Based upon the Call for Proposals for ONS Europe 2018 to be held in Amsterdam in September 2018, this is what the industry appears to be thinking about:
- Networking Latest Trends
- Disaggregation of the Data Plane – Programmable Open Hardware including Silicon & White Boxes + Open Forwarding Innovations/Interfaces
- The Latest in Standards and Open Source Interworking to Drive Industry Forward
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Applied to Networking
- SD-WAN, IIOT, Data Insights, Business Intelligence
- Cloud Native, Kubernetes, and Network Automation
- Containers, Microservices, and the Service Mesh
- Networking Business and Operations
- High Availability, Scalability, Security in Network Platforms
- Next Generation Automated Architecture (Enterprise, Carriers, Cloud)
- Business Case & ROI on Transformation, Next Gen Services Based on SDN/NFV
- Lessons Learned from Migrating/Integrating Legacy PNF/VNF/OSS/BSS to Automated Systems
- Migration of Data Center to Virtualized Software Defined Lessons and Roadmaps
- The Road to 5G deployment; POCs, Pilots, Partners, and Roll-out
- (Technical) Service Provider & Cloud Networking
- Policy, Closed Loop Automation, and Zero Touch
- Edge Computing; Requirements, Tools, and Emerging Solutions
- NFV Security
- Building High Availability in SDN/NFV Solutions
- 5G Application Use Cases; What Comes First?
- The Shift to Microservice-based VNFs
- Multi-Cloud, and the Benefits it Brings
- (Business & Architecture) Service Provider & Cloud Networking
- SDN/NFV Learnings to Date, ROI, TCO, Agility Gains, etc.
- Business Case and Strategy for 5G Workloads; IoT, VR/AR, Connected Cars, etc.
- Software Defined Packet Optical
- Mobile Edge Computing/4G Video/CDN
- Planning the Migration – Legacy Workload Migration, and Integration of New Systems with Existing Carrier OSS/BSS/FCAPS Systems
- (Technical) Enterprise IT DevOps
- Software Defined Data Center Learnings
- Cloud Networking, End to End Solution Stacks – Hypervisor or Container Based
- Container Networking and the Shift to Microservices
- Scale and Performance in SDN Deployments
- Cloud Native App Development
- (Business & Architecture) Enterprise IT (CXO/IT Architects)
- Digital Transformation – Best Practices
- Bringing DevOps to NetOps – Best Practices
- SDN, and Open Networking Case Studies; ROI, TCO, Operations Improvements, etc.
- Intent-Based Networking
- NFV for Enterprise (vE-CPE, etc.)
- Security – Evolving attack surfaces, agile attack counter-measures, etc.
- Industrial IoT, and the Smart Enterprise, Networking’s role