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Open source seeds are taking root all over the world, especially in China. On November 7th, the beautiful coast of the Yellow Sea witnessed the official launch of Tungsten Fabric Chinese Community, a historic page of China's open source cloud network, and held its first full meeting, attended by representatives of 43 founding members and more than 200 technology enthusiasts.

Founding members of Tungsten Fabric Chinese Community at the launching ceremony

The general trend of open source network

"Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architecture, including the application of software-defined networks, is already a very clear technology trend. we also need to seize the time to make breakthroughs in new areas. in this context, I think it is very timely and necessary to set up an open source cloud network community in Chinese." Ni Guangnan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, especially sent a congratulatory letter to the conference, praising Tungsten Fabric's practice of establishing a Chinese community, and expecting the Chinese community to run faster and accelerate the introduction of top technology and expert resources. at the same time, with the practical experience of Chinese users and the innovative achievements of Chinese technology research and development, he went to the front of the global community and led the international cooperation in the field of multi-cloud networks.

Ni Guangnan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, sent a congratulatory letter in person.

"the development of 5G and the change of mobile communication technology have in fact forced the transformation of the core network." Xie Zhaoyang, chief scientist of China Unicom, said: "Cloud management is of the utmost importance, and the most difficult part is the network." The virtual network generated by cloud computing brings the opportunity to restructure, so when doing multi-cloud network management, we should take into account both the original architecture and the new architecture. The current state is that the network lacks an operating system, and if the TF community gets bigger, it can become one of the network operating systems. "

Xie Chaoyang, chief scientist of China Unicom

TungstenFabric-- has a slightly different open source project

Compared with the common open source community, Tungsten Fabric's development progress is very fast, because it is not a bottom-up project, but a complete commercial project open source, Tungsten Fabric and commercial version of the shared code, network and security functions are the same, a large number of scenarios have been completed. The update process is that when the customer says I want ABCD, I will implement it immediately. So the progress is very fast and the maturity is very good. " Tungsten Fabric international community representative Edward Ting shared the participation of Tungsten Fabric international community, saying that this open source project is a little different.

Edward Ting, representative of Tungsten Fabric international community

"at present, the main goal of our community is to grow, and we hope to attract as many developers and users as possible to join us. That's why we came to China this time. Because we think that TF technology can provide very good value for the Chinese market, we think that in the Chinese market, our TF community has a good chance to prosper." This is how Juniper Network Distinguished engineer Sukhdev Kapur explained his trip to China. Sukhdev Kapur shared the latest developments in Tungsten Fabric technology architecture-including the integration of Tungsten Fabric and K8s, the deployment model on OpenStack, and so on. These features make Tungsten Fabric not only suitable for multi-cloud hybrid architecture, but also help edge cloud and distributed network applications.

Sukhdev Kapur, Outstanding engineer of Juniper Network

Krzysztof Kajkowski, engineering director of CodiLime, a member of the international community, demonstrated the integration of OpenStack and Tungsten Fabric. Because Tungsten Fabric SDN can run with other ML2 drivers, users can run OVS-based, SR-IOV-and vRouter-based work at the same time, and migrate OVS-based computing to vRouter-based computing in real time.

Krzysztof Kajkowski, Engineering Director of CodiLime

The open source cloud network comes from the desire of the Chinese market

In China, cloud networks are becoming an urgent need.

"Today's large and medium-sized enterprise market is facing a heterogeneous and mixed cloud environment when it comes to cloud computing solutions. In order to carry out unified management of infrastructure and provide services directly for business, there is an urgent need to be open, heterogeneous and scene-oriented. Because multiple types of resource pools are involved, heterogeneous technology stacks, private clouds and public clouds are involved, it is a great challenge to orchestrate all the required IT resources in a business scenario so that they can be deployed automatically, correlate and invoke each other. " Li Mingjun, general manager of Huasheng Tianchengyun Computing R & D and Product Center, is very clear about the current situation of the industry. "based on our own experience, we have compared several common SDN solutions in the market in terms of multi-cloud hybrid scenario support, management of overlay network, southbound protocol support types, and so on. TF is now the best and most complete, meeting our needs for network interconnection in a heterogeneous hybrid multi-cloud environment."

Li Mingjun, General Manager of Huasheng Tianchengyun Computing R & D and Product Center

"the TF Chinese community is very necessary, and there are mainly several driving forces." Ye Yong, general manager of the enterprise division of Juniper Network in China, said that the first driving force is customer demand. In this era, when the head customers reach a consensus, they all face the problem of cross-cloud management, of which the hardest part is the network. The second driving force is the demand of the industry. MSP serves the head customers. On many projects, they are working with customers to build a cloud management platform, and they are faced with a problem. If each customer is a separate framework, and it is not a decoupled framework, it will be very difficult for business to do. Third, the soil in China is very fertile, and a large number of open source communities are very active in China. This stems from the development of IT in China, as well as the enthusiasm of Chinese developers.

Forum: open Source Cloud Network and the Future of TF Community in China

China's open source cloud network is in its infancy, and developers are ready. Yang Yu, technical representative of TF Chinese Community, said that in the future, the community will devote itself to promoting Tungsten Fabric open source projects in China, bringing together industry users and developers to solve industry needs and pain points, and building a common cooperation ecology with developers, users, member enterprises, international community and cooperative community.

Yang Yu, representative of Chinese community technicians in Tungsten Fabric

The open source community brings together manufacturers, users and developers. In the whole construction of open source, colleges and universities are not only the strength of scientific research and application, but also the source of talents. Peng Zhaohui, vice dean of the computer School of Shandong University, the host, said that the open source community has opened a door for students' scientific and technological innovation, and hopes to improve students' innovation ability in the network field by participating in the construction of TF Chinese community.

Peng Zhaohui, Associate Dean of School of computer Science, Shandong University

Open source can do more to solve user problems.

Open source is becoming the choice of many users.

Zhang Peng, general assistant of Shen Zhentong Financial Cloud Research and Development Center, was deeply impressed by this. Since 2013, Shen Zhentong has decided to embrace the open source technology route, including the research and development of financial industry cloud services based on OpenStack,ceph and other open source technologies, the use of TF network SDN technology solutions and so on. After more than 6 years of development, we have created a stable infrastructure platform and formed an industry cloud computing center with national layout and nearby services, providing relevant products and services for cloud tenants.

Zhang Peng, general assistant of Shenzhen Securities Tong Financial Cloud Research and Development Center

As for the Shenzhenyun project, Huang Ziru, general manager of Mirantis China, added: at that time, our network experts investigated and selected all the SDN technologies on the market, and TF was the one with the best stability and availability, including scenarios that support highly available deployment architecture, scalable, feature-rich, open source and software solutions, without the risk of being bound by suppliers, and can meet the needs of major customers. In the actual deployment, first of all, the customer's network is cross-data center, based on the underlying technology of TF to achieve multi-cloud management, can achieve layer 2 or layer 3 interaction. In addition, the layer 2 communication between the virtual machine on the tenant network and the physical machine forms a fully connected scenario. The last point is flexible network access. As tenants of the financial cloud, users also need to access their own private cloud, including direct connect access, or layer 3 access, as well as access scenarios with Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Huang Zi-U, General Manager of Mirantis China

Shanghai Digital News is also in the forefront of TF practice. Shanghai Digital News CIO Qian Yu has always been an active participant in the preparation and establishment of TF Chinese Community. Unable to attend the meeting due to special reasons, Yang Yu, the community technical representative, introduced the case of Digital Information after obtaining the consent of Qian Yu. As the operator of IDC and network access, DXN builds its own cloud product system based on OpenStack and OpenShift, including IaaS, PaaS, cloud management platform and operation platform, according to the characteristics of its own market and customer industry. The services provided are virtual machines, containers and bare metal servers. After a lot of research and comparison, Digital Cloud chose TF as their SDN solution, while supporting the network management and interconnection of OpenStack,OpenShift and bare metal servers, which greatly reduced the difficulty of cloud management platform development. Qian Yu places high hopes on the TF Chinese community to promote the application and prosperity of TF in China, so that China also has a large number of TF-related talents.

About Tungsten Fabric Chinese Community

Tungsten Fabric, formerly known as OpenContrail, was originally an open source scalable multi-cloud network platform by Juniper with a vibrant developer and end-user community. It completed its migration to the Linux Foundation in March 2018 and officially changed its name to Tungsten Fabric.

Tungsten Fabric provides a single point of control, visibility, and management of network and security for different types of data center or multi-cloud deployments, taking SDN technology to a new level.

Learn more about Tungsten Fabric

Introduction to TF Chinese Community

Main features and use cases of TF

How does TF work?

Detailed explanation of vRouter architecture

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