrew "Puck" Ruthven from Catalyst IT

What's New in OVN 2.8, with Ben Pfaff from VMware

Routing a Production Enterprise Network with Faucet, with Brad Cowie from WAND

In-band Network Telemetry, with Chang Kim from Barefoot Networks

Faucet and OpenFlow at Allied Telesis, with Tony Van der Peet

Cocoon-2, with Leonid Ryzhyk from VMware Research

Fuzzing Frameworks, with Bhargava Shastry from TU Berlin

FlowFuzz, with Nicholas Gray and Thomas Zinner from University of Würzburg

DPDK Introduction, with Harry van Haaren and Dave Hunt from Intel

OpenStack Cyborg, with Howard (Zhipeng) Huang from Huawei

BigBug: Practical Concurrency Analysis for SDN, with Ahmed El-Hassany from ETH Zürich

Control and Management Plane for IO Modules, with Fulvio Risso from Politecnico di Torino

New Approach to OVN Datapath Performance, with Jun Xiao from CloudNetEngine

Baker: Scaling OVN with Kubernetes API Server, with Han Zhou from eBay

OVN Support for Multiple Gateways and IPv6, with Russell Bryant and Numan Siddique from Red Hat

OpenStack Performance with OVS-DPDK for NFV and Connection Tracking, with Sugesh Chandran and Bhanuprakash Bodireddy from Intel

Lightning Talks, with Joe Stringer from VMware and Yusuke Tatsumi from Yahoo! JAPAN

Deploying OVN on Windows with OpenStack and Kubernetes, with Alessandro Pilotti and Alin Balutoiu from Cloudbase Solutions

NetBricks: Taking the V out of NFV, with A. Panda from Berkeley

NEAt: Network Error Auto-Correct, with Bingzhe Liu

DevPulseCon, with Rupa Dachere from VMware

OVSDB Configuration for Hardware VTEPs, with Chandra Appanna from Arista and Bruce Davie from VMware

DragonFlow, with Omer Anson from Huawei

The Evolution of OpenFlow, with Jean Tourrilhes from HPE Labs and Justin Pettit from VMware